http://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/nurses_11/archive/2009/07/01/how-do-i-chart-that.aspx
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An open letter to ClearPractice:
http://www.clearpractice.com/ehr/contact.cfm
To whom it may concern:
I think you are really on to something here. I’d like to share one idea. (It probably has occurred to you already, but perhaps not.)
Now I realize that you want to be “wholesale”; not “retail”. People, especially as patients can be so messy, and demanding. But, you’re software’s metaphor is the “practice”. You’re going to have to sell into against all sorts of competition. And, doctors are not IT guys (like me). They want to be “practicing” or playing golf. You need to incorporate “patient” and patient-driven demand into you model.
I’d suggest that you make the patient records and charting available to the patients. This would pressure the doctors to at least look at your solution.
Venially, looking at it from my own pov, my wife is very ill. I could use a charting system that would present to doctors the information I capture in an standard organized fashion. I’ve tried Google, Mcrosoft, Caremark, and several others. They all are unusable. Yours is the closest I’ve seen to a mature offering.
Since my wife has been sick, we have watched mystery diagnosis. There are a lot of “sick” people out there. Who are spending huge amounts of time and effort going from doctor to doctor seeking help. That certainly translates to a ton of administrivia and waste.
If you had patients “charting” their own conditions, you could drag the doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and regulators (kicking and screaming) into the Twenty First Century. Your window of opportunity is limited. Obamacare is going to FORCE change.
I’ll show your setup to any of the docs that will listen. (I give them all free technology consulting.) But, would it be better for me to show them my wife’s chart on my iPad?
If you want an alpha test case, I volunteer. (Despite what I was taught in the military!)
fjohn reinke
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“A grateful nation remembers”
You have to be kidding me. Remembers? No one even knows it’s Veteran’s Day or Armistice Day. Other than store “sales”, “We, The People” don’t remember. If we did, we wouldn’t permit young men and women to put their lives at risk for anything but the most well-thoughtout urgent national interest. And, when they come home broken or in a box, we’d give them the respect they deserve.
I’ll believe that “a grateful nation remembers” when:
• Military funerals are attended by the President or Vice-President, the Senators of that Vet’s State, their Congressman, the Governor, their state reps, their county reps, and their municipal reps. At least then, these “decision makers” would get the fullest sense of the cost of these escapades.
• When our troops are brought home from the 160+ countries. Why are we still in on the DMZ in South Korea and German? Didn’t those wars end long ago? Time for a new foreign policy and new Department of Defense.
• When our broken vets are fixed as best we can in a dignified humane fashion. “We, The People”, through the politicians we elected made this happen. We have to step up to our responsibility. We have failed. The politicians and bureaucrats are to blame. And we have to change the system.
• When we have a “war tax” to ensure that every American regardless of income level or station in life is overtly paying for these foreign excursions. Remember the Spanish American War Tax on every cell phone. Let’s bring it back! (I don’t advocate taxes.) But this will remind everyone every month that we have wars going on and they need an “exit strategy”!
Then, I’ll believe that “a grateful nation remembers”!
Donna Nobis Pacem!
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http://nicholasnigro.blogspot.com/2010/11/quantitative-easing-just-got-easier.html
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Quantitative Easing Just Got Easier
Nicholas Nigro
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This roundabout way of printing money will, apparently, guarantee only one sure thing that you can take to the bank: the further weakening of the once Almighty Dollar and a corresponding rise in critical commodity prices because of it. Translation: From the grocery store to the gas pump, those who can least afford it will pay more and more for basic necessities. But I imagine the government measuring sticks will continue to tell us that we are living in a period of very low inflation for the foreseeable future, and that we should be more concerned about the prospects of deflation.
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What “they” have fooled everyone into thinking is that a “dollar”, a “Federal Reserve Note”, that green piece of linen cotton “paper”, is actually worth something tangible. In elementary economics, we learned that humans transferred from barter to money because money had certain useful characteristics. Most notably it permitted the butcher to trade directly with the candlestick maker without trading with the baker first. From whence all the good things that the division of labor provides — specialization.
Quoting from my favorite novel (Mine!) “Money is a matter of functions four, a medium, a measure, a standard, a store.” He repeated that four times like poetry. “Six Characters in Money: Portable – Durable – Divisible – Uniformity – Limited Supply – Acceptability.” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 110
“We, The People” have forgotten that. As well as the Dead Old White Guys Constitutional admonition that only gold and silver should be money. Along with a bunch of other stuff, like the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and a general dislike for oppressive Gooferment.
So, now, the politicians and bureaucrats are riding high on the hog and the taxpayers have been laid low. Like the host of a parasite weakened to near death.
Gooferment is the meme that kills people. It’s time to awaken from our economic nightmare and throw out the FED and return to “Constitutional money” — gold and silver. And watch the global economy rebound when the world isn’t paying the “inflation tax”.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/11/sad-but-not-surprising.html
Friday, November 05, 2010
Sad, but not surprising UPDATED
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MSNBC has suspended host Keith Olbermann indefinitely because he apparently made political donations to three Democratic candidates.
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And where do the traditional broadcast anchors contribute? You don’t think that ANY of them give money to conservatives or R’s, do you?
The “liberal” media bias is just dishonest. The slants are one thing; the out-and-out hostility to viewpoints not approved by the vast left-wing conspiracy are unacceptable. The folks are voting with their eyeballs.
At one time, “liberal” was a label one could be proud of. A champion of the people. “Classical liberals” opposed the King and force. Modern day little L libertarians trace their roots to these great thinkers.
Now, both “conservatives” and “liberal” joust to be the one in control of the “guns of Gooferment” to tell people how to run their lives. I, no more, want orders from conservatives than I do the liberals.
Let’s cut Gooferment spending 10% across the board. Let’s sell 50 or 100 year bonds to retire the Gooferment debt. Let’s demand that the crooks in DC only spend what is taken in in taxes.
Let’s end the Warfare / Welfare state. And, return to peace.
Isn’t that something that “liberals” and “conservative” can agree on?
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>In regard to unemployment, if you need to rely on that to survive
Agreed. Unfortunately, they pitched it as “insurance” and it ain’t. Unemployment is not an uninsurable risk. It’s not random. (Learnt that in the MC eckynomics class; I am after all a fat old white guy injineer with a low index.)
>So let’s agree to disagree.
Agreeably.
>government stands to make a profit. As they have on the bailout money.
So, they stole 10K$ from my wife’s retirement fund to enrich the unions, Wall Street, and the big banks. Then they sell the proceeds of that theft, make a profit, and me as the victim are supposed to be happy about that? If they had been forced to go thru bankruptcy, she would have gotten some money back. Estimates were 25¢ on the dollar. So we got screwed; I’m not happy. It was only a small percentage of her retirement and our portfolio. But it was the principle. By allowing anyone to avoid bankruptcy, the Gooferment took the pressure off the various managements to find a solution. By allowing Leman Brothers to fail but bailing out others, they created a mess. Goldman Sachs was picking winners and losers. Lehman was the biggest GS competitor. Timmy and others were all ex-GS people. It was a raid on the public treasury.
>I know you’ll never agree with me, but that’s my humble opinion.
You’re right about that. I’ve worked on Wall Street and I KNOW how the sleeze think.
>I believe most of today’s unemployment is due to skills gap.
> There are a lot of jobs out there, but individuals don’t fit the profile.
Might be. I think that the unemployment is due to the uncertainty that the Gooferment has introduced.
>I fear those jobs will not be coming back.
Well you could get them back if there were tariffs. But then, like Smoot Hawley, will create a worse Depression. We have to reinvent America. I think we have a natural global advantage in the production of food. So instead of paying farmers not to grow, we need to incentivize the food production process.
>This due to improper planning and reliance on another stipend from uncle
> sam, social security.
Another welfare program designed to transfer control to Washington DC. And, racist, xfer $ from poor minority men to rich white women. And, another mislabeled program; how can you “insure” old age?
>Why is Obamacare socialism when Medicare is a sacred cow?
Both are “socialism”!
>I think the free market is a viable option, with premiums being tax deductable.
I think we should just leave everyone alone to chose what they want and STOP using the guns of Gooferment to “social engineer”?
>Unfortunately, I do agree the Bush tax cuts must be repealed for the more wealthly americans.
Sorry, but when you take the money away from the rich, who will save and invest?
>Its an effective way to deal with the deficit. (Which Bush did wonders to increase.)
Nah, the Lafer curve, and the fact that you’re not dealing with idiots, will frustrate you. Lowering taxes will generate more revenue as it frees up people locked in by taxes. And, rich people aren’t stupid. How many docs will choose leisure over treating folks when their income is going to exceed 250K. And don’t forget it’s 250k$ on small business, so you’re paying on gross not net of expenses. It’s stupid. So like Maryland found out when they levied a “millionaire’s tax” over ½million, about ½ of their millionaires disappeared. Moved or feathered back their taxable income.
> legacy costs, defense and servicing debt.
I like the idea of a 10% across the board cut every year. But, no one is allowed to impact the citizens. Should drive the bureaucrats nuts!
>All of business is not hurting, this could be a record year on wall
>street. Bonuses are back up and greed is back in vogue.
You know that looting the public treasury is very profitable.
>Additionally, whether Republican or Democratic, I support my government.
That’s where we disagree. I’m a little L libertarian like Jefferson. It’s NOT my government. If we were having a beer, I could go into great detail about why it ain’t. :-)
> I disagree with some legislation, but I know it is a basic
>part of what makes this country great.
No, what makes this country great is liberty. And, then people make the most of it. Then, everything flowed from their “greed”.
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Posted by reinkefj
Apple needs to work on its networking software. I know they really want to be an appliance and that Users s don’t need to bother with the details. BUTT (there’s always a big but):
• At RWJUH, the IPAD can not connect to the wifi, but the MACBOOKAIR can.
• At SPUH, the IPAD can connect to the wifi, but the MACBOOKAIR can not.
Also, at SPUH, they have blocked email.
Also, at RWJUH, they have an “entertaining” wifi implementation by HP (which I’d be embarrassed to have my brand associated with) which requires some mickey mouse authentication (that’s what trips up the IPAD) and disconnects randomly. (In the process of which causes both FIREFOX36, GOOGLECHROME, and SAFARI to lose their place in the browser session. (ARGH!)
And, of course, in the ultimate insult to the mundane User, there’s no way to bring these to anyone’s attention. (Argh!)
So why do they bother? An “accomplishment” on someone’s annual appraisal?
Doesn’t inspire confidence in the hospital’s brand.
(My personal test is how clean are the rest rooms — although you can not rest there? Both hospitals seem to do well by that standard.)
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http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/25511115/detail.html
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Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said there is no voter fraud, although the issues do come up because the touch-screens are sensitive. For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time.
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At best, poor design. At worst, fraud. I don’t understand why a paper ballot isn’t produced from the machine and then “cast”. I think the entrenched politicians and bureaucrats like the system just the way it is “broken”!
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland32.1.html
2010 Is Just Deck Chair Politics on the USS Titanic by Ron Holland
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Confiscation of Large Retirement Fund Accounts – The long-term confiscation and control idea is to eventually force all retirement benefits under the new automatic/mandatory IRA program where everything will be combined with and managed like your Social Security benefits. Wealthy and productive Americans will find their retirement benefits used to support the trillions in underfunded union, state and local government employee plans.
Solution: When possible, move your substantial retirement assets legally offshore to escape a future liquidity crisis when the theft will occur and drawdown your balances by taking withdrawals as soon as you can without an early retirement penalty.
The Risk of Private Gold Confiscation Will Go Up – When the dollar and Treasury market crashes, Washington will enact legislation against gold investors to curtail your profits, add a confiscatory non-productive asset tax or confiscate your gold with some type of fiat currency exchange. In any case, they plan to end up with your gold as this will be the basis of a restored dollar.
Solution: Move most of your gold offshore in a legal and reportable manner but outside the threat of closed or paralyzed banks, US investment firms and desperate politicians.
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He makes it sound pretty bleak. But, I have to say, I don’t see how the Gooferment steers it’s way out of this debacle. They need trillions of “dollars” in wealth to somewhat balance the international books.
That means default, hyperinflation, or seizing the IRA/401k money.
There’s nothing else in the sizes that they need. Of the three options, seizing is the “easiest”. They only have to order a few hundred “custodians” to hand over the loot. Those “custodians” are companies that operate under the thumb of the Gooferment regulation, are beholding to the “bailouts” in one way or another, and are the fat cats who will be well rewarded for betraying the Sheeple.
The only question in my mind is does this bring on a full scale armed revolt. It’ll MIGHT make the tea parties look like a Boy and Girl Scout’s Jamboree. Think storming the Bastile. And, in the words of that often quote but possibly never said famous star-crossed Japanese Admiral: “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” — apocryphal unsourced quote attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
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So far the only way I have found to get a book into, or is it onto, the IPAD is via ITUNES. You either have to buy through their store (and boy do they make that convenient) or to import into ITUNES, dock the ipad, and sync it on board. That’s a pain. Amazing that the IPAD and the MACBOOKAIR are both sitting next to each other and they can not communicate by wifi or bluetooth. It’s no wonder that APPLE gets the label “CLOSED” and “DUMB”. Amazing for as good as their hardware is — novel, useful, and thought provoking, their implementations leave a lot to be desired.
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I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703708404575587340376814562.html
Theodore Sorensen Dies at 82
Around my high school — eons ago, told to me by Brother Cronin, in a rare moment of honesty, that he thought — and several of the other Brothers thought — that Sorenson wrote JFK’s ‘profiles in courage’. And, further that old Joe paid ‘Theodore’ a princely sum to do it and keep his mouth shut. That earned ‘Theodore’ seat at the table and they knew he could compromise his ethics for a check. I just wonder….. when I read this headline I remembered that. FWIW. It was my first “tin foil hat” experience that I remember. Where an authority figure speculated that we might be consuming a load of “barbara streisand”. As Judge Judy says, “I should have put on my listening ears”, because I think we have been fed a lot of “barbara streisand” from a lot of “authority figures”. Argh! Too late we get smart?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/nyregion/06ctgov.html?_r=1&bl
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Still, Connecticut voters could have been forgiven for wondering whether Friday’s official results would actually spell an end to a race that featured an unprecedented two-hour extension of voting hours in Bridgeport because of a ballot shortage, dueling transition teams from both candidates and a spat on live radio between Mr. Foley and the state’s top election official, Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz — not to mention a bag of uncounted ballots, discovered two days after the election.
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Yeah, I’m sure that if the party bosses need some more votes they can discover them. And, you expect “justice” in America?
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I’m seeing more of these “mistakes”. (Mistakes imho)
• Folks put their “corporate” twitter on LinkedIn. It’s not “yours”; it’s corporate pr.
• Folks put their “personal” twitter on LinkedIn. With all the “social updates”. That definitely won’t help your “brand”.
(You know I disagree that you can “brand” yourself. A “brand” is a collective typing of related things to convey a standardization and imply value — Kellogg’s cereals, Big Bertha golf clubs, Hilton Hotels. You’re unique; you must sell your unique value equation <UVE>. You can have “attributes” which can be “standardized” (i.e., Degree; PMP; Outward Bound survivor); you can fashion your own UVE-advanicing attributes — if you can prove, demonstrate, or have external validation. But you can’t brand yourself imho. “Image creation”, maybe.)
• Folks put their “corporate” web page on LinkedIn. It’s not “yours”; it’s also corporate pr. (You are NOT your job.)
• Folks put their “personal” web page on LinkedIn. Or worse, FACEBOOK with “social updates”. Or worst, MYSPACE.
• Folks mix up their LinkedIn & Facebook effort. I tell my turkeys to use a “professional name” like Ferdinand J. Reinke and “personal name” like Fjohn Reinke to make it more difficult to “align” information. With different pictures. (My tin foil hat says that’s like a finger print. And folks use the same profile photo.)
• Folks put up the corporate email address on LinkedIn and / or Facebook. Or they use an email connected to something other than their own domain. (No joke; actually saw ‘studmuff @ free mail service dot com. Great image maker; not! Have also seen worse, but can’t cite them in mixed company.)
(I suggest that everyone have your own domain! The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!) I gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain+email+webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy. And, it’s not hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal permanent eternal locator”.)
I also caution that NO dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) should be put online with out careful consideration. I use the “Mom test”. Would I be happy to show this item to my now deceased Mother? She expected the best from me at all time. That’s the standard I try to use.
• Folks don’t have a personal web site with all the good content that they create. Sanitized if done for work. Everything can be used if if is designed to communicate DIKW for the benefit of the reader. (I really don’t care if it is “how to clean a toilet”. Any thing can advance your image as a caring communicating human being who shares.)
Just some thoughts.
FWIW,
fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself
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http://gopleader.gov/Contact/default.aspx
May I suggest the idea one inet pundit had? A flat 10% across the board cut. We’re paying a lot of bureaucrats well, let them figure out how to do it. If the administration wants to favor one program over another, fine. As long as the year over year total is 10% less, I’d suggest that you agree. Simple, easy to communicate, and dramatic. Then insist on the same every year. imho!
p.s., if the math is too complicated for those smart folks, as a fat old white guy injineer I can demonstrate “move the decimal” and cut that amount.
fjohn reinke
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner438.html
Rising Food and Energy Costs to Add to Retirees’ Problems by Bill Bonner
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Our advice: don’t grow old. Don’t retire. Don’t get sick. Don’t trust the feds. And don’t sell your gold.
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Yup, it’s gonna be tuff to be old!
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>In regard to unemployment, if you need to rely on that to survive
Agreed. Unfortunately, they pitched it as “insurance” and it ain’t. Unemployment is not an uninsurable risk. It’s not random. (Learnt that in the MC eckynomics class; I am after all a fat old white guy injineer with a low index.)
>So let’s agree to disagree.
Agreeably.
>government stands to make a profit. As they have on the bailout money.
So, they stole 10K$ from my wife’s retirement fund to enrich the unions, Wall Street, and the big banks. Then they sell the proceeds of that theft, make a profit, and me as the victim are supposed to be happy about that? If they had been forced to go thru bankruptcy, she would have gotten some money back. Estimates were 25¢ on the dollar. So we got screwed; I’m not happy. It was only a small percentage of her retirement and our portfolio. But it was the principle. By allowing anyone to avoid bankruptcy, the Gooferment took the pressure off the various managements to find a solution. By allowing Leman Brothers to fail but bailing out others, they created a mess. Goldman Sachs was picking winners and losers. Lehman was the biggest GS competitor. Timmy and others were all ex-GS people. It was a raid on the public treasury.
>I know you’ll never agree with me, but that’s my humble opinion.
You’re right about that. I’ve worked on Wall Street and I KNOW how the sleeze think.
>I believe most of today’s unemployment is due to skills gap.
> There are a lot of jobs out there, but individuals don’t fit the profile.
Might be. I think that the unemployment is due to the uncertainty that the Gooferment has introduced.
>I fear those jobs will not be coming back.
Well you could get them back if there were tariffs. But then, like Smoot Hawley, will create a worse Depression. We have to reinvent America. I think we have a natural global advantage in the production of food. So instead of paying farmers not to grow, we need to incentivize the food production process.
>This due to improper planning and reliance on another stipend from uncle
> sam, social security.
Another welfare program designed to transfer control to Washington DC. And, racist, xfer $ from poor minority men to rich white women. And, another mislabeled program; how can you “insure” old age?
>Why is Obamacare socialism when Medicare is a sacred cow?
Both are “socialism”!
>I think the free market is a viable option, with premiums being tax deductable.
I think we should just leave everyone alone to chose what they want and STOP using the guns of Gooferment to “social engineer”?
>Unfortunately, I do agree the Bush tax cuts must be repealed for the more wealthly americans.
Sorry, but when you take the money away from the rich, who will save and invest?
>Its an effective way to deal with the deficit. (Which Bush did wonders to increase.)
Nah, the Lafer curve, and the fact that you’re not dealing with idiots, will frustrate you. Lowering taxes will generate more revenue as it frees up people locked in by taxes. And, rich people aren’t stupid. How many docs will choose leisure over treating folks when their income is going to exceed 250K. And don’t forget it’s 250k$ on small business, so you’re paying on gross not net of expenses. It’s stupid. So like Maryland found out when they levied a “millionaire’s tax” over ½million, about ½ of their millionaires disappeared. Moved or feathered back their taxable income.
> legacy costs, defense and servicing debt.
I like the idea of a 10% across the board cut every year. But, no one is allowed to impact the citizens. Should drive the bureaucrats nuts!
>All of business is not hurting, this could be a record year on wall
>street. Bonuses are back up and greed is back in vogue.
You know that looting the public treasury is very profitable.
>Additionally, whether Republican or Democratic, I support my government.
That’s where we disagree. I’m a little L libertarian like Jefferson. It’s NOT my government. If we were having a beer, I could go into great detail about why it ain’t. :-)
> I disagree with some legislation, but I know it is a basic
>part of what makes this country great.
No, what makes this country great is liberty. And, then people make the most of it. Then, everything flowed from their “greed”.
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Posted by reinkefj
The IPAD today popped up, or perhaps it would be better reported that when the IPAD was syncing ITUNES popped up on McBa and requested permission to report to HQ how the IPAD was being used. For my benefit, of course.
I wonder what it is reporting. User played KLONDIKE. (Who cares?) User updated CARINGBRIDGE. (Now were into medical privacy. HIPPA?) SAFARIed to the following websites. (Now we’re treading close to that privacy line.)
Who knows what gets reported to HQ?
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north900.html
The Police State Is Doomed
by Gary North
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In 1920, Ludwig von Mises wrote a short essay, “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.”
He argued that socialist economic planning is inherently blind. Without free market prices that are based on private ownership, the government’s central planners have no way of knowing where to allocate scarce resources. This is especially true of capital goods. The planners are forced to copy prices in the non-socialist societies. This was his theory. It turned out to be correct in practice.
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Today, in the Gooferment, they don’t know how to use capital or expense dollars? It’s obvious every time you look at their pronouncements. Real people make decisions about trade offs all the time: If I do X, it precludes Y. Does the Gooferment even have the concept of capital and expense? Look at New Jersey’s version of the Big Dig, the new trans-Hudson tunnel. The Guv is expecting a cost overrun. And, how does that get paid for? But the bigger question is: does it make economic sense? A private entrepreneur investing his own capital would say: does the roi exceed the cost of capital? The Gooferment can’t even phrase the question. They don’t know the answer and because it’s the taxpayer’s money. Or the posterity of the taxpayer who will pay. The politicians and bureaucrats just don’t care.
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http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Thornburgs.Florist.Gifts.And.Interiors.828-464-9750
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Thornburg’s Florist Gifts & Interiors
505 1st Ave S
Conover, NC 28613
828-464-9750
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Highly recommended. Called on Saturday night; they called me back on Sunday morning. (That’s good.) I had a rush request. (Are there any others?) They were able to stay a little later and meet my need for an early Monday morning delivery. The feedback I got was that their work was beautiful. I am stunned that they went the extra mile for me, a stranger. If I need flowers again their geography, then they have my business. I’d suggest that they should have yours as well.
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https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/21298/holy-father-praying-for-drug-addicts-in-november
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Vatican City, Oct 31, 2010 / 06:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has announced his prayer intentions for the month of November, calling for an increased focus on victims of drug and other substance addictions as well as prayers for the well being of the Church in Latin America.
Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for November is: “That victims of drugs or of other dependence may, thanks to the support of the Christian community, find in the power of our saving God strength for a radical life-change.”
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Now don’t let the milk on your cereal shoot out your nose, BUTT (there’s always a big but) how about we end the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”?
So, you logically ask, “how does that help”?
First, and foremost, we give people liberty and freedom. That’s always good.
Second, there is a “natural rate” of addiction that doesn’t change much. Some people will become addicted regardless of what we do. Let’s focus on that. So how does locking them up in jail help? The Gooferment can’t even stop drugs in their prisons.
Third, by ending the PWOSD, and putting WalMart, WalGreens, and all the other legitimate ‘drug dealers’ in charge, drugs will be cheaper. Seriously MJ is a weed. I’ve read knowledgeable pundit who say that the currently “illegal” drugs will be priced like generic aspirin. This has four immediate benefits: <a> addicts will not have to commit crimes to get the exorbitant sums needed to feed their habit; <b> we will immediately drain the profits from Drug Gangs (What does a Drug Kingpin do next?) making or streets safer; <c> pure ‘safe’ drug will be available so, that if someone does decide to experiment, they will not die from a ‘hot shot’ or rat poison; <d> now ‘no longer illegal’ drug will lose their ‘bad boy’ allure as it’s no longer ‘kool’, but boring.
Fourth, by pardoning all the non-violent drug offenders, we will free up needed prison space for violent felons. Also, perhaps, some of the prisons and the associated bureaucrats will no longer be needed and can be freed up to do more productive work.
Five, all those ‘savings’ can be aimed at studying how to effectively ‘cure’ drug addiction — probably a mixture of brain chemistry, chemical engineering, and the assumption of personal reliability.
Six, it would end the corrosive effect of corruption in out police forces. And, it would end the militarization of our police force, as the “war” gets more violent. We can get our Fourth Amendment rights back and return to a peaceful civil society.
Time to ‘solve’ the drug problem by ending the PWOSD!
By the way, where in their precious Constitution did they get the power to outlaw a weed and create this whole mess?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance213.html
The Libertarian Pledge to America
by Laurence M. Vance
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Here is the Libertarian Pledge to America:
* I promise to end the war on drugs.
* I promise to abolish the Department of Energy.
* I promise to abolish all anti-trust laws.
* I promise to abolish the Federal Housing Administration.
* I promise to abolish the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).
* I promise to abolish the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddy Mac).
* I promise to abolish the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae).
* I promise to repeal the Fair Housing Act.
* I promise to abolish the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
* I promise to abolish the Federal Trade Commission.
* I promise to abolish the EPA.
* I promise to abolish the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
* I promise to abolish the Department of Education.
* I promise to end federal funding and control of education.
* I promise to cease funding Head Start.
* I promise to cease funding the National School Lunch Program.
* I promise to repeal the federal minimum wage.
* I promise to repeal the National Labor Relations Act.
* I promise to repeal the PATRIOT ACT.
* I promise to abolish the Department of Homeland Security.
* I promise to abolish the TSA and return airport security to airports and airlines.
* I promise to repeal all federal gun regulations.
* I promise to abolish NASA.
* I promise to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts.
* I promise to abolish the National Endowment for the Humanities.
* I promise to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
* I promise to cease all drone attacks and covert activities.
* I promise to bring all U.S. troops home from foreign soil.
* I promise to close all foreign military bases.
* I promise to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries.
* I promise to limit the Department of Defense to actual defense.
* I promise to end all federal bailouts.
* I promise to stop funding the UN, World Bank, and IMF.
* I promise to end all foreign aid.
* I promise to end all farm subsidies.
* I promise to repeal all trade restrictions, import quotas, anti-dumping laws, and trade agreements.
* I promise to abolish the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission.
* I promise to repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act.
* I promise to repeal all Affirmative Action, minority set-asides, and public accommodations laws.
* I promise to repeal the Family and Medical Leave Act.
* I promise to cease funding Planned Parenthood.
* I promise to abolish the Department of Health and Human Services.
* I promise to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
* I promise to end Medicare and Medicaid.
* I promise to end all federal funding and control of medicine and medical research.
* I promise to abolish the FDA.
* I promise to abolish NPR.
* I promise to abolish the Department of Labor.
* I promise to cease funding any scientific research on climate change.
* I promise to end the FED.
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Might it not be easier to itemize what should be kept?
I’d add:
* Repeal the 16th Amendment — the income tax.
* Repeal the 17th Amendment — the direct election of Senators that destroyed the feedback loop to State Gooferment and permitted the unfunded mandate.
* Repeal the legal tender laws
And, I’d add one positive “right”: Federal Courts must always find ANY evidence of innocence admissible, timely, and required. To deny any convict the chance of exoneration by DNA evidence for “technical legal reasons” (i.e., not raised on a timely basis; waived by counsel; expense; other administrivia) is unconscionable.
That’s why secession will be easier. Smaller is better!
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Posted by reinkefj
Re: Stop Welfare….. and all Government taxing that is out of contr
Posted by: “Dawn”
Wed Nov 3, 2010 9:03 am (PDT)
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i thought this was an IT roundtable discussion group. if we want to talk about job opportunities then ok. I don’t understand the political tone this has taken.
This should be apolitical, focusing on jobs, not politics.
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Dear Ms. Dawn:
Taken off the mailing list to calm the off-topic traffic down.
Unfortunately the political meddling has taken it’s toll on the economy. Many, including myself, are casualties of the bad economy. It doesn’t take long to realize that there are ‘structural reasons’ why businesses are not hiring:
* Uncertainty — with Obamacare — no one knows how much an employee is going to cost in 2011 and beyond;
* Higher taxes — with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the Gooferment is going to take a bigger cut of any profits. That increases the ‘hurdle rate’ as well as the implied rate of return required for any new project. That gets factored into the risk calculation. So business is “frozen”
* Higher political risk — Gooferment Motors demonstrated that the politicians and bureaucrats will seize the assets of bondholders, like it was a two bit South American dictatorship, for the benefit of the powerful labor unions, the brokerage houses, and the banks. Why would you ever loan money to anyone when it can lost in the blink of a politician’s eye.
I have a bunch more examples of the chilling effect that the Gooferment has had on the economic climate. But three’s enough.
The reason that the firestorm started is some deluded fool suggested that more unemployment benefits was a good thing that Washington should do. And, implied that the Democratic Party was the more charitable organization. A lot of folks who’s nerves are frazzled, like mine, just descended upon that. Neither Party is “charitable”; nor should they be “charitable” with stolen wealth. Fiscal austerity in the Gooferment is what is needed. Less welfare, and less warfare, and less Gooferment is the bitter pill.
That’s why the political tone. Jobs, the economy, and prosperity are now in the political arena. To think that you can now separate them is naive. It’s like looking for a deck chair on the Titanic … as it’s sinking.
imho, trying to change opinions, one person at a time,
fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself
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Posted by reinkefj
Hmmm, we need to issue all women a handgun when they turn … 14? OK, maybe 15. When did pioneer children learn to shoot?
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/4967-hoplophobia-is-curable
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Gun control is the theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
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Posted by reinkefj
The big question is are Americans “We, The People” or “We, the sheeple”. I haven’t flown since this nonsense started and don’t plan to. I’d suggest that each of us has to decide when enough is enough. As a little L libertarian, I object to the Gooferment infringing upon our rights to supposedly “make us safe”.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Ben Franklin
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. — Samuel Adams
Why aren’t we all screaming and boycotting the airlines?
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Kathryn Muratore
[address deleted]
October 25, 2010
US Airways
ATTN: Customer Relations
4000 E Sky Harbor Blvd
Phoenix, AZ 85034
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am writing regarding my plans for Christmas travel with my family from Washington, DC to [a town in] CA. I purchased my tickets on your airline – via orbitz.com – about a month ago. However, I just learned that BWI has backscatter scanners as primary screening for all passengers, so I am changing my plans. I was not alerted of this gross invasion of privacy when I purchased my tickets and, having flown out of BWI in June without going through a scanner, so I had no knowledge of this requirement at the time of purchase. I am requesting that you do one of two things in order to keep this customer happy:
1. Refund the entire amount of my ticket so that I can use the money to make alternative arrangements. My ticket # is 03777558XXXXXX and I paid $651.80.
2. Or, cover my expenses to fly to BWI from another airport without the scanners installed so that I can make the flight that I’ve already paid for. For example, I can rent a car one-way (est. $100), drive to Norfolk, VA and catch flight 4084 to Philadelphia at around 1:30 pm, then connect from PHL to BWI on flight 3407. Orbitz has this flight listed at $141. I won’t charge you for the time and inconvenience – just the car, gas, and flight.
My husband will be on the flight from BWI to [a CA airport] on ticket # 03777558XXXXXX and I will be traveling with my baby daughter. Because of his work schedule, he can not commit to any of the alternative travel arrangements that I am considering. This is why, if I don’t get a refund, I want to be on the same flight from BWI to [a CA airport] with him.
I made the same trip in June – from BWI to [a CA airport] – for the funeral of my husband’s maternal grandmother. We hope to see his paternal grandmother this Christmas and for many years to come. Unfortunately, unless the airline industry starts protecting their customer’s human rights, this will be the last time I will fly to California.
I am deeply concerned about the non-choice of a backscatter scan or an enhanced pat-down for my daughter and myself. I dare say that US Air’s complicity in the TSA policy is anti-American, since it violates our Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure, without a warrant and without probable cause. I’m sure that, by buying a ticket from your company, I did not become a suspect in a crime. If I did, then you would also be involved in the conspiracy and would presumably be getting an enhanced pat-down with every ticket sold!
I’ve never been frisked in my life. I don’t intend to be frisked now and I don’t want my daughter to be frisked before her 2nd birthday. And I certainly won’t show a stranger parts of me that I intentionally keep covered with clothing around all other strangers. If US Air doesn’t have the guts to stand up for their customers’ rights, then you don’t deserve any business.
The short-term goal of this letter is to fix the problem of my upcoming holiday travel. But, in the long term, US Air must stand up for what is right. For that reason, I will be making this letter public, and, your response or lack of a response will be public as well. I will state the obvious intention here – to humiliate the travel industry into doing what it ought to have done already: tell the TSA that you know how to protect your customers best and to take their mitts off of us!
Sincerely,
Kathryn Muratore
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Posted by reinkefj
Something is odd in how the IPAD handles a secondary mail account. It doesn’t appear to work. Yet this morning, I see the test message in the McBa’s inbox for this account.
Wierd?
IPAD is intended, it appears, to have no “moving parts”, It doesn’t tell you the progress steps for making the connection or what errors, if any, occurs under the covers.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
With all the angst leading up to the election, and the same old characters are reelected over and over again. You can’t beat the system. You an’t change the system. The only choice is to leave the system!
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