http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/a+fortiori
a fortiori (pronounced ah-for-she-ory) prep. Latin for “with even stronger reason,” which applies to a situation in which if one thing is true then it can be inferred that a second thing is even more certainly true. Thus, if Abel is too young to serve as administrator, then his younger brother Cain certainly is too young.
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I never heard this one!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Crummey
Today, I listened to Crummy argue that SS was NOT a Ponzi scheme.
Au contraire … …
In a very technical sense, it’s not. In a Ponzi, the victims have a the choice NOT to participate; in “social security insurance”, there’s no choice.
A caller challenged and he objected to the word “fraudulent”. He’s wrong! SSI was sold to the American people that it would always be tax free. It’s not! It was sold as “insurance”. It’s not! It was sold as retirement savings and disability insurance. It’s not.
It IS a fraud because the “lockbox” is full do IOUs. And, the “terms” change at the whims of Congress.
In last night’s debate, Herman Cain correctly cited Chile in the 1970’s escaping the trap of “social security becomes welfare”.
We need to learn from Chile. We need to call things as they are.
Screwed Up!
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/07/us-yahoo-ceo-idUSTRE7857R320110907
Yahoo CEO Bartz fired over the phone, rocky run ends
By Alexei Oreskovic and Edwin Chan
SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Sep 7, 2011 10:44am EDT
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(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock fired CEO Carol Bartz over the phone on Tuesday, ending a tumultuous tenure marked by stagnation and a rift with Chinese partner Alibaba.
Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse will step in as interim CEO, and the company will search for a permanent leader to spearhead a battle in online advertising and content with rivals Google Inc and Facebook.
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By phone!
That’s low class.
But this should be a lesson to EVERY employee, it could be you.
You have be the CEO of your own biz and have multiple income streams.
It brings back on of my favorite lessons:
“You’re only assured of the last paycheck that you cashed.”
Forget that at your peril.
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http://www.geekosystem.com/japanese-wind-power/
A CLEANER GREENER CITY
Japanese Innovation Could Make Wind Power Cheaper Than Nuclear
Fukushima Kyushu University wind lens wind power
by Eric Limer | 11:18 am, August 31st, 2011
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Wind lens construction and installation, compared to constructing additional pylons windmills, is trivial, and while the extra toll on turbines could require more maintenance, it is again trivial compared to building more windmills. In short, wind lenses could make wind energy a possible alternative to traditional power sources instead of just a supplement like it is today.
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Interesting for two reasons:
Directly, if wind power can be made equivalent to nukes, then why wouldn’t we do it. It’d be cheaper.
Indirectly, why is this significant work being done in Japan? Where are the scientists and engineers in the USA?
Argh!
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Upon reflection, and thinking about those Japanese tsunami stones marking the high water mark of the last killer tsunami, perhaps NJDOT should be marking roads where there is a flash flood threat. Cars swept away; fatalities, remember. A good bureaucrat or maybe even a fat old white guy injineer would design a road marking that would alert a driver to “get out of dodge” should the rains start. Or even more wisely not blindly drive into a potential flood zone. I’ve seen such signs in Vegas. Why not here in NJ.
Let’s color the road surface red the next time it’s repaved?
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http://bigpeace.com/hfontova/2011/08/30/michele-bachmann-rocks-florida/
Michele Bachmann Rocks Florida
Posted by Humberto Fontova Aug 30th 2011 at 6:37 pm
in Africa, Congress, Cuba, Featured Story, History, Humanitarian, Obama, Politics, Strategy, human rights, veterans
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Fifty years ago when the smoke cleared and their ammo had been expended to the very last bullet, when a hundred of them lay dead and hundreds more wounded, after three days of relentless battle, barely 1,400 of them — without air support (from the U.S. Carriers just offshore) and without a single supporting shot by naval artillery (from U.S. cruisers and destroyers poised just offshore) — had squared off against 31,000 Castro troops, his entire air force and squadrons of Soviet tanks. The Cuban freedom-fighters inflicted casualties of 20 to 1 against their Soviet-armed and led enemies. Their feat of arms still amazes professional military men.
“They fought magnificently and were not defeated,” stressed Marine Col. Jack Hawkins a multi-decorated WWII and Korea vet who helped train them. “They were abandoned on the beach without the supplies and support promised by their sponsor, the Government of the United States.”
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The story here isn’t Michelle Bachman. The story is the Bay of Pigs perfidy.
(And as a big Gooferment republican, I’m sure she’d do the same thing. Slip the knife in anyone’s back when expeditious.)
Why would any “ally” of the USA trust us?
I wouldn’t.
I saw that lesson, as pointed out by a WW2 marine turned Christian Brother in grammar school, in the ‘57 Hungarian Revolution. We listened to the VOA broadcasts in history class. It was obvious. Would you start a nuclear war to stand by revolutionaries?
“We, The Sheeple” didn’t.
And we do it over and over again.
And the lesson is not lost by those who oppose us in the field. We can be outlasted.
Sadly, too true. Ron Paul is right. Let’s MYOB!
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Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: September 4, 2011
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The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month and may have to shut down entirely this winter unless Congress takes emergency action to stabilize its finances.
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An idea who’s time has past?
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“Internet Archive” Tries to Get Digital Copy of Every Web Page & Printed Book
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Robert Miller is director of books for the archive, he’s helping bring Khale’s vision to life. Miller says that since he was a boy, Brewster yearned to recreate the ancient library of Alexandria, said to house 20-30% of the world’s knowledge under one roof.
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An amazing accomplishment.
How do they handle “copyright”?
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http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/berwick9.1.1.html
Nightmare On Pennsylvania Avenue
by Jeff Berwick
The Dollar Vigilante
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Thank goodness I was strapped in tight! Are you kidding, Krueger? I can refute your entire book in one sentence and there is no rational thing you can say in response. Ready?
If that is true then raise the minimum wage to $1,000/hour and tell me how that will not result in unemployment rising to 99.5% or higher. At that rate, only people currently making more than $1,000/hour would be employable.
I mean, really. This is Obama’s new senior advisor?? This will probably shock him then, but removing the minimum wage completely would result in full employment. Heck, I’d even hire Alan Krueger to wash my car all day long for $0.15/hour. That may be something he is actually good at, too.
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Isn’t that the million dollar question?
What’s the “correct” minimum wage?
Depends if you treasure liberty?
Answer is zero.
It’s not the Gooferment’s biz what two willing individuals agree to.
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