TINFOILHAT: Intrusive “Smart Meters”; a plot to change America

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Courtesy of Luddite

Smart Meters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNFr_j6kdI&feature=player_embedded

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FUN: The unbearable pain of obnoxiously high bank balances

Saturday, September 17, 2011

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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POLITICAL: Ron Paul ten minute commercial

Friday, September 16, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohKz9OeiI0g&feature=player_embedded

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INSPIRATIONAL: “Leave Your Tower”? Are they kidding!

Friday, September 16, 2011

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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POLITICAL: Looks like VA versus Obamacare is back on

Thursday, September 15, 2011

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2011/09/14/fourth-circuits-factual-error-throws-obamacare-decision-doubt

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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TECHNOLOGY: “Great Courses” puts a nail in the over-priced University education

Thursday, September 15, 2011

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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TINFOILHAT: 911 Truthers

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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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INITIALISMS: FEAR

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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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NEWJERSEY: Gooferment Skrules transfer costs and are just wrong!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

http://ns.gmnews.com/news/2011-09-15/Front_Page/Singlefamily_homes_approved_for_Greenview_Road_SB.html

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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TECHNOLOGY: Solar Bottle Bulb

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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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