http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j46ll2_jR7k
Lisa Lottie Hottie Hoops
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The fat old white guy injineer in me, after careful study, notices that she only does the leg lift on one side. I’ll have to give the matter further study … from an injineering perspective, of course. Sigh!
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http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/dolores-hope-remembered-for-deep-catholic-faith/
Dolores Hope remembered for deep Catholic faith
By Kevin J. Jones
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Los Angeles, Calif., Sep 21, 2011 / 12:31 am (CNA).- Dolores Hope, the widow of entertainer Bob Hope and a supporter of many Catholic charities, was a Catholic of “deep abiding faith,” Archbishop José H. Gomez said in tribute to her life.
“Both the entertainment world and the Church have lost a woman of profound faith, gifted musical talent, and dedication to the betterment of peoples world-wide. The death of Dolores Hope leaves a huge void in Southern California,” he said.
“May she now enter into that eternal life and light prepared for her by the God whom she loved so fully and deeply.”
Mrs. Hope died Sept. 19 at the age of 102.
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In this day and age, she certainly made her mark quietly.
I always gave them credit for class. He for his clean although risque troop shows. Her for her USO work.
An amazing couple.
World’s a little poorer without them.
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http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/long-term-survival-tool.html
The One Long-Term Survival Tool Everyone Forgets
The Survival Mom
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We have three Kindles, and a hand cranked charger that will charge them and our MP3 player. A hand crank charger is dirt cheap, easily repaired if it breaks and takes up almost zero room (as usual, I am not affiliated with this site or product in any way, merely a happy customer). Two of the Kindles have yet more manuals on them, with duplication of the vital ones.
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I’m not so sure about the need for “entertainment” when the world is falling down around your ears.
But, I did note that Orthodox Jews have the entire Talmud, other sacred writings, and all sorts of utilities (i.e., concordances, vocabularies, dictionaries, etc. etc) on an IPAD.
Her point might be more accurately that it is possible to have the wisdom of the world on a Faraday enclosed electronic.
While technology is never cheap (i.e., matches are more expensive than Tom Hanks’ two sticks on the island), sometimes it’s “cheap” as compared to the alternative (i.e., ignorance).
imho!
I’d suggest the ipad as less “locked in” than a kindle, but that’s merely a technical opinion.
Her opinion notwithstanding, it seems like good advice.
Besides what are you going to do with your worthless fiat paper currency when it’s only value is tinder (i.e., Zimbabwe dollars)?
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test #2
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/20/us-congressman-cpr-idUSTRE78J7AU20110920
Mon, Sep 19 2011
Congressman Phil Roe performs CPR on man at airport
By Colleen Jenkins
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina | Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:39pm EDT
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(Reuters) – Representative Phil Roe retired from his medical career to go to Congress, but on Tuesday he put his doctor skills to use to help save a man’s life at a Charlotte, North Carolina airport.
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Now that’s “constituant service”!!!
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If you’re a Franch speaking IT Disaster Recovery type and would be interested in a year gig in Quebec, I’m aware of an opportunity.
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http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/water-crisis-coming.html
25 Signs That a Horrific Global Water Crisis Is Coming
Economic Collapse Blog
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#3 Since 1998, the level of water in Lake Mead has plunged by more than 50 percent. Lake Mead supplies about 85 percent of the water used in Las Vegas, and at this point the lake has 5.6 trillion gallons less water than it used to have. Lake Mead is falling so fast that some believe that the Hoover dam could actually stop producing electricity in a few years. Needless to say, that would be a total disaster for that entire region of the country. In addition, if things continue at the current pace, it is being estimated that Lake Mead will run completely dry some time around the year 2021.
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I can attest to the drop in Lake Meade.
When I first visited in the 70’s, it was “full to the brim”. Each visit in subsequent years, you could see more and more of the “bathtub ring”.
Tragedy of the Commons?
If it was privately owned, prices would have been raised to preserve the resource.
Because it’s “publicly owned”, it’ll be drained dry.
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http://www.dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-contradictory-meanings/
75 Contronyms (Words with Contradictory Meanings)
by Mark Nichol
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The English language includes an interesting category of words and phrases called contronyms (also spelled contranyms, or referred to as autoantonyms) — terms that, depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings.
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“contronyms”?
Another thing I never knew.
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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/extended_peak_periods_shrink_d.html
Extended peak hours for bridge, tunnel toll hikes shock E-ZPass customers
Published: Monday, September 19, 2011, 7:35 PM Updated: Monday, September 19, 2011, 8:20 PM
By Steve Strunsky/The Star-Ledger
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The Port Authority says the hike will help pay for a 10-year, $25 billion capital plan that includes redeveloping the World Trade Center, raising the Bayonne Bridge, replacing the Goethals, and overhauling the Pulaski Skyway, a plan projected to generate 131,000 jobs.
Peak hours were extended for both weekday and weekend travelers, making it more difficult for E-ZPass customers to receive the off-peak-hour discount.
Under the plan, revenues are to rise by $100 million in the first year and are projected to increase to $900 million by the 2015. Based on past experience, Zupan said the expanded peak hours aren’t likely to change commuting habits, and most people will simply forego the discount.
“The problem is, people have to go about their business and can’t change their schedules to save a buck,” or two, Zupan said.
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This is absurd.
Build, or rather rebuild a pale substitute of the WTC, on the backs of the NJ commuters?
Christie should get this hung around his neck like the Florio toilet paper tax.
He had veto power.
We should be screaming like stuck pigs.
Or, shorn sheeple!
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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2011/09/read-their-lips-no-new-taxes-on-rich.html
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Read their lips, no new taxes — on the rich;
the rest of you, you’re on your own
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The Republican plan for addressing the long-term deficit can be summed up this way: Leave the rich alone and pass along the costs to the rest of us.
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I believe what they are saying is: “No new taxes”. I’d prefer them to say: “No taxes”, but that will never happen as long as they have the guns.
Taxes are an immoral theft.
But over and above that, raising taxes in a down economy is economic suicide.
They will have to cut spending. Before they “drive” the economy into total collapse.
Everyone is looking at the uncertainty ahead — how much will an employee cost me? — what are the economic prospects ahead? — what are these idiots in DC doing? — and waiting for the storm to pass.
I personally like Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan. At least it’s easy to understand. I doubt we can ever pass it. Since the politicians and bureaucrats will be fighting for pennies. That’s not a bad thing. Just never going to happen.
Everyone is ALWAYS on their own. We need more “rowers” and fewer “free riders”.
Argh!
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http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=11754
China: bachelor villages, kidnapped brides
September 15, 2011
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Over the next two decades, up to 50 million men are expected to be unable to find wives. “I don’t have any requirements at all,” said a 35-year-old farmer in a village with no women eligible for marriage. “I would be satisfied with just a wife.”
To help meet the growing demand for wives, thousands of Burmese women have been lured into China, kidnapped, and sold to rural men.
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Interesting how Gooferment diktats have such long ranging impacts. Like the man in the funny white hat has said (basically) don’t mess with what we don’t understand. It’s a little like surgery on ourselves. Such ego. To think we can defeat “natural law”.
Hubris!
With real world consequences.
Sad for everyone including the USA.
Think all those abortions won’t matter.
My fear is maybe “We, The Sheeple” have killed the person who could have cured cancer.
I’m ashamed that I wasn’t able to make it all stop.
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http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/flash-editorials-september-17-2011
Flash Editorials September 17, 2011
By Russell D. Longcore
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The Nation: At Monday night’s “Tea Party Debates,” EVERONE on stage…including Ron Paul…said Social Security and Medicare should be saved. And apparently, Governor Perry felt fine about writing in his book that SS was a Ponzi scheme, but when faced with voters, he nearly soiled himself trying to get away from those words. SS and Medicare are indeed Ponzi schemes, and ALL the candidates who want to save them are criminals. Deal with it.
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I think that calling “Social Security Insurance” a Ponzi scheme is unfair to old Ponzi. It does quickly communicate and editorial about the value of SSI, but Ponzi could NOT make folks participate. He had to defraud them the old fashion way by deceiving them into voluntarily giving him their wealth. Uncle Sam sam put a gun to your head and says: “Pay me”! It is many things: mislabeling (it ain’t insurance), fraudulent (terms are subject to the whim of Congress), and ineffective (inflation exceeds roi). But, not Ponzi, because you were forced to play along. We know how to unravel it; Herman Cain brought up Chile. We know how bad it is (i.e., a wealth transfer from poor minority men to rich white women). We know the ROI (i.e., estimates are between a negative 2% to as high as negative 6%).
There is an element of good public policy in it. Future taxpayers ought not be burdened with your welfare cost should you fail to provide for your old age. If you disagree with the mean old Libertarians who say “that’s your problem if you starve” knowing full well that there will be sufficient private charity to care for those truly in need. Then, be “liberal”, and say that as a condition of your protection provided by the military, you must provide for your old age to a certain level. Use the Insurance Companies to help individuals meet that minimum obligation through annuities that would be guaranteed by the pool of Insurance Companies selling such coverage. (Ever see Insurance Companies scrutinize each other in a “pool”. Think proctology exam. No one wants to be stuck with the other’s liabilities.)
So, let’s find a better word than “Ponzi”. Unfortunately all the ones that I could come up with were not suitable for polite company.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/94610.html
Ventura vs. ‘The View’
by David Kramer
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The unstoppable Jesse Ventura takes on the yentas of “The View” as they lamely attempt to discredit what he exposes in his book American Conspiracies.
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Particularly insightful was his comment on the “lone wolf assassins”. Unsuccessful at everything else in their lives; spectacularly successful at this one assignation.
Spot on?
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/94995.html
Jon Stewart on the Solyndra Collapse
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Courtesy of Luddite
Smart Meters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNFr_j6kdI&feature=player_embedded
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/tv-legend-chuck-woolery-spoofs-buffetts-tax-stance-in-new-psa/
“To those suffering with the unbearable pain of obnoxiously high bank balances or low-back pain from sitting on overstuffed wallets. I say forget waiting for Congress to do something. Let’s act now!”
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http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/7-steps-to-making-your-dream-come-true/
7 Steps to Making Your Dream Come True
Written by Doug Rice
Categories: productivity tips, self improvement
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#3. Leave Your Tower
To make your dreams come true, you’ve got to get started.
Eventually, you need to move from the realm of thinking to the realm of doing. You need to make a “no turning back” decision that sets you in the direction of accomplishing your goals.
For Rapunzel, this decision is to leave her tower for the first time in her life. Once her feet touch the ground, she realizes that she’s taken the biggest step that she’ll need to take during her entire journey. “I can’t believe I did this!” She keeps shouting as she experiences her newfound freedom.
Have you taken the initial step? Or, are you still stuck in your tower dreaming? Nothing will ever happen until you get started. You’ve got to get out of your comfort zone and burn the bridge leading back to it. Break off the unhealthy relationship you’re in. Buy an expensive set of paints for your first masterpiece. Quit your job. Do something that sends the signal that you are serious and you’re not turning back.
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I was doing ok until he said “leave tower”. I’m an ITSJ!
<<Yes, I KNOW it’s ISTJ, BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), as an IT guy, I LIKE it as ITSJ!>>
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Fourth Circuit’s Factual Error Throws Obamacare Decision in Doubt
September 14, 2011
MAUREEN MARTIN
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In reality, the Virginia law was signed by Gov. McDonnell and codified on March 10, 2010. The “ceremonial” signing was held on March 24, 2010. So rather than a Virginia law seeking to invalidate an existing federal law, it was the other way around. It was a federal law seeking to invalidate an existing Virginia law.
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Alive based on a technicality?
You’d think these type of mistakes wouldn’t happen with all the high priced talent working on it.
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http://city-journal.org/2011/21_3_the-great-courses.html
HEATHER MAC DONALD
Great Courses, Great Profits
A teaching company gives the public what the academy no longer supplies: a curriculum in the monuments of human thought.
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The canon of great literature, philosophy, and art is thriving—in the marketplace, if not on college campuses. For the last 20 years, a company called the Great Courses has been selling recorded lectures in the humanities and sciences to an adult audience eager to brush up its Shakespeare and its quantum mechanics. The company produces only what its market research shows that customers want. And that, it turns out, is a curriculum in the monuments of human thought, taught without the politically correct superiority and self-indulgent theory common in today’s colleges.
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Here’s a way to get wisdom.
<<Remember I’m a practicioner of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom). Where “data” is the elemental atom of the paradigm. “Information” is data in context. “Knowledge” is actionable information. “Wisdom” is knowing the implications of knowledge. Nice to know where the world’s edge is!>>
It’s a shame that we waste children’s most productive ages for learning (imho 6-26) by follow an obsolete meme (i.e, Gooferment Skrules).
Argh!
We need to challenge the children by supplementing their education.
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http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts324.html
The Critics of 9/11 Truth: Do They Have A Case?
by Paul Craig Roberts
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Both sides of the issue have conspiracy theories. 9/11 was a conspiracy whether a person believes that it was an inside job or that a handful of Arabs outwitted the entire intelligence apparatus of the Western world and the operational response of NORAD and the US Air Force.
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It is not a conspiracy theory to examine the evidence and to state that the evidence does not support the explanation that has been given.
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“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” —Johnny Cochran
A true tin foil hat doesn’t need to prove conspiracy. All one really needs to do is to present evidence. Facts are hard things to argue with. Opinions are like <synonym for donkey> holes, everyone has one.
No, the evidence just is what it is.
Speculation, SWAGs, and theories are all unnecessary and irrelevant to the discussion.
So, I’ll only ask one question so as not to confuse anyone.
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If there were pictures or videos of an airliner hitting the Pentagon, they would have been released years ago. They would have been supplied to the 9/11 Commission. Why would the government refuse for 10 years to release pictures that prove its case? The FBI confiscated all film from all surveillance cameras. No one has seen them, much less a Pentagon critic such as Spinney.
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Where are the videos from the airplane into the Pentagon?
Simple question. Deserves a simple answer.
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False Evidence Appearing Real
(Heard recently on TV show “unnecessary roughness”that reminded me. Don’t know where I heard it originally. Don’t know why I didn’t capture it. Argh!)
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Single-family homes approved for Greenview Road, S.B.
BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer
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“Are we satisfied with 73 new homes? No.” Gambatese said. “They have the potential to bring 125 to 150 children into the school system, which is an expense. But there is not much we could do about it. We’re satisfied that we made it so that the quality of life of our residents was not ruined by the homes.”
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Maybe this is a reason that the Gooferment should NOT be in the Gooferment Skrules biz?
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http://www.impactlab.net/2011/09/04/solar-bottle-bulb-a-cheap-and-sustainable-way-to-light-homes/
September 4th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Solar Bottle Bulb – a cheap and sustainable way to light homes
in: Great New Product, Green Friendly, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News, Solar Power
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Now a simple innovation called the “Solar Bottle Bulb” is popping out of roofs and illuminating the lives of many.
Fixed into holes in a corrugated iron roof, the “bulb” is a recycled plastic bottle that contains bleached water. Bringing more light than a traditional window that can crack or leak during typhoon season, the bottle bulbs refract the sun’s rays to create 55-watts worth of light.
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Hmmm, a useful idea for any house, garage, or shed?
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2011-09-11/Rick-Perry-Social-Security/50362610/1
I am going to be honest with the American people
By Rick Perry
12 September 11
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We must have a frank, honest national conversation about fixing Social Security to protect benefits for those at or near retirement while keeping faith with younger generations, who are being asked to pay.
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Sounds very reasonable to me!
Maybe that tête-à-tête with Ron Paul has transmitted some virtue into the discussion.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-vander-ark/education-innovation-_b_938991.html
Tom Vander ArkCEO, Open Education Solutions
18 Low-Tech Learning Innovations
Posted: 8/28/11 01:00 PM ET
Education Reform , Google , Teachers , Education Innovation , Education Idea , Education Innovation America , Innovation , Learning Innovations , Learning Low-Tech , Teacher Innovations , Education News
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I frequently write about new learning technologies, but there are lots of low tech learning innovations (i.e., produce better outcomes and potentially cost less). Here’s a lit of 18. I bet you can add two to the list to make it an even 20. At this point, some aren’t really innovations, they are demonstrated best practices but they exist in so few places they are worth mentioning.
1. High expectations and future focus. In the first minute of visiting an Aspire elementary school you see, feel, and hear about the college going focus — a unique and powerful combination of high expectations and future orientation.
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Seems like this is a “universal” low tech list. Never saw an enterprise use this approach.
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