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The Caregiver Reminder Bracelet is a simple, economical device that, when used consistently, can eliminate a tragic problem in our hectic world.
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49 children die? I just find this hard to fathom.
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GUNS: When does a “child” grow up?
Thursday, October 21, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster176.html
Should You Shoot a ‘Child’?
by Karen De Coster
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Unfortunately, so many people have been taught to always submit, submit, submit – to the government, to folks with badges, and to the criminals. It’s a part of the propaganda and conditioning process that is used to quell critical thinking and individual resistance. Folks have been brainwashed to believe that no property they own is worth taking the life of another. However, none of these reeducated citizens can explain exactly how it is you go about finding out what your aggressor wants from you. Kindly asking questions first with the intention of pondering over the answers will certainly get you a trip to the morgue.
In a car theft, the car thief wants your property – whether it’s for a joy ride or turning a profit. That is to say, he’s looking for and making off with an empty vehicle. By definition, a carjacking shows much more violent intentions. The carjacker knowingly and purposely confronts an individual (or individuals) in an aggressive manner and the end result for the victim is often violence or death. The aggressor may desire to take the victim along with the vehicle, or, as is often the case, the attack and ensuing response from the victim results in a panicked aggressor who reacts with brute force. If the carjack victim is a woman, there is the additional risk of enduring a brutal rape.
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His voice rises as he weighs the questions yet again. How do you treat a child like an enemy combatant? How do you threaten violence, even in self-defense, against a little boy? How do you shoot a pistol-packing 12-year-old child so warped that he’s willing to blow you away just to steal a car whose dashboard he probably can’t even see over?
How do you not?
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The news story calls a 15 year old a “pre-teen”. That’s wrong.
When a child picks up a weapon to do a felony, then they forfeit the label “child”.
We need some new labels.
A criminal threat makes one a “target”.
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MONEY: Securitized mortgage debt may kill pension funds
Wednesday, October 20, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep/foreclosure-fraud.html
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#6 Renowned investor Jim Sinclair is actually warning that the collapse of securitized mortgage debt could be the “final shot” that will wipe out many financial institutions across the United States.
The recent warning that Sinclair posted on his blog is more than a little sobering….
I am asking for your attention again because of the depth of the fraud and now the size of the securitized mortgage debt OTC derivative pile of garbage that is in the trillions. This entire mountain of weapons of mass financial and social destruction is now in question. I have been telling you this for more than 2 years since the manufacturers and distributors of this crap were called by the NY Fed due to the loss of control over the paperwork.
I had dinner with my former partner, then lead director of and CEO of Bear Stearns. I could not contain myself so I asked him why he did so much business in OTC derivatives which were certain to bankrupt them. The answer I got was it was more than 50% of their profit. The right answer should have been it was more than 80% of their earnings.
Securitized mortgage debt is going to be the final shot that kills all kinds of financial entities in the Western world. The biggest holder of this putrid junk is pension funds.
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Regardless of the accuracy of this assertion, one can be sure that, between the Federal Reserve System and the corrupted politicians in the District of Corruption, this will become the taxpayer’s problem. fjohn
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FUN: Many a true word is said in jest?
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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POLITICAL: Is Delaware in play?
Wednesday, October 20, 2010Interesting. If the polling is right, she’s 8 points behind. Are the D’s afraid she can win? If so, then I’m for her. Who cares if she’s a wack-a-loon. In two years, it’ll be time to vote her out. My new bumper sticker is “Reelect Nobody”. Now if some one named “nobody” runs, then I’ll have to revisit that diktat. :-) fjohn
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MONEY: Long-term care insurance is fatal to retirement
Tuesday, October 19, 2010http://www.ricedelman.com/cs/pressroom/pressroom_detail?pressrelease.id=1788
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Yes, this article is about long-term care insurance. As you know, the planners and I at Edelman Financial strongly encourage most of our clients to obtain long-term care insurance. AARP estimates that 70% of Americans who are age 65 today will require long-term care at some point; the average cost is currently $74,000 per year, and in many metropolitan areas the cost exceeds $125,000 annually, according to a 2010 nationwide survey of nursing homes by Genworth Financial.
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We’ve seen estates drained as well. Hopefully, everyone can have the old folks protect their life’s work. Argh! At the very least, Medicaid Trust.
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HARDWARE: Medicaid rules can’t keep up with technology
Tuesday, October 19, 2010http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/16/1621227/Tablets-Are-Game-Changers-For-Special-Needs-Kids
Tablets Are Game-Changers For Special Needs Kids
by Soulskill
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theodp writes “The rise of mainstream tablets is proving to have unforeseen benefits for children with speech and communication problems and may disrupt a business where specialized devices can cost thousands of dollars. iPad apps like Proloquo2Go ($189) aim to help individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), cerebral palsy, down syndrome, developmental disabilities, ALS, traumatic brain injury, aphasia, apraxia, and more. Even Steve Jobs didn’t see this one coming: ‘We take no credit for this, and that’s not our intention,’ said Jobs, who’s been touched by email he gets from parents of special needs kids for whom the iPad is proving to be a life-changer. ‘Our intention is to say something is going on here,’ Jobs added, suggesting that researchers should ‘take a look at this.’ Even though they might cost significantly less than dedicated devices, SUNY speech pathologist Andrea Abramovich explained Medicare doesn’t cover consumer tablets because they could be used for non-medical purposes.”
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How long before the politicians and bureaucrats wake up and update the Medicaid rules. Hmm, save money and preforms better. Seems like “obvious” to me. Argh! No wonder the Gooferment is held in such low regard. Might be useful for all sorts of unexpected things. That’s the beauty of the free market.
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POLITICAL: OBH44 draws on a different viewpoint; good for him. Kudos to her.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101015/pl_afp/uspoliticsdiplomacy_20101015222922
Obama, Condoleezza Rice chat about foreign policy, books
– Fri Oct 15, 6:29 pm ET
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama met Friday at the White House with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice for a chat on foreign policy and her new memoir, officials said.
Rice gave the president a “personalized copy” of “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family,” in which Rice describes her childhood in racially segregated Birmingham, Alabama, a White House spokesman said.
The Oval Office meeting marked the first time Rice has been back to the White House since former president George W. Bush left office.
They discussed “a range of national security issues, and we’re going to leave it at that,” said Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman.
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Obama and Rice are both racial pioneers. He is America’s first African American president, and author of his own memoir “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” and she is the highest-ranking black woman in the history of the executive branch of the US government.
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Asked to grade his foreign policy, she refused.
“I’ve said very many times that I may not agree with everything that the administration has done, but I also know that it’s a lot harder in there than it is out here,” she said.
“Nobody needs to have people who’ve been there chirping at you about what you’re not doing right, because you can’t possibly know the whole range of considerations on any given day unless you’re in.”
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That’s showing some sign of maturity. The President is in a bubble. He needs to hear different opinions. Especially form someone who’s been in the soup pot.
He moves up a notch in my opinion. (Not that anyone much cares about that.)
And she’s one classy lady. It’s too easy to Monday morning Qback. Like that line from the movie, “American President”, … “How’s the view from the cheap seats?”.
While I may disagree with just about everything BHO44 has chosen to do, I always remember I’m in the “cheap seats”.
His values aren’t mine. His results are his. We can certainly judge on the results. Sadly, the results are worse than one would have expected. But then Socialists will always disappoint. It comes from their roots. The first principle of Gooferment is force. And, things go downhill from there.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Piñera’s brilliant handling of the mine crisis to BHO44 or Bush43
Monday, October 18, 2010Mine Rescue: Crisis Shows Chile’s President To Be the Kind of Leader That America Desperately Needs
Sebastián Piñera’s brilliant handling of the mine crisis showed the world his strong character while revealing weaknesses in the character of our own president.
October 15, 2010 – by Tim Daniel
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Look to Obama’s attack on BP as his administration, amidst crisis, floundered and flopped like an oil-soaked pelican. Or look to the ludicrous banana republic-esque saber rattling against the Chamber of Commerce as November 2 approaches. Or even the “public enemy number one” fixation on Fox News. Or worse and most damaging to us all, the slavish hostility directed at income earners and entrepreneurs across this nation.
In crisis and challenge, Piñera lifted up his entire nation as an example.
Obama has petulantly, willingly, and unflinchingly brought his down.
Character counts and so do ideas.
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BHO44 has been a total disaster. Socialists usually are. In this case, he didn’t even make the trains run on time.
BUSH43 started off good in the case of the WTC911, but soon got off track. And, booted Katrina. But, Big Gooferment socialists are just as bad.
When will the Sheeple learn. All the politicians and bureaucrats are the same.
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RANT: So how does it feel to be used?
Monday, October 18, 2010http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101015/NEWS04/10140328
Article published October 15, 2010
TPS teacher who watched Obama sign bill is laid off
Board not using $7.6M share to rehire workers
Toledo Public Schools teacher Amanda VanNess, second from right, is on hand as President Obama signs the stimulus bill.
By CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK BLADE STAFF WRITER
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As Toledo Public Schools teacher Amanda VanNess stood in the Oval Office and watched President Obama sign an education stimulus bill, she already knew she’d lost her teaching job back home to budget cuts and low seniority.
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I smell a rat.
Could this be a democrat operative?
Sorry, but I can’t imagine being a prop.
But then, no politician and / or bureaucrat is inviting me to anything?
Doesn’t any one see the stupidity of paying all these “handling charges”? The Federal Gooferment robs people of their wealth under the guise of “protection money” aka “taxes”. They take a cut for handling and send it to the States. The States take a cut for handling and send it to the Cities. The Cities take a cut and send it to School Boards. They take a cut and there’s probably little left to spend on anything. Let’s, for ease of example, say that the handling charge is ½. (You can make up your own fraction because no one knows what it is.) There are (at least) four handling charges so it’s exponential. (Fed’s send half. State send half of the feds half. A half of a half of a half of a half may get to the children.) ½ ** 4 = a sixteenth! (Hope the county government doesn’t get in there some how.)
I can double the amount getting to schools with the stroke of a pen!
Fire the Federal Gooferment from having ANYTHING to do with education.
After that I have another idea with respect to the States.
(Bet you see where this is going. Yup, parents had ’em. They should educate them. It’s a lot cheaper and better beside.)
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RANT: Cheap video equipment documents the plight of the “mundanes”!
Sunday, October 17, 2010http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-15-1Avideocops15_CV_N.htm
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“The proliferation of cheap video equipment is presenting a whole new dynamic for law enforcement,” says Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest police union. “It has had a chilling effect on some officers who are now afraid to act for fear of retribution by video. This has become a serious safety issue. I’m afraid something terrible will happen.”
Kamau and others argue terrible things already have occurred to victims of officer abuse, and video has brought some of the most brutal cases to the public’s attention. Video also has helped narrow the “credibility gap” between police and their accusers, civil rights lawyer John Burris says.
“It used to be that the police officer always got the benefit of the doubt,” says Burris, who represented Rodney King in a civil lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles related to his videotaped beating by white Los Angeles police officers. Television broadcasts of the infamous tape, one of the first to show the power of citizen videos of police actions, prompted widespread public outrage.
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I am one of those outraged; you’re all complacent Sheeple.
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GOLD: The sky’s the limit when the FED audit happens
Sunday, October 17, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland31.1.html
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If you trust the gold reserves are in Fort Knox then just buy more gold from time to time on price dips. But, if you believe “it’s not just the beer talkin,” then take actions while you still can to secure your gold now before we have a crisis and a repeat of Roosevelt’s confiscation program.
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Regardless of whether or not it’s there, no there, there but we don’t own it, it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
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INTERESTING: Will Vermont be the first State out of the “union”?
Saturday, October 16, 2010http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/2010/10/13/code-purple-student-article-possibility-independent-vermont
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From 1777 to 1791, Vermont was its own Republic. Now, in 2010, a group of Vermonters is fighting to secede from the United States. Their goal is to save the Green Mountain State from centralized control and establish the Vermont Second Republic. The secessionists believe that the United States of America, which they refer to as the United States of Empire, isn’t the pinnacle of democracy it once was and that Vermont would do better as an independent republic.
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Too bad Aunt Marion sold her farm to the developers instead of my Mom. Imagine how life would have been different? I could be in the thick of an active secessionist movement. Vermont may be the first out. Vermont was the promised land in my novel “CHURCH 10●19●62”. So those of you, who slogged through it, know how Vermont could use its advantages to lead in the future. Wish I was there to help. Argh!
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POLITICAL: Team Obama’s Media Helpers Hide Bad News
Saturday, October 16, 2010http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/realitycheck/2010/20101014092809.aspx
Worst of the Week: Team Obama’s Media Helpers Hide Bad News for Democrats
By: Tim Graham
October 14, 2010 09:21 ET
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While network correspondents complain about the unfairness of independent advertising, they might ponder the unfairness of their habitual tendency to omit or downplay bad news for Team Obama, especially in the crucial last weeks of a campaign. Consider some of the latest stories that would have drawn much more attention and media hostility if the shoe was on the Republican foot:
■ Oil spill incompetence or dishonesty.
■ Delayed Democrat ethics trials.
■ More John Edwards subpoenas.
■ Stimulus dollars for the dead.
■ Big setback in trying terror suspects.
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Just business as usual in the District of Corruption.
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MONEY: Buying paper with paper or “laundering” FED losses through the US Treasury?
Friday, October 15, 2010http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5505a7f0-d7c2-11df-b478-00144feabdc0.html
Dollar fall sparks stability warnings
By David Oakley and Peter Garnham in London and Michael Mackenzie in New York
Published: October 14 2010 19:55 | Last updated: October 14 2010 19:55
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The dollar tumbled against most major currencies on Thursday, prompting warnings that the weakness of the world’s reserve currency could destabilise the global economy and push other countries into retaliatory devaluations to underwrite their exports.
Increasing expectations the Federal Reserve will pump more money into the US economy next month under a policy known as quantitative easing sent the dollar to new lows against the Chinese renminbi, Swiss franc and Australian dollar. It dropped to a 15-year low against the yen and an eight-month low against the euro.
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Why? Is QE2 a raid on the treasury? Privatize the gains; socialize the losses! A plague on all their houses.
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FUN: Expert in eckynumbics
Friday, October 15, 2010The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to three economists. Should we have even given one out this year? If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past two years, it’s that there’s no such thing as an expert in economics.
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MONEY: Forced Gooferment Skrules drain initiative and capability
Friday, October 15, 2010http://www.spinninglobe.net/amishmudsill.html
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6. The Shrimp Lady
In the northeast corner of an island a long way from here an older woman sells plates of cooked shrimp and rice from out of an old white truck in a remote corner of the island. Nobody is around the truck. A lot of people pass, however, because the road she’s on goes to a famous surfing beach which attracts crowds year round.
She sells only shrimp and rice plus hot dogs for the kids and cold soda. The license to do this costs $500 a year, $43.25 a month, less than a dollar-and-a-half a day.
Anyone could do what this lady is doing who would get together about $15 thousand in seed capital. She’s 59, has a high-school diploma, a nice smile and cooks good shrimp. A hand-lettered sign advertises the wares beside the road.
The day I stood in line five customers were in front of me. They bought 14 plates between them and 14 sodas. I bought two and two. By the time I got to the window 5 new customers had arrived behind me. I was intrigued enough to sit across the road for two hours and count the sales: 41 plates, l5 hot-dogs, 50 sodas. The plates were $9.95, the dogs $1.25, the sodas $1.00. She had taken in close to $500 in two hours and her sign informed me she was open eight hours, seven days a week. Was it possible this truck was grossing nearly three-quarters of a million dollars a year?
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Back in Orestes Brownson’s day the central promise of American life was democratization of intelligence and winning an independent competency upon which to exercise that intelligence. In America every one got the chance to develop intelligence, not just the elites. Beyond the narrow uses of intelligence for work it found many private uses inside home and family circles. Public argument was the great incentive to master knowledge. But after Darwin a horde of voices said argument was a waste of time for the stupid masses. Mudsill theory became scientized with Charles Darwin, with the rise of the German research university in America, and with the religion of numbers and bell-curve statistics.
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Wow, that’s a stunning example! Forced Gooferment Skrules really hurt.
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TECHNOLOGY: 69 mph scooter
Thursday, October 14, 2010http://www.impactlab.net/2010/10/13/worlds-fastest-mobility-scooter-can-reach-speeds-of-69mph/
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It might look like your standard mobility scooter, designed to help the elderly and the infirm do their shopping. But this particular version has had rather a substantial upgrade.
Plumber Colin Furze, 31, spent nearly three months converting the machine so that it now whizzes along at an incredible 69mph – making it the world’s fastest mobility scooter.
It has a powerful 125cc motorbike engine hidden under the seat, five gears and twin exhausts.
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Might be good for getting to work?
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RANT: The View boiled over with Bill an the mosque
Thursday, October 14, 2010Interesting. BOR said that they have a right. And, that BHO44 distanced himself from the folks by stopping at that point without commenting on the appropriateness.
Joy is a hard left type so she kept interrupting and over talking him. His response of “you’ll learn something” was respond to rude with rude.
When he said, “Some muslims killed Americans in the WTC”.
That sent Whoppi over the edge. (I don’t understand why? BOR stated a fact.)
Adjusting my tin foil hat, what if 9-11 was a “false flag operation”?
In the world of international relations, terrorism, and spy versus spy, I would trust anything is what it seems.
Trust but verify. What better way to put a wedge between fellow Americans and another wedge between the USA and “the Muslim world”?
Argh!
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PLINKY: If I Could Invent Anything
Thursday, October 14, 2010… an obvious one fmpov!
A device, that given a a drop of a patient's blood, it would produce 100% identical blood in whatever quantity needed.
My wife has a unknown blood problem that presents as an dramatic quick disappearance of red blood cells. A "blood xerox" machine would give the docs
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HARDWARE: Resume from hibernate didn’t resume
Thursday, October 14, 2010Mac Book Air closed lid and, when I opened it, I didn’t get anything. Argh! Lost my daily run file of hospital notes. Have paper backup. But the McBa ain’t infallible.
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RANT: Forced schooling; the purpose to weaken people?
Thursday, October 14, 2010http://www.spinninglobe.net/amishmudsill.html
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There was nothing popular, local or personal about this artificial conceit of forced schooling; its purpose was to weaken people’s capacity to educate themselves, to break their loyalty to family, church and land in order to release customers and workforce for élite schemes of economics and social ordering. Brownson said the teaching function belonged in a democracy to the whole community, not to a controlled monopoly, and we had already become the best educated people in history on our own hook. “Children,” he said, “were far better off educated by the general pursuits, habits and moral tone of the community” than by a privileged class of corporate or government agents.
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They want to make cannon fodder out of children
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SURVIVAL: Do you have your GOOD, GHB, and / or just G (Get! Git! Got!)
Wednesday, October 13, 2010http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2010/10/09/bug-out-or-bug-in-bag/
1. What are some key differences in items you’d put in a bug-out bag and a bug-in bag?
2. Given your location and circumstances, how do you decide whether you’re more likely to need to bug out or bug in?
3. Assuming you conclude that you’re more likely to have to bug in than bug out, is a special bag for the purpose even necessary?
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In my case, I have the “hospital bag” with among other things: a jumble book with pen, steno book, 4 cans of microwavable soup, fruit cocktail (just replenished, thanks Jacki), Our Girl’s unmentionables, two flashlights, one knife that wouldn’t make it past the TSA, am/fm radio, map of NJ (left over from a past road trip), a few bottles of water, and usually a bunch of those terrible Oats ‘n’ Honey bars that I have to restock. Hope you have your bags packed when needed. Even if you don’t believe in TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It), I remember Marge and Frenchy’s unexpected camp in trip as a result of Hugo. Only the Amish and the Mormons seem to be prepared for “stuff”.
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POLITICAL: Gay “rights”, no; “human rights”, yes
Wednesday, October 13, 2010http://centraljersey.com/articles/2010/10/07/opinions/doc4cacf5a0ac4d1591549135.txt
DISPATCHES: We’re all complicit
Sexual intolerance helped lead R.U. student to suicide
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 6:37 PM EDT
By Hank Kalet, Managing Editor
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Our unwillingness to grant LGBTs full rights is a societal/cultural admission that we think of them as less worthy than the rest of us. It allows the stigma to remain in place and allows the hate to continue to flow.
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Modern day Liberals, as opposed to the Classical Liberals of history, suffer from a language difficulty. Either deliberate or unintentional. The “Our unwillingness … to grant … rights” is a construction that is flawed.
We don’t “grant” rights. “We hold these truths as self-evident. That all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”. Rights are unalienable. It’s only when the Gooferment comes with their guns that the problems begin.
Why is the Gooferment involved in the “granting of rights”? Or the definition of “marriage”? Or encouraging “We, The People” to fight each other in the area that the Gooferment defines?
“Marriage” was originally a matter for a civil society to “consecrate” in its Churches. Secular Progressives could not permit that to continue because their values were in conflict. They “knew”, because of their elite status and education, what was good for everyone — Socialism of some flavor or another. Churches, Families, and Fraternal Organizations stood in the way. They gained control of the levers of Gooferment with its monopoly on using force and were i the “driver’s seat”. Can’t make an omelet without breaking a few legs. They used Gooferment to give “benefits” to marriage and thus began the war on that civil institution.
Personally, I am pro-choice on everything. I want a Voluntarist society.
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Personally, I think the whole LGBT is a dead end branch for the propagation of the species. But, since I want to be left alone with respect to my personal life, I am more than happy to ignore everyone else’s choices. As a little L libertarian, I think that “marriage”, its Gooferment benefits that accompany it, and “Gooferment Skrules” — all shouldn’t exist.
That would very quickly end the debate.
And, by the way, anyone beating up anyone should be forced to make restitution regardless of why they were doing the beating.
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RANT: Sure, the terrorist is going to …
Tuesday, October 12, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/nestmann6.1.1.html
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The CBP believes these rules are necessary to investigate terrorism, child pornography, etc., but I’m not so sure. For instance, if you were a terrorist, would you really bring your laptop across the border with your plans to blow up the White House? No, you’d simply e-mail yourself the plans to blow up, poison, or incinerate whatever you wish to target. As with most anti-terrorism initiatives, this one does little or nothing to fight terrorists. It merely inconveniences law-abiding travelers.
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Thought you could use yet another realization of “security theater”.
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RANT: Some folks are !!!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010Parents: Dying Girl Kathleen Edward Taunted By Neighbors In Trenton
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/the…
A Trenton (Michigan) family with a dying 7-year-old daughter says they are being harassed by a neighborhood couple. And those accused neighbors aren’t disagreeing. Go inside the the story to watch a video report from FOX 2’s Ron Savage.
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I find it hard to imagine any feud with my neighbors that would cause me to do anything to upset a dying child or their family. If I had a way I’d submit this to O’Reilly for a “pinhead” award! Or, worse I’d call them !!!
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