Freedom is not simply the right of intellectuals to circulate their merchandise. It is, above all, the right of ordinary people to find elbow room for themselves and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of their “betters.”
— Thomas Sowell “Knowledge and Decisions” 1980
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[This came up in my daily google search for “reinke”. Most likely no relation. But, so what if it’s not.]
The Pueblo Chieftain News Local news
After Iraq Former soldiers, families reassess war’s impact
Posted: Saturday, December 17, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 11:30 pm, Fri Dec 16, 2011.
By PETER ROPER
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Scott Reinke, father of Army Staff Sgt. Gavin Reinke, who was killed in Iraq in May 2006.
Reinke is proud of his son’s service to his country and is certain nearly all U.S. service men and women who took part in the Iraq war share that same pride. But that’s not the same thing as believing the war was worth the cost.
“I was reading a story in the paper this morning where this Iraqi was saying that Americans didn’t leave new schools and factories, that we left a nation of widows and orphans,” Reinke said and then softly cursed. “After all we put into that country. If that guy’s sentiments represents a majority of the Iraqi people, then what we’re getting out of that war isn’t worth all that we put into it.”
Reinke recounted how President George W. Bush urged American intervention in Iraq in 2003 on the basis that dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. None was found.
“Granted, Hussein was an evil man. But it’s hard for me to justify our sticking our nose in that country’s business. The Middle East has always been in turmoil. Maybe if I felt that the Iraqi people were truly grateful.”
Reinke said he recently ate lunch next to an Army engineer who talked about all the friends he’d lost in Iraq.
“This soldier talked about how his guys would be building a school or working on some infrastructure project and the Iraqis hated Americans so much, they’d just attack them anyway,” Reinke said. ” I don’t think anyone who lost a child, or a husband, or a wife, or had someone severely wounded over there will tell you that it was worth it. Now I wish we’d do the same in Afghanistan.”
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It’s one thing if the girls and boys are down at the beach or the border to resist an invasion, but that hasn’t happened since 1812?
Not one drop of blood, nor a penny of treasure, is worth sticking our <plural synonym for donkey> in another country’s business.
Ron Paul is the ONLY “peace” candidate. And, he’s not an isolationist; nor, stupid about defending America. He’s just serious about it.
This may be our ONLY chance to reverse the “imperial” rule of the “chicken hawks”. You don’t see their children dying overseas. Hell, they don’t even send their kids to “publik sckrules”!
Argh!
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Buddhist Packing Bond Pistol Shows American Embrace of Guns
By Ken Wells – Dec 9, 2011 5:37 PM ET
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Bates, 64, says she believes guns can be potent equalizers that well-trained civilians can handle. “A gun is like a fire extinguisher,” she says. “It isn’t there because you want to have a fire or expect to have a fire. It’s there because you may find yourself in that situation where it can save your life and give the professionals time to get there.”
This is why more Jews should join the conceal-carry bandwagon, says Dovid Bendory, an Orthodox rabbi in Livingston, New Jersey, who heads the 4,500-member Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. Post-9/11, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ranks the domestic terror threat against synagogues equal to that of railroads and utilities.
“I ask Jews all the time, ‘Are you prepared for an active shooter in a synagogue?’” Bendory says. “‘What would you do?’ The common answer is ‘I’d dial 911.’ So I ask, ‘And what would you do until the police got there? Hide?’ They don’t have a good answer for that. I believe we are woefully unprepared for such an attack.”
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“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
Sorry, but I think that guns should be “loaned” by the bailiff when the woman picks up her “order of protection”.
Americans should NEVER be victims. They have rights and the Second Amendment recognizes their right to protect their rights.
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Forty One years ago today …
… on December 19, 1970, …
… in Saint Henry’s Church in Bayonne at about 11:30 in the morning, our lives changed.
“I, John, take thee Evlynn, to my wedded Wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God’s holy law; and thereto I plight thee my troth.”
(I stuck the “troth” part in. My maternal Grandmother was an English Protestant. Father Chuamark deigned not to notice.)
(Explanation of “plight” and “troth”: “Plight” here used means to pledge. “Troth” means a promise of truthfulness, and is derived from the same word as “truth”. “Plight thee my troth” – The groom pledges his truthfulness, faithfulness and loyalty to his promise. “Give thee my troth” -The bride likewise gives her word. Also note “betrothed” is “be” – “trothed” from the word “troth”, meaning promised or contracted to marry.)
(Grandma explained that to me when was very young and I asked why my Mom and Dad weren’t together. I knew then that this ‘marriage stuff was serious business.)
“I, Evlynn, take thee John to my wedded Husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God’s holy law.”
(I’m surprised that whole Congregation didn’t have a collective gasp! Our Girl said: “obey”. I teased her about that later.)
It was a great party.
Great honeymoon.
But, she’d finally given in and married me. And, my life was forever hers.
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Humorous story: At the back of the church, Ev’s father asked her what was wrong with me. She didn’t know but said that I was the color of my shirt. When her hand was passed to me, she asked. I said “scared <synonym for excrement> less”. She said: “Don’t worry. I’ll take care of us.” And she did that.
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http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/you-matter-to-your-spouse/
You Matter To Your Spouse
“And for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united firmly (joined inseparably) to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let not man put asunder (separate).” Matthew 19:5-6, Amplified
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Just as you chose your spouse, you were also chosen. Out of the millions of other people in the world, two souls were linked together in holy matrimony because you couldn’t bear to be without each other for the rest of your lives. Your vulnerability in the marriage bed, your giving of yourself to passion and pleasure, and your desire matter to your beloved, too. Such things can only and should only be shared in the intimate bonds of marriage, and for that you have chosen one another. You share not only this mystery, but also your joys and sorrows, hearts and dreams, and vulnerabilities and transparencies. He or she is there for you when you need a shoulder to cry on and to laugh with you over nothing at all. You share a history, a love story, and a life that you travel together. Know that your companion is yours forever and that you matter deeply, profoundly, and intricately to your spouse.
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Somehow this doesn’t help as the one who was left behind.
“Double Star” is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, my favorite author, and there’s a line in there that goes something like “death is the only acceptable excuse for missing an appointment”.
So today, when Frau Reinke misses our forty first anniversary, she has an “acceptable excuse”.
But it doesn’t help much!
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“He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.” — Samuel Johnson (1709-84), English author
Happy Anniversary, my love.
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Another lonely Christmas for illegal Irish trapped in the United States
Undocumented forced to be separated from family for the holidays
By APRIL DREW, Irish Voice Reporter
Published Sunday, December 18, 2011, 7:13 AM
Updated Sunday, December 18, 2011, 7:48 AM
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Louise, 38, and her 40-year-old husband Shane are about to spend their eighth Christmas away from their family back in Co. Donegal.
“Another Christmas away is just terrible,” Louise, a bartender, shared with the Irish Voice over the weekend.
“It’s getting harder all the time. Our parents are getting old and we’re missing so many special events like another Christmas, not to mention several weddings and christenings.”
Her husband Shane agrees, but says being realistic they can’t move home at the moment because “there is no work” in Ireland.
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Well, overlooking the media bias —
— “trapped”, I don’t think so. They can return for free courtesy of the US taxpayer. “undocumented”, I’m sure they do have “documents”. Just not the right kind. Argh! —
— I agree with them.
There should be no bar to crossing a border unless you’re a criminal, (then we’d expect some proof that you’ve turned a page), or planning to go on welfare. Bought the only reasonable restriction might be posting a bond equal to the passage “home”.
I don’t understand.
Doesn’t anyone read the Statue of Liberty? Or, did we put a garbage bag over that?
Sure, no welfare for immigrants. But then we shouldn’t have “welfare” for anyone.
We want all those folks who want to work their <synonym for donkey> off. Sure enough, we’ve got enough “citizens” on the dole.
Argh!
I just don’t understand.
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http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus/
How Doctors Die
It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be
by Ken Murray
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Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient’s five-year-survival odds—from 5 percent to 15 percent—albeit with a poor quality of life. Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn’t spend much on him.
It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.
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I hope, that when we finally find out “the right answers” at the Final Judgement, my decisions about my wife’s end of life care will be the “correct” ones. The handwriting was on the wall when her kidney’s shut down. I asked her if she understood that meant? Her last words were “when will this all be over?” My tearful reply was “Soon, hon, real soon.” It was.
No pain. Peace.
Not for those left behind.
But the race had been run. And Death won.
As it always does.
My paperworks been updated because when my time comes as it does to all of us, I’m hoping for the “Good Death”.
Luckily, in my case, there’ll be no spouse left behind.
“And I’ve lost her … . I’m so sad that I don’t have … . But I’m so grateful that she was with me … . And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?” — Chuck Noland ala Tom Hanks in Cast Away (2000) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/quotes
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http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/7357978/high-school-athletes-suspended-tebowing
Updated: December 16, 2011, 7:42 AM ET
High schoolers banned for Tebowing
By Christopher Hunt
Special to ESPNNewYork.com
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Jordan Fulcoly, Wayne Drexel and brothers Tyler and Connor Carroll of Riverhead High School were all handed a one-day suspension Wednesday, after three days of taking a knee with their foreheads resting on their fists, the same way Tebow does in the end zone and on the sidelines. The news was first reported by Yahoo! Prep Rally earlier Thursday.
Riverhead superintendent Nancy Carney said that two of the students’ suspensions were later rescinded, citing that administrators found that those students were not given the same warnings that the other two were.
Tebow has made headlines for the move, a display of his devotion to his Christian faith. The students were not suspended for bringing religion into the school, but instead for clogging the hallway.
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Bet this winds up in court!
Why is the Gooferment running schools?
In order to brainwash future voters.
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http://dailyreckoning.com/incarcerate-corzine/
Incarcerate Corzine
By Eric Fry
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12/09/11 Laguna Beach, California – If wishes were horses, beggars would ride, according to a 16th century British proverb.
Continuing that logic, if wishes were $1.2 billion of missing client assets at MF Global, the company’s former CEO, Jon Corzine, would not be a criminal. But alas, wishes are neither horses nor missing client funds…so beggars don’t ride and CEO’s that “misplace” $1.2 billion of client funds are criminals.
Does Corzine deserve his day in court? Absolutely. Let’s give him several days in court…after which let’s give him several years in jail.
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Seems a bit Enron-esque, doesn’t it. Enron was, of course, the massive fraud perpetrated a decade ago that prompted the anti-corruption Sarbanes-Oxley financial regulation bill, which then-Senator Corzine voted for.
“It’s really rather simple,” writes Karl Denniger in The Market Ticker, “No more off-balance sheet anything — anywhere. There is only one purpose for such ‘instruments’ and games — hiding the amount of risk you have on and exactly where and how you are exposed. There is no other reason for these vehicles; if you are willing to take the risk you should have to do so in the open on your balance sheet where it can be seen.
“Next,” Denninger continues, “enforce Sarbanes-Oxley. Start with indictments. Sarbanes-Oxley, which Senator Corzine voted for, makes the CEO and CFO responsible for knowing — not merely responsible for attesting to what they [happen to] know — and it also makes them personally responsible for the sufficiency of internal controls. ‘I didn’t know’ was a common defense after the Tech Wreck began and it got many executives off — Sarbanes-Oxley was passed to specifically deny executives this defense.
“Last,” says Denninger, “make it a criminal felony to operate a financial firm holding customer funds of any sort for any period of time — even one day — while ‘underwater.’… That would do it… We must put a stop to this crap.”
Agreed. Let Corzine be the first high-profile test case under the legislation he himself endorsed. I think the term is “poetic justice.”
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Seems that since SarBox has been hung like a millstone around every business, then let Corzine get a taste of it.
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FROM A CHAIN EMAIL THAT I THOUGHT WAS FUNNY
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One day an old German Shepherd dog starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he’s lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch.
The old German Shepherd dog thinks, “Oh, oh! I’m in deep s*** now!”
Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the panther is about to leap, the old German Shepherd exclaims loudly,
“Boy, that was one delicious panther! I wonder, if there are any more around here?”
Hearing this, the young panther halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees.
“Whew!,” says the panther, “That was close! That old German Shepherd dog nearly had me!”
Meanwhile, a squirrel who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the panther. So, off he goes.
The squirrel soon catches up with the panther, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the panther.
The young panther is furious at being made a fool of and says, “Here, squirrel, hop on my back and see what’s going to happen to that conniving canine!”
Now, the old German Shepherd sees the panther coming with the squirrel on his back and thinks, “What am I going to do now? But instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn’t seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old German Shepherd says…
“Where’s that squirrel? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another panther!”
Moral of this story…
Don’t mess with the old dogs… Age and skill will always overcome youth and treachery!
BS and brilliance only come with age and experience.
If you don’t send this to five ‘old’ friends right away, there will be five fewer people laughing in the world.
Of course, I am in no way insinuating that you are old, just ‘youthfully challenged’.
(You did notice the size of the print, didn’t you?)
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Should New Jersey Ban All Cellphone Use by Motorists?
Federal transportation agency claims even hands-free use is hazardous.
By Patch Staff
December 14, 2011
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Should drivers be banned from using a cellphone, even in hands-free mode?
The federal National Transportation Safety Board doesn’t believe it makes any difference whether the driver is holding the cellphone or using it in handsfree mode—all cellphone use by motorists is hazardous, the agency said. In a statement issued this week, the board (which has no legal authority to regulate cellphones itself) urged state governments to ban all cellphone use by drivers.
New Jersey already has one of the toughest laws in the nation on the use of cellphones while driving. And a bill introduced last month in the Assembly would make it even tougher, adding up to two months in jail to the current $100 fine.
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Why bother?
Look how well speed limit laws work!
And, it just gives the State yet another way to take money and waste it.
How about we try a simple change? Let’s try making it an offense to cause an accident. Let’s make it in a trial for damages a prima facie 100% assignment of liability should it be proven that a cell phone was active in the car at the time of the accident. Let’s continue to convince people to VOLUNTARILY forgo using the cell phone when driving.
Laws don’t make a difference. Laws are unenforceable fairly. Laws don’t change “common sense” behavior.
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Beck Can Hardly Believe That Gingrich Actually Calls Himself a ‘Realpolitik Wilsonian’
Posted on December 13, 2011 at 7:06pm by Tiffany Gabbay
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Unbelievable.
Wilson is my Number 2 Worst President.
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(2) Wilson (duped us into WW2 after running on a “peace platform”, racist, Progressive, Federal Reserve, Income Tax)
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Argh!
Doesn’t he see the badness of that label. And, he wants my vote. Not likely.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsVCHE7ayPE&feature=colike
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Somebody picked the Wrong Diner! See what happens when the dumbest dirt bag tries to rob the wrong diner!
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Why does it have to full of kops?
Why can’t it be full of honest citizens prepared to defend themselves, their families, and their neighbors.
Plus if they were citizens, motivated by civic virtue, we know that the “dirt bag” would be really at risk of injury or death. (Police have terrible results with respect to marksmanship.) Citizens are well-regulated. (In the vocabulary of the Dead Old White Guys, meaning they hit what they aim at.)
RKBA!
“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo106.html
Adding Teddy to #7 ahead of the “also-rans”!
(7) Teddy (Crazy, “world’s policeman”, “master race”, “trust buster” of the unfavored business, “food safety crisis”, “conservation”, and worst reviving the income tax.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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The World War II draft issue brings to mind some thoughts I wish to share.
We no longer have a draft in the United States. It was done away with many years ago. We have a volunteer military service.
We are also in three wars at this time. Some of which, if not all of which, may have been unnecessary. Many lives lost and bodies maimed participating in unwarranted encounters.
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First, I believe if there were a draft, there would be fewer wars. Congressman would be reluctant to support wars with a constituency back home telling them that they were not in favor of the war. Unless a World War II situation, no parent wants a child to fight in a war. The President and Congress would both be subject to heavier political constraints regarding war if the people of the nation had a greater influence in whether war should be declared.
It is easy to sit in Washington and say we have to go to this country or that country or we need boots on the ground in this country. Not so if those who are doing the actual fighting are generally from a draft program. There would be a severe reluctance on the part of elected officials to engage in wars.
I say bring back the draft.
Second, I am distrustful of a professional military. I have been so for many years. I primarily do not trust the generals.
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Suggest that your fears about Congress and wars is understated if anything.
I remember when politicians always had to have a military record to get elected. Preferable having had to have been somewhere getting shot at. The theory was that they’d be less likely to risk our girls and boys. Heinlein was right; only vets should be able to vote. (ref Starship Troopers. The book; not the movie.)
Unfortunately, in addition to not requiring our politicians to be anything but “handsome” (i.e., BHO44 as an example), we’ve allowed a whole class of “chicken hawks” into the political arena. Tough talk but it’s not their [[plural synonym for donkeys]] going out to fight.
As a little L libertarian, I don’t want “wars”. I won’t back away from a fight, but I won’t start them either. Who in the current debates, other than Ron Paul, is the “peace candidate”?
With Respect To a military takeover, I’m, more afraid of the civilians who run the current mess in DC. Warfare / welfare state with a dumb “We, The Sheeple” electorate who are too stupid to see we are getting in so many ways we can’t keep track of them.
The Dead Old White Guys made some mistakes: (1) should have made it tougher to change the Constitution; (2) should have had the death penalty for malfeasance or infringing rights; (3) should have outlawed Gooferment Skrules; (4) should have had the President have to be Governor and (5) should have made money a commodity — not paper.
… Oh yeah, they did that last one. But the cockroaches in DC got around that WITHOUT amending the Constitution. (The Federal Reserve System, faith-based money [[it’s money because of legal tender laws]] is the ROOT of all our problems. Allows “print and spend” and its cousin “borrow and spend” for warfare AND welfare. The inflation tax!)
But, then they couldn’t have imagined how stupid “We, The Sheeple” could become.
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http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/baker-r8.1.1.html
JFK Umbrella Man – More Doubts
by Russ Baker
WhoWhatWhy.com
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Dark Complected Man (DCM), like Umbrella Man, was on the Grassy Knoll, and, like Umbrella Man, appears to reasonable observers to have been signaling. At the precise moment that JFK’s car passed, as Umbrella Man opened and pumped his umbrella repeatedly, Dark Complected Man shot his fist up into the air. To some, DCM seemed to be calling for a halt to the presidential limo, which did in fact either come to a complete halt or slowed down to a crawl.
It’s not just their actions at the moment that Kennedy’s head is blown apart. It’s how they behave afterwards.
Instead of reacting with horror and springing into action, these two purported strangers sit down together, on the curb, and calmly survey the chaos. In their icy nonchalance, they exhibit an almost professional detachment.
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Shooting is precision. Hitting a moving target is infinitely harder that a stationary one. Stopping the convoy in the correct spot where the range is precisely known would be critical.
Still think it was one guy with a junky gun on an angle with an unknown distance and weather?
I don’t.
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http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/flash-editorials-december-10-2011/
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Business: The US Air Force quietly announced that they have excluded American aircraft builder Hawker Beechcraft in Wichita, Kansas from competition for a $1 billion contract to build a light attack aircraft. The company said that they had already invested $100 million to comply with what the Air Force wanted in a plane. They also said that 1,400 highly paid technical employees in 20 states will lose their jobs. But here is the outrage. It looks like the $1 Billion contract will go to Embraer…A BRAZILIAN COMPANY. Want even more outrage? Embraer sold 40 light fighters to Iran in 1989, and Iran used the planes as their primary close support aircraft. The Obama Administration is flipping you the bird, America. Learn how to say, “Want fries with that?”
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Why do we ned a billion dollar “light” attack aircraft?
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/woman-denied-food-stamps-kills-self-shoots-children-181629410.html
Woman denied food stamps kills self, shoots children
By Jim Forsyth | Reuters
2011-DEC-06
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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Remember this. I waited until the details came out.
This is all the Gooferment’s fault.
Either of two tracks:
(1) The Gooferment shouldn’t be doing “charity”. Churches and Associations are better suited and more efficient.
(2) The Gooferment dumped all the mentally ill on the streets without support. Families, Churches and Associations are better suited and more efficient.
Get a sense of what the sock answer is: “Gooferment bad; individuals are kings.”
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Can the Cans
Why food drives are a terrible idea.
By Matthew Yglesias
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, at 12:29 PM ET
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But a fundamental issue is that many organizations feel that asking for money—like requesting cash as a gift—seems somewhat gauche. So, let me be rude on their behalf: Find well-managed charities in your community and trust them to know how to do their job. They have access to food at a fraction of the price. They know their clients, and they have better things to do than to sort through your canned goods. And from your perspective, it’s much easier to document a monetary donation for tax purposes. Good intentions are lovely, but particularly in hard times it’s more important to make sure your charitable dollars go as far as possible. Can the cans. Hand over some cash.
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Of course, this IGNORES the fundamental problem of Gooferment “food banks”!
Private charities do a far more effective and efficient job.
When you feed stray cats, you get more of them.
We should be helping people enable themselves to take of themselves. Families should be helping. Churches and Associations should be helping.
Everybody, but the Gooferment. They are structurally unable to help!
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In feeling blue about Frau Reinke’s passing …
… today, the Universe delivered a lesson. I saw a man feeding his wife a hot dog. She was confined to a wheelchair and shook uncontrollably. Obviously in the late stages of Parkinson’s. She was obviously totally dependent on him for her care. And, he was lovingly and diligently feeding her. (Give him a lot of credit.)
So that was my lesson!
Frau Reinke would have been crazed to be like that. And, it would have been infinitely harder work for me to do that for her. (I would have but it would have been a lot harder and emotional for both of us.
So the Universe said today, “It could have been a lot worse for both of you.”
And showed me.
I’m glad she didn’t have to suffer like that.
And, I’m “fine as silk”. :-(
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http://tinybuddha.com/blog/this-too-shall-pass-and-other-reminders
This Too Shall Pass and Other Reminders
by J.C. Lundberg
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Bertrand Russell was a Twentieth Century philosopher in the fields of philosophy of language and metaphysics. When he would debate people, some of them would argue “You cannot disprove such and such a supposition so you must admit that it is possible that I’m right.”
Russell would agree that of course it was possible that they were right, but that does not mean their idea is worthy of respect.
His counterargument was by way of a thought experiment. “Imagine,” he would say, “that I posit that orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars is a small ceramic teapot. Imagine further that I posit that the teapot is small enough and far enough away and has a low enough albedo and therefore our instruments cannot detect it. You would then have to agree that you cannot disprove my teapot.”
Even though we cannot disprove Russell’s teapot it’s not bloody likely that to be out there. “Not bloody likely” are my words, not Professor Russell’s.
The existence of that teapot is not equiprobable, it is not equally likely to be true as to be false.
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“Bertrand Russell’s teapot” (BRT) is going into my shorthands!
Not sure if it’s just for use with wacky ideas. Or maybe with wacky people? Or maybe unprovable <synonym for excrement>? Or people who keep presenting non-facts?
I think I’ll award BRTs to folks that annoy me.
Have to think about the criteria, but I have someone in mind. :-)
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http://www.etsy.com/listing/87887353/silver-dime-trading-cards-police-state
Understanding “value”. What is “wealth”? What is a “dollar”?
“We, The Sheeple” have been fooled into thinking that a “dollar” can be used to measure “wealth”.
“Money is a matter of functions four, a medium, a measure, a standard, a store.” He repeated that four times like poetry. “Six Characters in Money: Portable – Durable – Divisible – Uniformity – Limited Supply – Acceptability.” — CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 110
While a “dollar” is STILL a medium of exchange — at least until OPEC demands to be paid for its oil in gold — that what tripped up old Saddam and “Colonel” Gaddafi — it fails a measure or standard. And, it acts very badly as a store of value or wealth.
Imagine a bunch of “dollars” in a storehouse or a pirate’s chest. The Gooferment, more specifically the Federal Reserve System. also mistakenly called the Federal Reserve Bank, can, by silently quietly sneakily PRINTING more “dollars”, can erode the value, aka purchasing power, of all the “dollars” in circulation. In fact, it’s even gotten easier nowdays. All they do now is go into their computer system and add some zeros. And, poof, they’ve “virtually” printed more dollars. It’s just that easy. Like a Ponzi scheme without all the fuss and muss.
Need an better metaphor, go get a monopoly game. There are a fixed number of houses in a real game. Make yourself “the banker”. Then. give yourself a bunch of house and hotels from a different game set. Place them on your properties as soon as you can slip them in. Call it “Quantitative Easing” or “Buying Bonds by the Open Market Committee”. If the other players say you’re cheating, send in your army and compel them to shut up and play. Kinda hard not to “win”.
Eventually, the marketplace discovers the fraud. All those “new” “dollars” eventually cause prices to rise as more “dollars” chase the same amount of goods.
If you were interested, we could probably come up with a funny example on “Robinson Crusoe’s island”. On Robinson’s island, besides Robinson and Friday, we need to add a banker like the FED and a few people. Let’s say, Robinson catches fish and Friday collects coconuts. At first the island population exchanges things, fish for coconuts. In fact, eventually something becomes the medium of exchange. The “firewood guy, as well as the butcher, the baker. and the candlestick maker, all have to exchange for coconuts. The candlestick maker, if he wants bread but the baker doesn’t want a candlestick, has to go to Friday and exchage a candlestick for some coconuts that the baker does want. Cumbersome. The banker has printed paper receipts that he give out when folks deposit their coconuts with him for safekeeping. A paper receipt for ten coconuts is easier to carry. All well and good. The marketplace establishes prices as eventually Robinson’s fishes are bid for by the villages. Eventually in every bidding war, some one says “thanks, but no thanks”. One fish equals two coconuts; one candlestick is 10 coconuts. And so on and so on. Now our banker prints up more paper receipts. The result is that there are more receipts chasing the same amount of goods, prices rise. And, until everyone wants their coconuts from the banker, the scam works. In the USA, when the scam is discovered, and folks lie up to get their gold for their greenback, FDR says “You can own gold and only foreign governments can exchange dollars for gold”. Up until, DeGaule or France says “I don’t want paper dollars” and Nixon says “Gold window is closed”. And, “We, The Sheeple” and the rest of the world just go along with the joke.
It’s like playing Monopoly where the player / Banker has an extra stash of Monopoly money in their hands that they “printed up”. Hard to “win”.
Argh!
That’s why “hard money” (i.e., money based on a commodity that can’t be printed like gold) is so much better for real people that “faith based money” (i.e., it’s money because someone says it is)!
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AFTER USING DEEPWATCH’S NEW SEARCH OFFERING BIZNAR
http://biznar.com/biznar/search.html
Dear Ms. Toni:
Just an observation, …
… from a fat old white guy injineer who does IT consulting, and an alumni newsletter http://jasperjottings-daily.com/.
I look for news about Manhattan College and its alumni.
On Google, my search is <<“manhattan college” -marymount -“marymount manhattan college” -“borough of manhattan college” -marymount -manhattan.edu -bmcc.cuny.edu -msmnyc.edu -mancol.edu -gojaspers.com>>.
I always try all free search services for adherence to what I call the Google, or “Manhattan College”, standard. (Those that work get my continued “business”. Lucky them!)
What happens when I search using <<“manhattan college”>>?
Using Google, I get good results. (OK, sometimes false positives come out like <<manhattan. College>> or <<manhattan, college>>. And, I’ve “suggested” to Google that needs fixing. No response. It’s been a flaw for a while. Guess I should suggest again.)
Using your new engine, <<“manhattan college”>> returns results as if it was <<“manhattan”+”college”>>. (It took Legacy dot com a while to fix it and it’s broken it a few times.)
Any chance, this can be fixed?
Till it is, I can’t use it because it returns too many false positives.
Now I realize that I’m just a “free rider”. I have no budget for services. But maybe my “testing” is useful?
Thanks,
fjohn
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Manhattan College
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ROFL, calling a Brother “Mister”, I know that at the Prep that would result in some immediate “behavior modification”.
And, they still have Brother S as President.
That’s hugely out of date.
Everything on the inet is trustworthy!
Inspires confidence in everything else you find.
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