INSPIRATIONAL: Now that’s “constituant service”

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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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JOBFINDING: French speaking DR type

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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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INTERESTING: “Peak Water”

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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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INTERESTING: Contronyms … contranyms

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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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NEWJERSEY: PA is out of control; Christie’s fault

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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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RANT: Liberal just don’t get it

Monday, September 19, 2011

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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SOCIALISM: China’s one child policy impact

Monday, September 19, 2011

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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MONEY: Social Secuirty isn’t a Ponzi; you have no choice

Sunday, September 18, 2011

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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TINFOILHAT: Jesse Ventura — tfh or an ominous warning

Sunday, September 18, 2011

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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FUN: Jon Stewart on the Solyndra Collapse

Saturday, September 17, 2011

http://www.comedycentral.com

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/94995.html

Jon Stewart on the Solyndra Collapse

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