INTERESTING: The State is fostering worship of the Earth

Thursday, April 22, 2010

http://njtoday.net/2010/04/19/earth-day-at-the-e-a-r-t-h-center-2/

Earth Day at the E.A.R.T.H. Center
Monday, April 19, 2010

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SOUTH BRUNSWICK—Earth Day has long been a time to think globally and act locally. That’s why on Thursday April 22, Middlesex County’s office of Rutgers Cooperative Extension invites you to celebrate the 40th birthday of the modern environmental movement, with Earth Day at the EARTH Center in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue, South Brunswick, from 4 to 7 p.m.

Families are encouraged to pack a picnic dinner and blanket to enjoy an evening in the park. The event is intended to familiarize residents with the EARTH Center’s theme of environmental stewardship and encourage them to take action in their own backyards.

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Isn’t this the State fostering worship of the Earth or Gaia, (the Greek goddess of the Earth), as a substitute for all those other relations.

It’s taught in school.

And, why would they do that?

To increase their power over the Sheeple, silly Citizen. The Gooferment is the King or Tyrant of old and wants no limits on their power. Certainly not by a sect that teaches “Thou shalt not kill” and “Love thy neighbor as thy self”!

Now, personally, as a little L libertarian, I don’t care what you do or do NOT believe in. You can even adore the The Flying Spaghetti Monster and practice Pastafarianism for all I care.

I DO CARE when the State sets up a State Religion and that’s what Earth Day is!

imho

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TECHNOLOGY: The value of strange email addresses

Thursday, April 22, 2010

It’s no secret that I have lots of email addresses.

Some are pretty standard that I use for catch alls. Some are hung off the domains that I own. Some are secret for dedicated purposes. Some for family, friends, social networking, fellow alums, and past coworkers.

I’m always amused when some spammer or ne’er-do-well guesses the address and the bank I use.

Obviously, a bank message on the “wrong” id (e.g., First Superior Bank’s message comes in to me@jumpingkangaroos.com) sticks out like a sore thumb. Just as obvious, an email account dedicated to my bank (e.g., MY BANK @ SUPER secret address dot com) suddenly has weight loss ads. Like a sef-proving affidavit, the message and the account must “align”.

I’m less amused when spam looks like a real message and comes in on an account where it might be valid. Then I have to waste time to recognize the “barbara streisand”.

Argh!

When will we get fully authenticated email?

I find it funny when spam comes to my Yahoo account purporting to be from Yahoo. Is anyone awake at Yahoo? NO ONE, nobody, should be allowed to queue a message that purports to from the provider. Wake up guys. IT isn’t supposed to be short for IDIOT!

Why can’t we have a PKI infrastructure at least with an ISP for starters that would ensure that intra Verizon, Comcast, or other large ISP is authentic?

Argh!

For this IT Architecture weenie doesn’t think this is rocket science!

Fix it guys!

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SERVICE: 2 Google Voice invites

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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You have 2 Google Voice invites left.

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Anyone want them?

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INTERESTING: Corporations shift their IT costs

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/20/smartphone-mobile-iphone-technology-cio-network-blackberry.html

JargonSpy
The End Of The BlackBerry Elite
Dan Woods, 04.20.10, 06:00 PM EDT
Companies are increasingly allowing workers to use their personal smartphones for work.

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And now that smartphones are relatively inexpensive and many workers own one, companies are encouraging employees to use their personal phones for work. One retail executive told me that most of his employees were eager to use their personal phones to stay in touch with work e-mail, and some workers could be reimbursed for their phone and texting charges.

Increasingly, companies are attempting to bring personally owned smartphones into the fold of corporate IT, which in practice usually means providing access to MS Exchange or Lotus Notes. This fits into the vision of Organic IT in which corporate IT is delivered through personal technology.

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This brings up some interesting questions like ownership, liability, wage ‘n’ hour, and exhaustion. All questions that the CxOs really don’t want to recognize.

When corporate data leaks onto an employee device with the corporations blessing, who owns it? Customer lists take to a competitor by a job changing employee leaps to mind.

What are the liability issues with agreeing to this? An employees answers a email while driving and crashes defends with “the boss made me do it”.

If an employee has to support “off-hours”, what’s the wage ‘n’ hour implications?

If an employee is exhausted and burnt out, what is the costs of the mistakes and replacing them?

And I’m not even a lawyer; just a fat old white guy injineer who has had to “do” it.

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RANT: Celebrities are are all images; no substance

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

http://www.careersolvers.com/blog/2010/04/13/can-the-holy-swoosh-save-the-tiger-woods-career-brand

Can the Holy Swoosh Save the Tiger Woods Career Brand?

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Have you seen the new Nike ad with Tiger Woods featuring the voice of his deceased father? It looks like Tiger may have added some new brand attributes to his already tarnished image including, creepy, odd, and opportunistic. And I’m wondering if Nike and Tiger would have been better off just leaving the scandal alone and letting time heal some of the wounds.

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No, the “squeaky clean shine” on Woods can’t be recovered. He can be a force in golf. He can sell stuff. He can even become a nice guy. But he’s lost the “image”. His clay feet have cost him dearly. People, the great unwashed like me, don’t like frauds. You can be as nasty an SOB as you like, but don’t claim (or allow to be claimed for you) sainthood. Celebrities like Jane Fonda, Rosie O’Donnell, and Tiger have defrauded the pblic by claiming to be one thing and acting privately like another. People remember the adage: “fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on be me.” With celebrities, it seems the Sheeple are doomed to be disappointed. And, people wonder why we’ve become cynical?

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FOOTNOTE:

Jane Fonda: Anti-war sits in a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. I, and many other vets, never forgot that.

Rosie O’Donnell: The Queen of Nice, after she made a fortune on her daytime audience and retired, morphed into a nasty lesbian who demonstrated that the TV personality was a fraud.

Tiger Woods: Squeaky clean image was put to shame by a string of affairs worthy of an NBA player. At least the NBA players never claimed sainthood.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The TSA is absurd

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

http://cbs2.com/local/Woman.Accused.Of.2.1643774.html

Apr 20, 2010 5:50 am US/Pacific
Woman Accused Of Hitting TSA Agent Over Applesauce
Rita Garcia

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CAMARILLO, Calif. (CBS) ― A Camarillo woman is facing a trial for allegedly assaulting a Transportation Security Administration agent at Burbank airport. But the confrontation didn’t involve a gun or a bomb. CBS 2/KCAL 9 has video of the incident.

Nadine Hays is accused of hitting a TSA agent who allegedly tried to take away her elderly mother’s applesauce.

“I just said I am not going to plead guilty to something I did not do,” Hays said.

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Why do the Sheeple put up with this nonsense?

It’s already demonstrated by more competent experts that this is all “security theater”.

So why do the congresscritters allow this infringement to continue? It allows them to get the Sheeple used to having their rights infringed.

And, they wonder why people regard flying as just above a trip to the dentist?

Wish I was on this woman’s jury. Wish I was on any jury. FIJA anyone.

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WRITING: My Review of “CHURCH 10●19●62”

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

http://www.itstartedinchurch.com

CHURCH 10●19●62
“It Started In Church – October 19, 1962”
A Review by the Author
Ferdinand John Reinke

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This is either a foolish joke, and / or a touching story. I’ve had in my heart and head since I was an Eight Grader at Good Shepherd School in the 1950’s. As an example of TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) fiction that I summarize as: “An alternative future history. What might have been? If Nikta hadn’t blinked. If children were allowed to ‘be all that they could be’. If adults didn’t waste their time and attention on memes and paradigms that are insanity. If I’d known. Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! The human race’s millstone — obsolete thinking. Here’s what I think might have been possible.”

The hardback is suitable as a door stop, bug killer, or fire starter, it is 750+ pages or just under a half a million words directly from the mind of a hormone ravaged fat little kid in Catholic School some fifty years ago. Any way it’s a cheap download or “reasonable priced” hardback. (Depending upon how you define “reasonable”. It’s all about the definitions; like the word “is”.) Please bear in mind, I’m just an injineer with a low index. It’s also available in a two volume paperback at a more modest price.

Obviously influenced by Heinlein and juvenile science fiction, this story is a child’s look at the world. Remember the A bomb drill that had children hide under their school desks. Like that flimsy desk would save them. Look at the pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in their history books of the time. Children would have to be pretty stupid not to know the truth. One joke about the drill was ‘Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye’. Crude, but terrifyingly accurate. The first half of the story is their time in the shelter; the second half is their trek to safety and their life afterwards. It’s one set of possibilities. So this one child at the time constructed a safe mental world. There, the good guys win and everyone lives (almost) happily ever after. Even in those days, I was a “classical liberal” and knew that government was the problem.

I hope, that should you decide to read it (It is after all just under a half a million words!), you’ll laugh, cry, and ponder. (I did! Often.)

For those foolish enough to buy it, I’d be happy to autograph it for you. Then in 15 or 20 DECADES, some great niece or great-great nephew can be surprised on the Antique Roadshow to find that they have an American Primitive Author First Edition complete with the provenance to prove it’s truly original. (I also offer Certificates of Authenticity at a modest extra fee to cover printing and mailing.) With under a 1,000 copies printed, and one being in the Manhattan College Library, how many do you think will survive? Imagine if you could have bought a First Edition Shakespeare and passed it on. How much would that be worth to you today. Enough to remember crotchety old Great Uncle Fester kindly?

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POLITICAL: We can’t afford gooferment skrools!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/04/dangers-of-governing-with-mandate-you.html

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The dangers of governing with a mandate you haven’t earned

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To be fair, the governor had a disastrous fiscal situation to deal with. The state has been spending more than it has been taking in for years, and it has been clear since the day Jon Corzine took office in 2006 that something had to be done. To his credit, Gov. Christie is attempting to put the state on sounder fiscal footing; his approach, however, ignores public priorities and has little to do with fairness.

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Unfortunately, “we” are at the time where the earth is shifting under our “collective feet”.

We, as a society, can no longer afford gooferment supplied “education”.

Sorry, but that is a “facts of life”. There’s just too many “facts”. Too much “overhead”. Too many chiefs. Too many “mandates”. Too many “union rules”. Too little innovation. Too much “entrenched fiefdoms”.

Christie is just one in a long line of politicians who are trying to adjust. Like a soon to be dead fish, flopping around on the dock. A lot of activity without much chance of success.

Dewey and Mann were socialists who brought the Prussian model of education to the USA. It was right for what they wanted to accomplish — socialism. It was, and is, wrong because it’s not what the American people want or need.

As an IT/BPR practitioner, we need to recognize the basics. Parents need to be in charge. Education is just one more aspect of the things a parent needs to provide. We need a plan to migrate from where we are to where we want to be. It took almost 100 years to get into this mess; it will take decades to get out.

Recognizing the problem is the first step!

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RANT: The Governing elite, the Sheeple, and the patriots

Monday, April 19, 2010

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/04/clinton-rush-limbaugh-comment-doesnt-make-any-sense.html

Political Punch
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper

Clinton: Rush Limbaugh Comment “Doesn’t Make Any Sense”
April 17, 2010 5:02 PM

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One of those consequences, Clinton said, was threats against public officials. “We shouldn’t demonize the government or its public employees or its elected officials. We can disagree with them. We can harshly criticize them. But when we turn them into an object of demonization, you know, you — you increase the number of threats.”

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Sorry, but I think the gooferment deserves “demonization”. These are no “honest mistakes” or “policy disagreements”; they seek to enslave us and our posterity just as any tyrant in history.

It’s definitely become a “them versus us”. The Governing elite, the Sheeple, and the patriots.

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POLITICAL: Golf over duty!

Monday, April 19, 2010

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/18/obama-skips-polish-funeral-heads-to-golf-course/

Obama skips Polish funeral, heads to golf course
By Joseph Curl

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A massive volcanic plume covering most of Europe forced President Obama to cancel a Sunday trip to Poland to attend the funeral of the nation’s president. But the last-minute change left an opening in his schedule, so the president headed to the links for a round of golf instead.

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i don’t begrudge the guy his time off.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt),

It looks bad. It looks like he doesn’t care. (He’s a politician. He doesn’t. It’s all illusion.)

But this White House has a “tin ear”, doesn’t care what folks think, and missed a golden opportunity.

If I was OBH44, I’d have turned to one of the many gofers and said: “Contact the Polish Ambassador here in DC and invite him to OUR memorial service. I may not be able to go to Poland, but I can bring Poland here. Call up the local clergy and find out who’s free. Keep working down the hierarchy until you get me (in alphabetical order): an Atheist, a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, a Muslim imam, and Protestant minister. Me, FLOTUS, and the children will be in the front row. We’ll have some Polish kids from Chicago sing a polish song. And, we’ll express our sympathies and solidarity with the Polish people.”

That would be impressive!

Then he could go play golf!

Even if he didn’t do that, he should have done SOMETHING. A job summit? Attend a military funeral?

Playing golf sends a message.

Not one I like!

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RANT: “Coded racism”? The Schools are racist!

Monday, April 19, 2010

http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/13/is-the-president-an-athlete-an

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So the latest faux-flap in the post-racial age many of us hoped that the election of Barack Obama would usher in is, naturally, about race. Guest-hosting on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Norah O’Donnell suggested to the assembled throng of rag-tag plagiarists and John Demjanjuk enthusiasts that former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s jab at the president was coded racism.

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Faux-flap!

An excellent characterization.

“Coded racism”?

We don’t need examples of “coded racism”. We have an actual example of “racism” that we should ALL be talking about.

Anyone looked at any inner city school lately?

Crime IN the school. Drugs IN the school. Graduation rates?

Of course, my solution is to put parents back in the driver’s seat.

While as a little L libertarian, I’m against taxes.

But if we are to have theft by force, let’s do “vouchers”.

(I did a transition plan for the Hands Across New Jersey tax revolt group.

Essentially, it was a FORTY YEAR plan to unwind “public education”.

  • Give EVERY child a RED VOUCHER for a specific amount that is EQUAL to the highest tuition in the State.
      
  • RED vouchers must be spent at their assigned school; GREEN vouchers can be spent at ANY school.
      
  • Every year for the first 20 years, 5% of the RED turn GREEN. Every year for the second 20 years, the amount decreases 5%.
  • The Teachers in a school are given the school. They must begin to compete.
  • There are no school standards; parents will buy the best education for their children as they see it.
  • Schools must post a bond to ensure that they don’t “go bust” taking the money and running in mid-year.
      
  • Politicians are out of the Education business. Federal Department of Education is closed.

We don’t need “no stinkin gooferment skrools”; they’re racist!

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LIBERTY: EFF protecting our liberties

Monday, April 19, 2010

http://www.eff.org/

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RANT: “Pacific” short changed me?

Monday, April 19, 2010

Anyone watching “Pacfic”? It’s the “Band of Brothers” clone but aimed at the Pacific THeater of Ops as opposed to the European.

(You had to be crazy to do some of the stuff ordered. Like Hank’s portrayal of the DDay invasion, or the fire fights in Band of Brothers, only a crazy person would cross and open terrain like that airport under Japanese fire.)

Pacific was scheduled from 9PM to 10PM.

It ended at 9:50PM.

Then there was 10 minutes of filler.

Argh!

I have always thought the opening credit was long, but … …

So are we being “shortchanged”?

I felt so; maybe it’s just me.

Argh!

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QUOTE: Three or more useless men

Monday, April 19, 2010

FROM LUDDITE:

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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.

—John Adams

Fight organized crime: Re-elect NO ONE…

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Seems simple enough!

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INTERESTING: Goldman sachs AKA the “New York Generals”

Sunday, April 18, 2010

http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/18/first-they-came-for-the-crimin

First They Came for the Criminal Investment Bankers…
Tim Cavanaugh | April 18, 2010

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil action against Goldman Sachs is a certified crowd-pleaser, and based on two iron principles — that you never argue with the audience’s taste and that everybody who has ever worked for Goldman Sachs needs to be executed without trial — it’s probably not something we should be disputing too heavily.

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Why do I feel this is kabuki?

Is Goldman Sachs now playing the role of the New York Generals? Or the Boston Shamrocks, New Jersey Reds, Baltimore Rockets, or Atlantic City Seagulls. Or any one of another patsies? Playing to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Harlem Globetrotters!

We KNOW that Goldman Sachs is wired to the administration through little tax-cheat Timmy G.

We KNOW that Goldman Sachs has been “fronting” for the FED to allow them to appear to sell Treasury securities while buying them back the next day. Thus they are monetizing the debt. This is exactly what the Chinese fear. It’s hiding inflation.

We KNOW that Goldman Sachs has been manipulating the commodities markets. Specifically, the gold and silver markets. This could only happen with the CFTC and European participation.

So now you want me to believe that the SEC is going to take Goldman Sachs to the woodshed on trading losers to others knowing that the residential market was going to fall out of bed.

Please don’t make me laff!

Argh!

Corruption abounds.

Sorry, but I think this is “regulatory theater”! “Made-off” gave the SEC a black eye. And, Dodd’s “reregulation bill” is being laughed at. So some kabuki is in order to fool the Sheeple into believing in big gooferment again. So let’s trot out our captive resident Freddie Kruger and have the valiant SEC bureaucrats do battle to slay this dragon.

Goldman Sachs will probably plead out and be fined. And, the SEC will probably allow them to pay the fine with Confederate States of America Banknotes.

Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL:

Sunday, April 18, 2010

http://www.impactlab.com/2010/04/16/earthquake-in-tibet-amazing-photo-gallery/

April 16th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Earthquake in Tibet – Amazing Photo Gallery

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A girl reads a book outside her makeshift tent amid the rubble of a quake-demolished building

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It’s hard not to be moved seeing these pics.

Could it happen here?

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NEWJERSEY: Skrul Vote (Yeah, I know why bother!)

Sunday, April 18, 2010

What: April 20th School Board Elections

When: 04/20/10, 07:00 AM-9:00 PM

Where: Your local polling place.

Details: Please make sure you go out and vote today for Board of Education members and budgets.

Now more than ever your vote is necessary as we face cuts state wide.

Please also make sure to tell and remind everyone you know in New Jersey

(Check with your local polling place to voting hour, they are not the same as in the general election)

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At the very least, go vote AGAINST the budget!

Yes, I know it doesn’t matter because the vote will be over ruled by some bureaucrat somewhere.

But, keep sending a message: “Over taxed”, “Mad As Hell”, and “We need a paradigm and meme shift”!

OK, the last one is geeky but we do.

The paradigm of “public education” as something that is “good”, “unifying”, or even “needed” needs to change. Other than ads by the teacher’s union, no one would defend that “public education” is effective or efficient. Look at our world ranking for effective and look at the costs for efficient. Time for a paradigm shift.

The mene of “public education” needs to be updated. Even if you believe in fairy tales like jumbo shrimp, the Tooth Fairy, and honest politicians, we must understand that “public education” currently means “taxpayer-funded gooferment-run indoctrination”. We need to parse each part of this meme and examine if it’s rational.

  • Taxpayer-funded? Shouldn’t parents pay for their children’s education. If for no other reason than “he who has the gold makes the rules”.
  • Gooferment-run is asking for a disaster. No one can name one gooferment program that works. If you can find one that does happen to meet its objectives (and, I think that’s like an imaginary number), how much does it cost.
  • Indoctrination is obvious. How can we let the gooferment train future voters. Mann and Dewey brought in the Prussian education model to make cannon fodder for the Army and factory workers that could be led by the elite. (Where does Obama send his children to be educated? All but one President has done the same. Coincidence? Not!)

SO please go vote against the budget, we’re on the wrong path and it’s the only way to register a protest.

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MONEY: Accidental Foreclosures?

Sunday, April 18, 2010

http://www.doughroller.net/mortgages/handle-accidental-foreclosures/

How To Handle Accidental Foreclosures
by Michael

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Foreclosure With millions of foreclosures reported in 2009, the possibility of a bank foreclosing on the wrong house becomes more and more likely. Every year, hundreds of homes are targeted for accidental repossession by banks and the result can mean embarrassment, property damage and lost possessions for the rightful owners.

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Wow, never thought of this. It’s logical. With all sorts of papers flying about, clerical errors are bound to occur.

But, I would NOT call them “accidental”. They were deliberate.

Fraudulent, maybe.

I’d probably try to make an initialism that worked with:

Foreclosure Under C…. K….

No, what starts with a C and a K?

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POLITICAL: Schumer should … …

Saturday, April 17, 2010

LUDDITE: Excellent Assessment from a USA Today Reader! – Nailed it.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/letters/2010-04-16-letters16_ST3_N.htm  

If everyone’s so upset, I’d suggest:

(1) Excessive carry on is dangerous in an emergency. TSA should be enforcing limits on that. Less to screen at the gate.

(2) Airlines should be charging fees for excessive carry ons, and not for baggage.

That’s imho the only thing that the FAA should be directing.

And, Schumer should just sit down and shut up. imho!

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QUOTE: Bubble? What Bubble? Barney Frank (D-MA) 6/2005

Saturday, April 17, 2010

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/graph_of_the_day_for_april_17.html

“We have, I think, an excessive degree of concern right now about home ownership and its role in the economy… those who argue that housing prices are now at the point of a bubble seem to me to be missing a very important point… This is not the dot-com situation… you’re not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble.” Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), June 2005.

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Right before the housing bubble popped in 2006!

Thanks, Taxachusetts for electing such a perceptive leader. Think you might find someone else?

How about we pick the next Lottery winner? Or someone from the jury duty pool. Do you have a village idiot? Even they’d be better.

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POLITICAL: Some folks give up; nice to have that option

Saturday, April 17, 2010

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?
storyid=201004050814dowjonesdjonline000053&title=more-am
ericans-give-up-citizenship-as-irs-gets-aggressive-overseas

More Americans Give Up Citizenship As IRS Gets Aggressive Overseas
By Martin Vaughan, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

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In order to give up U.S. citizenship, a person must obtain or have citizenship in another country. The person surrenders their passport or green card during an interview with a consular officer in their new home country. He or she must also submit a form, including a list of assets, to the IRS to complete the process.

Chris Kavanagh of the American Institute in Taiwan, which represents U.S. interests in Taiwan, said 43 people gave up their U.S. citizenship in Taiwan in 2009, the highest that figure has been since 2003. He cautioned against drawing conclusions from that data, however.

The IRS says some of the swelling of numbers of expatriations towards the end of 2009 occurred because the agency made a push to notify people that had already surrendered their passport, but had not completed the process by submitting the IRS form. Until that form is received by the IRS, these people are still subject to U.S. tax. “There is some catch-up going on,” said IRS spokesman Bruce Friedland.

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Wow, things are really going bad.

Now we are exporting rich people. And, importing poor ones.

This can’t be good for the economy.

When does the tyrant close the borders? Camps next? And, the sheeple keep getting shorn!

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RANT: OBH44 “amused”?

Saturday, April 17, 2010

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/04/16/obama-claims-to-be-amused-by-tea-party-rallies-thinks-protesters-should-thank-him/

Obama Claims to Be “Amused” by Tea Party Rallies; Thinks Protesters Should “Thank” Him

posted at 11:38 am on April 16, 2010 by Howard Portnoy

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Wow, of all the egotistical self-centered dismissive sobs.

OBH44 is like Marie Antoinette!

“Let them eat cake!”

Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Hero has a heroine for a wife; shame on the VA

Friday, April 16, 2010

http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2010/04/remembering-hero.html

Thursday, April 15, 2010
Remembering a Hero

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Almost everyone knows about Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier in World War II. For his combat actions in the European Theater, Murphy received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts.

But fewer know the story of his widow, Pam. After her husband’s death in a 1971 plane crash, Pam Murphy went to work as a clerk at the Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center, a VA facility in North Hills, California.

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Sounds like a heroic woman married to bona fide war hero.

Argh!

Never heard this story when she was alive; too bad. She deserved her own medals from the VA.

We’ll get VA level service from Obamacare andwe’ll wish she was still around.

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SERVICE: Use a Google Voice number for reminders

Friday, April 16, 2010

http://www.macworld.com/article/147288/2010/04/googlevoice.html

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Send Yourself Voicemails After Calls to Remember Important Info

I have created a Gmail account and gotten signed up for Google Voice on that account (btw, don’t set it to your cell phone number for this setup.)

Once that GV account is in place, I enable the Do Not Disturb feature which sends incoming calls straight into voicemail.

I also have the settings such that it sends a Speech-to-Text translation to an email address on my Blackberry. Further, I set up my phone to speed dial “Q” (Quick Msg) so, as soon as I get done with the call, I dial Q and go straight into VM. I leave an articulate VM of the details I just committed to and almost instantly, upon completion, it feeds back to my Blackberry signaling that I have a new msg.

I DON’T look at the msg so that when I get back online, I can pull up the Unread msg (or listen to the voicemail attachment) and update the appropriate calendar entry or whatever is necessary to follow-up on the commitment.

Even if the translation isn’t verbatim, that’s fine because it’s usually pretty close and that should be PLENTY to serve as a reminder that I can act on. It’s really a great system, very simple and free. Not too shabby.

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I have it setup, but I have to play with it a little.

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POLITICAL: Vote by dollars; count all the dollars that are stolen from us

Thursday, April 15, 2010

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/no_representation_without_taxa_1.html

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“What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” Since we now “own” GM and other “private” entities we can easily adopt the proxy voting systems used in corporate America for federal elections (in corporate elections each shareholder gets voting power in proportion to shares owned). Each eligible voter would have a total number of votes equal to the dollar amount paid in personal federal income taxes over the previous two years. If you paid $20,000 in taxes you get 20,000 votes. If you paid $200,000 in taxes you get 200,000 votes. Again, what could be fairer?

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Of course, we’d have to eliminate ALL the hidden taxes we pay. Sales tax, capital gains, etc. etc. etc. And the two biggest taxes of all — inflation and the corporate income taxes that get passed on to real people!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: When you file your return … …

Thursday, April 15, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=137225

INVASION USA
Illegals bilk taxpayers in $13 million fraud ring ‘This is an extraordinarily serious, large case’
Posted: April 06, 2010 9:24 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

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McDonald told the newspaper that two tax preparation companies, Seguros Internacionales, in Spartanburg and Forest City, N.C., and Poz Servicios Para Hispanos, in Boiling Springs, and associated individuals filed at least 10,000 federal income tax returns and claimed more than $22 million in refunds. The two firms are said to have been shut down.

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“The fraud can go undetected for years – until the child looks for a job as a teenager,” he explained.

Rubenstein adds that the ACTC is even available to illegals without Social Security numbers. They simply use an Income Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN, which he says the “IRS is only too happy to provide.”

According to the report, the General Accounting Office has reported that the IRS estimates between 27 and 32 percent of EITC dollars are collected fraudulently.

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Yeah, when you file your return, think about the EITC and get mad.

The whole income tax fiasco should make you mad anyway, but this should just send you off the deep end!

It does me.

Argh!

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