Time to turn the country on its ear. And nuke all the liberals, D’s, and CINO R’s.
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POLITICAL: Hope Schiff wins the CT R primary on 8/10
Friday, August 6, 2010
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TECHNOLOGY: I’m mad as hell about spam and I’m starting my own personal push back
Friday, August 6, 2010Copy of my email to: jim.brodo@richardson.com who is the SVP Marketing.
Please feel free to add him to all chain letters, jokes, Nigerian offers, and every thing you can think off.
A little community applied discipline is in order!
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Where the hell do you get off spamming my yahoo group?
F. J. Reinke
Begin forwarded message:
From: “SalesTrainingIndustry.com” <susan@salestrainingindustry.com>
Date: August 6, 2010 9:00:39 AM EDT
To: Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-owner
Subject: Spaces still available-Complimentary Webinar: Develop Great Frontline Sales Managers (ADV)
Reply-To: susan@salestrainingindustry.com
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‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: [screaming at the top of his lungs] “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” —— the character Howard Beale played by Peter Finch in the movie Network (1976)
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POLITICAL: Why is the Gooferment running “education”?
Friday, August 6, 2010http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/fired-professor-reinstated-at-university-of-illinois/
Fired Catholic professor reinstated at University of Illinois
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Champaign, Ill., Jul 29, 2010 / 05:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A professor who was recently fired for explaining the Catholic teaching on homosexuality will be reinstated, according to the University of Illinois. Dr. Kenneth Howell’s position at the school was terminated at the end of the Spring Semester this year after teaching in a class on Catholicism that the Church believes homosexual behavior violates natural law.
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Why is the Gooferment running Universities? Why are they regulating them, financing them, and in every intimate detail of them?
Power!
Power over the future sheeple and what they are taught or not taught.
<Expletive Deleted> “barbara streisand”
Time for the Separation of School and State!
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INTERESTING: Don’t tell me you’re Six Sigma
Friday, August 6, 2010INTERESTING: A six sigma discussion
ROFL! Yesterday, before Frau was given her release, yet another hospital manager came by to talk about the patient’s perception of her care. Since Frau was sleeping, the lady “nursing director” talked to me. She was taking names of did a good or bad job. Since both patients in the room were “unavailable” (i.e., sleeping), guess I was selected to be a proxy.
Boy, did she get an earful before Frau woke up. And put the kibosh on me.
I’m not good with names, but this floor was better in general than the CCU or the last floor she was on two weeks ago.
But then, she made a mistake! She mentioned that they were Six Sigma. Who, wee, here we go!
I dusted off my “consulting hat” and asked “Why six sigma?” SHe didn’t answer but asked what my Six Sigma background was. See asking “why” there times is how Six Sigma-ites get to the real reason why you’re doing something. I told her that I had some minor experience in it and challenged her about answering the question.
“Better patient care” “Why?” “Better outcomes” “Why” “To become patient centered”
Ahhh, Hah!
So we got into a discussion about how the patient was not a Customer, a Stakeholder, or even a Client in their processes. Then, I moved in for the kill describing how this morning the tech woke the patient to take blood pressure but was called away in the middle for a “safety huddle” at 8AM plus or minus a few minutes. Her response was that the “BPs were late and the huddle was on time”. And, I concluded: “So explain to me HOW that is patient focused care?” She was speechless.
We got into a discussion of how the technology, process, or people could be deployed that would have transformed that into a patient centric focus.
Like maybe, never wake a patient to do a routine test in the first place, leave an appliance there and the first person to see the patient awake take the bp. Use new bp tech that takes the patient’s bp even if they are sleeping. Or even just questioning how to organize so the patient is not disturbed.
Another example was the call bell that neither differentiates between urgency or type of need.
Another example was how there’s no call center to take the call and directly alert the right person.
Another example was there’s no feedback loop to collection and action what the patient sees.
Another example was that the staff had no technology to make their jobs more effective or efficient — there were sheets at each patient that the staff was to initial each hour that they visited the patient. An rfid badge and readers at each bedside, would collect that data without paperwork and wasting the staffer’s time. Besides at the end of each shift, they just “caught up” the log. So does leadership REALLY want to know the answer?
She gave up saying “they didn’t have …” because it was painful obvious even to her that they do NOT want “patient focused” because they have all their processes. So be honest and call it “processed focused care”.
We were discussing more examples when the BLOODDOC came and rescued the Director from the trap she had fallen into. I let him know that he was 6 minutes late. (Hey, he set the expectation. Not me. No one forced him to say what time he’d be there.)
ROFL!!!
Be careful what you ask for, you may get it.
My observation is, imho, they don’t want to change. They want the praise that comes with being Six Sigma, but they don’t want to do the heavy lifting. My experience with TQM, Six Sigma, and other quality initiatives is that the problem is ALWAYS leadership. They may “talk the talk” but they don’t “walk the walk”. You can put up all the funny inspirational signs on the wall you want, but people are smart. They see your mixed messages and adapt.
I always say I can play any game, just tell me the rules.
In this case, it is NOT “patient centric care”.
Boy, was that fun!
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INTERESTING: Food supply is on a slender thread
Thursday, August 5, 2010http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100726/D9H6KLSO0.html
Margaret McGrath, an associate professor of plant pathology at Cornell University, said the fungus is likely more of a problem for home gardeners and herb farmers who may not have access to fungicides that are available to larger commercial growers.
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An interesting example of the slender thread that the “food supply” hangs on. Today basil; tomorrow who knows what?
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PLINKY: One Thing I Learned Recently
Thursday, August 5, 2010 
Campbell Ohio Open Carry Protest 2010
When presented with an unreasonable policy, don't get mad. Just non-violently ignore it. "They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!" — from the movie Gandhi (1982) spoke by Ben Kingsley <unsure if it's a real quote. might or might not. but it was true to his spirit imho.> Maybe it was my "Homeland Security" shirt that depicted a Old West posse that did it.
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POLITICAL: Anti-war? BHO44 fooled you
Thursday, August 5, 2010http://original.antiwar.com/roberts/2010/07/29/deaf-dumb-and-blind/
Deaf, Dumb, and Blind
US Treasury is Running on Fumes
by Paul Craig Roberts, July 30, 2010
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If Obama cared about the lives of our soldiers, he would not have sent them to a war, the purpose of which he cannot identify. Earlier in his regime, Obama admitted that he did not know what the mission was in Afghanistan. He vowed to find out what the mission was and to tell us, but he never did. After being read the riot act by the military/security complex, which recycles war profits into political campaign contributions, Obama simply declared the war to be “necessary.” No one has ever explained why the war is necessary.
The government cannot explain why the war is necessary, because it is not necessary to the American people. Any necessary reason for the war has to do with the enrichment of narrow private interests and with undeclared agendas. If the agendas were declared and the private interests being served identified, even the American sheeple might revolt.
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Americans had a choice of a true anti-war President. Ron Paul told them so, but they went the shiny young candidate sold by the media. Guess they’ll have to learn the hard way.
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FUN: Strange video?
Thursday, August 5, 2010Worthing is undergoing inter-dimensional difficulties: Delightful Video
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There are some strange dudes and dudettes putting stuff on the net. You have to wonder if they are escapees from the rubber room with too much time on their hands. Or, in this case “howda they do that”?
Credit: DonationCoder.com Forum http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=23630.msg214270#msg214270
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RANT: Gooferment claims ownership of rain
Wednesday, August 4, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/collecting-rainwater-illegal.html
Collecting Rainwater Now Illegal in Many States as Big Government Claims Ownership Over Our Water
by Mike Adams
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Salt Lake City officials worked out a compromise with Miller and are now permitting him to use “their” rainwater, but the fact that individuals like Miller don’t actually own the rainwater that falls on their property is a true indicator of what little freedom we actually have here in the U.S. (Access to the rainwater that falls on your own property seems to be a basic right, wouldn’t you agree?)
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I’m speechless. Why do we allow these idiots to rob us blind?
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RANT: “Illegal” immigration
Wednesday, August 4, 2010http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-truths-we-dare-not-speak-about-illegal-immigration/
The Truths We Dare Not Speak About Illegal Immigration
July 30, 2010 – by Victor Davis Hanson
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Americans are increasingly confused by the tone of the debate, in which self-appointed spokesmen for illegal aliens and indeed, on occasion, illegal aliens themselves seem so critical of policies embraced by 70% of the American populace of all classes and races that they so eagerly wish to join. In cases of the May Day parades, why would alien demonstrators appear so critical of the country (or at least its law) that they so desperately wish to stay in, and so fond and romantic about the country that they so desperately wish to leave? It all makes little or no sense, other than the emotional anger at the paradox of wanting to be in a lawful America without being lawful. Even if the Mexican flag is a symbol of ethnic solidarity, in the manner of the Italian flag for a few East Coast communities, it nevertheless conveys the message of romance for a nation that by all accounts has treated its own quite poorly. And when we get to the purported racialist charges against supporters of closed borders, it all becomes Orwellian, given that Mexico’s ruling elite is as about as racist a government as one can imagine — a Spanish heritage aristocracy glad to see its own indigenous peoples fleeing northward while charging their receptive host with racism.
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If we eliminated welfare, “free” public education, and simplified the immigration laws, we’d have no “illegal immigration” problem.
Coming here to work, welcome. Coming here to sponge or cause trouble, bye.
We need all those hard working souls “yearning to be free”. As a matter of fact, we have a bunch of “citizen” deadbeats, politicians and bureaucrats that we need to get rid of as well.
Reality is setting in?
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FUN: Sharks
Tuesday, August 3, 2010“Apparently the best way to stop a shark attack is to poke them in the eye. It’s very comforting to know the difference between life and death is a move perfected by The Three Stooges.” — Craig Ferguson
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RECOMMENDED: Get some vitamins and mineral into you before it’s too late
Tuesday, August 3, 2010http://www.masoncountynews.com/news/article/32628
Natural Health from A to Z
Margaret Durst
July 21, 2010
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Chromium levels decline with age, which may be one of the reasons for the increased incidence of adult onset diabetes. The average American gets less than 50 micrograms of chromium per day. The general recommendation on supplementing chromium is 200 mcg. per day. If diabetic, the recommendation is double that, or 400 mcg. per day. Food sources of chromium include beer, brewer’s yeast, brown rice, cheese, meat and whole grains. Supplemental forms are chromium picolinate and chromium polynicotinate. Either form is absorbed well.
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Guess I’ll have to get some.
RDAs are for sheeple.
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RANT: Hospitals catching the “indentification” disease
Tuesday, August 3, 2010Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick is becoming a police state.
Today we have new “rules”!
Argh!
First is that everyone has to “sign in”. Now that’s not too bad for the casual visitor; regulars have to wait in line. Argh! Shades of the TSA at the airport.
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BUT, in concept it’s a bad policy. 10AM ensures that you’ll miss any of the doctors on their morning rounds. (I usually am their between 7 and 8 to catch them as they roll thru.) 9PM ensures that you’ll miss any of the stuff that goes on at night. (I recently sat with Frau until 3AM after they started a transfusion and gave her a sleeping pill.) Sorry but “one size” doesn’t recognize that my spouse has a complicated medical problem and the hospital is just not trustworthy enough to operate without supervision. Everyone tries hard, but it’s complicated and confusing with lots of different “hands”. American medicine doesn’t have a holistic approach where one person is the “quarterback”. The patient and their “advocates” have to be on top of everything.
BUT, more than anything, it’s about the “we’re going to tell you what to do”! Maybe they can get away with it. I’ll know tomorrow when I tell them that they are not meeting my and my patient’s needs. None of the “leadership” was available at 11PM when my wife was transferred out of MICU and a nurse informed me of the visiting hours. It’s demeaning and just one more loss of liberty. AND, it’s immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.
- Immoral in that you are unilaterally enforcing rules that have not been agreed to in a voluntary fashion.
- Ineffective because you have uneven enforcement and undocumented exceptions.
- Inefficient in that it’s over reaching the need (i.e., secure the hospital from strangers by keeping out most “civilians”).
And, it’s not like you have a lot of choice. Saint Peters University Hospital has the same “identification requirement”. The Gooferment has limited the number of hospitals and they can’t be run like a McDonalds. So you have no choice. Like the Credit Card companies, politicians and bureaucrats make their problem yours. (Why don’t we have pictures on credit cards?)
So, why not “triage” visitors by the patient’s medical condition, patient’s mental condition, who the visitor is (e.g., spouse), and why would a sensible policy be. Why not have a more automated system? Why not badge relatives for chronic patients differently? Why not open visiting for caregivers? Why the police state?
Sorry, but it’s just wrong. No one wants food delivery people floating around the hospital at strange hours. And, in some cases, that policy might be appropriate. I’m not looking for a confrontation or a fight, but it may come to that. I bet they have exceptions already. Are parents of new borns restricted? Pediatrics? CCU and MIC may have a more liberal policy? Now if my wife was in for a bunion removal, I’d probably be a little less cranked up. But maybe not.
Are they running a hospital or a jail?
And, once they take Gooferment money and operate under Gooferment diktats, they become an agent of the Gooferment. Hence, everyone has their Constitutional rights. So what gives them the right to keep certain folks out? They can’t claim it’s private property.
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MONEY: Throwing your hard earned after tax money away
Tuesday, August 3, 2010http://shelflifeadvice.com/content/do-food-product-dates-make-consumers-safer-or-just-poorer
Do Food Product Dates Make Consumers Safer or Just Poorer?
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According to research by former University of Arizona anthropologist Timothy Jones, Americans throw away more than 40 percent—some 29 million tons—of all the food the country produces, creating both an environmental and an economic problem. There is waste all along the food chain, but by far the most occurs in homes, restaurants, schools, and other eating places. According to Jones’ study, the average American household wastes 14% of its food purchases.
ShelfLifeAdvice.com estimates that if 61% of Americans (the percentage that thought milk was spoiled when it reached the date on the bottle or carton) needlessly discard a quarter gallon of milk each month, they could be wasting over $700 million a year. Combining this figure with all the other foods in the survey, ShelfLifeAdvice.com estimates that billions might be wasted every year by American households discarding good food.
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So it’s obviously “marketing” to get you to buy more.
And where are the Gooferment “protections” that we hear so much about?
I’m sure they are “protecting” the campaign contributions.
Guess we need more regulation?
Reform the “SELL BY” to be “SELL BUY date; SAFE UNTIL date”!
Caveat emptor.
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MONEY: Insurance companies screw dead vets!
Monday, August 2, 2010Fallen Soldiers’ Families Denied Cash as Insurers Profit
By David Evans – Jul 28, 2010 10:00 AM EST
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Lohman, a public health nurse who helps special-needs children, says she had always believed that her son’s life insurance funds were in a bank insured by the FDIC. That money — like $28 billion in 1 million death-benefit accounts managed by insurers — wasn’t actually sitting in a bank.
It was being held in Prudential’s general corporate account, earning investment income for the insurer. Prudential paid survivors like Lohman 1 percent interest in 2008 on their Alliance Accounts, while it earned a 4.8 percent return on its corporate funds, according to regulatory filings.
“I’m shocked,” says Lohman, breaking into tears as she learns how the Alliance Account works. “It’s a betrayal. It saddens me as an American that a company would stoop so low as to make a profit on the death of a soldier. Is there anything lower than that?”
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This is outrageous.
While it may be important to protect the grieving families from blowing their money all at once, screwing them is unacceptable.
Where’s the VA, DOD, the politicians and bureaucrats?
Where’s the VFW and American Legion?
If I was KING, (and I’m not; nor do I want to be), I’d require that the insurance company open 100k$ FDIC insured accounts for the beneficiaries.
Fraud is force. Theft is theft. Stealing form widows and orphans is really low.
A plague on all their houses. The karmic wheel should roll their way. May their “lawn” be full of crabs.
What’s the one about wildebeests and elderberry?
Argh!
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RANT: Let them eat cake
Monday, August 2, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/62674.html
The Clinton Crime Family’s Conspicuous Consumption
Posted by Lew Rockwell on July 31, 2010 10:30 AM
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Before we attend to the poor political judgment of such an extravagant affair during times of economic distress, let us wonder aloud where a poor boy who became governor of Arkansas and president of the United States got such a fortune that he can blow $3,000,000 on a wedding.
The American people did not take up a collection to reward him for his service to them. Where did the money come from? Who was he really serving during his eight years in office?
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I think this emphasizes the difference between the political class and the working class.
Princess Diana won the hearts of the world by championing the land mine and other issues. She could have laid back in her antiseptic world and talked. But we saw her in hot ‘n’ dirty places, doing the heavy lifting of “using her celebrity”. You could almost hear her saying “You want my pic; here take it with these suffering people.” You could almost see her sweating as she visited with sick children. She dragged the world’s obsession with her into focus on the wretchedness of the victims. She may have been royalty, but she was “working class”.
Compare it to the “royal wedding” of the Clintons!
Sorry, but it doesn’t even come close. Where is the Clinton mystique used for the benefit of the people? Ever seen Chelsea anywhere?
So, sorry, it like Marie Antoinette.
And, like the French aristocracy, they too may someday visit with the Doc G!
They are certainly not enhancing their popularity with the working class.
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FUN: More stats from SSH poker machine
Monday, August 2, 2010On 7/29 I beat the old lady 10,750 to 9,930 points.
On the spinner, I scores 2 threes, 3 fours, 2 fives, 1 fifteen, 2 twenty fives, and 2 fifties.
Have to add that to my probability data sheet. Trying to develop a probability table.
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ADMINISTRIVIA: TESTING
Monday, August 2, 2010ECTO, my desktop Client for blogging, is unable to post to the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom!
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TECHNOLOGY: Amex takes the risk, but User is left with the problem
Monday, August 2, 2010http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-245428.html
September 7, 2000 11:45 AM PDT
AmEx unveils “disposable” credit card numbers
By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News
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American Express today announced a new suite of online security and privacy products, the first of which is a “disposable” credit card number for its members.
As previously reported by CNET News.com, cardholders using the disposable credit card option will be able to log on to a secure Web site and receive a one-time-use credit card number to make purchases over the Internet.
The free service will be offered to small businesses and consumer cardholders within the next 30 days.
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MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH!
Response (Shweta Shiv) 08/01/2010 02:46 PM
Dear Ferdinand J Reinke,
I’d like to inform you that American Express does not offer such a service at this time.
However, I assure you that we remain committed to protecting the privacy and security of all of our Cardmembers, both online and offline. We believe that our current security measures, including our sophisticated monitoring systems to detect unusual or fraudulent card activity, provide strong, ongoing protections for our Cardmembers. In addition, you are further safeguarded by our Online Fraud Protection Guarantee, which ensures that Cardmembers are not held liable for any fraudulent charges on their account.
With the Online Fraud Protection Guarantee, you will not be held responsible for any unauthorized online charges, and if someone uses your Card without your consent, you will not pay any part of the fraudulent online charges—not even the first $50.
We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of all of our Cardmembers, and we will continue to develop innovative ways to protect our customers.
Thank you for choosing American Express.
We truly value your association with you.
Sincerely,
Shweta Shiv
Email Servicing Team
American Express Interactive Services
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Sorry, but that’s what I could use!
Lost the use of one credit card from a recurrent charge that could not be killed, which I am STILL fighting about. I want ONE TIME USE credit card numbers. I don’t care that the issuers will indemnify the risk, they don’t have the clean up hassle.
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INTERESTING: The miracle of a biological
Monday, August 2, 2010FROM A FRIEND’S FACEBOOK PAGE
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Rule number one at the beach: don’t feed he seagulls but sometimes rules are made to be broke for example : when the sea gull swoops down when u are not looking and grabs your hoagie out of your hand. If this happens do not throw said hoagie onto the sand bc a lot oc seagulls will converge around u lol gotta love the beach :)
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As a fat old white guy injineer, I was always fascinated feeding seagulls off the Ocean Pier in AC. To create a “biological”, that can detect, track and catch a thrown piece of food high in the air, often on the rise, in competition with other biologicals, at almost random time – direction – speed – rotation, is amazing. There must be a “God”, or at least a “First Ingineer”. Thanks for the prompt to recall that.
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TINFOILHAT: Getting rich off the dead and maimed
Sunday, August 1, 2010http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/wikileaks/
Wikileaks
Who’s Hiding What and Why
by Fred Reed
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If you don’t think that contracts—money—have a great deal to do with wars, reflect that all those hundreds of billions of dollars end up in pockets, and those pockets do not belong to soldiers. Makers of body armor, boots, ammunition, helicopters, on and on, are rolling in gravy. All this half-watched loot flows in cataracts at the price of at most sixty dead American kids a month (and lots of brain-damaged droolers, but what the hey). A bargain. Afghans don’t count.
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Who’s getting rich off the AfPak war?
Is this another case of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses?
Time to change policy. And if, like baseball, we can’t change the policy, change the head coach!
In this case, ALL incumbents should be shown the door. While the new politicians may be worse than the current, we should just keep the revolving door spinning. Could we do any worse?
How about we pick folks from the unemployment office? At least, then they will have a job. And, when they select their staff, they have to take folks from that unemployment office. It may increase costs a little, but it may cut down on the graft and theft.
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POLITICAL: An unholy attempt to fix the Constitution in a back room! Cui bono? (Updated!)
Sunday, August 1, 2010MY ORIGINAL JULY POSTING
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/mass_may_join_e.html
Mass. may join effort to bypass Electoral College
By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff
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Supporters are waging a state-by-state campaign to try to get such bills enacted. Once states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (or 270 of 538) have enacted the laws, the candidate winning the most votes nationally would be assured a majority of the Electoral College votes, no matter how the other states vote and how their electoral votes are distributed.
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The political elite are seeking to rewrite the Constitution via backroom deals and open conspiracy to disenfranchise the “small states”.
When will we learn NOT to mess with the wisdom of the Dead Old White Guys. They were possible the smartest men ever assembled in one lucky place at the right time in history. We can go thru the Amendments passed, and one unpassed, as a litany to pure collective stupidity.
The Political Effete and the Party Powerbrokers would love nothing better than to have to win the popular vote in California, Chicago, New York, and host of other corrupt places to be assured of a national win. Ballot box stuffing and recounts on a National basis would become the norm. Argh!
The Electoral College was put in to protect the small states. The Constitution would have never been adopted without that design. I don’t know if they intended it, but it does firewall ballot box stuffing. Go ahead and stuff all you want in Massachusetts, you’ll only get 12 Electoral votes. Now if this change was adopted, that stuffing could determine the national election. Ever read any stories where there were more votes than registered voters (Say “hi” to Al Franken) or a large “graveyard vote” (Sam Rayburn and LBJ) or “voting machine breakdowns” in the non-machine party’s precincts? How about “keep counting until you get the answer you want then stop”?No, that could never happen in America!
And who is to tabulate and certify that grand total that all the conspiratorial states will use to determine their votes?
Argh! How stupid can we be!
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/08/01/massachusetts_for_palin
Massachusetts for Palin?
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / August 1, 2010
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IT IS Election Night, 2012. The polls have closed. State by state, the votes are being counted, and gradually it becomes clear, to the bottomless horror of some voters and the unbridled delight of others, that Sarah Palin, the Republican presidential nominee, has bested President Barack Obama in the popular vote nationwide.
In Massachusetts, where Obama crushed Palin in a 79 percent landslide — the most lopsidedly anti-Palin vote of any state — “bottomless horror’’ doesn’t begin to describe the political reaction. For in 2010, Massachusetts joined the National Popular Vote compact, making a commitment to cast all of its electoral votes for the presidential candidate receiving the most votes nationally, regardless of the results in Massachusetts. The compact took effect in December 2011, when California became the 15th state to join, thereby uniting enough states to control a majority of the Electoral College. Now Massachusetts, the bluest of the blue states, must award its presidential electors to a candidate Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly opposed.
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ROFL!
Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the Republicans, to prevent a repeat of FDR’s four terms, term limited Ike. And, has dramatically altered the political landscape by making the President a “lame duck” in his second term.
That’s the best example of political stupidity.
The above Palin scenario would be absolutely hysterical.
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POLITICAL: Thinking about the anti war vote in Congress
Sunday, August 1, 2010What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? —- Mohandas Gandhi
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=223945
Wars and U.S. Congress: Now what?
By David Swanson
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On Tuesday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill already passed by the Senate that funds a $33 billion, 30,000-troop escalation in Afghanistan. The vote was 308 to 114. What could the good news possibly be?
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Maybe everyone will eventually come around to Ron Paul’s version of a “plan” (i.e., hop on the first thing smoking going in this direction). There’s a reason that Afpak is called the graveyard of empires.
We have to be like Switzerland, a big fat old porkypine! Don’t tread on me.
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RANT: Who speaks for all women?
Sunday, August 1, 2010http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Newest-Vatican-document-is-last-straw-for-women-99538714.html
Newest Vatican document is last straw for women
By DANIEL O’CARROLL, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Thursday, July 29, 2010, 8:14 AM
*** begin quote ***In a strongly worded article in today’s Irish Times, Dr Mary Condren of the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies in Trinity College Dublin, the Republic of Ireland’s foremost university, said that such “misogynist” attitudes by the Church were legitimizing violence and discrimination worldwide and called for an end to the Church’s use of Gospel to justify discrimination, as she saw it.
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Isn’t it a bit presumptuous for the male writer to presume to speak for all woman?
And, further, maybe there are some women who like the status quo?
I’m a little L libertarian and I suggest that we leave “women” alone to figure out what they want and then they can do it. Frankly, if women are that upset and leave the Church in significant numbers, then it will pinch them in their pocketbook. That might end the old boys club.
As for me, I don’t think that they have to end it.
Just leave well enough alone.
Not everything has to conform to the new political correctness.
As a private organization, “they”, who ever “they” are, can set the rules how ever “they” want. Unlike the Gooferment, “they” can’t use force to compel anything.
Now, I DO think that a society that puts half its population in head to toe sacks is depriving itself of half its creative energy. Just as I think the society that puts the largest number of people in the world in cages deprives itself of a huge pool of “human resources”.
1. Restore us to “honest” commodity money;
2. End the personal and corporate dole;
3. Stop the various wars — foreign and domestic — repatriate the troops home;
4. End the drug war; pardon all non-violent drug offenders;
5. Transition out of gooferment public education;
6. Downsize ALL gooferments;
7. Eliminate all taxes but tariffs and excise.
We don’t have a lot of time and energy to waste. We have to rescue ourselves form all the tragic and horrible mistakes that we and our forefathers have made.
We have to restore the American Dream.
It all starts with the use of force to compel people to do things. Anything. The Government’s sole role is to protect We, The People from force or fraud. That’s it. Once it goes beyond that it becomes the Gooferment
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SERVICE: Did Google Translate get it right or is it an idion? Or am I an idiot?
Sunday, August 1, 2010FROM A FRIEND’S FACEBOOK STATUS
“Maraming pasalubong sa iyo pag punta mo dito”
so being the fat old white guy injineer I am, I applied Google Translate to the opportunity.
“Many presents to you when you go here”
Guess it loses something in translation?
Interesting that the technology allows us an insight that we were previously denied?
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QUOTE: Children will not have an education – John Taylor Gatto
Sunday, August 1, 2010“By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers – backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. – has ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.” – John Taylor Gatto
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html
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