I think that Apple’s ‘reputation’ is unwarranted. Here’s where I start to pull at some threads in the King’s ‘garment’.
OK, I wanted to know what today’s date was.
The screen tells me that it’s Sunday at 1620. But what’s the date? So I go to the ‘System Preferences’ screen and sure enough I’ve checked ‘Show date and time’.
I see day and time, but no date.
An obvious oversight.
But, if this is obviously flubbed, makes you wonder what else is screwed up?
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http://slatest.slate.com/id/2277740/
Wall Street on Track for Second-Most Profitable Year Ever
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Exciting news from Wall Street! Thanks to low-interest rates and an influx of capital from the Fed’s emergency lending program and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bloomberg reports that 2010 is on track to be the second most-profitable year in Wall Street history. “Even if this quarter only matches the third, [Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley’s] revenue will top that of any year except 2009,” reporter Michael Moore writes. A third of the banks’ revenue comes from trading and investment banking, which were still flush with government money during the first quarter of 2010.
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So, they make out and the taxpayers get screwed?
What’s wrong with this picture?
New rule: “Publicize the losses and privatize the profits.”
We need a game changer. And, what was wrong with electing Ron Paul?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/12/AR2010121200857.html
Suicide bomber kills 6 troops in Afghanistan
By Ernesto Londoño Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, December 12, 2010; 2:58 PM
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KABUL – Six U.S. troops were killed Sunday when a man rammed a minivan packed with explosives into a newly built military installation in Kandahar Province, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
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I think Ron Paul was right; “take the first thing smoking coming home”!
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Posted by reinkefj
Sen. Sanders To Rich “Crybabies”: “When Is Enough, Enough?”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), a socialist, said “greed is like an addiction” and compares it to heroin and nicotine. “This reckless uncontrollable greed is like a disease,” Sanders said.
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Argh! The word “socialist” says it all. Turn the question around. “When has the Gooferment taken enough from ‘its’ slaves?” The Bible only commands a tithe, 10%. Today, we can not calculate what the Gooferment Slaveholder takes from us. THere are taxes hidden in everything.
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Sanders asks how can anyone be proud to call themselves a “multimillionaire?”
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Since a multimillionaire has to induce people to give them “certificates of appreciation” (i.e., money) and no one has asserted them using force or committing fraud, one must assume that they provided a valuable product or service. Politicians and bureaucrats excluded, of course, because they get their loot by force and fraud upon the “We, The Sheeple”.
Shame on Senator Socialist for his disrespect of people who serve others successfully.
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… and they want me to rebuy it!
(You have to be kidding.)
Argh!
They will replace Snow Leopard because the machine went in with it and came out without it.
But they want me to rebuy the iWorks and iLife!
Same logic should apply.
Argh!
I hate computers. And, their enablers.
It’s either a product and it’s all my responsibilities. Or, it’s licensed, and my serial number is all that I should need.
Argh!
Now, I gotta find those disks.
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Posted by reinkefj
The adventure continues.
My DROPBOX strategy has a flaw. For some reason, a significant portion of my PDF files were deleted. (No idea why?) Clearly, sharing among machines is a winner. BUTT (there’s always a big but) I need a ‘vaulting strategy’. The deletion could have been disastrous. But, it took four hours to recover the files. And, I immediately made a copy. So, I need a synchronization strategy for each platform. Basically a synchronization utility that copies the latest files to the sharing directory and updates back in. Have to think about that.
“Manifests” for each machine are obviously needed. I have to start that now on the other platforms. Need to have the link to the source and possibly the last distribution.
Need a data review and archiving strategy.
In next year’s storage plan, I need to have it monthly archive.
No need to save all the ‘stuff’ I am saving. Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
TAKEN FROM AN EMAIL WITH A POTENTIAL “TURKEY”
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Dear XXXX,
Read your message and can sympathize with the frustration that you are feeling. First, you’re “marketing”, so “market”. Have you networked with XXXXXXX at MC? Have you read the book “Job Changing at 100K”? (Ignore title; it has a great concept of ‘structured networking’.) I have some job search materials on my site http://www.reinke.cc/COMCAST4/TURKEY/index.htm (Feel free to ‘steal’ anything you find helpful.) If you offer me a LinkedIn connect, I’ll accept and you’ll have access to my contacts. http://www.jasperjottings.com/ has a slew of alumni info for networking ‘targets’. I’ll take a peek at your LinkedIn, Facebook, and other ‘stuff’ to see if I can spot anything.
/Signed/
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AND AFTER A FEW MINUTES
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OK! I’m back. It appears to me that:
(1) You have, in addition to this persona, one “dead” persona on LinkedIn. Suggest that you clean that up.
(2) You have no “web presence” that I can find. No website. No blog. No domain. So, you’re not “marketing” yourself.
(3) No Facebook? (A recruiter will think “hiding something”. “Everyone”, younger that 40, has Facebook. Note: We don’t want digital dirt. But we want a “professional” Facebook, with friends and family!)
(4) LinkedIn profile makes it look like your a job hopper with lots of jobs.
[JR: Note, every promotion is listed as a separate job. It looks “job hopper ish”; not “upwardly climbing”. You have 30 seconds to communicate to the person filtering; use it wisely.]
(5) LinkedIn profile doesn’t use all the features.
Yell if I can help,
/signed/
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/rounds5.1.1.html
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The transfer of money via a hawala banking system is extremely private and is unlikely to be reported or discovered by anyone other than the hawaladar, the transferor and the tranferee. In a world where bank privacy is increasingly hard to find, this is a welcome feature of hawala banking. In the hawala system, hawaladars are the brokers or facilitators of the transaction. This transactional privacy has made hawala banking an evil villain for enemies of personal privacy and financial privacy. False and exaggerated allegations of money laundering and terrorism funding through hawala money transfers and hawala transactions have incorrectly characterized the hawala network while hawala banking is actually the most efficient and ancient of all money-transferring systems.
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Would seem that “the privacy invading aardvarks want to stick their nose in everyone else’s business” would be upset.
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OK, it came back from Apple wiped.
❶ Lost the Snow Lepord OSX, Iworks, and Ilife upgrade. Have to find the distribution disks. (That was last year. Know how much stuff has flowed under the proverbial bridge?)
❷ CARBONITE did its job. All my data is back. (Not software. Ouch!)
❸ DROPBOX put an extra data backup in its folder. (Data back up redundancy. Love it.)
❹ GOFLEX drive did NOT back up the applications directory. (ARGH! Not recommending that any time soon.)
❺ What ever clipboard manager I was happily using B.A. (before Apple mucked it) is lost in the mists of memory. (Note to self: keep your own manifest of what’s on the machine! Argh!)
❻ Dumped Apple’s lame MAIL Client. Deployed THUNDERBIRD3. (PIA to redefine all those accounts. Would have had to do it for APPLEMAIL. So bite the bullet.)
❼ Blogs have been neglected and irregular during this adventure.
❽ Old APPLEMAIL archives are “lost”. Argh!
❾ Oh, and thanks Apple for the “Thanks for purchasing your Mac.” message. Argh!
❿ Old system of accounts on the MACBOOKAIR is wiped. Guess I’ll just forget about “separation” of USER and ADMINISTRATOR roles. Argh!
The adventure continues.
p.s., I dumped APPLE’s software for Open Office.
p.p.s., Started a “manifest” of stuff I put on like NVU.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Couldn’t figure how to size the cells. Adjust the font”? it’s definitely NOT like a desktop.
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Well, got it back last night. The apple store employee was stunned I was less than pleased at the hard disk being wiped! I expected it, but was hoping against it. The official report says that the hd wouldn’t mount. Worked fine when it went in. Visualize this: it goes in for a sound problem, a failure to sync on one account, and they nuke the hard drive. Lazy!
CARBONITE appears to be working at restoring my data. It appears to take a whole day to restore it all. We’ll see! I know that DROPBOX has my data as well.
It is just a big PIA to restore all the software and configure it!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2010/12/05/reader-story-making-the-move-to-semi-retirement/
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On 31 December 2009, I finished what I hope will be my last full-time, permanent job. I’ve worked a bit here and there over the past year, but it’s on my own terms, and not because I have to. I’m now semi-retired at the age of 45. But what does that mean?
About nine years ago, after reading Your Money or Your Life, I changed from an under-earning, confused woman to a woman with a mission: to never have to work again (unless I wanted to). In November of last year, I reached the Crossover Point, where the income from investments exceeded my expenses. (I think it actually happened sooner than that, but I hadn’t been paying attention.) At last, nine years after first figuring out what I wanted to work hard and save money for, I’d reached Financial Independence.
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Interesting. Wish I could have done it. Sigh.
Guess I should have read that book.
Bout the only thing I can remember doing right was matching car loan to car savings plan.
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/05/07/muny-the-majority-of-auto-loans-are-now-five-years-or-longer/
I think I’ve made most of the mistakes. Wonder if I should write the “fat old white guy injineer’s guide to money”?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/08/editorial-wikileaks-julian-assange
WikiLeaks: The man who kicked the hornet’s nest
As the disclosures continue, a number of questions about the way the world has changed are becoming more clearly framed
* Editorial
* The Guardian, Wednesday 8 December 2010
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The academic Clay Shirky has blogged persuasively this week that the US government should openly use the law against WikiLeaks and others rather than muscle. “Whatever restrictions we eventually end up enacting, we need to keep Wikileaks alive today, while we work through the process democracies always go through to react to change. If it’s OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for doing something they wouldn’t prosecute a newspaper for doing, the idea of an internet that further democratizes the public sphere will have taken a mortal blow.” We agree.
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Several interesting points:
* The inet is not as resilient as expected. It’s supposed to route arond failures, but it’s politcially “controlled”.
* The DNS infrastructure is a single point of failure with respect to that political control.
* With this spur the creation and deployment of a peer to peer bittorrent style dns? Will everyone discard DNS in favor of “phone numbers” like 1.2.3.4? People remember 10 digit phone numbers when they need to.
* Will WIKILEAKS create a new genre of “tabloid journalism”?
* “We, The Sheeple” have gotten a real wake up call into their Gooferment and their politicians. Will it change anything?
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http://www.impactlab.net/2010/12/05/babies-are-immune-to-catching-yawns/
December 5th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Babies Are Immune to Catching Yawns
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There is now growing evidence, however, that yawning may be a social cue that communicates a message. Anthropologists have suggested it might have evolved as a way of signifying that it is time to go to bed. There are even suggestions that it might have developed a sign of sexual attraction rather than the desire to sleep. Dr Anderson said: “I don’t think there is one primary function, but as adults we have a natural tendency to inhibit yawning because it is seen as being impolite. The contagious yawning might just that our brains see someone else doing it and so it becomes acceptable.”
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Who ever even heard of “contagious yawning”?
And, attaching it to “sexual attraction”?
Was that what all those girls were “signaling” when they yawned while I was pitching them? If I had only known …
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http://download.pogoplug.com/meet/
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The Pogoplug is the perfect accessory to your connected life. Imagine accessing all your files and media at home from any laptop or desktop computer, anywhere in the world, or sharing this content with friends and family without having to upload. There’s even an iPhone application so you can always “phone home” to get your files!
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It installed quickly and easily.
It works as advertised.
(Doesn’t seem to like when the platform hibernates?)
Have to figure out how to sync various machines on the home network. No immediately apparent.
RECOMMENDED!
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Hey, I have a lot of time on my hands. So here’s some sports rules that I don’t like.
① Offsides in soccer and hockey. Never understood it.
② “Overtime” in football. The College rule is dumb and the Pro rule is that the coin flip determines the outcome. I like either “no ties” (first to the tie score wins; credit to the GSN show “catch21”) or “king me” (second to the tie score wins; forces the leader to play; not stall)
③ Sports with no “mercy rule”. (Even pro games that are 37-0 are boring.)
④ Sports with teams that play the mythical “Home for the Blind” to pad their records.
⑤ Division 1 NCAA Basketball “leagues”. (I like the idea that there are different tiers with the bottom of an upper tier gets demoted and replaced with top of the lower tier.)
⑥ NCAA rules on “eligibility”. “Schools”, (Most are really Gooferment subdivisions), can “graduate” “student-athletes” who can’t read or stars leave without graduating. If I were “king” and heaven help the politicians if I was, “Doctor Guillotine, the King has summoned you.”, I’d have “exit exams”, just like they have “entrance exams”. “Student athletes”, who fail the exit exam or just leave, cost the “school” a scholarship for 8 years. (Think that will get their attention?)
⑦ NCAA needs better treatment of “student athletes” when the coach leaves or is dismissed. Signees, freshmen, and sophomores should be given “immediate clearance” to play elsewhere.
⑧ Sportsmanship in all sports. It’s sports; not warfare. Coach’s antics are unacceptable. Athlete’s might get a warning. I like soccer’s red and yellow cards. Maybe the football players need to play without equipment; like rugby. Maybe we need rules that really penalize “unsportsmanlike conduct”! What message are we sending to society or children? And, perhaps, we should have a mandatory “sit out” anytime there is a hint of a concussion. For example, if the ref has to stop play for any injury, then that player is “administratively unavailable” a quarter (i.e., elapsed time of 15 minutes; the equivalent of a “time out” in the hockey penalty box). Multiple “unavailables” lead to some number of game exclusions as directed by a doctor of unimpeachable credentials dedicated to protecting the player. College and pro.
⑨ Refs and umps need a feedback mechanism. They’re not “gods”; they make mistakes. But, they are also not the “devil incarnate” and deserve respect.
⑩ And, don’t get me started on “instant replay” rules.
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http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=8503
Ted Turner and the tilt toward coercive population-control plans
RSS Facebook December 07, 2010
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Media mogul Ted Turner has encouraged world leaders to adopt an international norm restricting families to just one child. He claims this step is necessary to global survival.
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Sure glad we have Ted to tell us what to do. And what exactly were his qualifications to run the world?
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/deny_congress_fica_payroll_tax.html
December 05, 2010
Deny Congress FICA Payroll Tax in the General Fund
Erroll Ivery
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It was not just a “change in budget presentation.” The net result of lending payroll tax to the federal government under a unified budget was divestiture of all trust funds. Congress then spent surplus payroll tax, instead of leaving it in the trust fund and investing it in money market investment accounts, for example, to earn interest and preserve capital during years of surplus payroll tax. Instead of asking the American worker to compensate for Congress’ fiscal irresponsibility, Congress should re-capitalize the Social Security Trust Fund with payroll tax deposits. Any deficit in receipts needed to pay benefits should then come from the General Fund.
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I don’t understand why we continue the fiction that this is a “separate program”, “insurance”, or even an “entitlement”. It’s a welfare program that has been marketed
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/40521684
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But the production process is so complex, it has instead foiled the government printers tasked with producing billions of the new notes.
An official familiar with the situation told CNBC that 1.1 billion of the new bills have been printed, but they are unusable because of a creasing problem in which paper folds over during production, revealing a blank unlinked portion of the bill face.
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I thought that now bankrupt New York State Off Track Betting (a Gooferment gambling operation) was the “best” example of Gooferment operational expertise. But here we have the Gooferment can’t even print money profitably. No one noticed that a grazillion bucks was NG? No one tested this great idea. And, of course, no one will suffer for this stupidity. No one except the taxpayer that is. Argh!
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/11/chrome-os-poll.php
Poll: Do You Want to Use Chrome OS?
By Klint Finley / November 30, 2010 11:00 AM
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We recently covered five cloud-centric OSes available today. Some of them have been around for years, and can run on old desktop computers. None of them has yet to catch fire in the enterprise or anywhere else – not even Meego, which is sponsored by Intel and Nokia. It seems that people are more excited about Android than Chrome OS.
Is Chrome OS, or one of the alternatives, something YOU would want to use?
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The question, with “cloud computing”, with “cloud operating systems”, or even with Windoze with it’s Update “Service” that can change the underlying OS without User or Administrator permission, is “change control”.
How do I know that it works and works in a functionally identical manner when I can’t have “change control”?
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Well, at least, I think I am.
Have alternate platform that will allow me to do email and Jasper Jottings, CHECK!
Have complete backup of McBa, CHECK!
Have complete data backups at CARBONITE, CHECK!
Have documents backed up at DROPBOX, CHECK!
OK!
Monday, if all goes well with Frau Reinke at the lab, then I’m off to the Apple Store: (1) missing sound; suspect hardware; (2) failure to sync; suspect OSX os; (3) intermittent slowdowns; suspect OSX networking.
Best outcome: all three fixed
Worst outcome: completely wiped “repaired” machine.
Somewhere in the middle: a permanent replacement “new but old model” mcba machine or one of the new macbookairs.
I should have keep a book on how much time and effort this has cost me.
Argh!
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=232729
Why are we still in Korea?
Posted: November 26, 2010
Pat Buchanan
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From 1941 to 1989, she played a great heroic role as defender of freedom, sacrificing and serving mankind, a role of which we can be forever proud. But having won that epochal struggle against the evil empire, we found ourselves in a world for which we were unprepared. Now, like an aging athlete, we keep trying to relive the glory days when all the world looked with awe upon us.
We can’t let go, because we don’t know what else to do. We live in yesterday – and our rivals look to tomorrow.
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Why are we still in Germany and a slew of other strange places?
Why are American girls and boys dying in the Sandbox, the Rockbox, and a slew of other places?
Why are American politicians immune from “We, The Sheeple”?
Peace. Now!
If women ever decide that they want a peaceful world, they can have it. In minutes! (OK, maybe not minutes. But so quick, it’ll seem like minutes.)
“Yes, when we get out of here. We’re going to have to fix that. You know we control something that can get it done. Not the ballot box, but the other box. (A giant sucking sound as pure Miss Marie used that very rude idiom.) We can end war.” — character “Marie” being anti-war in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 262
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Posted by reinkefj
ECTO, the blog posting software, developed a bug … …
… … it lost the left column of the main screen that allows you to select the blog you want to post to. Nothing on the support site and I know they take days to reply. So, I tool a change and reinstalled.
Problem solved.
The MACBOOKAIR has to go in again. (Monday?)
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy170.html
The TSA’s False Tradeoff
by Bob Murphy
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The market economy solves this problem effortlessly through market prices and the profit-and-loss test. If a car factory is using up resources that consumers would prefer go into alternate sectors, this fact manifests itself objectively when the accountant announces that the car factory is “losing money.” After all, to be unprofitable simply means that the car factory cannot earn enough revenues from its customers in order to pay the prices for resources that other entrepreneurs are able to afford. That is the sense in which consumers are “voting” (through their spending decisions) that the car factory either reform or shut down.
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We need to emphasize more these micro elections and de-emphasize the Gooferment.
We can control corporations with the very fine razor of individual buying decisions. No bureaucrats needed.
The Gooferment on the other hand is immune to our intentions. Completely.
Like some wag said, “if elections changed anything, they’d be outlawed”!
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090216110722AAM5UEA
Since GE took TARP money, shouldn’t “President” Obama limit multi-million dollar salaries for NBC reporters?
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GE Capital received billions in taxpayer funds from TARP-1. GE Capital provides 55% of GE’s revenue. NBC is a subsidiary of GE. houldn’t Obama limit Brian Williams and Chris Matthews $10 mil and $5 mil annual salaries to 500k like the infamous “CEO’s”? Doesn’t it make sense now how MSNBC spends the whole day touting Obama and his agenda. Shouldnt they disclose their conflict of interest during every news story?
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No wonder that NBC and ALL its outlets were in love with BHO44!
Its a national disgrace!
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http://www.cbs7kosa.com/news/details.asp?ID=22591
Texas violating Second Amendment rights of teenagers – KOSA (West Texas)
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Americans are granted the right to bear arms in the constitution but the NRA is arguing that Texas Teenagers are being left out. The National Rifle Association is taking the State of Texas to court, claiming that limiting concealed handgun licenses to adults 21 and older, infringes on the rights of 18, 19 and 20 year olds.
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Let me understand this: an 18 year old can vote and enlist but can not carry or drink.
As a little L libertarian, I find that “age” laws are absurd.
The Gooferment has a “one size fits all” meme.
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