http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/priority-inbox.html
Even if you don’t use gmail. Even if you don’t use email. Even if you don’t like yourself.
I found this little video very “fun”.
For some reason, it made me smile.
Maybe it was the music.
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Small Government News
Published by Carla Howell and Michael Cloud
The Center For Small Government and
the Alliance to Roll Back Taxes
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Who Put Hannibal Lecter in Charge of Government Spending Cuts?
by Michael Cloud
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“What kind of heartless, sadistic animal are YOU?” demand Opponents of cutting government spending.
You remember Hannibal Lecter, don’t you? Perhaps you cringed while watching Anthony Hopkins portray him in “Silence of the Lambs.” Or perhaps you read Thomas Harris’ novels featuring him.
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So why are opponents of government spending cuts letting Hannibal Lecter decide what to cut?
Why would opponents of government spending reductions appoint someone who takes delight in finding the most cruel ways to inflict pain?
But those are the wrong questions. Here are the right questions:
Why are opponents trying to convince Americans that any and every government spending reduction would inflict pain and injury?
Why are opponents of government spending cuts trying to scare us, guilt us, shame us, malign us, and intimidate us into shutting up?
How do they get away with this farce?
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Yup, it’s a joke.
Any cut is a bad cut!
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Wow, first time this has ever happened to me.
Anyone else want to bet their job on the availability of cloud applications?
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http://www.impactlab.net/2011/07/08/top-10-brands-that-will-disappear-in-2012/
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7. Kellogg’s Corn Pops
The cereal business is not what is used to be, at least for products that are not considered “healthy.” Among those is Kellogg’s Corn Pops ready-to-eat cereal. Sales of the brand dropped 18% over the year that ended in April, down to $74 million. That puts it well behind brands like Cheerios and Frosted Flakes each which have sales of over $200 million a year. Private label sales have also hurt sales of branded cereals. Revenues in this category were $637 million over the same April-end period. There is also profit margin pressure on Corn Pops because of the sharp increase in corn prices. Kellogg’s describes the product as being “Crispy, glazed, crunchy, sweet.” Corn Pops also contain mono- and diglycerides, used to bind saturated fat, and BHT for freshness, which is also used in embalming fluid. None of these are likely to be what mothers want to serve their children in an age in which a healthy breakfast is more likely to be egg whites and a bowl of fresh fruit.
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Ow! Say it ain’t so. My Mom used to give me a bowl of dry cereal in place of my much desired potatoe chips as a form of “weight control”. Little did she know, (I’m guessing), that Corn Pops were worse. Or at least, equally bad. Argh!
If I buy a bedroom full of them, will they last until I die?
Or should I just transfer to Golden Honey Smacks?
Yeah, I love sugary stuff. But, KCP and GHS is like crack for fat old white guy injineers!
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I was enjoying an adult refreshment last night at a local establishment. (Shocking I know.)
Comcast’s Cable12 News will be doing a local segment on Friday at 5PM about Bayonne. Heartbroken for my “Bayonne Girl”. Good thing I don’t have cable, it’d make me sad. And, she would have gone to great lengths to see it.
I wonder how our lives would have been different was it not for Jimmy Carter’s gas crisis when I got out of the USAF. I was working in Piscataway and we were up in Bayonne. Even odd. We had even; her brother had odd. I’d go to work and she’d take the other car to wait on the gas line.
We had to move closer to my work.
Hence we left Bayonne and settled in North Brunswick. Soon after, she was diagnosed with diabetes by Doc Ron who was kool, Pragmatically, he reassured her to enjoy life.
She knew from her brother’s life experience what she was in store for. She took it like a trooper. Stoically.
I, on the other hand, was the typical Type A. I wanted confirmation. (Even though intellectually I knew that diagnosis was right.) I wanted her to go to Joslin. I wanted specialists. I wanted experts. I wanted action. I wanted a cure.
She mollified me by going to a Joslin program at Saint Barnabas. They were just a bundle of bad news (i.e., shortened lifespan to age 45 to 50, complications, blindness, infertility, other associated diseases, organ failures). Upon reflection, I can now understand why she just didn’t want to be bothered with it. She knew they were going to tell her bad stuff. But she went to humor me.
The gas crisis eventually ended. But we never moved back to Bayonne. Wonder how it would have been different if we had? Can I blame it all on Doctor Ron? And, maybe if we had done more it would have ended differently.
Yup, she’d have strangled me!
:-)
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Fourteen Clear Factual Errors in Richard Stengel’s Essay on the Constitution (And I Am Looking for Your Help)
Posted by Aaron Worthing Jun 29th 2011 at 2:49 pm in Featured Story, Mainstream Media, Time Magazine, corrections/retractions, media bias
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On June 23, 2011, Time magazine published an essay entitled “One Document, Under Siege” (one page version, here) by Richard Stengel. I consider the publication of this article to be nothing less than a scandal. Besides the deep philosophical disagreements I have with Mr. Stengel, the piece simply fails as journalism. As I will demonstrate in this post, there were fourteen objectively verifiable errors in Mr. Stengel’s piece, half of which could have been discovered simply by reading the Constitution itself.
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Here are the fourteen errors, in short:
1. The Constitution does not limit the Federal Government.
2.The Constitution is not law.
3. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment emancipated the slaves.
4. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment granted the right to vote to African Americans.
5. The original Constitution declared that black people were to be counted as three-fifths of a person.
6. The original, unamended Constitution prohibited women from voting.
7. The Commerce Clause grants Congress the power to tax individuals based on whether they buy a product or service.
8. Inter arma enim silent leges translates as “in time of war, the Constitution is silent.”
9. The War Powers Act allows the president to unilaterally wage war for sixty days.
10. We have only declared war five times.
11. Alexander Hamilton wanted a king for America.
12. Social Security is a debt within the meaning of Section Four of the Fourteenth Amendment.
13. Naturalization depends on your birth.
14. The Obamacare mandate is a tax.
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I’m not a scholar of anything. Well, maybe of the bits of flotsam passing me by that cause me to react. Here are two bits that attract my eye, and now my keyboard.
When I saw the Time magazine article on the web, I read it.
I saw #1 and #5 in the original Time article and wrote the intire article off to “liberal media bias”. That’s why I never buy magazines and rarely buy a paper.
#1 was outrageous. I knew that from Reading Tom Woods’ stuff.
I spotted #5 thanks to Walter Williams eloquent writing about the “three fifths” as how the Dead Old White Guys dealt with balance in representation.
Impressive collaboration by this author to pull together others to refute the Time article.
Shame on Time for producing such drivel. The sad part is that folks have read it and think it’s correct.
Argh!
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Community Message has been issued by the South Brunswick Twp Police Department.
Monday July 11, 2011 11:20 PM EDT
FATHER CHARGED WITH ASSAULT BY AUTO, CHILD ENDANGERMENT FOR ACCIDENT THAT CRITICALLY INJURED DAUGHTER
A Somerset County father has been charged with second degree assault by auto and second degree child endangerment, as well as drunk driving and reckless driving following an investigation into a May 21, 2011 accident. The accident took place at the intersection of Ridge Road and New Road in the Monmouth Junction section of the Township. The accident happened when Sarathe Gunaskera age 56 of Bedminster drove his 2001 Lincoln Town Car on New Road through a stop sign and into a Ridge Road home.
The intersection requires drivers on New Road to make a left or right onto Ridge Road. At the time of the accident Gunaskera told officers he drove straight because his GPS did not tell him to turn. An investigation by Officer Monica Posteraro and the South Brunswick Traffic Safety Bureau uncovered evidence the GPS was not to blame. The investigation discovered that Gunaskera was intoxicated at the time of the crash and had just left a gathering near the scene of the crash.
The accident severely injured Gunasekera 13-year-old daughter. She suffered a head injury and multiple facial fractures. His wife was also injured in the crash suffering a severe head laceration. Both have been released from the hospital.
Gunasekera was charged after blood samples submitted to the New Jersey State Police laboratory came back showing his blood alcohol concentration was above the legal limit. The severity of the charges was increased because the accident took place within a 1,000 feet of an elementary school.
Gunasekera surrendered at South Brunswick Police headquarters at 4:20pm Monday afternoon. He was released after processing and posting $50,000 bail.
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Now I think DUI with it’s numerical limits is dumb.
In this case, there was damage and injury. That’s serious stuff.
In this case, there’s restitution due to all the victims.
The case is probably open and shut. Drinking and accident with personal injury and property damage.
Should throw the book at him … …
… … but not because it was within a 1k feet of a school?
There are hospital bills and emergency services expense that need restitution.
So, “We, The Sheeple” need to be protected from this menace, but it would be interesting to see what really happens.
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http://irisheagle.blogspot.com/2011/07/marshall-plan-is-not-what-eu-needs.html
WEDNESDAY, JULY 06, 2011
A Marshall Plan is not what the EU needs
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A column in the Guardian calls for a new Marshall Plan to save the EU, but unfortunately the EU’s dominated by leaders who believe in unconstrained free market capitalism, according to Mark Mazower. That’s a load of twaddle.
The EU’s problem right now is that EU enthusiasts ran too far out in front of the citizens of the various nations. They pushed for an integrated EU that required a lot more solidarity and a lot less nationalism than the people of the EU were ready for. Unfortunately they ended up with a fudge – a unified currency stretched over loosely unified national economies. It’s stuck in between integration and a loose confederation, which is a disaster.
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Seems like it also overlooks that the entropy of large states is crashing. The USSR is a classic example. Shattered to bits and parts by an unsustainable economic model. The USA may be going the same way. That is the 80 year experiment with the FED’s fiat currency may be concluding with disastrous effects. You can NOT trust politicians and bureaucrats to restrain their base human emotions to give the mob bread and circuses to stay in office. Looting the public treasury by crony capitalism while expecting the world to pay for it in the hidden tax of inflation. Sadly, it’s those who trust in the value of a dollar, or a euro, that are going to pay the price. The Rich, like roaches, always survive; it’s the Poor that get hurt. Argh! What fools these mortals be. There’s a reason that gold has always been money; it keeps the politicians honest.
Besides “no entangling alliances” seem still to be good advice.
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CERTIFIGATE
Deception evidence reaches Oval Office?
Analysis says everything president, lawyers said ‘was carefully orchestrated and scripted’
Posted: July 11, 2011
By Bob Unruh
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In an allegation that pushes the dispute over Barack Obama’s presidential eligibility to a new level, an affidavit prepared to accompany a criminal complaint over the “Certificate of Live Birth” released April 27 suggests there was a plan to mislead the American public, and it went as high as the Oval Office.
“What I believe you are looking at is a classic example of an attempt at plausible deniability,” wrote Doug Vogt, who has filed a criminal complaint that charges Obama’s birth record is forged.
Vogt, who describes himself as an expert in documents, typesetting, imaging, scanners and document imaging programs and has owned Archive Index Systems since 1993, referenced the widely broadcast White House event when officials, including then-White House Counsel Robert Bauer and Obama’s communications director Daniel Pfeiffer, released the purported Hawaiian “Certificate of Live Birth.”
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As usual, the cover up is what kills you.
There are an awful lot of people who should be testifying under oath in front a Grand Jury.
And, as before, it all comes down to the question: “Why?”
Followed immediately by “Who knew what? When?”
I’m convinced that “We, The Sheeple” have been defrauded, deceived, and manipulated.
Why?
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