GOVERNACIDE: One of our troops killed!

Sunday, August 22, 2010

http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2010/08/22/sunday-1-us-soldier-4-iraqis-killed-43-iraqis-wounded

Sunday: 1 US Soldier, 4 Iraqis Killed; 43 Iraqis Wounded
by Margaret Griffis, August 22, 2010

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The first U.S. soldier to die since the withdrawal of combat troops this week was killed in during a rocket attack in Basra today. At least four Iraqis were killed and 43 more were wounded in other attacks.

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Great withdrawal plan!

Leave targets!!!

“Mission Accomplished”?

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INTERESTING: Did a 100k words over about 100 days

Sunday, August 22, 2010

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FUN: Children show us the way to visualize

Sunday, August 22, 2010

http://unclutterer.com/2010/08/12/go-big-or-go-home

Go big or go home?

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Most children, if asked to draw the house they’ll live in as an adult, will sketch a home resembling a bloated Graceland or Cinderella’s castle. A rare child might draw something akin to Skylab, but rarely will you see a home that is an apartment or small cottage. Kids dream big, and they almost always want yards, trees, and all the amenities of a suburban mansion.

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Maybe we should all draw where we will be in a decade?

ROFL!

A plot?

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QUOTE: As if someone had set out to *prevent* children from learning – John Taylor Gatto

Sunday, August 22, 2010

“I’ve come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us… I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it was possible that being in school itself was what was dumbing them down. Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children’s power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to *prevent* children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.” – John Taylor Gatto

http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html

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RANT: Cheaters do win

Saturday, August 21, 2010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100725/ap_on_sp_ot/cyc_tour_de_france_radioshack

RadioShack’s improper jersey stalls start to stage
Sun Jul 25, 9:39 am ET

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PARIS – Lance Armstrong and his RadioShack team have been forced to change unofficial jerseys honoring cancer patients before starting the final stage of the Tour de France.

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Comment by “The Professor”

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Lance’s cancer survival and recovery to win the Tour de France seven times is a story we all WANT to be true…. but if you think about it logically it can’t be true.

The odds of a steroid and EPO free athlete beating all of the steroid cheaters seven times are astronomically impossible.

I get disgusted every time I see a “Live Strong” yellow bracelet because I truly believe Lance’s cancer was caused by steroid abuse. I’ve known TONS of pro athletes and wannabe pro athletes that publicly decry steroids while they use them.

The truly disgusting part is they not only cheat to win, they want you NOT to use steroids so they have an even bigger advantage and greater chance of winning.

To them, it is ALL about winning and the glory and the money that goes with it. They don’t care about your health. They don’t care if you use steroids or not. All they care about is that you can’t compete with them and they get to win.

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Cheaters do win!

We have to have little mental “signs” that we hang around people when we see them speak on TV. I have a mental list:

  1. Jane Fonda “Sitting in a North Viet Nam Anti Aircraft battery as an enemy prop”
  2. Al Gore “Fraud profiting from Global Warming”
  3. Bill Clinton: “Liar”
  4. Hillary “Cheated Old People out of their vacation / retirement homes aka Whitewater”
  5. Obama “Socialist who has something to hide”
  6. Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, Reid “Corrupt politicians.
  7. Byrd “Racist”
  8. Any ABC, CBS, or NBC talking head “Socialist propagandist”
  9. Any Democrat and all but one Republican politician “Big Gooferment tyrant”
  10. Most sports figures “In It For the Money”
  11. Most Generals and Admirals “Perfumed Princes” aka politicians
  12. Most Hollywood types “Two faced” (One set of rules for them; another for everyone else.)
  13. Any environmentalist “Watermelon”
  14. Any Gooferment bureaucrat “Feeding at the public trough”
  15. Any “Businessman” who takes Gooferment handouts “Welfare Queen”
  16. Any “Gentleman Farmer” who takes Gooferment handouts “Welfare Queen”
  17. Any lobbyist “Welfare Pimp”
  18. Any politician who feathers his own nest “Felon”

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RANT: Hospital visiting policy

Saturday, August 21, 2010

I have to laugh as this appears on one of my regularly visited websites.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/miles5.1.1.html

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As Mendelson points out, visiting the hospital is serious stuff, and something most people don’t concern themselves with because they are not aware of the shenanigans that sometimes occur in hospitals, nor how terribly wrong things can go. Like our government many Americans think problems here and there are odd and rare, and not endemic to the system itself.

For all our revolutionary heritage, Americans in general seem to have this odd, misplaced, unblinking, and often unconscious respect for credentialed authority, apparently thinking that credentials and expertise somehow cleanse people from the baser parts of human nature like self-willed agendas, petty backbiting, authoritarian behavior, the brazen seeking of power, a cultic mentality, etc.

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FROM MY CARING BRIDGE SITE

Saturday, August 21, 2010 7:22 AM, CDT

“Good” morning from RWJUH New Brunswick

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Nurse informs me of “new policy”. “No visiting before 10. And, how did I get up.” A vigorous discussion of this policy. Even showed her the booklet, on Page 6 “Family members are welcome 24 / 7”, I was given last week. “It’s wrong.” I told her if that was their policy, that I’d transfer her out.” “All hospitals are like that.” I don’t need this <Expletive Deleted> “barbara streisand”! Frau Reinke was getting upset with me. So I let it pass. They’ll have to drag me out in handcuffs. <Expletive Deleted> “barbara streisand”!

And, what’s worse, I left my coffee in the car!

Guess I better alert my panel of attorneys. Who’s got bail money? I’m putting on my Gandhi person. Peaceful non-cooperation with Micky Mouse rules.

If hospital “policy” is “visiting hours are from 10AM to 9PM for patient safety”. (a) what’s happening during those hours that jeopardizes patient safety that a “visitor” will interfere with? The sleeping night shift! (b) The CUs say “no visiting during shift change from 7 to 8 AM and PM”. Lay those two “policies” on top of one another and it really restricts families in the evening. (c) You can’t tell me there are not “hidden exceptions” — neo natal, the dying, pediatrics, honchos, politicians. ARGH!

A peaceful non-violent non-cooperating resistor does have some obligation to avoid a fight. Didn’t want to upset the patient. If she’d said “leave”, I’d have merely replied “no”. If Frau Reinke was up to snuff, I might even comply. Might not. But it would be my choice; not theirs.

Maybe I’ll even have all new nurses tomorrow to deal with.

Nurses at the station have been having a “barbara streisand” session for the last half hour.

And, for the record, that old “no food” policy is “barbara streisand” too since I saw several of the staff eating at their stations.

So, asinine policies get the respect they deserve. Argh! I gotta stop hanging out in these kind of joints.

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TINFOILHAT: What specifically of BHO44’s “paperwork” is missing?

Saturday, August 21, 2010

BASED ON PRIVATE EMAILS QUESTIONING ME AS A “BIRTHER”

A number of challenges based on the constitutional requirement:

  • not born in Hawaii in 1961 as he claims;
  • dual citizen of the U.S. and the United Kingdom when he was born;
  • as a child, was a citizen of Indonesia, to get into school;
  • disclaimed his citizenship to get entrance into college; and
  • claimed privileges for foreign students in his applications.

The Constitution was specifically written to exclude dual citizens from eligibility.

BHO44 has kept from the public:

  • Kindergarten records,
  • Punahou school records,
  • Occidental College records,
  • Columbia University records,
  • Columbia thesis,
  • Harvard Law School records,
  • Harvard Law Review articles,
  • scholarly articles from the University of Chicago,
  • passport,
  • medical records,
  • files from his years as an Illinois state senator,
  • Illinois State Bar Association records,
  • baptism records, and
  • his adoption records.

The burning question is: Why the cover up? What’s being hidden? Who knew what when?

Why spend millions to prevent disclosure?

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INTERESTING: Heuristics; my ROTs (Rules of Thumb)

Friday, August 20, 2010

http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2010/07/reconsider-the-rules-of-thumb-you-use-in-everyday-life.html

Re-Consider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life.

from The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

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My adventures in the lands of happiness research led me to the concept of heuristics. Heuristics are “rules of thumb,” the quick, common-sense principles people apply to solve a problem or make a decision. They aren’t “rules for living” that you consciously try to apply; rather, they’re deeply embedded, often unconscious, rules that you use to make decisions, answer a question, or decide a course of action.

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My children are my most important priority.

Exercise every day.

People don’t notice my mistakes and flaws as much as I think.

My husband is my top priority.

“Yes” comes right away; “no” never comes.

Get some work done every day.

Whenever possible, choose vegetables.

I know as much as most people.

Try to attend any party or event to which I’m invited.

My parents are almost always right.

Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.

If I’m not sure whether to include some text in my writing, cut it out.

When making a choice about what to do, choose work.

I’m too busy to do that.

There’s no wrong decision.

Always say hello.

People in business, small or large, will take advantage of you if they can.

What would my mother do?

Actually, this is good news.

Say yes.

This is the fun part.

Do nothing, go nowhere.

Do everything all at once.

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MINE:

  1. Frau is Job #1.
  2. Doctors and nurses are educated and experienced resources; they are not the Pope and this ain’t matters of faith and morals.
  3. Fool me or make a fool of me once; no second chances.
  4. Stop lights are the Universe telling me to slow down and look around.
  5. In a decade, will I care? Will anyone? So, why do I now?
  6. MYOB!
  7. Go for the gusto; go “big” or go home.
  8. I am not my “job”. I am not who I was or am; I am what I will be.
  9. Focus on Quadrant 1 activities: “Important” and “Urgent”.
  10. Your priorities are not NECESSARILY mine. Your lack of planning doesn’t constitute n emergency on my part.
  11. Begin with the end in mind. Planning is everything; plans are meaningless.
  12. 7 P’s (PPPPPPP)
  13. There is no such thing as “over communication”. There is ALWAYS someone who is out of the loop thru NO fault of their own.
  14. There is no substitute for good written DOCTRINE; there’s no excuse for failing to do “LESSONS LEARNED”.
  15. Don’t get mad; get working.
  16. NEVER assume that the organization’s objectives are aligned with yours; figure them out and protect yourself.
  17. There’s no substitute for accurate written records; remember the hearsay rule.
  18. Can’t cheat an honest man. Live life as if you’re going to explain your conduct to your Mom, Grandmom, and the Creator.
  19. Life is not like Jeopardy. There’s no extra credit for rudely shouting out the answer.
  20. The only “dumb” question is the one that you don’t ask. If you’re thinking it, someone else is too.
  21. The Shouldas, couldas, and wouldas will make you miserable; discard them asap. One year amnesty on mistakes.
  22. Set up systems that are automatic; your intentions have to be backed up with actions.
  23. You are neither as smart as you think; nor as dumb as you act.
  24. Do quick tasks; partition and schedule big ones. Do something to advance the ball. Dispatch the long running tasks quickly.
  25. Multiple “top priorities” means you have no priorities.

What are yours?

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POLITICAL: Troops out of Iraq?? Completely!

Friday, August 20, 2010

On Aug 20, 2010, at 9:29 AM, XXXXXXXXX wrote:

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Isn’t this like the “Mission Accomplished” banner? ‘We no longer have combat troops in Iraq’….but….there are still 50,000 there. And I have a crisp $100 bill that says they have guns on them!

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If they don’t, then they are victims.

How dumb does BHO44 and his media think we are?

Is this like Germany? We’re going to have troops there for eternity.

Argh!

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PLINKY: Shoulda, coulda, and woulda!

Friday, August 20, 2010

August 12, 2010

Describe the one who got away.: Going, going, gone

http://www.plinky.com/prompts/504/answers/new

This is an encouragement to delve into “shoulda, coulda, and woulda!” thinking. That’s always a disaster. You can’t win from that POV.

“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45

It’s not like you can examine the “eternal possibilities machine” that will tell you what the results were from every choice. No matter how small. How trivial. Perhaps you become a millionaire if in the third grade, you’d have picked Wheaties as opposed to Cheerios that morning before you went to school. (Yeah, I know there’s no relation possible between the two. But how do you know for SURE?)

See, there have been so many “decisions” that I made, had made for me, made by default, or even made by failing to make a decision. And, I could drive myself crazy by trying to second guess those “decisions”. Off the top of my head, where I lived, where I went to school, who I dated, where I went to work, and choices made about jumping to another job. Countless decisions, large and small, that like Gulliver, those are the tiny Lilliputian threads, which bind us down.

Who’s to say which thread, which if loosed, would make a huge alternative possibility into a reality?

Even later in life, I made decisions that I know regret. For example, when my MBA classmates decided to go together to law school at night as a group, I was burnt out from schooling. I knew I’d never finish that path with my mind in its state at the time. Too bad! Maybe it was just too much school. Another six years. Argh! I had four years of VA benefits left. But it wasn’t the money, the tax deductability status, or even the commute. It was the time! Funny because after a few years off, I went and did a four year program in CompSci. Crassly, my motivation was to collect my last VA benefits. (Hey, I was being robbed by Uncle Sam so this was just my attempt to mitigate my damages.) Turns out, it was a useful credential. When I was young enough to exploit it.

So, consulting the EPM (i.e., mythical Eternal Possibilities Machine in CHURCH 10●19●62), I can see the “law school” track, leading to failure, alcoholism, divorce, or even death. (That was a traffic accident when rushing home from school tired and after a night cap!) But you never really know, one track might have led to “world peace”. (Hey, if beauty queen contestants can wish for a great result for which they have absolutely zero impact on, so can I.) Maybe I could have a degree and a license. Maybe I could have a future. Maybe, maybe, maybe.

But it is fun to wonder in an idle moment to wonder what might have been.

Where in the world is Virginia Barry?

ROFL! (Only a really kool girl, like her or Frau, would go to a College dance called the “Engineers’ Balls”. ROFL

Maybe the “shoulda, coulda, and woulda!” exercise is valuable to demonstrate all that we have.

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TINFOILHAT: BHO44’s paperwork?

Thursday, August 19, 2010

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0810/Dont_look_birthers_Obamas_passport.html?showall

August 17, 2010
Don’t look, birthers: Obama’s passport

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Here’s something new for the birthers to chew over: President Barack Obama’s passport. Says he was born in Hawaii! But the White House has strategically fuzzed out certain data, so the mystery continues.

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This is just another effort by BHO44 and his handlers to do everything in their power to obfuscate and evade answering the questions over his legitimacy. Calling his detractors “birthers” and other pejoratives does NOT answer the outstanding questions.

A blurry passport means nothing. It’s just more nail in the coffin of truth, transparency, and eventual exposure. It’s just more smoke ‘n’ mirrors.

Why does someone spend more than a million dollars to hide documents from his past?

It’s not just the birth certificate; athough that was the first deception. It’s the all the records. Where their is smoke; there’s fire.

Is this his new Presidential passport? The one with diplomatic immunity. Think he went to the post office, with two pictures, his birth certificate, and 175$ and waited a month like you have to? Argh!

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Also, a well written take on it.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=192577

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PLINKY: What I'd Say to My 16-Year-Old Self

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda!

Stupid Sign in DC

Hey, stupid! Yeah, you with your head up your a double q.

You’re not as smart as you think.

Success for you is ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt.

The adults in your life are not stupid, but in some cases they are just wrong. They are not teaching you the life skills that you need to learn!

Forget school. They are teaching you facts; some of which are even wrong. Worse than that, they are fooling you into thinking that life is like school. It ain’t by a long shoot. You need the “education” and the piece of paper, but there are so many other skills you need. Forget it in the sense that’s it’s giving you all you need. Sorry, but it’s not even teaching you the minimum you need.

Write down your goals. I know you heard that, but you didn’t do it. Do it! It’s critical. (Why didn’t you do it?)

I can’t say your life would be “better”. Only the Creator can answer that. But, I can say it would be very different. And, from this fat old white guy injineer’s point of view, you’d have been better off.

Sadly. Much better off.

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RANT: Questioning the purity of my little L libertarianism?

Thursday, August 19, 2010

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On Aug 13, 2010, at 9:12 AM, LUDDITE wrote:

I almost submitted on your blog, but decided this should be a ‘personal’ post!   I found your letter quite interesting given your Libertarian label.  Isn’t this a little hypocritical?  Maybe it is hitting ‘too close to home’?  Being a FOWG like me?  lol

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Well, exxxxcuuuuse me. :-)

Think my “libertarianism” is not “pure” enough? That’s why libertarians rip each other up. Over who is the “pure-est” in the land. Very counter productive to success.

(You could have made it a public post. I take criticism well. I think.)

Let me explain my thinking on EEO and corporations. Maybe you can show me the error of my ways?

When a thief steals your wealth, you have the right to self-defense. Part of self-defense is working the system to get back what was unjustly taken. Think Robin Hood stealing back the King’s unjust taxes. Fighting against injustice is always the correct thing to do.

Corporations are a creations of the Gooferment. So, any diktats leveled on their subordinate entities are of no concern. In my little L libertarian world, there should be no “limited liability companies”. Just people doing business as. You might have “groups” operating under a “trade name” but liability would be unlimited but shared under a contractual arrangement. Thus a “BP” would be responsible for cleanup and damages.

(Sigh!)

But we are NOT in my little L libertarian world.

If the thief has ways of recovering some of your wealth, then, as a principle of common law, I must mitigate my loss.

Some libertarians believe that “true libertarians” should be “pure” and complete forego any voluntary interaction with the Gooferment. These are the anarcho capitalist faction.

Some libertarians believe that “true libertarians” should be confrontational and get in the Gooferment’s grill at every opportunity. These are the social action / peaceful civil disobedience faction. (Think like Gandhi. Of course, it is never moral to initiate force or violence. It’s always moral to defend yourself. In proportion. Can’t kill a politicians and bureaucrats because they rob you of a few dollars. But, in Ruby Ridge, Waco, or Kelo, you defend vigorously.)

Some libertarians believe that “true libertarians” should pick their battles. Steal anything you can back if you can. Pay when you have to. So, each time an opportunity to “interact” with the Gooferment appears, you decide: comply, ignore , or “snipe”. One motivation is to recover lost wealth or liberty. One is to demonstrate the Gooferment’s oppression. One is to gum up the works (i.e., pay tickets in pennies; use their system against them to demonstrate to them or others that they are tyrants).

My EEO post was that the Gooferment permits another part of itself (i.e., corporations) to injure people while the Gooferment is claiming to champion the people and protect them from age discrimination. It circles back on itself. If you look at “corporations” as part of the Gooferment, then the illusion really dissolves.

Does that make sense? Strip away the costumes & labels, and it all seems much clearer.

imho,
fjohn

p.p.s., For example, that’s why like the “University of Maryland” is really the Gooferment in disguise. And, they should not be allowed to fool “We, The People” with different costumes and labels. It’s just all just Gooferment. Big! Overpowering! And, ubiquitous. They call themselves the UoM but it’s just an extension of Big Government. When you total up, you have to figure: politicians and bureaucrats added to all the people who are the “feeders at the trough” of Big G!

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RANT: Good sumation about the (psuedo) War on (some) Drugs

Thursday, August 19, 2010

http://freekeene.com/2010/08/13/n-david-krouses-closing-speech-in-nashua-district-court/

N. David Krouse’s Closing Speech in Nashua District Court
August 13, 2010 by N. David Krouse

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The destruction and damage to peoples lives far in excess of anything a drug itself does, must stop. Drug prohibition has gone on long enough and must end, and the struggle to end it must start somewhere.

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Like (alcohol) Prohibition, Drug Prohibition must end.

It’s no one else’s business what some one puts in their body.

Don’t ask me to pay for cleaning up after your bad choices. And, especially, don’t force me to pay to cage these people.

Focus on the criminals who initiate force or fraud upon peaceful people.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Hopefully you’ll give a pint!

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Dear Reader:

I told the story of how I first started to give blood in Jasper Jottings back in 2005.

http://www.jasperjottings.com/2005/jasperjottings20051023.htm

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Like the good Brother who encouraged me to give blood for the first time with the exhortation, “you’re probably not too stupid to bleed right … …

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I started giving and it seemed easy enough. I never kept track of how much I gave over the years. But it was a lot. Never thought too much about it. Just a function of habit. Have an opportunity present and I’d go bleed.

(Always thought about that forgotten Brother, and wonder if he thought we all got smarter with age?)

That ALL changed in the last five weeks.

Frau was in the ER, CCU, and various parts the hospital. She had a (still) unexplained blood loss. She required 26 pints over the 5 weeks in and out of the hospital as the various doctors tried to figure it out. The magic liquid just came every time it was called for.

Wasn’t until today, when I received an email from the Red Cross about donating blood, that it really clicked.

It was this past week end, when they gave her steroids, and the blood loss slowed to a manageable pace. (She’s on a pace that says she’ll need a pint in a month.) Not a cure by any means, BUTT (there’s always a big but), if those 26 people hadn’t made time to donate, we’d be having a completely different blog post.

Now, evidently, we have good health insurance, since no one has asked me to replace or pay for the blood she’s needed.

But, believing in the Law of Karma, I’d like to replace those 26 pints. Since I don’t have 26 to spare, it would take me a few years to satisfy that “cosmic debt”. (Even though, I’ve probably “pre paid” it.) So I’m going to ask for your help.

We don’t need a formal “directed donation” of O+. But, I would appreciate if you would donate a pint. In her name, for her: “Frau Reinke”.

p.s., don’t tell her, she’d be embarrassed at the attention and mad at me for make her the center of attention.

By way of “reward”, or “punishment” depending upon your view point, I will enter everyone who donates a pint into a raffle for an autographed copy of “CHURCH 10●19●62”. Value somewhere between zero and about $60. Contest runs between now and the last day of September. Please email or mail me some evidence of the donation. I’ll figure out some way to get a random number.

Thanks for considering this request.

fjohn

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It is often difficult to collect enough blood to meet the needs of patients during the summer months. With schools out and families on vacation, it’s important for eligible donors to come forward and give the gift of life.

All blood types are needed, especially types O negative, A negative, and B negative.

Please call 1-800-RED CROSS (800-733-2767) or CLICK HERE http://www.redcrossblood.org/make-donation to find a convenient donation opportunity and to schedule an appointment.

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Summer Need1(1)-1

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GOVERNACIDE: Here comes Sarah’s predicted “death panels”

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7948878/US-breast-cancer-drug-decision-marks-start-of-death-panels.html

US breast cancer drug decision ‘marks start of death panels’
America’s health watchdog is considering revoking its approval of the drug Avastin for use on women with advanced breast cancer, leading to accusations that it will mark the start of ‘death panel’ drug rationing.
By Nick Allen, in Los Angeles and Andrew Hough
Published: 10:07PM BST 16 Aug 2010

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Avastin, the world’s best selling cancer drug, is primarily used to treat colon cancer and was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2008 for use on women with breast cancer that has spread.

It costs $8,000 (£5,000) a month and is given to about 17,500 women in the US a year. The drug was initially approved after a study found that, by preventing blood flow to tumours, it extended the amount of time until the disease worsened by more than five months. However, two new studies have shown that the drug may not even extend life by an extra month.

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Every one sneered at Sarah for “death panels”. However it appears she was right. It’s one thing if a patient decides to forego the drug. Even if it’s just that they don’t have the money. But, when politicians and bureaucrats make decisions based on money, it doubtful that this is in our best interests.

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RANT: BHO44 talks on economics

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Is anyone listening to this?

Is he serious? “Social Security is NOT in crisis.” And the stock market diversification is “risky” because in 2006 the market went down.

Social Security is generally stipulated to be a negative return on investment of between 1 and 3 per cent. Compare that to the average 8 to 10 percent over any decade. (Even if you put your thumb on the scale, there are only 3 out 20 plus ten year periods where the return is negative or below 5%. Argh!)

And, why do we have “enforced savings”? Are people to stupid to balance their current and future needs?

Argh!

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Stossel does a much better job of skewering the economically illiterate BHO44!

http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/19/obama-demagogues-private-enter

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused Sharron Angle, who’s challenging Reid’s re-election bid in Nevada, of “raiding” the Social Security trust fund because Angle has talked about phasing out Social Security. There are two problems with that statement—as Reid must know: First, there never has been a trust fund! Your FICA tax payments were not saved or invested. Social Security transferred them to current retirees. Second, in return for IOUs, Congress raided Social Security’s budget surplus every year and spent like any other tax revenue.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: For the benefit of labor unions and corporations

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

http://cafehayek.com/2010/07/monopoly-privilege-agents-are-skilled-at-verbal-legerdemain.html

Monopoly-Privilege Agents are Skilled at Verbal Legerdemain by Don Boudreaux on July 24, 2010

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Translation: “Ambassador Ron Kirk is committed to holding the interests of American consumers hostage to the interests of American corporations and labor unions. He is tough in his determination to ensure that any trade deals struck on his watch will shield politically powerful U.S. producers from the competitive consequences of free consumer choice.”

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The Gooferment is not our friend. It’s has its own agenda. That’s rewarding those who put money in the pockets of politicians and bureaucrats. Can anyone explain price controls — ceilings or floors — that benefits “We, The People”?

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MONEY: The reality of the doldrums

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/near-the-ceiling-1.306854

Near the ceiling
Solutions in a world where bonds have nowhere to go but down
By Eytan Avriel
Published 02:35 09.08.10
Latest update 02:35 09.08.10

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3. The third solution may sound weird, but it’s the most practical of the three: Accept the reality.

Yields are going to stay low for a long time. That’s how it is. It may change one day, but until then, keep a stiff upper lip. Grasp the reality with both hands and figure out how to live in a world of low returns.

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Get ready for the “Lost Decades”. Like Japan, the USA is stuck in a morass of Gooferment disasters. At least a natural disaster comes and goes relatively quickly. This one, of our own making, is goign to be here for a long time.

1. End the personal and corporate dole; 2. Dismiss gooferment public education; 3. Stop the various wars — foreign and domestic; 4. Repatriate the troops home; 5. End the drug war; pardon all non-violent drug offenders; 6. Downsize ALL gooferments; 7. Eliminate all taxes but tariffs and excise.

And, we’ll be back on track in no time.

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INTERESTING: Question about the SCOTUS terms

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

How about the idea of a single 18 year term for justices on the Supreme Court.

I’m adverse with tinkering with the wisdom of the Dead Old White Guys like was done with the direct election of senators.

BUTT (there’s always a big but) this proposal appears to have merit.

* each prez gets a pick; prevents “popular packing” by judges timing their “retirement”.

* doddering old “scholars” will be respectfully booted off.

* it presents a problem if one of them dies prematurely.

* probably should be accompanied by an age qualification (i.e. 65, 70,75?) to ensure that post-SCOTUS employment opportunities don’t enter into judicial decisions.

Your thoughts?

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POLITICAL: Separation of Marriage and Gooferment

Monday, August 16, 2010

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/08/06/time_for_a_divorce_106646.html

August 6, 2010
Time For a Divorce
By David Harsanyi

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In the 1500s, a pestering theologian instituted something called the Marriage Ordinance in Geneva, which made “state registration and church consecration” a dual requirement of matrimony.

We have yet to get over this mistake. But isn’t it about time we freed marriage from the state?

Imagine if government had no interest in the definition of marriage. Individuals could commit to each other, head to the local priest or rabbi or shaman — or no one at all — and enter into contractual agreements, call their blissful union whatever they felt it should be called and go about the business of their lives.

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Time for the Separation of Marriage and Gooferment!

There’s no reason for the State to be involved in it. They’ve demonstrated it’s all about control and money.

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LIBERTY: The Gooferment can’t do anything right!

Monday, August 16, 2010

http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/05/private-enterprise-does-it-bet

Private Enterprise Does It Better
Why freedom and responsibility triumph over regulation and central planning
John Stossel | August 5, 2010

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In Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity, I bet my readers $1,000 that they couldn’t name one thing that government does better than the private sector.

I am yet to pay.

Free enterprise does everything better.

Why? Because if private companies don’t do things efficiently, they lose money and die. Unlike government, they cannot compel payment through the power to tax.

Even when a private company operates a public facility under contract to government, it must perform. If it doesn’t, it will be “fired”—its contract won’t be renewed. Government is never fired.

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I can’t think of a single thing it does well?

Even if I could think of something it accomplishes, then we have to examine that “accomplishment” under the dual lens of effectiveness and efficiency.

I think the Gooferment is sadly lacking. Whatever it attempt to do, it screws it up.

It’s all rooted in the concept that it can initiate force in our name on others. Once that mistake is made, all it’s efforts are poisoned.

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TECHNOLGY: Norelco Replacement Heads and Amazon

Sunday, August 15, 2010

My razor desperately needed new heads.

So I googled: “Philips Norelco HQ9 SpeedXL Replacement Heads” on Amazon

But, I can’t wait for the pony express to deliver it.

So, I bought it at Tar-jeee (Sounds better than bulls eye!) where I paid 7$ more in price but minus the Amazon shipping.

Funny thing is that I can’t put in an Amazon review.

The product comes from Norelco with no directions. I got it in. I R a fat old white guy injineer. It was hard to install. And, the replacement part not as good as original.

Interesting that one Amazon commenter called the heads “planned obsolescence”.

Sounds like they try to lock people into their products. Argh!

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QUOTE: Sit in confinement (like prison) – John Taylor Gatto

Sunday, August 15, 2010

“It’s absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class. That system effectively cuts you off from the immense diversity of life and the synergy of variety; indeed it cuts you off from your own past and future, sealing you in a continuous present much the same way television does…” – John Taylor Gatto

http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html

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HARDWARE: Cheap microscopes for developing world

Saturday, August 14, 2010

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/08/cheap-300-fluorescent-microscopes-for-developing-world.ars

Cheap ($300) fluorescent microscopes for developing world
By Chris Lee | Last updated about 18 hours ago

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So, how much would you pay for such a microscope? $500? $750? To build your own using optics out of catalogs will cost you $490. However, given the mark-up on equipment out of optical catalogs, the researchers estimate that a manufacturer could get this out the door for under $300.

Even at $500, this is all right. You can buy three of these for the cost of something from Nikon, and you can put them in traveling clinics to provide point-of-care diagnostics to a much larger number of people compared to a single microscope at a fixed facility. So, even if the researchers are a bit optimistic on the price, it is still a net win for overburdened healthcare systems in developing world countries.

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You have to admire the ingenuity that can make something that’s good enough to get the job done at a price that get to the people who can use it.

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LIBERTY: The Gooferment is the new plantation owner for all of us

Saturday, August 14, 2010

http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/abolishing-slavery/

Abolishing Slavery by Patrick Samuels, author of: “Memories of a Former American”

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Our society no longer operates under a system of economic liberty. We live under a system of collectivism in which all property is owned by the society as a whole, the collective, the state. Call it socialism, call it communism, but don’t call it capitalism. Consider all your significant property. You don’t own your house even if the mortgage is paid. If you don’t pay your property taxes, your house reverts to the ownership of the state. You merely rent it. You only have use of your car at the behest of the state. If you don’t pay the necessary fees, that car cannot leave the driveway. The paycheck your receive is the property of the state first and after they have “deducted” their portion, your receive your allowance. The harder you work, the smaller, percentage wise, is your allowance. Even your allowance is spent according to the dictates of the “master”. He now requires you to buy health insurance and scolds or prohibits you from buying things he deems dangerous or risky. You have little privacy as all medical records and financial transactions are now at his fingertips. We have been fooled into thinking we are free because we have a thousand channels on our televisions and a hundred different cell phone plans; just bread and circuses. How different are we than the black slave working at Jefferson’s Monticello? He lived in a hut not his own, couldn’t travel without permission, ate what he was told, was dependent on his master for any health care and until he died, never received anything close to the value of his labor.

Today, our masters are not the aristocracy, the plantation owners, the rich. In our republic, our masters are the mob and the politicians who manipulate them for power.

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Gooferment steals our wealth for services, that we may or may not want, performed badly and at prices we can’t afford or don’t want to pay.

How is that “liberty”?

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