What happened to let’s make a deal this morning?
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INTERESTING: Nun embezzles $850k
Thursday, March 17, 2011http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9558
Nun pleads guilty to embezzling $850,000 from Catholic college
March 10, 2011
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Sister Marie Thornton, former vice president of finance at Iona College in New York, has pled guilty to embezzling $850,000 from the college between 1999 and 2009.
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As a fat old white guy injineer, who has done a ton of IT architecture, Information Security, and Business Process Reengineering engagements, I’m always stunned by stories like these.
Where were the auditors? The Board of Directors? The leadership, and their managers, of Iona?
Absolutely stunning.
I don’t blame the Nun; I blame the people who allowed it to happen.
At the very least, they should consider a career change.
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FUN: Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
Thursday, March 17, 2011I have a double special connection to Saint Patrick’s Day.
Frau Reinke’s maiden name was Mahoney. An she had the Irish wit.
And, I have a religious connection to the Old Sod.
It is embarrassing that a bunch of fools get wasted in “celebration” of Saint Patrick.
I’m certainly not against having a good time, and I love Irish music. But those boobs wrecking a perfectly good car in Albany, how is that having a good time.
In all things in moderation!
HSPD.
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FUN: There goes “MY” Wiz of Oz win!
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In late January, the largest WMS WAP jackpot ever, totaling more than $4.9 million, was won on THE WIZARD OF OZ™ RUBY SLIPPERS™ penny slot game at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa, Atlantic City, N.J.
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Aghhhhhhhhhhh!
That should have been mine. Wrong time.
On 1/21/11, I dropped $300 in that machine. (Don’t have a cow, I was winning! Finished the trip up about 700$ after splitting. My life was all good that day. But it could have been infinitely better!)
Why not me?
Argh! Square.
(Maybe Luddite shouldn’t have told me, in my fragile emotional state.)
ROFL.
Time for an appropriate quote from “CHURCH 10●19●62”?
“If she mourned anything, she mourned that. It might be terrible to say. But, she felt as she would imagine the lottery winner who can’t find the ticket to cash.” — character “June” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 189
I guess I don’t feel as bad as that. I never had the tickets. And, Our Girl always said that I was unlucky. She was wrong. I won her in life’s lottery. That was enough luck for one lifetime. Imagine all the folks who never find their soulmate?
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MACBOOKAIR: Another panic
Wednesday, March 16, 2011Sitting all alone, it locked up! Argh!
Reminds me of windoze.
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MACBOOKAIR: Refuses to resume from sleep
Wednesday, March 16, 2011Again this morning. Another bare metal restore in our future?
Argh!
I’d rate MACBOOKAIR and OSX10.6.6 as no better than windoze!
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POLITICAL: Feminism another killing meme
Wednesday, March 16, 2011http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=272917
Throw mama under the tank
Posted: March 10, 2011
Jane Chastain
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Over the years, women in the military have served this country with honor and distinction. As a result, 134 have died in Iraq or Afghanistan, and many more were seriously injured. Many of these women were mothers with one or more children under the age of 18. In contrast, we lost only 16 women in Vietnam and six in the first (short) Persian Gulf War.
Many women in those combat support units have found themselves in fire fights, and they have displayed great courage. Feminists hail this as a victory, and they are willing to step over the bodies of their fallen comrades to achieve their goal of running the military. President Obama and many of our elected representatives in Congress are willing to sacrifice enlisted women to advance this feminist goal. We must not allow that to happen!
The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things. Let us not forget that. It is not about achieving diversity on the battlefield and equality in the Pentagon.
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Sorry, but women shouldn’t be deliberately put in combat.
Morally, strategically, and tactically — it’s a mistake at all levels, imho.
In Israel, where there is no safety at the rear, it make sense.
In the USA, makes none.
It’s not that I think that “girls are too weak”. Although a dual standard test is a sham. It’s not that I don’t think the can’t make a contribution. It’s not that I don’t think they can fight. (Insert Mama Grizzly metaphor.)
It’s that they are a distraction from the mission, are targets of rape by our own men, and have a more important mission.
Like it or not, they are the future of humanity. When men can have babies, we can reevaluate the situation. Till then, they have a higher calling.
Making babies and guarding them.
Other than the self-preservation instinct, there is no higher calling than “propagating the species”.
I heard a interesting stat yesterday. Europe will fall to Islam because of the birth rates. The USA and Canada as well.
Interesting that the memes of feminism — career over family, birth control, and abortion — will kill our way of life. Throw in the memes of fiat money, Gooferment runs everything, and “Moms have to work to pay taxes” — the distruction is complete.
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MEMORIES: 5/20/10 musings — prescient — or just obvious to anyone who looked?
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2010-05-20
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This bowel prep has not gone as easily as I thought it would. The GoLitely sucks. I find it had to drink. Hope that I drank enough. Sorry but I should have kept my mouth shut about using up this forty dollar bucket of crap. Hope I never have to do this again. Argh. 63 plus 10 = 73. SO I won’t be doing it again.
What will my life be like in ten years?
Will I be alone? Will I have buried Ev? Odds odd I will have. The Blood Doc wouldn’t give her a five year prognosis. And, the DIABETIC DOC had a hang doc look when she told him. SO clearly we are on the final stretch. What will I do without her. My own laundry for sure.
Where did my life go?
How can I communicate that? Rage at the dying of the light!
Rodney Dangerfield’s performance sticks in my mind. Have to watch that again. Like Groundhog day, it is strangely prophetic.
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I’m cleaning up old files and notes off McBa. Prophetic? I knew we were drawing to short odds. Makes me mad. Perhaps if the situation was explained better, I’m sure she would have made different decisions about how to spend the time she had. Running from doctor to doctor was a waste of time. I wonder if they really knew it. Argh!
Oh well, water under the bridge.
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MEMORIES: Buying the Nova
Tuesday, March 15, 2011OK, it’s 1967. I’m working full time, going to schools full time, and dating full time. Making great money. Life’s good. She’s basically agreed to marry me when I graduate from school. No ring yet. No date. No telling anyone that we were committed to each other. (Like anyone could not see it.) She was wearing my college ring. (Yeah, I was whipped.)
She’s driving an old Corvair. And, I’m driving relatively new International Harvester Scout.
Her’s uses fan belts every other week.
(You’d love it. She had the spanner and a bar. And a supply of fan belts. She could slap a new one on in in under ten minutes. And, despite what Ralph Nadar said about fireballs, she loved that car. It was cheap on gas. When the girls would go to the shore, they always took Ev’s car.)
My Scout was not very “stylish”. It was OK, but I knew she hated it. (I never understood why? It was a sports model with the “swept back” roof. An injineer’s vehicle. And, every winter I earned my insurance money towing folks out of the snow. NYC always did a lousy job of snow removal.)
So, I said something like “you know we should have a new car. I worry that sometime your going to get stuck. And we’ll have it for when we get married.”
She was concerned about the money, but reluctantly agreed.
We agreed to spend the princely sum of $1700. She decided she like the Chevy Nova. She decided she liked brown. (What a surprise! She loved brown. I used to tease her about it being “Mahoney color”. And, “Aren’t Irish girls supposed to love green?”)
When it came to paying for it, I suggested we borrow from the wedding savings account. “No way. We have to be ready when you graduate.” (OK, nice to know that was still on plan.)
“OK, I’ll get a loan and we’ll go half and half.” “No, I don’t think so. You make more than I do; so you can buy it.” “OK” (Yeah, whipped.)
“And, since I’ll be driving it, we’ll register in my name. It’ll also need more insurance, so you can pay the extra.”
And about a week later, she was driving a brand new Chevy Nova. And, was happy as a … … Well, she was very pleased with it and with herself. Things always went better when they went according to her plan.
So, when we’d go out on a date. I drive to 39W8th street and park the Scout in the train station. Walk across the street and pick her up. And, we’d go out in the Nova.
My reward? I got to drive.
Funny the things we do for love.
I would love the opportunity to do it all again. I wouldn’t change a thing.
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MONEY: I would steer clear of Gooferment bonds
Tuesday, March 15, 2011http://biggovernment.com/cstreet/2011/03/15/california-moves-closer-toward-default/
California Moves Closer Toward Default by Chriss W. Street
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California tax payers just took a huge punch in the nose from the same actuaries who provided the cover for state politicians to spike public employee retirement benefits. The latest shocker comes from California State Controller John Chiang who yesterday unveiled a new actuarial report that shows California faces another unfunded debt of $59.9 billion to pay for retiree health and dental benefits over the next 30 years.
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When I worked on Wall Street, I learned about risks. Seems to me that a lot of folks in California are underestimating their risks.
I’d not be holding any Gooferment debt.
Here in New Jersey, the State Gooferment just “stole” the state employees’ pensions by not contributing. In California,
Seems like the California folks are gonna get the same — employees and taxpayers alike. And the politicians get off scott free!
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