RANT: Yet Another “Bank” Bailout?

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/hr3808-equivalent-tarp-2-and-obamas-get-out-jail-gift-card-high-frequency-signing-scandal

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That’s the theoretical definition: the practical one – the legislation, if enacted, could protect bank and mortgage processors from liability for false or improperly prepared documents. In other words, with one simple signature Obama has the capacity to prevent tens of billions in damages to banks from legal fees, MBS deficiency claims, unwound sales, and to formally make what started this whole mess: Court Fraud perpetrated by banks, a legal act, and to finally trample over the constitution. Will Obama do it? Potentially – the banking lobby certainly has enough power over him and his superiors, the members of the FOMC. On the other hand, the populist revolt that will surely follow the enactment of such a law will certainly end any dreams of a second term, and potentially of a completed first one. The drama is now on: will Obama openly side on behalf of the bankers (without a “blame the republicans” fall back this time) or of the foreclosure “victims” (granted, the bulk of whom are deadbeat homeowners who should never have owned a home to begin with). We doubt a decision will be reached before the midterms, although quite a bit now hangs in the balance.

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Hard to imagine the powers that be not giving themselves a pass!

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RANT: Data used to condemn teachers and schools

Monday, October 11, 2010

http://www.lifetrekcoaching.com/current/

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Ravitch views that as a travesty, especially since the data that are being used to condemn teachers and schools are neither reliable nor helpful. They cannot be counted on as either performance indicators or as guides for school improvement. But they can be counted on to undermine trust — a critical element in both society and organizations.

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I feel that “We, The People” have bought into the meme of “Gooferment Skrules” equates to “Education”. To use Covey’s metaphor, we are “leaning our ladder against the wrong wall”. Testing, teachers, and condemnation is all wrong.

The current education meme comes from Prussia where the objective was to create: cannon fodder, factory workers, and sheeple that can be led easily by the elite by separating parent and child on many levels. (Note where politicians and bureaucrats send their children to school!) The current schools system has parents, taxpayers, and the voters fighting over entirely the wrong issues. To the delight of politicians, bureaucrats, and those pigs that “dine” at the trough.

Gooferment is force. And, a monopoly on it. As it’s first — bedrock — operating — principle, it immediately spins out a whole load of “stuff” from it. Gooferment, at all levels, acts like it alone has the “charter” to “do” education. It’s corrupt, immoral, ineffective, inefficient, and just unacceptable.

corrupt: It takes children from their families and <silently, quietly, and sometimes overtly> propagandizes them into beliefs that their parents don’t hold, approve of, or support. And, after inflicting actual harm on the children’s minds and bodies, the Gooferment leaves the debris to the parents’ to clean up after. And, in the process there is a whole education complex that feeds off the children’s “jail time”.

immoral: Wealth is stolen from people to brainwash other people’s children. The ideas being “rinsed in” are often in direct opposition to their parents’ beliefs. And, the “Gooferment Skrules” are training the children for prisons.

ineffective: Even by ANY measure of the STATED objectives, “Gooferment Skrules” are a failure. Unless there are HIDDEN objectives which it suceeds at? “If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, he could not find a more effective means to do so than the government school system in most cities.” — Walter Williams

inefficient: By any measure, costs are increasing and results are plummeting. The news is filled with stories of bigger boondoggles and waste. Never mind that the feds and states extract a handling fee as money passes though their hands.

unacceptable: The Teacher’s Union has become the biggest political force in the National and State elections. Politicians and bureaucrats use children as hostages in the vaious debates.

We need the Separation of School and State.

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RANT: Thinking about a burning double wide!

Monday, October 11, 2010

>From what I understand, the term “gooferment”

When I use “Gooferment”, I refer that gang that uses their supposed monopoly on the use of force to impose “its will” on the Sheeple. I urge care because we anthropomorphize a group of people into its own entity. I’m a voluntarist. Maybe even an anarchist. You know those PEOPLE with flags and costumes that purport to be part of the matrix?

>Mr. Cranick lived outside of the town

http://seerpress.com/fire-department-lets-house-burn-down-over-unpaid-dues/9139/

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Cranick lived just outside the city limits of South Fulton in Northwest Tennessee in Obion County, but within an area that allows homeowners to subscribe to the city’s fire department services by paying a $75 annual fee.

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So we have one subdivision of Gooferment that takes taxes from the victim. Then, they say they don’t provide fire protection? But you can buy it from this other subdivision of Gooferment. Excuses!

So what did the victim “buy” with his county taxes?

>It does seem heartless for the fire department to stand there and watch his house burn down,

It doesn’t say if the FD was paid or volunteer. It doesn’t say much about what went on. I find it hard to believe that they rolled on the scene and didn’t deploy immediately. There must have been a decision earlier about what they were going to do. Firefighters train. Hell, if I’d been the Fire Chief, then I’d have called it a “live fire drill or training session”.

>if they didn’t, everyone similarly situated who did pay the $75 would stop paying,
> knowing that if their house caught fire they could pay then.

I’d suggest that this is the problem with Gooferment. They are not responsive to market place discipline.

>Should they also drop their fire insurance and be allowed to purchase
>it when their house starts burning?

Clearly not, but I bet the insurance company would have paid the $75 rather than pay off for the fire.

> Being able to set the fee at only $75 is based on most people  
> agreeing to the assessment, but not having to use it.

Ludwig von Mises’ “socialism calculation debate” points out that “socialists”, which is what he’d call the Gooferment in all its forms, doesn’t not have the free market’s mechanism to set a clearing price. That price where there are no more willing buyer or sellers. Everyone has acted on their particular time preference calculation. So how does anyone know that $75 is the right or wrong price? There is no competition.

Fredrick Hayek’s “knowledge of the particular time and place” points out that “socialists” can evaluate the facts and costs at a particular time and place. So the bureaucrats arriving at the fire scene can’t decide what is the correct course of action.

It’s not as if the person had to decide between three offerings: McD’s, BK’s, and Wendy’s. He could pick based on criteria that he decided on. In a free market. Where he choose the “best”. Knowing the (Mises) true cost as deiced by the marketplace. Knowing how important each (Hayek) of the criteria was to him.

>I would think a libertarian would agree to this.

As a little L libertarian, and I can only speak for myself, there is a lot of blame to spread around. I blame the “socialists” in the illusion of Gooferment. And the “firemen” who are nothing more than bureaucrats.

And some blame for the victim for not picking his battle better.

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SERVICE: Google is closing 1-800-GOOG-411

Sunday, October 10, 2010

http://lifehacker.com/5659358/google-shuts-down-goog+411

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Google is closing 1-800-GOOG-411, their first speech recognition service that acted as a free “voice-powered directory assistance”, on November 12.

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BING 1-800-246-4411

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Why do I suspect the phone companies are protecting a very lucrative income stream?

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RANT: If I’m drunk, you’re a jerk

Sunday, October 10, 2010

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/10/if-im-drunk-youre-a-jerk.ars

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Nearly all the participants, no matter what condition, judged all the unambiguous statements correctly. However, when the actions were ambiguous and could have been performed either intentionally or unintentionally, the “drunk” participants were much more likely to perceive the actions as deliberate than the sober participants were. The clever design of this experiment allowed the researchers to separate the actual physical effects of alcohol from its expectancy effects. What the subjects believed they had consumed didn’t affect their responses—only whether they had actually consumed booze or not.

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Then, I must be drunk all the time. I don’t think anything is “unintentional”.

No?

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POLITICAL: Only real people pay taxes

Saturday, October 9, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams53.1.html

Politicians Exploit Economic Ignorance by Walter E. Williams

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What about the politician who tells us that he’s not going to raise taxes on the middle class; instead, he’s going to raise corporate income taxes as means to get rich corporations to pay their rightful share of government? If a tax is levied on a corporation, and if it is to survive, it will have one of three responses, or some combination thereof. One response is to raise the price of its product, so who bears the burden? Another response is to lower dividends; again, who bears the burden? Yet another response is to lay off workers. In each case, it is people, not some legal fiction called a corporation, who bear the burden of the tax.

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So the corporate tax rate should ALWAYS be zero. Anything higher and it’s the politicians trying to sheer the sheeple!

Corporations don’t “pay” taxes; only real flesh and blood people do. Corporations provide politicians “cover” because the Sheeple don’t recognize the tax is buried in the price.

When the tax is put on a capital asset used in the production of other goods (like gasoline) the impact is magnified. So every UPS package that’s delivered has that gas “tax” factored in.

When UPS buys the trucks that GM paid tax on, that’s buried in the cost of every package delivered.

They taught us this in injineering school. No one can really know how much tax they are paying and the politicians and bureaucrats like that just fine. Argh!

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GOLDBUG: 5% is a modest amount

Saturday, October 9, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/johnsson8.1.1.html

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Gold is probably the only asset that could eliminate the mountains of debt we see today. And the folks in the governments of China, Russia, Nepal, etc., have already realized this. Hundreds of millions of people around the planet has also already realized this. Or rather, they haven’t forgotten, or they haven’t been brainwashed into believing gold is simply a “barbarous relic.” They are accumulating gold. For example, in China the government is running TV ads (available at YouTube) encouraging people to have at least 5% of their assets in physical gold and you can get gold coins and bars at any decent shopping mall, at banks and at airports. I know it’s the same in Russia, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same in India.

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5% is a modest amount. But, most folks in the US have zero. They may have etfs, or such paper. That’s not gold!

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GOLD: $10,000 Gold?

Friday, October 8, 2010

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/thinktank/2010-10/02/content_11374685.htm

$10,000 Gold?

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Indeed, another critical fundamental factor that has been sustaining high gold prices might prove far more ephemeral than globalization. Gold prices are extremely sensitive to global interest-rate movements. After all, gold pays no interest and even costs something to store. Today, with interest rates near or at record lows in many countries, it is relatively cheap to speculate in gold instead of investing in bonds. But if real interest rates rise significantly, as well they might someday, gold prices could plummet.

Most economic research suggests that gold prices are very difficult to predict over the short to medium term, with the odds of gains and losses being roughly in balance. It is therefore dangerous to extrapolate from short-term trends. Yes, gold has had a great run, but so, too, did worldwide housing prices until a couple of years ago.

If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events. But, despite gold’s heightened allure in the wake of an extraordinary run-up in its price, it remains a very risky bet for most of us.

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A gold price of 10k$/oz has terrible implications for the American economy and the average American. It’ll freeze global commerce as the price of oil gets denominated in gold. Hope they’re wrong.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The fat blue line

Friday, October 8, 2010

Please read this one. Priceless!!!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/crovelli/crovelli50.1.html

Anarchy vs. Barney Fife by Mark R. Crovelli

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If our lives and fortunes were indeed dependent upon protection from a handful of people swaddled in hideous blue polyester, mankind would have long ago lost them. If human nature were truly as depraved as these arguments would have us believe, then the chubby blue line would long ago have been annihilated by its vastly numerically superior criminal adversaries. No “criminal” worth the name would be deterred from committing his favored atrocities by a small group of lightly-armed fat people, whose national reputation is tied inextricably to the donut. To even suggest that this 300 million-strong horde of savage, would-be criminals are kept at bay only by some irrational fear of blue polyester is so asinine that it makes the flat-Earthers look like geniuses by comparison.

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Emphasis mine; think it’s a great zinger.

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MONEY: New plan — Rob Peter to pay, well, Peter

Thursday, October 7, 2010

http://www.ricedelman.com/cs/pressroom/pressroom_detail?pressrelease.id=1629

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Lawmakers are creating solutions for their pension shortfalls. New York is considering a plan that would let it borrow money from the state’s pension plan and use that money to pay its annual obligations to the pension plan. (No, that’s not a typo — they’re essentially planning to rob Peter to pay, well, Peter.)

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Worth reading. The insanity of unfunded liabilities is only going to get worse.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment firemen act dumb!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/04/limits-of-libertarianism-hypot

Limits-of-Libertarianism Hypothetical Brought to Life in Tennessee
Katherine Mangu-Ward | October 4, 2010

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Obion County resident Gene Cranick decided not to pay the $75 fee, and then he set a fire in his backyard in two large barrels. The fire began to spread, and he called 911. The 911 operator told him that because he hadn’t paid the fee, the fire department would not respond. Cranick’s wife told the 911 operator that she would be willing to pay “whatever the cost” to hire the Fire Department to put out the fire, but was told that this was not an option. The Fire Department did not come out until the fire spread to a neighbor’s yard — the neighbor had paid the fee — and the firemen put out the neighbor’s fire but not Cranick’s.

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Did he have fire insurance on his house? If he did, I bet his insurance company lawyers are hard at work reviewing their policy language.

Note Gooferment fire department; does Sears refuse to service folks who don’t buy their service plans? Of course not!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Insuring Old Age?

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=210789

Social Security example of government rigor mortis
Posted: October 02, 2010
Star Parker

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Social Security passed in 1935. Although there have been changes in the way of tax increases and expansions of the program, Social Security is essentially the same system as was passed 75 years ago.

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Americans are retiring earlier and living longer. In 1950, the median male retirement age and male life expectancy were about the same – 66. By 2005, the median retirement age for men was under 62 and the median male life expectancy was over 75.

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And the promise we get from our leaders is that they will save and preserve a system that was conceived 120 years ago and enacted here 75 years ago. This is leadership?

Not only is our Social Security system unsuited to our times, it is bankrupt. It went into a deficit situation this year and its overall unfunded liabilities – the total amount promised less the total amount for which there is funding – is almost $20 trillion.

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Clearly “Social Security Insurance”, which is NOT Social, NOT Security, NOT insurance, is an meme that no longer fits. If it ever did! The stated public purpose was “welfare” when the public was scared by the Great Depression; the unstated private purpose was to amass political power. It basically setup many if, not all, of the problems that we are facing today. Bu allowing the Gooferment to raid the “mythical lockbox”.

Argh!

How can you “insure” against old age?

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MONEY: Poor man’s bullion a roll of nickles

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100906192154AAN9byy

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In addition to the penny, the nickel also has a physical value which is higher than its face value; nickels cost around 7.7¢ US to make.

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http://www.metalprices.com/FreeSite/metals/nickelalloy/nickelalloy.asp

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OK, you can afford a truckload of gold or silver.

How about a couple hundred buck in nickles?

The Gooferment is paying 7¢ each. And, it still has an intrinsic worth.

When the crunch happens, it’ll have some value over and above the paper value.

When the hyperinflation hits, we all know what the paper will be useful for!

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POLITICAL: Abuse of “We, The People”!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/what-in-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you

What In The Hell Is Wrong With You?
by dumpdc on 9/30/10
by Daniel Miller, Texas Nationalist Movement

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For the 14 years since I arrived at that conclusion I have watched the people of Texas shoved around by a Federal Government drunk on power. They go through a succession of governmental functionaries from one of the two major parties only to wind up with more government, less freedom and more abuse. Unfortunately for me, although I know the truth and what the solution is, the rest of the people of Texas have not reached the mental and emotional place of safety where I reside.

This leaves me to watch the abuses pile up without the proper response. To get an idea of my daily anguish, let’s paint a mental picture together. Imagine for a moment that you are part of a large family. You and your siblings are sitting in the living room of the house and your Mother’s current husband, someone who is not your Father, comes in and begins to beat the crap out of your Mother. Your sister starts to cry so he turns his attention to her and starts beating her. Your brother tries to shield your sister and he gets smacked a few times. You speak up and try to shield them all and get pummeled more than all of them put together. After he beats you, thankfully, he takes the money that you all have been saving from the cookie jar, jumps in his car and heads off to the local watering hole to blow all of the money on booze and other women. Imagine that this happens every day.

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Abused spouses go through four phases while in an abusive relationship. They are: denial, guilt, enlightenment and responsibility.

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I plead one more time with my Mother, my brothers and sister. We are abused. It is not our fault. The Federal Government will not change. It will make promises that it will not keep. If it ever stops abusing us, the break will be brief and it will not last. While we have been faithful to the Constitutional marriage of which we are part, it has not. Mother, your children in the Texas Nationalist Movement have stood up for you. Brothers and sisters of Texas, the Texas Nationalist Movement, your blood, your siblings have stood up for you. We have told you that it is time to make a new life. We will survive this but only if we leave.

Mother, brothers, sisters, let us start this new life now. One free of abuse. We can make it together but first we have to make the decision. If not, then I will continue to ask you “what in the hell is wrong with you?”

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An excellent analogy!

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TECHNOLOGY: Cloud control?

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

You can’t count on software you don’t control!

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/09/turning-off-track-changes-feature.html

Turning off the track changes feature
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 by Brian Shih

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As of September 30th, we’ll be turning off track changes in Reader. While this isn’t a widely used feature, we wanted to let you know in advance so you can set up a suitable alternative (such as http://page2rss.com). Your previous updates will not go away, but you will stop receiving new updates from any custom feeds you have set up.

We apologize for any inconvenience this causes — and as always, please feel free to visit ourhelp forum if you have any questions.

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TECHNOLOGY: Hospital clocks are out of sync

Monday, October 4, 2010

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Clock in this room is five minutes slow as measured by my notebook and Verizon wireless phone.

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So how can evidence of time be introduced in any court say in a medical malpractice suit?

If a nurse documents something using one of the many different clocks, then transcribes it to the computer, what time is it.

It adds an element of uncertainty and distrust. AND, if they are so sloppy in this very simple matter, what makes one think that it would be different in stuff that we don’t see, depend upon, and could be life threatening.

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RANT: 1010 — Watermellon — If you know what’s good for you. No pressure!

Monday, October 4, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qff2xJgDuOY&feature=player_embedded

If you don’t comply, we’ll kill you. Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: Bay of Pigs was a national disgrace

Monday, October 4, 2010

http://bigpeace.com/hfontova/2010/09/30/the-kennedy-nixon-debates-jfk-lied-cubans-died/

The Kennedy-Nixon Debates: JFK Lied, Cubans Died
Posted by Humberto Fontova Sep 30th 2010 at 6:17 am

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Interesting match here. In one corner, the man who blasted almost half the Imperial Japanese fleet to fiery rubble and sent it to the bottom of the Pacific at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In the other, the man who managed to get his PT boat Karate-chopped in half by a Japanese destroyer, a feat of nautical ingenuity that still has naval men scratching their heads – and one that almost got him court-martialed. Only some heavy political pressure saved John F. Kennedy in 1944. Alas, politics prevailed again that night in April ‘61. JFK refused to help the freedom fighters. The election was over, you see.

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Any native, in country, that even listens to the US Gooferment, should read this tale of woe.

Anyone, who helps the US, needs a psych consult.

If your own people don’t kill you, your “friend” may.

Or, at least, abandon you to your fate. Remember the helicopters from the roof of the US Embassy. “We” don’t have a good track record.

A disgrace!

The Dead Old White Guys, who advised against entangling alliances, and who were probably thrilled by the arrival of the French fleet, must be rolling over at the actions of “We, The People”.

“… May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Seems to apply.

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INTERESTING: Warning sign of diabetes

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Read this in a twitter feed:

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I drink soo much water. At least 8 glasses per day. I’m always so thirsty. Idk why!

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And, I tweeted back:

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Excessive thirst is a classic sign of diabetes. It’s killing my wife Frau Reinke. Not today, but soon. Suggest ASAP test!

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I hope my fellow Jasper takes immediate action. The life she save may be her own.

http://diabetes.about.com/od/symptomsdiagnosis/p/Symptoms.htm

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Unquenchable Thirst

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RANT: Cut the Gooferment; taxes will follow

Sunday, October 3, 2010

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575524340160716872.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion

* DECLARATIONS
* OCTOBER 1, 2010
The Twister of 2010
America’s political landscape will never be the same.
*  By PEGGY NOONAN

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The primary reason is the severity of the moment. But another is that negative ads worked so well in the past. For a generation, the American people have been told their politicians are lowlifes. You know what they now think of them? They think they’re lowlifes! People don’t really expect high character from their political figures anymore. “Congressman Smith cheated on his wife.” That’s her problem. Cut my taxes.

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I think Ms. Noonan understates the demand.

It’s no longer JUST “cut my taxes”. I think the Tea Parties are now on to the game. It’s cut spending, cut taxes, and cut out all the other “barbara streisand”.

See we were fooled under Reagan, who cut taxes, but not spending. The tax and spend Democrats were repelaced by the borrow and spend Republicans.

So, the meme has changed.

Reduce Gooferment and taxes will come along naturally.

I always find it interesting that the Gooferment “cuts” (what I would call) Customer facing services. They want the Taxpayer and Taxconsumer to say I want that. (When I was on Wall Street if I’d done that, I’d have been looking for a job. The challenge was always to cut your budget WITHOUT cutting services. Figure it out.)

“We, The People” seem to be on the warpath to cut everything.

Is this a glacial shift? Yes. Will it last? Yes. (Our parent’s generation was scared by the Depression; we’ll be too.)

Will it be enough to save the Republic? I don’t know!

When the Gooferment shuts down the Federal Department of Education, then we will be on the road to recovery.

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QUOTE: Almost reaching the goal

Sunday, October 3, 2010

“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.” –Polybius

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GUNS: Gun Rationale

Saturday, October 2, 2010

PEOPLE ASK ME WHY?

Why I Carry a Gun?

My old grandpa said to me ‘Son, there comes a time in every man’s life when he stops bustin’ knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and usually it’s when he becomes too old to take a beating.’

I don’t carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry.
I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don’t carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

Police protection is an oxymoron.
Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take a beating’

…..author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

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A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

China established gun control in 1935. >From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.   

You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note my fellow Americans, before it’s too late!

The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.

With guns, we are ‘citizens’. Without them, we are ‘subjects’.

During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!

If you value your freedom, please spread this anti gun-control message to all of your friends.

The purpose of fighting is to win.
There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.
The final weapon is the brain.
All else is supplemental.

SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!
SWITZERLAND’S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.
SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!
IT’S A NO BRAINER!

DON’T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALLLAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.

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QUOTE: The mission of bureaucrats isn’t what’s told to the public

Saturday, October 2, 2010

“The primary mission of all institutional managers (including school managers) is to cause their institution to grow in power, in number of employees, in autonomy from public oversight, and in rewards for key personnel. The primary mission is never, of course, the publicly announced one. Whether we are talking about bureaucracies assigned to wage war, deliver mail, or educate children, there is no difference.”

— German sociologist Robert Michel “Political Parties” (1911)

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RANT: Obamacare was ill considered; here come the UCs

Friday, October 1, 2010

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703431604575522413101063070.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

   * HEALTH INDUSTRY

   * SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

McDonald’s May Drop Health Plan

By JANET ADAMY

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McDonald’s Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the U.S. health overhaul.

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UC = Unintended Consequences

Wasn’t this supposed to cover everyone with insurance?

It would have been cheaper to put everyone, without insurance, on the Federal payroll.

Thanks, FDR, for your Wage / Price controls of WW2.

Sorry, but why is term life insurance cheap and medical insurance expensive?

Gooferment!

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POLITICAL: What rube believes in the Social Security Trust Fund?

Friday, October 1, 2010

http://dailyreckoning.com/whats-really-in-the-social-security-trust-fund/

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“Some in our country think that Social Security is a trust fund – in other words, there’s a pile of money being accumulated. That’s just simply not true. The money – payroll taxes going into the Social Security are spent. They’re spent on benefits and they’re spent on government programs. There is no trust.” —- President Bush 2005

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Only certain people who vote for “hope and change”?

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