GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Generals get special treatment

Saturday, May 22, 2010

http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2010/05/different-spanks-for-different-ranks.html

Saturday, May 15, 2010
Different Spanks for Different Ranks

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But that sanction is far less severe than the punishment imposed on enlisted personnel and lower-ranking officers. Enlisted members would almost certainly face an Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), resulting in the loss of a stripe, forfeiture of a portion of their pay for several months, and the eventual end of their military careers. Officers would also receive an Article 15, with an accompanying fine and possible separation from the service. Offenders in both groups would also lose access to classified information and face an uphill fight in restoring their clearances.

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As an ex USAF nco, I know that this is unexplainable. Other RHIP!

As a little L libertarian, I’m not big on DUI laws. Unless there is injury and / or property damage, then a trial and throw the book at people.

For all the gooferment’s ranting and raving, it’s generally conceded that the damage USUALLY comes from repeat offenders and that the sanctions don’t keep drunks off the road.

(1) Repeat offenders (i.e., with a prior DUI conviction or even an arrest or warning) get a mandatory jail term. It’s too dangerous to let them out on the road. First offense earns a year; second, a decade; third two decades. This non-sense of ten convictions is a joke.

(2) We need to reform the DUI laws in two ways: If no injury or damage, then a warning with teeth (i.e., you’ve been warned and should you case injury or damage, then those counts as your first offense.)

None of this Blood Alcohol Levels in random stops. It’s not about making money for the gooferment; it’s about really protecting the public.

(3) And generals shouldn’t get any consideration. What the enlisted and junior officers get is what the should get. Perhaps with an adder. There is nothing that kills an organization more than hypocrisy!

imho

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RANT: Another sleepless night

Saturday, May 22, 2010

I hear a bird chirping outside my window.

I look up from the one eyed monster bright with pitcures and words.

I see the curtain lightening up.

And realize that I have spend another night — sleepless!

Argh!

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MONEY: Lessons from the Baby Boomer’s Blunders

Friday, May 21, 2010

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2010/05/21/what-you-can-learn-from-baby-boomer-blunders/

What YOU Can Learn from Baby-Boomer Blunders   

Neal Frankle, a Certified Financial Planner, and the author of Wealth Pilgrim, a blog about his financial journey.

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# Don’t assume your home is going to fund your retirement.

# Try like hell to pay off your mortgage by the time you’re 55.

# Don’t send your kids to schools you can’t afford.

# Think about saving as any other expense.

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I’d add some other “lessons”.

  • Don’t assume that you’ll be working after fifty. Or, don’t assume, unless your work for the Gooferment, that your pay will keep going up. One thing I have learned form my turkeys is that (a) there is a good possibility of a year out of work, living off your savings, dipping into your retirement money, and settling for a lot less.
  • Don’t assume that your “blue chip company” will even exist in the next year. Look at Lehman Brothers for a quick demise. Look at GM for a slow death. You are the master of your own fate. If the Titanic is going down, even if you’re not one it, it can take you with it. Look at the city of Detroit. Look at all the suppliers and correspondents of Lehman Brothers. Heck, my CPA took a batch with Lehman Brother’s bonds; a supposedly safe investment.
  • Don’t assume that your “gold watch” company will take care of you. Your “benefits” are very expensive. I’d suggest that, if possible, you have your own health insurance. Again, from my turkeys, loss of the benefits are a financial disaster. It can break a marriage. It can break your spirits.

You have to have a strategy, with the tactics to match.

I alwasy fall back to what I think is the “success” meme in today’s climate:

Success for your generation is: (1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt; (2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you; (3) a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux; (4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber; (5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open; (6) a free time hobby that generates income; and (7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.

FWIW

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RANTING: Does America really have “poor”?

Friday, May 21, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=152409

Are free markets good for the poor?
Posted: May 12, 2010
Walter E. Williams
Professor of Economics at George Mason University

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The market is a friend in another unappreciated way. In poor black neighborhoods, one might see some nice clothing, some nice food, some nice cars but no nice schools. Why not at least some nice schools? Clothing, food and cars are distributed by the market mechanism, while schools are distributed by the political mechanism.

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When Professor Williams writes, he usually nails it. Hits the mark here too.

A free marketplace is like an election of sorts. People vote with their “certificates of appreciation”.

It harnesses greed and enforces cooperation.

Trade makes everyone happy. Even if you can’t afford something, you get a motivating goal.

And, no force required.

It recognize and channels human nature into solving problems.

Sigh, it’s great for the poor.

Look at the “poor” here versus elsewhere. Seems to really put things in stark contrast.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: CT AG is a fraud supported by fruads; protected by Holder?

Thursday, May 20, 2010

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/05/post_198.html

May 19, 2010
Phony Marine at Phony Vietnam Blumenthal’s Presser
Clarice Feldman

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Doug Ross spots a ringer. One of the merry band of brother “Marines” at the presser of Connecticut Democrat Senatorial candidate Blumenthal evidently is a phony soldier.

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“Stolen Honor”!

Phony candidate has phony supporter!

Disgraceful.

Where’s the AG Holder? Oh yeah, he’s a D, so rules don’t apply.

And he is the CT AG!

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SERVICE: Why don’t ISPs validate all return addresses?

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Don’t the ISPs have the capability to do a domain look up?

We need to revise the email handling protocols. (imho)

ISPs should insist that peers do some validation.

For example, if say COMCAST and YAHOO are peers, then, at the very least, COMCAST should not accept any email with a Yahoo return address that doesn’t originate from Yahoo. Yahoo should validate every email it peers to COMCAST has having originated from a valid email address. If COMCAST Users mark it as spam, then that fact should be fed back to Yahoo for appropriate action.

And, visa versa.

(I laugh sarcastically when I get spam with a Yahoo bogus return address.)

ISPs like Comcast and EMail providers like Yahoo could “cut off” offenders.

It would seem to be in everyone’s best interest to truncate the flow of bogus email.

Seems easy to me?

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POLITICAL: More bailouts until the pig-gy bank is busted

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=155205

Will the PIGS blow up Europe?
Posted: May 18, 2010
Pat Buchanan

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The ECB seems to be substituting itself for the banks as the chump to be left holding the bag when the defaults begin.

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Whatever you think of Pat as a Presidential candidate, he has a knack for identifying global trends.

Transnationalism, ethno-nationalism, and economic nationalism I think I understand. What he misses in this short piece are the formation of religious nationalism (i.e., Muslims carve out part of countries and align them…selves with their religion as opposed to the country) AND the liberal politically correct non-nationalism. Maybe he covers these in his book.

In any event, a thought provoking one pager.

Clearly, the US Taxpayer is on the hook for this bailout. All to benefit the banks that are stuck with the deadbeat’s bonds!

When this all fails, what happens?

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POLITICAL: Filling out my list of the “worst” Presidents

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

A fellow alum posited that:

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“If you were to be trapped in a cave for 30 days and had the choice of ANY dead president to chill with…who would it be and why.”

Probably George Washington or Lyndon B. Johnson.

Washington so I could fill him in the shit state of the US today.

Johnson because he was an incredibly important figure during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. I guess I’m not over my thesis. Still emotionally attached. Sigh. I would just like to talk to him about his true feelings about the war as well as the civil rights and black power movements.

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Washington was unarguably the “best” President.

But I’d assert that LBJ is pretty well down there for worst. “Civil Rights” was forced on him by the “evil” republicans to get more funding for Vietnam. (I remember reading about it in the papers.)

My “worst” list:

(1) Lincoln (Civil War over secession ending the “America Experiment” on liberty, corrupt railroad lawyer figuratively in bed with Northeastern power brokers and literally in bed with some “interesting” people whole presenting a different image to the folks, First Amendment violations, Income Tax, )

(2) Wilson (duped us into WW2 after running on a “peace platform”, racist, Progressive, Federal Reserve, Income Tax)

(3) Truman (ABombed defenseless civilians)

(4) FDR (Progressive, the “social security” scam, End the Gold Standard, may have lied us into war, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914.)

(5) LBJ (Gulf of Tonkin to expand the VietNam war, expanded the draft, put the Welfare / Warfare state on steroids)

(6) BHO (Healthcare, Porkulous, GM, Wall Street Bailout, started us on the road to socialism)

Also rans (Not even close to the “big” time):

(*) Nixon (Expanded Drug War on the inner cities, ended the international Gold Standard)

(*) Bush41 (“No new taxes”)

(*) Kennedy (Expanded the VietNam war, Bay of Pigs, permitted a trip to Dallas)

(*) Regan (Deficits, ran with Bush41)

(*) Jefferson (Demonstrated that absolute power corrupts even the best men)

(*) Bush43 (Started the Iraq war)

(*) Clinton (Whitewater, “Slick-ness”, Monica IN the Oval Office, lot of “little wars”)

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2011-Dec-14

Adding Teddy to #7 ahead of the “also-rans”!

(7) Teddy (Crazy, “world’s policeman”, “master race”, “trust buster” of the unfavored business, “food safety crisis”, “conservation”, and worst reviving the income tax.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo106.html

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FUN: Sunday night with Mom’s pix — ice cream cone

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

1950-XX-XX ice cream cone

Note the Hopalong Cassidy jacket. My favorite.

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RANT: TV ads are gross!

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Can you believe what they advertise on TV? Trojan personal massager. Sorry, but that’s unbelievable.

What can we learn from this? Anything sells.

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GOLDBUG: Just because there’s an obvious bias, doesn’t mean what being said is wrong

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

http://www.kitco.com/ind/GoldReport/may32010.html

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In terms of preserving the purchasing power of your assets, the best thing I can think of is physical gold. That’s worked over the millennia. I’m not per se a gold bug. It just happens to be a circumstance in which it’s the cleanest asset around for that. You don’t need to put all your assets into gold, but hold some. Hold some silver. I’d look to get some assets out of the U.S. dollar and look to get some assets out of the U.S. When I say outside of the U.S. dollar, again, I look at the Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, Swiss franc in particular. I think they will tend to do particularly well, whereas the U.S. dollar is going to become effectively worthless.

As the dollar breaks down, you’ll also likely see disruptions in supply chains, including shipments of food to grocery stores. People should consider maintaining stockpiles of basic goods needed for living, much as they would for a natural disaster. I sit on the Hayward fault in California. I have a supply of goods and basic necessities in case something terrible happens—natural or man-made—that will carry me for a couple of months. It may take that long for a barter system to evolve, which I think is what you’re going to end up with; at least until a new currency system is reorganized and you get a government that’s able to bring its fiscal house into order. No currency system in the U.S. is going to work unless the fiscal conditions that drove it into oblivion are also addressed.

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Ignoring for the moment Kitco’s inherent bias, (just because they’re biased, doesn’t mean they are wrong), it would seem that buying 1,000 ounces of silver rounds (about 19K$) is good “inflation insurance”. Remember Zimbabwe used silver, gold, and American dollars when their currency collapsed. A lesson form the Mormons about food storage; it’s be nice to keep a year’s worth. And, an urban yute discouragement device or two with a sufficient of individual reminders to go away, and you have a nice “insurance police” in case crazy as a loon Ferd is right once in his life. Remember forewarned is fore armed. Or, four armed. As I see it, fjohn

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: 1099’s galore?

Monday, May 17, 2010

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/05/democrats_bring_death_by_a_tho.html

May 16, 2010
Democrats bring death by a thousand new regulations
Ed Lasky

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The absurdity of this approach is clear in the ObamaCare legislation. Among its features are a requirement that all businesses file 1099s for any person or vendor that they pay $600 or more over the course of the year. This will be a nightmare for many small businessmen already laboring under the impact of existing rules , as well as other ObamaCare impacts, as this Investors Business Daily column makes clear.

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Has anyone thought about the absurdity of all this paper being mailed around. Is this some type of subsidy to the Post Office? And, how about all the IRS workers that will have to be hired!

Argh!

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NOTRECOMMENDED: “Men Staring At Goats”

Monday, May 17, 2010

Watched a dumb movie “Men Staring At Goats”. How dumb!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/

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INTERESTING: Just had a windshield star repaired; easy, cheap, and effective

Monday, May 17, 2010

Had some time to kill. (Lots of that from time to time.) Did the Safelite Auto Glass thing on my “star”. Worked well. THe insurance company waived my deductible and paid the 138$. (Why I don’t know? I had high deductible so they would never get bill for the windshield. So why did they pay? A process failure? Maybe they need a BPR consultant? You know “bothering people relentlessly”.)

RECOMMENDED!

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RANT: Pacific wasn’t as good as BoB; scarier in some ways

Monday, May 17, 2010

Just finished watching the conclusion of Pacific. It was better than Band of Brothers in that it gave some feel for post-war PTSD. Those guys had to be nuts. Kill or be killed in the mud. Against the “crazy” Japanese. To be manipulated at home by politicians. Made whatever FDR did deserving a special place in Dante’s lowest circle of Hell. Argh! Wilson did the same thing leading up to WW1.

I like Robert Heinlein’s idea in his novel Starship Troopers that only veterans should be able to vote or run for office. Be a lot less wars!

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LINKEDIN: Another reason NOT to use your employer’s email adress on LinkedIn

Monday, May 17, 2010

http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2010/03/31/non-solicit-suit-alleges-violations-on-linkedin#ixzz0nDJODrSE  

LinkedIn to a Lawsuit
by Jim Hammerand Mar 31 2010

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As case law develops, courts could decide whether the online connections employees make at work belong to the employee or employer. Courts, Cotter said, have “a lot of discretion” in deciding whether comparable customer lists and contacts are trade secrets and whether social-networking activity can be covered by competitive agreements.

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Clearly, if you have a non-compete, then you’ve got a problem.

But, it can’t hurt to make sure that your LinkedIn account looks “personal”.

I’d go so far as to say you should NEVER use social networking from the company’s hardware, software, or network.

With 3G, 4G, and public wifis for networking. With iphone, ipad, netbooks, and cheap notebooks. With Open Source Software, as opposed to the corporate Microsoft suite. All demonstrate the difference.

imho.

Remember the sources of my education: I’m just a fat old white guy injineer with Law from watching Judge Judy, Medical from Doctor Phil, Building from Holmes on Homes, and Investing from Bernie Made-off.

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RANT: GWB traffic yesterday

Sunday, May 16, 2010

What a day for traffic yesterday at the George Washington Bridge?

I went on the express lanes, which was unusual. (Not that it would have made a lot of difference.)

I couldn’t get traffic reports on 880 because of the Yankee game. Did catch any on any of the other stations. (Were they broadcasting any?)

None of those expensive message boards were lit up. How much did they cost us to put in and operate? Or in this case NOT operate!

Argh!

I sat without moving on Route 80 for 90 minutes. Without moving. OK a little bit. But I’ve never been mired in such traffic.

Wasted the better part of a day. Put me in a foul mood. And, no explanation. Argh!

Why?

The only guess I had was Homeland Security. That would account for the lack of information. Nothing was moving on any approach!

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Where is the edge of the flat earth?

Sunday, May 16, 2010

http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1005.html

Crypto-Gram Newsletter
May 15, 2010
by Bruce Schneier
Chief Security Technology Officer, BT

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Worst-Case Thinking

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Remember Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s quote? “Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” And this: “the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Ignorance isn’t a cause for doubt; when you can fill that ignorance with imagination, it can be a call to action.

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“We don’t know what we don’t know”

In the dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) meme the elements explode into: Data is the elemental atom of the paradigm. Information is data in context. Knowledge is actionable information. Wisdom is knowing the implications of knowledge.

Wisdom is that “don’t know what don’t know” area.

Where is the edge of the flat earth?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: True racism = gooferment eddykation in the inner city

Sunday, May 16, 2010

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/05/05/black_americans_and_liberty

Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Black Americans and Liberty
by Walter E. Williams Townhall.com Columnist

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Then there’s the grossly fraudulent education delivered by the government schools that serve most black communities. The average black high school senior has a sixth- or seventh-grade achievement level and most of those who manage to graduate have what’s no less than a fraudulent diploma, one that certifies a 12th-grade level of achievement when in fact the youngster might not have half that. If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, he could not find a more effective means to do so than the government school system in most cities.

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It’s a shame what we have done to the inner city. Between the “war on (some) drugs”, the denial of the resident’s right to defend themselves, the dole that saps (i.e., single moms get more unmarried and unpaired; the minimum wage mandates unemployment; the gooferment takes over “charity”; the policing is inadequate; rent control prevents building real wealth; licensing prevents entrepreneurship; “equal opportunity” is anything but), then the final nail is the schools.

It’s racism to deprive the inner city youth of paths to “success”!

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SERVICE: 750 WORDS site; make everyone a writer.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

http://emilychang.com/ehub/app/750-words

Blog | eHub | Stream | Tags | Photos Projects | About | News | Contact

750 Words
By Kim Lau
— May 12, 2010 at 10:02 am

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Motivate your writing by committing to 750 words a day. Log in with Facebook Connect, Google or Yahoo, and earn points and badges the more you write.

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We’ll see if it helps.

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TECHNOLOGY: Taming the email monster

Saturday, May 15, 2010

http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2010/05/five-realistic-tips-for-using-email-more-efficiently.html

MY COMMENT:

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May I suggest that more email accounts, with a proper strategy, mail actually be more “efficient”?

All too often, I see folks with a single email account with everything jumbled together. No ability to segregate personal from business, financial from non, family from weirdo, (Oh wait some of my family are pretty weird!), … any way, you get the idea.

I personally use lots of different accounts for different purposes. Reading down my inboxes in my mail client: Urgent Matters, Brokerage Account, Bank Account, Paytrust, Family, Friends, Work, Job Search Networking, College Alumni, My High School Class Specifically, High School Alumni, Networking, Technology Playing, Catch All, and Routine Subscriptions. And, few other oddballs ones.

May sound like a mess, but:

(1) Email time is IMMEDIATELY presented in priority order. (Most people just reply to email, so they get to know me by the address. I have my own domain so I am in complete control of the names, the archiving interval, and automatic handling.)

(2) Messages purporting to be from my bank sent by a spammer stand out like a sore thumb when they come it on the “wrong” email account.

(3) Message originating from me are distinctive in the account name so the recipient can quickly place my association with them. (e.g., HighSchoolNickname @ mydomainname dot com) Saves angst on all ends.

(4) “Lost messages”, remembered or needed later, can be found by looking in the “dedicated email” box which is just a fraction of the overall mail volume.

So in this case, more is actually less. More mailboxes; less wasted time.

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POLITICAL: Kagan is anti Second Amendment

Friday, May 14, 2010

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPI35t8uR6Gs

Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument
By Greg Stohr and Kristin Jensen

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May 13 (Bloomberg) — Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol.

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This is really all we have to know about Obama’s nominee Kagan.

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is the Palladium of Liberty.

The “litmus test” for who is sovereign — the People or the “King” aka the Gooferment.

Sad, but she needs to be defeated.

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POLITICAL: Obamacare will go broke; only question how fast

Friday, May 14, 2010

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/05/early_harbingers_of_the_health.html

May 04, 2010
Early harbingers of the health care fiasco
Walt Elgin

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Speaking of which, nobody knows what it will cost or who covers overruns. Well, that will ultimately be us whether state or federal shortfalls, or both. Last month, dozens of states asked who pays when federal funding runs dry . “You could have a handful of people that could literally bankrupt the high-risk pool,” said Sumi Sousa, special assistant to Democratic California Assembly Speaker John Perez. “What do we do then? The state’s broke.”

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And the feds have finally owned up to the real state of affairs; HHS spokeswoman Jenny Backus declined to say who pays when the program runs out of money. “I think we need to get the programs up and running before we start speculating,” she said.

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All I can do it quote Margaret Thatcher.

“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

Some programs run out faster. Like Indian Health Care. Like Obamacare.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Holder is an ass

Thursday, May 13, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=152461

The FBI’s positive fumble
Posted: May 12, 2010
Barry Farber is a pioneer in talk radio

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Holder reminds me of the golf showoff who urged one of the group with a very expensive wristwatch please to remove it and place it on the ground, whereupon the showoff balanced a golf ball on the watch’s face, took a five-iron, took his stance and prepared to swat. The watch owner was fearful of a nick or even a small scratch on the face of that precious watch. The showoff swung and utterly shattered the watch’s crystal.

Unfazed, however, he turned to the stunned crowd and said, “You see? That’s the object; to break the crystal without actually damaging the watch itself!”

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BHO44’s AG Holder is an ideologue. Move the Terror Trials, the GM robbery, and countless other examples make me question BHO44’s judgement.

Kagan is a similar choice.

Sorry, but as a little L libertarian, I find them especially unpalatable choices.

Whoever heard of a Harvard Dean with no writings? Guess for a President with no birth certificate and a Massachusetts Social Security Number she’s fine. But not for me. And, she’s too young.

And, the absolute insult, it leaves the court without a veteran.

Just shaking my head, I’m amazed at the utter stupidity of the current crop of Americans. Oprah would have been a better choice.

Or Judge Judy! That would have brought common sense to the Court. Argh!

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RANT: Ties suck; coin flips are insult to the effort put out

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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The draw to decide which two squads join Siena and Mount St. Mary’s in the MAAC Tournament will be held on Sunday morning. Whichever team is drawn will not be in the field, while the other two will be seeded third and fourth depending on the result of their regular season meeting.

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I dislike ties. Not so much. At least a tie is honest.

I really dislike random ways ties are broken.

Those are disrespectful to the effort put out getting to the tie.

On the game show, CATCH21 there are no ties; a player who freezes on a number (i.e., the player got their score first) “owns” that value space.

That seems “fair”.

For an athletic team to work their butt off and have it decided by a coin flip or other random event seems disrespectful to me.

They could have started with the coin flip and forgot about the work. Makes as much sense.

ARGH! No coin flips; use the CATCH21 rule. No ties; no coin flips.

Hear that baseball: No extra innings. Hear that pro basketball: no OTs that end with the curfew. (Have to make sure the “athletes” can get to the disco!). College bball exempted; they play till they drop.) Hear that pro football: No coin flip that decides every thing for the most part. BUT especially — hear that ncaa football: Your tie break is boring and insane — the coin flip there is de facto the game for the most part.

REMEMBER: “There are NO ties in Catch 21!” http://tv.gsn.com/shows/catch21/

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TINFOILHAT: The Obama file

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

On May 12, 2010, at 5:11 PM, XXXXXXXXXX wrote:

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This is right up your alley too… don’t know if you are aware of this suit filed in Newark…press won’t cover it that’s for sure

http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/protectourliberty.htm

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No, didn’t know about it.

Maybe it’s my tin foil hat. Might be on too tight.

I don’t consider myself a “full fledged birther”. They claim BHO44 is not eligible. I just don’t understand why he is spending 2M$ to prevent disclosure of ANY of his documents. College papers, loan apps, etc. etc. etc. and the original birth certificate.

I just don’t understand. And, how he can get away with it.

Does he have a driver’s license? Did he present his birth certificate? I had to. Passport? Ditto. I just don’t understand. It’s frustrating.

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