He’s kidding right. The D’s have super majorities in both houses. He blames the R’s. If he had all the D’s, he has NO NEED of any R.
So he’s jerking us off.
And, we need LESS spending; not more!
Argh!
RANT: BHO44 Speech today
Friday, September 10, 2010
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POLITICAL: Subsidizing politics from the public treasury!
Friday, September 10, 2010http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/09/tri-c_students_recruited_to_fi.html
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Tri-C students recruited to fill the seats for Obama’s appearance
Published: Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 1:30 PM
Updated: Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 1:33 PM
Karen Farkas, The Plain Dealer Karen Farkas, The Plain Dealer
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PARMA, Ohio – With less than an hour before President Obama’s scheduled speech, 75 seats remained empty in the recreation center at Cuyahoga Community College’s Western Campus. So organizers went around campus and recruited more students to fill the seats.
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dunlopreggie September 08, 2010 at 2:40PM
How shameful that an elected officeholder flies in to town on a publicly bought jet, is escorted and secured by probably hundreds of publicly paid police, to give a speech in a publicly owned facility, and the event is not open to the public. What a sham. I hope someone is reimbursing the taxpayers for the costs of this partisan campaign appearance.
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Excellent point!
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POLITICAL: Police want an intrusive capability
Thursday, September 9, 2010http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/09/08/669723/lists-of-pain-pillpatients-sought.html
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Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances.
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You’re gonna be in that database! What people put in the body is nobody’s business. Unless, they hurt others or expect “We, The People” to clean up after them.
Sorry, but what the economists call “the natural rate of addiction” hasn’t really changed since the Ancient Greeks. New drugs, new laws, new approaches — no difference. Even in China. where they had the death penalty for it, and they STILL have the natural rate of addiction.
And, we have to endure civil strife. End the psuedo drug laws, put WalMart in charge of selling “illegal drugs” and let’s all live in peace.
Argh!
Let’s put the various “Drug Lords” out of business! The various Czars as well!!
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FUN: Book burnings
Thursday, September 9, 2010FROM TWITTER
M_Ahmadinejad
I like to retaliate by burning a book that you Americans hold dear, but the only book you care about is Facebook.
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TECHNOLOGY: Online storage; free, of course
Thursday, September 9, 2010http://askbobrankin.com/online_free_storage.html?tbart
Online Free Storage
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Why do they give away free online storage space? To get you hooked on it, of course. Drug dealers give away free samples too, and start charging when a user’s habit is big enough and strong enough. Microsoft Azure offers a measly 500 MB of free online storage
as an introductory offer, while their SkyDrive gives you 25GB of space. Google Storage is offering “up to 100 GB per object (file stored) and up to 1000 buckets (places to store objects) per account” during its beta/preview period.
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You really want what I call a “shadowing” type (i.e., alternatives like Dropbox | Carbonite | Mozy), where you just do your think normally and all the backing up and / or syncing is done under the covers. If you have to think about it, that’s bad. You’ll forget. Everyone does.
From an information security perspective, I’d like it to be encrypted by my platform BEFORE it is place in the directory and synced out to the cloud. Maybe in Release 2 of these services?
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RANT: No harm, no foul, no arrest!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/07/long-island-man-arrested-for-defending-home-with-ak-47/
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UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CBS 2) — He was arrested for protecting his property and family.
But it’s how the Long Island man did it that police say crossed the line.
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Not guilty!
p.s., I cced <an upcoming juror> who going to jury duty. Wanna get her conditioned to: “No harm, no foul, not guilty”! Just because the Praetorian Guard thinks they are the only ones who should have weapons, that doesn’t mean the citizens can’t have and use them. So who’s going to protect this man’s home if not him. Did they shake down all the folks threatening him? Bet they were carrying concealed! Sorry, but gang members do NOT need a weapon to scare and threaten me.
Gun control should be limited to hitting what you aim at.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo11.1.html
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The use of force in response to what law enforcement perceives to be a lack of force on the part of the trespassers in this case is a gross misinterpretation of the events.
A criminal does not have to have a weapon to forcefully enter a home and assault its residents, especially if the criminals number twenty individuals suspected of being part of a violent gang who are instigating the threats on private property.
In our view, the fact that these individuals were on Mr. Grier’s property, making physical threats against him, his wife and his children is reason enough for Mr. Grier to not only fire warning shots, but to take all available means to eliminate the threat.
This is exactly the reason why high-powered, semi-automatic weapons should be a part of every home defense plan.
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Well said!
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INTERESTING: FIve questions
Wednesday, September 8, 2010Trying to Make a Tough Decision? Try Asking the Five Fateful Questions.
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When I’m reluctant to take a risk or face something uncomfortable, I ask myself these five questions which, in melodramatic form, I call the “Five Fateful Questions.” They help me think clearly about a situation.
- What am I waiting for?
- What would I do if I weren’t scared?
- What steps would make things easier?
- What would I do if I had all the time and money in the world?
- What is the worst, and the best, that could happen?
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I find myself reluctant to examine what’s wrong or what’s coming. If I was to pick out some questions to “get started”, i try some different ones?
- What am I trying to accomplish?
- What are the entry criteria? (Prerequisites?)
- What is the single exit criterion, or what are the multiple exit criteria?
- When something fails, is that failure above or below the “waterline”?
- Have I fully explored the various aspects of what I seek to do?
Seeking to define the opportunity represented:
- PMI (Pluses, Minuses and Interesting Points)
- AGO (Aims, Goals and Objectives)
- CAF (Consideration of All Factors)
- OPV (Other People’s Views)
- FIP (First Important Priorities)
- APC (Alternatives, Possibilities or Choices)
- C&S (Consequences and Sequels)
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RANT: Time for the USA to apply the PNG paddle to diplomats
Tuesday, September 7, 2010http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.260c2246a5c77075ff7ab46b021e9239.371&show_article=1
Iran ‘stoning woman’ to be lashed over photo: son
Sep 4 01:08 PM US/Eastern
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Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.
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Clearly, we have to stand up morally for the rights of this oman, and all women. The greatest power we have is “ostracism”. We turn our backs on those that are immoral and shun them. So, we have to declare a diplomat persona non grata and send them home. We should identify any one in the Iranian Gooferment, PNG them should they show up at our porous borders looking for some “fun”, and finally Congress should pass a “marque and reprisal” on them. Basically saying we won’t prosecute or extradite anyone who takes action against these folks.
We should urge the Brits, French, Germans, and Swiss to do the same. Let’s see how these “big men” enjoy a little “adult time out”!
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RANT: “benefits” make serfs of us all
Tuesday, September 7, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams49.1.html
Something for Nothing
by Walter E. Williams
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Nonwage benefits turn out to be good for the employee because, for the most part, he pays no taxes on them. In other words, if the employer paid the worker the cash value of, say, health insurance as wages, the worker would have to pay income taxes on it and then go out and buy health insurance.
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My take on it is that this was a Faustian deal with the devil.
Early recipients did benefit. Later ones didn’t. So we can’t talk about the “worker” since there are differences over time in the population so labeled.
The mere monetary gain from a tax free “benefit” is far outweighed by the inability to keep those “benefits” when out of work. And, one has to wonder about all the bankruptcies caused by the loss of benefits. All from not be able to buy medical insurance on the open market that would be portable. Without FDR’s wage and price controls, and the bizarre court decision saying it wasn’t income, we’d be buying “health insurance” like we do life, car, or homeowners. We’d have entities like credit unions to amalgamate risks into pools.
Argh!
And, we’d have freedom and liberty from politicians and bureaucrats!
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INTERESTING: Interesting question about type 1 and 2 errors
Monday, September 6, 2010Interesting discussion with CRITICALCAREDOC#1 about tests and treatments.
With treatments, the criteria medical folks use is how many do I have to treat to save one life? With tests, the criteria is “is it dispositive”. In testing large numbers, how sensitive is the test, what is the error rate, and the impact.
He used his experience in the late 80’s discussion of HIV testing. The estimate was that 1 out of 10,000 people have the condition. If I have a test for HIV that’s 99% accurate. It will positively id 99 out of 100 who have the condition. If I have a population of 1,000,000 people, that means in that million, there are 1,000 people with the condition. SO I run my test and I find 990 people who have it and miss 10. BUT, I also have told 9,900 people that they have it, but they really don’t.
So in testing, it’s important to know what the statistics of the test are. Every test has false negative and false positives. Just because you’re dealing with a population of one, the stats still apply.
In the test that we inquired about, that KIDNEYDOC#4 added, it has very high sensitivity but may NOT be dispositive. Whatever it tells you, you must consider that it maybe wrong. And, you may not have caught it when it is malfunctioning. And, you may or may not be able to treat it.
So, what I got out of it is that this test is marked as status “KFH”!
(Keep Family Happy)
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In fat old white guy injineer’s school, we applied that to measurements. Funny to hear it applied to real people.
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