Thursday, January 12, 2012
http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65869
U.S. Copyright Office Issues Recommendations on Sound Recordings
December 31, 2011 02:49
From District Dispatch:
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The United States Copyright Office has recommended that pre-1972 sound recordings should be protected by federal copyright law in its Report on Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings.
The Copyright Office ultimately decided that benefits of federalization of pre-1972 sound recordings outweighed the problems and said that federalization conformed with the intent of Congress to unify all works under one federal law.
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Clearly, when a Gooferment bureaucrat studies something, the answer is ALWAYS more regulation that will require more bureaucrats!
The consumers and the taxpayers are being <synonym for the act of procreation, past tense> by the expansion of “copyright” diktats. Could it be a payoff to Hollywood and the Administration’s allies in Big Media? The “copyright” and “patent” systems are to encourage creation and (rather quickly) have it go to the public domain for everyone’s benefit. Congress has shifted the balance way over to the creators and away from the Public. It wasn’t intended to be a lifetime paycheck for the copyright and patent holders. Note, that’s not necessarily the creators.
Look at the film “It’s a wonderful life” that escaped copyright by an error and has become a classic enriching everyone’s holidays. The Beatle’s tunes, the classic movies, and great modern literature should all be available to us.
A decade should be the absolute max.
My example is the copyright on some 60’s Beatles tunes just sold for 200M$. How is the “public good” being advanced?
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/energydept/
Shut Down the Energy Department
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Finally, the very existence of a Department of Energy sends the wrong message: That the Federal Government should have the authority to control energy production and distribution.
Markets provide a more efficient, less-costly method of producing and distributing the energy needs of producers and consumers. You wouldn’t want The State to ration your food, clothing, or shelter, would you? If not, then why should The State control energy supplies?
Some functions of the Energy Department should be transferred to the Defense Department. The rest should be eliminated altogether. Ending the Department of Energy will send the RIGHT message: Our energy needs are too important to be left up to the whims of political favor and unelected bureaucrats.
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Dear Representative:
Please shut down the Department of Energy. End subsidies and cumbersome regulations. Allow a free market in energy.
Every President since Carter, that I remember, maybe as far back as Ike, promised energy independence. The Energy Department has NEVER accomplished its mission. So let’s stop.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein
So, in addition to closing the Department of Energy, permit drilling anywhere and such pipelines as needed,
NOW!
/signed/
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mom-calls-9-1-1-asking-for-permission-to-shoot-intruders-before-killing-one-using-12-ga-shotgun/
Crime Mom Calls 9-1-1 for Permission to Shoot Intruders Before Killing One Using 12-Gauge Shotgun
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 3:09pm by Christopher Santarelli
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“I wouldn’t have done it, but it was my son,” McKinley told KOCO. “It’s not an easy decision to make, but it was either going to be him or my son. And it wasn’t going to be my son. There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a child.”
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Absurd to ask the Gooferment’s permission to defend one’s life.
Equally absurd, is the notion that he was stalking her. I’ve blogged before that with their “order of protection” they should get a loaner, a box of ammo, and some free time with the police trainer in the courthouse. Then, that order should say “open season” if you’re threatened.
Argh!
I trust women, especially mothers, to know when deadly force is appropriate.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
OK! I went to Jury Duty. Armed with my principles and ready to do battle with Leviathan!
Forget the Fourteenth Amendment (no slavery) and the Fifth Amendment (no self-incrimination).
Forget that the Gooferment is an illusion with flags, men in uniform with guns, and men in funny dresses pretending to have authority over other human beings.
I answered their questions truthfully.
Even told the “judge”, when he asked “do you think the justice system is fair?”, “no; but it might be the best we can get.”
He skipped asking me the standard follow up question he asked others. Maybe it was that he feared the result.
(It’s not fair as evidenced by the Project Innocence finding innocents convicted in capital cases and the disparate impact on minorities in prison populations.)
I was feeling that I had made the cut when four other prospective jurors were preemptively challenged off.
Then, after the break, the Defense challenged me off. I was surprised. I thought I’d be challenged by the Prosecution.
Oh well, we’ll see how it comes out. If it gets in the news.
Argh!
Maybe next time I’ll bring my FIJA literature.
See if I still have First Amendment rights?
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
http://itdontmakesense.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-i-carry.html
December 30, 2011
Why I Carry
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The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
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Or, why I would carry if it was permitted in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee!
“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
The essence of the RKBA is about self-defense. From criminals acting alone or in concert as the Gooferment.
Only we’re to dumb to realize what it’s all about.
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Monday, January 9, 2012
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/asking-for-i-d-before-voting-is-racist-but-you-need-a-govt-i-d-to-buy-drain-cleaner/
Asking For I.D. Before Voting Is ‘Racist’, But You Need A Govt. I.D. To Buy Drain Cleaner?
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:57pm by Mike Opelka Mike Opelka
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Got a clogged drain? Before you can buy that liquid drain cleaner, I need to see some ID.
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If it is considered “racist” or “discrimination” to ask a voter for a photo ID before they are allowed to cast a ballot, why is it not racist to ask for a government issued ID card when you want to buy drain cleaner or pay for your gasoline with cash?
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What stupidity?
The ONLY reason not to have voter id requirements is that the duopoly wants the ability to stuff the ballot box.
The Dead Old White Guys were right. Gooferment, politicians and bureaucrats are not to be trusted.
We’ve already seen “dead people” vote, more votes than people, and “math errors” in elections.
And, candidates don’t have to prove they’re eligible.
SO why vote?
Democracy is mob rule. Might as well turn the process over to the mob as we did with the Seventeenth Amendment.
Argh!
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Monday, January 9, 2012
https://www.createspace.com/abna
Amazon Breakthrough Novel AwardThe 2012 Contest is Here!
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Do you have an unpublished or self-published novel you know Amazon.comreaders will love? Enter your novel in the 2012 Amazon BreakthroughNovel Award for a chance to win one of two $15,000 publishing contractswith Penguin USA and distribution of your novel on Amazon.com.
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Maybe next year. I’ll have one or more of the novels ready.
So much to do; so little time. Argh!
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Monday, January 9, 2012
http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/gold-chart-walk-2012.html
Gold Chart Walk 2012
by Morris Hubbartt
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Unlimited government requires unlimited funding. The unfunded liabilities of the USA are staggering. Over the next 20-25 years there is probably a gigantic $75 trillion unfunded liability problem for the US government. Think of the move in gold against the dollar with a debt of $15 trillion. Can you imagine the action in gold with a debt five times the current size?
The United States could be headed towards decades of dollar devaluation. With all of the problems in Europe, why isn’t the euro hitting new lows? Why can’t the dollar mount a real rally, instead of this tiny bit of strength?
The answer is that the dollar isn’t really very strong at all. If America goes into a crisis like you’ve just seen in Europe, the fall in the dollar could dwarf the euro’s fall, because America is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world.
The nature of all fiat currencies is to be competitive, with each currency group looking for an advantage in trade, and more importantly, an advantage in debt relief for the governments that issue these currencies. Fiat currencies are designed to be depreciated over time. Buy Gold in this time of gold price weakness, because your opportunity won’t last forever.
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Regardless of how you feel about gold — the magic mineral, an obsolete anachronism, or something in between — this quote should strike fear into the heart on anyone who understands “real life”.
As if “unlimited government” was NOT scary enough, “unlimited funding” should be down right terrifying.
The national debt stands at 15T$ and growing every second.
Then you hit the guesstimate of 75T$ of unfunded liability, which should knock your socks off. It does mine.
How did “we” get in this mess? Even a crooked accountant, with two sets of books, has one that tells him the truth. Even Bernie Made-off knew he was “underwater”. We don’t even have ONE set that tells us the truth.
“Jobs created or saved”, “unemployment” stats that don’t account for the “99 week”-ers, and an inflation rate that doesn’t include food or fuel.
These are the statisticians that you’re looking to tell you “the truth”.
Can you even handle “the truth”?
“The truth” is that we’re going to be like Japan, the Soviet Union, and Zimbabwe all rolled into one.
As one of those war movies said: “Tell everyone to get small in their holes because trouble is coming.”
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Sunday, January 8, 2012
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, X wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/27/tech/mobile/dropbox-camera-auto-import/index.html?c=mobile
Sent from my iPhone
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Nah, it’ll just blow out storing pictures. Now if KODAK offered it, I’d be interested.
BTW the impending KODAK chapter 11 has led me to back up all my pictures into SUGARSYNC and I ordered and have an EOY cd.
Can’t depend upon any ONE service provider.
Argh!
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Word to the wise: Cloud services are useful, BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), always worry that they could disappear tomorrow.
Argh!
Remember the Rawles adage: “Two is one; one is none”. Service providers or survival tools, same rules apply!
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
http://www.doughroller.net/investing/how-to-buy-us-savings-bonds/
Electronic U.S. Savings Bonds–Say Goodbye to Paper
by Rob Berger
in Investing
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As of today, U.S. savings bonds have gone digital. Paper savings bonds are history.
I’m get a bit nostalgic when it comes to paper bonds. There’s just something comforting in holding physical evidence of your investment. And the designs of paper bonds over the years have been quite impressive.
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In the old days, a family accumulated savings bonds to pay for the children’s education. War bond, savings bonds, even savings stamps that led to a savings bond were common.
Over time, even rubes recognized that this was a joke.
Sorry, but this is just another scam pulled off on “We, The Sheeple”.
If the inflation rate is what I think it is, there’s no way that Gooferment Bonds of any type make any economic sense.
And, any interest on those savings bonds add to your taxable income in the future.
Also, those “savings” count in the formula for aid for that education.
Bullion is a better vehicle for any saving. Similar to passing along an inheritance, the rounds don’t appear on any form or schedule.
Hey, if the Gooferment and Wall Street can have “off book” and “off balance sheet” entries, why can’t you?
Call it jewelry. Just don’t keep it in a safe deposit box. (FDR raided those.) Everyone should have a garden.
Keeping what’s yours and / or getting back what was stolen from you is just financial self-defense.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=e96c39c9b735ab8c&resid=E96C39C9B735AB8C!119&parid=E96C39C9B735AB8C!110&authkey=!ABlb_nSM43Bpn4Y
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Yeah the whole 5 Gig file in an email. Argh! So, here it is for your enjoyment. Just the link; take the file if you want it. But why? You can just share the link. Think of all those electrons you’re saving.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2012/01/ron-paul-is-not-progressive.html
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Ron Paul is not a progressive
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Paul was right on both wars, on the bailout of the banks and continues to be right about the need for transparency at the fed. He is right about gay marriage and he is right on most civil liberties issues and the drug war.
But Ron Paul is not a progressive. Ron Paul is not anti-corporate. He believes that empowering business is the best way to accomplish all good things and that government has no role to play in ensuring a level playing field. It was Paul’s dismissal of a government role in health care that elicited the shout of “let him die” during the Republican debates.
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AND A COMMENT
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Anonymous Anonymous said…
Excellent points by Hank K. Ron Paul would destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and any social program that helps ordinary folks. He would probably be for assisting the privatization of our public schools. Libertarianism is filth, a despicable bunch of garbage that’s great for the greedy millionaires and greedy billionaires (as opposed to the responsible and altruistic millionaires and billionaires) who don’t want to pay their fair share in taxes. Under libertarianism, if you become disabled and can no longer work, then tough luck or go out in the street and beg for charity. Libertarians say, let the charities take care of the millions who are disabled, elderly or too poor. It’s an idiotic notion to think that charities are even close to being able to help the 50 millions uninsured. Dialysis costs about $150,000 per year and there are many thousands of people in this country with kidney disease or kidney failure. Medications cost thousands per year, there aren’t enough charities on earth to deal with these numbers. I would not vote for Ron Paul even if you put a gun to my head.
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And, everything today is just working perfectly and at costs we can afford?
Ron Paul hasn’t said anything about destroying everything. He has said that we need real cuts in Gooferment spending. Do you dsagree?
For example, he says the Federal Gooferment should have no role in education. Let the States do it. So we send money to Federal Gooferment to send back to the state Gooferment. There’s a swag that says ½ of any money passing through a Gooferment entity loses ½ its value due to the cost og handling. Sending a dollar to the Feds gets maybe 25¢s back! Eliminate the overhead.
Of course that will totally destroy the education establishment. And, maybe we can have a national and state discusion on “education”. Personally, I authored a paper for Hands Across New Jersey on how to transition “education” from Gooferment to parents over 40 years. (Under the theory that parents are in a better position to educate their children. And cheaper and better. They made the decision to have them; they should provide for them.) I’m frustrated because if HANJ wasn’t subverted by the duopoly, we’d almost be out of the problem.
You bring up charity, charity care, and the cost of medicine. But you ignore the role of Gooferment in driving up the cost of healthcare. Just like it drives up the cost of “education”.
Argh!
I think that Ron Paul represents the essence of the Taft Republicans. It’s been lost for decades and we have a 15T$ debt, deficits for as far as the eyes can see, unfunded liabilities somewhere between 50T$ and 150T$ depending upon who counts what, and a dismal economic future.
Perhaps, you might consider that Socialism doesn’t work. Didn’t for the Soviet Union. And, won’t for the USA.
Argh!
“everything is fine. move along citizen. nothing to see here.”
Argh!
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
RECEIVED AN EMAIL THAT MADE ME LAFF!
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From: Lifetick <service@lifetick.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:30 PM
Subject: The completion of your goal is overdue.
To: fjohn reinke
Hi fjohn,
We’re sorry to inform you but your goal of Reduce weight from 325 to 175 is one week overdue.
Nevertheless, all is not lost. You may just need to revise your goal or push the date out a little bit. Whatever you do, don’t give up. Many people are in the same situation as you and it’s nice to know it can be overcome. If your priorities have changed then that’s ok. There are many other goals you can be working towards. So take a deep breath, re-focus and give yourself the best chance in life.
Remember, this is the reason why you wanted to achieve this goal:”Health, energy, image”
Click Here to Update your Goal
Best of luck,
The Lifetick team
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I was just joshing around trying it out.
p.s., I’m down to 310 and doing it.
ROFL!
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
http://www.survivalblog.com/2012/01/never_surrender–a_resolution.html
Never Surrender–A Resolution for 2012 And Beyond,
by C.R.W.January 1, 2012 5:00 AM
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Why do Law Enforcement Officials always tell civilians not to resist a criminal, while they tell their Officers to always resist and never surrender?
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On Sept 2, 2010, 40 armed criminals took over and robbed a train in India. Some of the robbers had guns, others used knives and clubs. When they began to disrobe an 18 year old girl for the purpose of gang raping her, one of the passengers decided to fight. He was a 35 year old retired Gurkha soldier. He drew his Khukasri knife and attacked the 40 robbers. He killed three of the robbers and wounded 8 more despite his being wounded in this 20 minute fight. The remaining criminals fled for their lives leaving their stolen loot and eleven comrades dead or wounded on the floor of the train. The eight wounded robbers were arrested.
How does one man defeat 40? How does he summon the courage to fight such odds? He utilized all of the Principles of Personal Defense: Alertness, Decisiveness, Aggressiveness, Speed, Coolness, Ruthlessness, and Surprise. He was skilled in the use of his weapon. Most importantly, He refused to be a victim and allow evil to triumph!
If this one inspirational soldier can defeat 40 opponents using his knife, it would seem that we should all be able to defeat a group of armed criminals by using our firearms if we are professionally trained as was this heroic Gurkha soldier.
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This brings to the fore, with concrete examples, as to why “dial 911 and die” is true.
And, why, indeed, do kops get told one thing and the “mundanes” something else?
Finally, there are no dangerous things, only dangerous people. One guy with a knife polishes off 40?
Remember the Churchill quote: “…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
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Friday, January 6, 2012
http://bigpeace.com/jbernard/2011/12/29/the-united-states-government-is-being-willfuly-ignorant-in-the-current-middle-eastern-war/
The United States Government’s Willful Ignorance Is Costing Soldiers’ Lives
Posted by John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.)
Dec 29th 2011 at 5:23 pm
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To that end, it has been my contention that this administration, the past administration and the entire upper end structure of the military machine has failed miserably. Not only have they chosen the wrong strategy to achieve a definable victory for their nation, they chose one that has been disproportionately brutal for our forces while providing cover for the enemy and the population that has proven over and over again to be untrustworthy.
History has defined and will continue to define only a miniscule number of opportunities for a theater-wide application of the precepts of Counterinsurgency Doctrine to have been efficacious. Even a casual glance at the human terrain in either Iraq or Afghanistan, with Syria and Iran to possibly follow, should have given the critical thinker everything they needed to adequately keep COIN under lock and key in the vault of terrible ideas.
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First of all, if someone can point me toward the ongoing, public record of support for America in either of these operations or the public record of Muslim denunciation of the actions of the “terrorist” or “radicalized” Muslim or Jihad as a war doctrine, Taqiyya as a deceptive practice with the intent of keeping the enemy off balance, please show me?
The clear evidence only suggests groups as defined by those who willingly strap on bombs and those who do not. Unfortunately, we know that from within the second group comes the financial and spiritual support for the first.
Suggesting you can parse these two and do harm to one while garnering support for said harm from the “moderates” simply misses the truth about religion – all religion!
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We watch the wanton destruction of human life by the forces of Islam and the associated silence from the “moderates” every day. Is it the contention of those who submit to the “two Islams” vision that we should continue to assume the best of a people whose religion is belligerent to non-believers?
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The First Sargent correctly imho distills the “problem” into the concept: “It not what we think, it’s what it is that counts.”
Their “moderates” support their “extremists”.
Any failure to recognize this fact in policy, strategy, or tactics dooms us to failure. And, failure, in this case, translates into dead human beings. Soldiers and civilians on both sides are lost due to the stupidity of our leadership. Or lack there of.
We need to get the girls and boys out of the fire zone until we figure it out.
“We, The Sheeple” learned nothing from Viet Nam.
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Friday, January 6, 2012
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/102662.html
December 31, 2011
Hillary Clinton Admits That the U.S. Government Created Al-Qaeda
Posted by David Kramer
on December 31, 2011 02:21 PM
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By the way, Clinton lies (big “surprise”) when she says that the Soviets’ war with Afghanistan led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. This is what led to the collapse of the Soviet Union—and all other countries that choose a command market over a free market economy. (And even a mixed economy that all countries—yes, that includes the United States—now have will eventually collapse unless they move toward a free market.)
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Now how is that any different than Ron Paul on “blow back”?
Empires always go broke. It’s unsustainable. Portugal, Spain, France, England, Russia, Ottoman? Miss any? Ottoman did the best because they stayed on a commodity money.
Why should the USA be any different?
We’re broke by any measure.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2012/01/this_toll_hike_could_be_just_t.html
This toll hike could be just the beginning
Published: Sunday, January 01, 2012, 2:09 AM
Paul Mulshine/The Star Ledger
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In 2001, a guy by the name of Bret Schundler was running for governor. The Republican candidate’s platform called for the immediate removal of the Garden State Parkway tolls.
His Democratic opponent, Jim McGreevey, said he’d get rid of the tolls as well, but it would take seven years.
Schundler as much as called him a liar. “If I win, tolls come down; if I lose, we get high-speed E-ZPass,” he said.
McGreevey won and proceeded to prove himself a liar — in what may be record time for even a Jersey pol. The day after he took the oath of office, McGreevey went on 101.5 FM and told a caller that he had no intention of keeping his promise to remove tolls.
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This is news to “We, The Sheeple” / Nu Jerzee subset!
Anyone who thinks that either side of the duopoly can be trusted is sadly delusional.
And the politicians and bureaucrats are perfectly happy if “the cost of collecting that toll can easily exceed the toll itself.” The bureaucrats get paychecks and the politicians get loyal voters in those bureaucrats. No corruption in that!
Wonder if some one can figure out the percentages. What percentage of NJ voters are “voting under the influence” of the Gooferment money.
There’s interesting anecdotal stories that Teachers’ Union SPOUSES run for school boards where they live; not where their spouse teaches. No conflict of interest, right? Until you realize that rasies won in one district become the norm in others.
Could it be that we have more than 50% of the voters who have “a dog in the fight”?
No wonder “we” just can’t win!
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano34.1.html
The Case for Austerity
by Andrew P. Napolitano
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Government is not a jobs program, and government is not your caretaker. Government is an arrangement made by free individuals to protect their rights and their property.
It doesn’t take $3.6 trillion a year to do that effectively in America today. I doubt it takes a trillion. We must swallow the bitter pill of austerity now, on our own terms, while we are still the undisputed leader of the free world and while we still have a Constitution, so that we can restore our prosperity in a way consistent with personal liberty.
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Certainly seems that the 15T$ national debt is OUR problem.
If we were all on the same page, then we could amortize that over generations.
Bet we could sell 50 year bonds!
But we’re not even on the same planet as some people.
The Tea Party and the Occupy folks were all screaming about the same thing. Crony Capitalism, Regulatory Capture, and Rule by the Effete Elite. (imho)
Time to cut spending. And get everyone back to work.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
http://dailyreckoning.com/the-corruption-of-america
The Corruption of America
By Porter Stansberryleadimage
12/21/11
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All we’ve done is convert the government’s nominal GDP stats into a fixed currency value that’s based on real-world purchasing power. The fact is, our data are far more accurate than the government’s because they represent the real-world experience. That’s why our data are far more closely correlated to other real-world studies of wealth in America.
Consider, for example, annual sales of automobiles. Auto sales peaked in 1985 (11 million) and have been declining at a fairly steady rate since 1999. In 2009, Americans bought just 5.4 million passenger cars. As a result, the median age of a registered vehicle in the U.S. is almost 10 years.
Our data shows that real per-capita wealth peaked in the late 1960s. Guess when we find the absolutely lowest median age of the U.S. fleet? In 1969. At the end of the 1960s, the median age of all the cars on the road in the U.S. was only 5.1 years. Even as recently as 1990, the median age was only 6.5 years.
Rich people buy new cars. Poor people do not.
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Once again we have the “underground” confirming what we know in our gut, the country is getting poorer day by day.
“Penny candy”! Remember that? Like the recent Ron Paul point about 1964 dimes and gas, “penny candy” is a similar point.
One tenth of one single silver dime in the Sixties would get you one or more pieces of loose candy at the cash register. (Amazing in light of today’s focus on germs and health hazards that anyone survived.) Fast forward to today. That silver dime is worth about two of today’s dollars. So a tenth is about 20 cents. “Penny candy” is sold in quarter “gum ball” dispensers. So all that’s changed is the value of the money with respect to the goods available.
Who wins in this inflation? No surprise there. The politicians and bureaucrats!
Argh!
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The big pension
He read the story on the political website, but didn’t comment or blog about it. A politician works the system and gets a pension four times that of the President’s salary. His meager life had always been good enough for him while his wife was alive. Now with her passing, he was mad. Crazy mad. At the doctors. At the system. At all the things undone. Time to take out some anger.
It was really trivial. Google maps the politician’s home. Google all the stories. Google the likes and dislikes. The woman was a dog owner. Pets have to be walked. Take down the pocket rocket box that his wife had never opened. Load it. And wait for nightfall.
Park around the block. Get out and walk around. Twice. Here comes the woman walking her pet. Just walk by. Stop, draw, turn, and fire. Walk calmly away back to the car. Drive directly to the Staten Island ferry. Pay the man and drive on. Fifteen minutes late. Get out of the car and walk to the rail. Gun goes over the side.
The police were mystified. All the fruits and nuts who commented or posted. The various three letter agencies all looked for a pattern. The media lamented that a dedicated public servant never got to enjoy her well earned pension. A story was even planted about another similar case. But our cowardly hero was out of the business. After all he only had one pocket rocket. And, it was the pattern, even random, that would catch the culprit.
Another politician decided that was no fluke and he passed on the opportunity to do the same thing. Another internet patriot put two and two together and blogged the story. And, another lonely old woman said that might be something she could do with her husband’s old hand gun.
Who says that one anonymous old man can’t change the world? It just requires some “wet work” by patriots.
Again!
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Video-of-marriage-proposal-gone-wrong-at-UCLA-ba?urn=ncaab-wp7324
Tue Jan 03 04:08pm ESTVideo of marriage proposal gone wrong at UCLA basketball game
By Jeff Eisenberg
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The most memorable rejection of the UCLA basketball season happened in the stands rather than on the court.
Midway through a 71-63 victory over Richmond Dec. 23 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, UCLA’s “Mistletoe Cam” cut to a couple seated courtside. The man reaches into his pocket, pulls out a ring and says, “I knew that I was going to do this since the first day that I met you, and I figured now was as good a time as any.” His girlfriend’s response when he gets down on one knee and pops the question? Well, let’s just say it involved an awkward pause and running in the other direction.
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Hey, I can empathize with that fellow. First time, I proposed the girl said “no”.
I’d never ask where a rejection would be so public.
Maybe, like in my case, the second time will be the charm.
Argh! But you really have to feel for the guy.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
“With all due respect…”
(“I really think you’re an <synonym for donkey>.”)
Sorry, but this ranks right up there with “Honestly”! (Was everything else you’ve ever told me a lie?)
I’m working on cleaning up my vocabulary.
SO now I’m more likely to keep quiet or tell you that you’re an idiot.
And, you thought I was blunt before. Now, I’m not even going to try to be “political”.
ROFL!
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Monday, January 2, 2012
http://www.cmt.com/videos/taylor-swift/716133/ours.jhtml
http://www.cmt.com/videos/jason-aldean/693565/tattoos-on-this-town.jhtml
http://www.cmt.com/videos/montgomery-gentry/691494/where-i-come-from.jhtml
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1IW9bIq5E
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I don’t know if it’s the Wounded Warrior Project commercials, the Country Music videos, or the media coverage of the Republican Presidential Primary.
But I’m <past tense synonym for urine output> off!
I’m a bubbling cauldron of little L libertarian rage.
Why?
Didn’t “We, The Sheeple” learn ANYTHING from Viet Nam, Republic of?
Apparently not.
Of all the candidates, Ron Paul is the ONLY one challenging our foreign policy of world occupation. Our Gooferment has its “nose” and “hands”, up to the proverbial elbows, in everyone else business. No wonder we’re hated. And, now the chicken hawks are drumming up a fight with Iran, Syria, … and who knows who else.
Why?
To enrich the politicians and bureaucrats. Thru crony capitalism.
Now, I’m sympathetic to the veterans’ plight. Especially those “kids” who signed up for their State’s Guard unit and found themselves in one of the sandboxes or the rock box. But the all volunteer force means that girls and boys had to “volunteer”. And, I know that there’s all sorts of nuances to that “freedom”. From old farts with delusions of patriotism, to economic pressures. With stops along the way at TV commercials touting education benefits and the comrades in arms propaganda. Us old vets are a fault for allow that to happen. We know better. (Heinlein was right; only vets should vote!)
So why am I being panhandled to “help vets”. The Gooferment isn’t doing its job in that function either.
So, let’s support the troops!
Don’t let them be used for trivial purposes that are not in the strategic interest. They are not props for Presidents (of either party) or politicians to play with.
To quote another country song, let’s put boot up the <synonym for donkey> of politicians.
Old vets should hold them accountable!
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Monday, January 2, 2012
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=375989
Peace on Earth, now buy a gun
Posted: December 09, 2011
Patrice Lewis
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So when firearms sales spike in anticipation of our annual celebration of peace on earth and goodwill toward men, I find nothing in the slightest bit contradictory in that concept. An armed society, as they say, is a polite society. But more than that, an armed society is a peaceful society. A nation whose citizens are armed stays relatively peaceful. It will never turn into a tyranny.
Remember, a free man cannot be defeated. He can only be killed. That becomes much easier if you’ve disarmed him first.
So to maintain peace on earth and goodwill toward men, I urge you to buy a firearm this Christmas and learn how to use it. Support the Second Amendment. Keep peace on earth … or at least in our country.
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There’s no doubt that guns are a tool that keeps the peace.
“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
The politicians and bureaucrats are NOT the friends of the People that they pretend to be. They want to exercise power over us.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Why-Irish-soldiers-who-fought-against-Hitler-and-the-Nazis-had-to-hide-their-medals-136367173.html
Why Irish soldiers who fought against Hitler and the Nazis had to hide their medalsAfter deserting the Irish army to fight with the British, many soldiers faced persecution
By KERRY O’SHEA, IrishCentral Intern
Published Thursday, December 29, 2011, 7:27 AMUpdated Thursday, December 29, 2011, 7:27 AM
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However, Stout also says that at the time, Ireland had only recently broken away from Britain, and resentment was still strong. “They didn’t understand why we did what we did. A lot of Irish people wanted Germany to win the war – they were dead up against the British.”
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There’s a book out that’s titled something like “It’s dangerous to be on the wrong side of the Gooferment”.
You have to feel sorry for these men and their families.
Spurned by their own and forgotten by their “friends”.
Well, whenever you follow you conscience, you have to expect some breakage.
How soon everyone forgets!
That’s why unless the bad men are coming up your street, you shouldn’t be “going to war”.
It’s always the elites’ war; not the people’s!
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
RANT: Where’s the Rose parade? Or any of the New Year’s parades. No Mummers?
I miss them all. Were all the parades cancelled?
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