RANT: Lautenberg parrots the D talking points

Monday, December 5, 2011

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Dear Mr. John:

Thank you for contacting me about taxes. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.

On August 2, the “Budget Control Act of 2011” (P.L. 112-25) was signed into law. This law allows the debt limit to be increased by up to $2.1 trillion. In conjunction with this increase, deficits must be decreased by at least $2.1 trillion over 10 years. This law generates $0.9 trillion in initial deficit reduction over 10 years through spending cuts rather than tax increases. At least $1.2 trillion in additional deficit reduction will be identified by the newly-established Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. This bipartisan committee is charged with presenting a deficit reduction plan by late November, which must receive an up or down vote in both chambers of Congress by the end of the year. If the committee fails to produce a plan, or if the committee’s plan fails to attract the support of a majority of the House and Senate, additional spending cuts of $1.2 trillion over 10 years will automatically occur.

Please be assured that I will be closely monitoring the recommendations of the Joint Committee and I will keep your concerns in mind as this issue receives further consideration by the Senate. Thank you again for contacting me.

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Argh!

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FUN: “Fresh Brew” badge

Monday, December 5, 2011

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Yeah, I know get a life!

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GUNS: When a Tyrannosaurs Rex rampages through your neighborhood … …

Sunday, December 4, 2011

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/want-to-see-a-customized-700-caliber-dinosaur-hunting-rifle-in-action/

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According to Firearm Blog, the rifle has a “16.25″ barrel, can push the 1132 grain of lead up to 2300 fps. Thats 13,000 ft/lbs of energy, right up there with the .50 BMG and far exceeding the .700 Nitro Express. The cast lead bullet has enough energy to pass clean through a 1/4″ steel plate.

When a Tyrannosaurs Rex rampages through your neighborhood, this would seem to be the perfect tool for the job.

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Way kool!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Minimum house size?

Sunday, December 4, 2011

http://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-house/%E2%80%9Ctiny%E2%80%9D-a-short-documentary-about-living-small/

“TINY”: A (short) Documentary about Living Small
by Kent Griswold on November 27th, 2011
Guest Post by Merete Mueller, co-director and producer of the film.

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“TINY: A Story About Living Small” is a short documentary about Christopher Smith’s process of building a tiny house from scratch with no building experience in the mountains of Colorado. The film also follows the lives of other families around the country who have downsized their lives to less than 400 square feet.

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That cabin turned into a tiny house on wheels when he learned that building codes in Park County, Colorado would require him to build a house of at least 600-square feet. He realized that a house on wheels would allow him to bypass these laws, and the more that he learned about tiny houses, the more he liked the idea of minimally impacting the land he had bought by simply parking his small home on it, instead of digging a foundation into the ground.

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Doesn’t anyone else find this “absurd”?

In the era of conspicuous consumption, homelessness, and unsaleable McMansions, why not “small”?

It seems that “tiny” houses can be done for well under 100k$.

Guess this doesn’t make the tax collectors happy or the builders.

What’s wrong with youngsters going back to the land and building something they can afford?

Make me ask what is the purpose of a building code anyway? Make work for politicians and bureaucrats. Not like they stand behind their “inspections”. Just watch “Holmes on Homes” or do a project with contractors that require permits and “inspections”.

What a joke!

Except that we pay for it in so many many ways.

Couldn’t we have a “village of tiny houses” without it being a “shanty town”. Instead of “projects” or “dormitories”, tiny houses.

Homes that people can afford.

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SERVICE: GOOOGLE READER changes silently

Sunday, December 4, 2011

http://www.jasperjottings.com/2011/jj2011W49.html

Lots of techie problems this week and it shows. Took almost 5 hours to do what normally takes 45 minutes.

Biggest problem is that GOOGLE READER changed. Silently, no notice. Now I can NOT cut ‘n’ paste an expanded series of stories.

No way; no how.

Chrome, Firefox, and Opera — all act the same.

Why I don’t like “the cloud”!!!

<Expletive Deleted>

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JOBSEARCH: More confirmation that the concept of a “job” has changed forever

Saturday, December 3, 2011

http://www.chrismartenson.com/martensonreport/future-work

Executive Summary

* Many of today’s current job positions will vanish as the debt that has made them possible retraces

* Future demand for work will come from non-financial sectors

* Cost management will re-assert it’s importance on par with income growth

* Non-market and hybrid work models will grow to employ many more people than they do now

* Participation in social and capital networks (both physical and virtual) will become increasingly valuable

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This goes along with, or at least concurs, that the meme of a “job” has forever changed. Not necessarily for the good. No memo has been issued — “Attention Kmart shoppers; the metaphor is changing. Please adjust your paradigms and meme. Failure to do so will cause unnecessary pain.” Argh! I know, in at least one case, where imho the parents are steering their child into the old meme (i.e., seek lifetime employment with steady salary, benefits, and pension). OTOH I know another parent that is raising “entrepreneurial” children. Who’s to say who’s right and who’s wrong. But it certainly seems that fmpov one can. YMMV, fjohn

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NANOWRIMO: Loser’s party!

Friday, December 2, 2011

http://www.hillarydepiano.com/2011/12/01/so-you-didnt-win-nanowrimo-this-year-you-should-still-be-proud-of-yourself-for-trying-even-if-you-fell-short/

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SERVICE: “Cloud” translates to “Could disapear at the providers’ whim”

Friday, December 2, 2011

From: Google Wave <wave-noreply@google.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:15 AM
Subject: Google Wave Sunsetting in 2012

Dear Wavers,

More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.

If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.

For more details, please see our help center.

Yours sincerely,

The Wave Team

© 2011 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Wave account.

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This should make anyone wary of depending upon any “free” services. “Cloud” translates to “Could disapear at the providers’ whim”. Yeah, this could never happen to “GMail” or “Yahoo” or … or … — time to wake up folks. If you ain’t paying for it, you may not have it. And, even that’s no guarantee. ?????

And how or why would you try to copyright an email like this? A lawyer’s wet dream!

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RANT: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Jumbo Shrimp, and honest politicians

Thursday, December 1, 2011

FROM FACEBOOK

“Appears that there is a 2nd grader telling the kids that there is no Santa.”

Sorry, but parents should NEVER lie to their children. Ever! They have to be able to KNOW that Mom, but especially Dad, will tell me “the truth” as best as they know it. Imagine what goes on in their little brains when it dawn on them, that the two people their whole life depends on, will look them right in the eye, smile, and lie like a used car salesman. Bad! If they can’t depend on getting the truth from Mom and Dad, who then? (Uncle Ferd!) And, then folks wonder why children turn into teenagers that don’t listen, or respect their parents. Now, you don’t have to tell them everything you know (e.g., sex, income tax rates, how a motor works, how much work stinks, worries). But you don’t have to correct their assumptions, erroneous memes, and | or incorrect paradigms. Just do NOT lie!   

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TINFOILHAT: JFK’s assassination certainly has implications

Thursday, December 1, 2011

http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd14.1.html

The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11
by Peter Dale Scott
Global Research

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Let me say in conclusion that for a half century American politics have been constrained and deformed by the unresolved matter of the Kennedy assassination. According to a memo of November 25 1963, from Assistant Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, it was important then to persuade the public that “Oswald was the assassin,” and that “he did not have confederates.”70 Obviously this priority became even more important after these questionable propositions were endorsed by the Warren Report, the U.S. establishment, and the mainstream press. It has remained an embarrassing priority ever since for all succeeding administrations, including the present one. There is for example an official in Obama’s State Department (Todd Leventhal), whose official job, until recently, included defense of the lone nut theory against so-called “conspiracy theorists”71

If Oswald was not a lone assassin, then it should not surprise us that there is continuity between those who falsified reports about Oswald in 1963, and those who distorted American politics in subsequent deep events beginning with Watergate. Since the deep event of 1963 the legitimacy of America’s political system has become vested in a lie – a lie which subsequent deep events have helped to protect.72

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There’s no doubt among my circle that I wear a tin foil hat. That being said, I mere point out that there are logical questions that seem unanswered. The implications of those questions upset “We, The Sheeple” and, since there is no “intellectual curiosity” about “unpleasant topics”, they accept the “jumbo shrimp”, “tooth fairies”, and such with an amazing lack of concern.

And, label all that don’t with the labels “crackpot”, “conspiracy nut”, and “weirdo”.

I remember the disparagement heaped upon my “crazy” uncle Louie, who was a little nuts (i.e., he owned a gun in even then “liberal” New York), when at the Tday feast, he’d insist to his male peers over a beer that “FDR caused Pearl Harbor”. I can remember him reciting the same five points over and over again. I wish I’d take notes. (But then I wish that about a lot of things.) It wasn’t until he was long dead and buried that I found an read “The Pearl Harbor Deception” by Robert Stinnett that made a very persuasive case that crazy Uncle Louie wasn’t so crazy. I wonder what will happen, what books will be written, that will confirm other “crazy” ideas.

In this long paper, i found one element “interesting”.

“According to a memo of November 25 1963, from Assistant Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, it was important then to persuade the public that “Oswald was the assassin,” and that “he did not have confederates.”

Why would this be “important” to an Assistant Attorney General?

See the essence of being a tin foil hat is to find more and more threads that just, when followed, lead “We, The Sheeple” to an inevitable truth. We’ve been getting screwed by the political class for a long time. We just don’t know it.

Yet!

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