JOBFINDiNG: VP IT NJ Insurance

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Dear John,

We are currently recruiting for a Vice President of Information Technology for our client, a major insurance company in the Warren, NJ area.

Primary Responsibilities:
o Planning, implementing and supporting insurance systems in a complex distributed IT environment.
o Developing and maintaining policies and standards aimed at maximizing effectiveness and minimizing costs related to the acquisition, implementation and operation of IT systems.
o Maintaining a rigorous Sarbanes-Oxley control environment.
o Providing leadership for day-to-day production operations, in addition to long-range project work.

Job Qualifications
o Minimum of 10 years of experience in insurance information systems and information technology and has directly reported to CIOs in the past; direct management of a major insurance IT operation is preferred.
o Must possess knowledge of commercial property and casualty insurance – insurance experience should include such product lines as Workers’ Comp; Program Business, General Liability; Excess Casualty; Specialty Lines including Financial Institutions, Directors & Officers Liability; Environmental Insurance, etc.
o Demonstrated ability to function in a fast-paced, high performance environment.
o Project management / IT leadership – Strategic Planning, establishing and managing priorities, negotiating with vendors, contractors and others, and budgeting.
o Responsible for managing 60 IT professionals.

Salary: $190,000 – $225,000 plus bonus eligibility

This client offers a dynamic work environment and a competitive compensation and benefit package; which includes a 401k plan, retirement/savings option, tuition reimbursement, medical, dental, vision, life and group legal plans.

If you are qualified, available, interested, or planning to make a change, please reply to this e-mail with a copy of your latest resume, even if we have spoken recently about a different position.

If you are not currently seeking employment and know someone who may be, please feel free to forward my email to them or email me with their contact information. I will contact them directly.

Thanks much,

Robin E. Mills
Technical Recruiter
Search EDP Inc.
RMills@SearchEDP.com

http://www.SearchEDP.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/robinemills

‘Be kinder than necessary, because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.’

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MONEY: Don’t think your employer pays anything; you do!

Friday, September 14, 2012

Ignore taxes and benefits and anything other than the value equation.

Assume for a minute that an employee generate $100 of value for an employer.

And, that is the basis of the deal they strike.

Let’s say the employer is generous and give the employee ½ and keeps the other ½.

Employee winds up with $50.

Now lets factor in ONLY social security tax. (12.4% “split” 50/50)

Same value equation.

The $50 “earned” by the employee.

$6.20 split 50/50? 3.60 each.

So the employee gets $46.40, the Gooferment gets $6.20, and the employer retains a value of $46.40.

If to do the deal the employee has to give the employer $50 of value, then the employee has to be willing to take less.

So the employee has to be willing to take $43.80 so that the employer gets $50.

Cut through the illusion that the employer “pays half”!

The employee’s value equation is reduced by the tax that the employer pays.

Each deduction from your pay obviously you pay. But, every dollar your employer puts out on your behalf, ALSO, comes out of YOUR pocket.

Benefits are a bigger scam.

Remember that EVERYTHING comes out of your (the employee’s side of the value equation).

So any benefit that the employer “gives” you, you’re paying for.

And, for example, in the case of health benefits, the employer gets a tax deduction.

But, if you buy them, you don’t. (Yeah schedule A maybe after the % take back.)

How about life insurance? Same thing! They get a tax deduction on your money. And, that’s not deductible to you ever.

Argh!

It’s a rigged game and employees think the employer is being “magnanimous”.

Every item is like that: pension, 401k contribution, … everything has an angle that favors the employer.

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LIBERTY: I OWN my own body!

Thursday, September 13, 2012

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle686-20120902-05.html

Self-Ownership
by Cassandra C. Grissom and Sean N. Gruber
Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

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America has become a statist, freedom-hating, catch-phrase espousing, ignorant, and nightmarish shadow of its own, once great, (though still flawed) self. And the easiest way that we can think to prove this claim, follows:

I OWN my own body! Ownership means; dominion! I control or don’t, I choose or don’t, I determine or don’t, every single facet of my controllable conscious existence. I’m limited by nothing but reality and the respect of others same right to the lack of said limitations.

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The “government” claims dominion over you every time it demands an ID from you to buy alcohol! It claims dominion over you every time it demands a card from your doctor to buy marijuana or to get a permit to carry a gun! It claims dominion every time is assumes it has a rightful place in your medical business! It claims dominion every time is supposes it knows how to better prepare you for your retirement. It claims dominion every time it suggests or demands of you whom to kill or whom to die for. And it insults all of us to a point of intolerable degradation when it locks up people who video record its agents (the cop’s) violating the few limitations it still purports to impose upon itself!

The state is controlling your body and what you can and cannot do with it. They have already invoked a weird version of right-wing state socialism, and a total left-wing Nazi police state is quick on its heels. The powers that be are laughing because most Americans haven’t the faintest idea what is actually going on. They seem to know something is wrong, but being philosophically crippled as they are (thanks to the public school system) they haven’t the faintest idea how to determine the cause. In public school you are taught that the “government” is your friend, you are taught that “rights come from “government” that it’s okay to skip the two when you count to ten during the Bill of Rights. You are taught to bow down and lick the hand that “teaches” you, or else detention and a call to your parents will ensue. And if your parents take your side, then they are in trouble! You’re taught that if it wasn’t for “government”, the big-bad-business man will come in and take over everything and children will work for two cents an hour in sweat shops. Or that “terrorists” (ever notice the smallest army is always called a “terrorist?”) will be on every plane and every street corner.

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The essence of liberty is what you can do to yourself.

The Gooferment is the new plantation owner!

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INTERESTING:Gooferment Social Welfare

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/119929.html

September 2, 2012
Penn Jillette on Government Social Welfare
Posted by David Kramer on September 2, 2012 09:18 PM

Libertarian Penn Jillette (Penn and Teller) expresses his contempt for government social welfare in this very clear and concise statement:

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“It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.”

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I love when someone NAILS it. 

Argh!

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POLITICAL: How to get rid of politicians and bureaucrats?

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

FROM LUDDITE’S WIFE:

Medicare Part X
“NEW SENIOR PROGRAM….
New Medicare Program

You’re a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you. So what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Politicians.

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need!

Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That’s great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They’re all covered.

As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.

And who will be paying for all of this? It’s the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a home.

And you can get rid of 4 useless politicians while you are at it.

Plus, and because you are a prisoner, you don’t have to pay any income taxes anymore.

Is this a great country or what? “

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POLITICAL: Just not asking the correct questions?

Monday, September 10, 2012

FROM LUDDITE’S WIFE:

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SIMPLY AMAZING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT

Isn’t it amazing that, within only one week of Tiger Woods crashing his Escalade,
the press found every woman with whom Tiger has had an affair during the last few years?

And, they even uncovered photos, text messages, recorded phone calls, etc.!

Furthermore, they not only know the cause of the family fight, but they even know it was a
9 iron from his golf bag that his wife used to break out the windows in the Escalade.
Not only that, they know which wedge!

And, each & every day, they were able to continue to provide America with updates
on Tiger’s sex rehab stay, his wife’s divorce settlement figures, as well as the dates & tournaments in which he was to play.

Now, Barack Hussein Obama has been in office for over three years, yet this very same press:

· Cannot find any of his childhood friends or neighbors;

· Or find any of Obama’s high school or college classmates;

· Or locate any of his college papers or grades;

· Or determine how he paid for both a Columbia & a Harvard education;

· Or discover which country issued his visa to travel to Pakistan in the 1980’s;

· Or even find Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis on racism.

They just can’t seem to uncover any of this.

Yet, the public still trusts that same press to give them the whole truth!

Don’t you find that totally amazing ?

NOW TELL ME THERE IS NO CORRUPTION IN THE AMERICAN PRESS..

You can not get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek.

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TINFOILHAT: Why WAS “OBL” killed?

Sunday, September 9, 2012

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/120295.html

September 7, 2012
For the Sheeple Who Still Believe That Obama Killed bin Laden
Posted by David Kramer on September 7, 2012 06:13 AM

In this interview with our current Murderer-in-Chief, he discusses the procedures that are followed before ordering drone bombings on suspected “terrorists” (which always seem to include innocent civilians). At 1: 35 in the segment, O-bomb-a states:

“Our preference is always to capture if we can, because we can gather intelligence.”

But when the U.S. military had allegedly captured the NUMBER ONE terrorist in the world (at least in the U.S. government’s eyes), Osama bin Laden (who was UNARMED and NOT RESISTING), they shot him in cold blood??? Do you think that perhaps the NUMBER ONE terrorist in the world might have had a WEE BIT of intelligence that would have been useful to the United States government??? Hmmm???

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Yeah, I know they killed someone.

Why kill?

Why all the secrecy?

Why even admit that you have the guy?

Why, why why … 

Unless it wasn’t OBL, who was rumored to have died a while ago.

Unless … it really makes NO sense at all.

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INTERESTING: A gang with an institutional structure

Sunday, September 9, 2012

http://dailyreckoning.com/fifty-shades-of-government

Fifty Shades of Government
By Jeffrey Tucker

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This is the great tragedy of living under leviathan. People have different ideas about how it ought to conduct its affairs. Who should be rewarded? Who should be punished? Who gets the privileges? Who must bear the cost? It becomes a war of pressure groups, everyone seeking to live at the expense of everyone else.

What is this thing we call government? It consists of the gang with an institutional structure that makes the rules, enforces the rules, and lives by rules that are different from those it imposes on the rest of the population. We can’t steal, but government can. We can’t kill, but government can. We can’t counterfeit, kidnap, and engage in fraud, but government can. This thing called government, obviously, has a strong interest in maintaining its power, prestige, and funding.

This is true no matter what the structure of the government happens to be. Oligarchy, absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, presidential republic, parliamentary republic, democracy — all of them have one thing in common: They create a special caste of citizens that live at the expense of everyone else.

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The essence of Libertarianism is that we need no such class. 

Each man, and woman, of course, is their own sovereign.

Responsible to keep their word and a free to bind themselves in any way they see fit.

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POLITICAL: Not Voting

Saturday, September 8, 2012

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/119858.html

September 2, 2012
George Carlin on Not Voting
Posted by Lew Rockwell on September 2, 2012 11:37 AM

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“I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don’t vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, ‘If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain,’ but where’s the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote — who did not even leave the house on Election Day — am in no way responsible for what these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created.” — George Carlin

(Thanks to Eli Cryderman)

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Maybe George is right?

Just ignore them and they will go away?

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FUN: “Entropy, Decay, and Death” LOL!

Saturday, September 8, 2012

The Zazzy Substitution

Penny: I got that. What I was going for was, you know, how is your life?
Amy Farrah Fowler: Just like everyone else’s. Subject to entropy, decay, and eventual death. Thank you for asking.

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POLITICAL: California may cap future retirement checks

Friday, September 7, 2012

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-28/california-lawmakers-set-vote-to-limit-retiree-pensions.html

California Lawmakers Set Vote to Limit Retiree Pensions
By Michael B. Marois – Aug 28, 2012 2:32 PM ET

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New state employees in California would face a cap on the size of their retirement checks, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said yesterday. They would also have to put in more time on the job than current workers before they collect, he said.

Brown, 74, wants to cut pension benefits and curb abuses before he asks voters in November to raise income and sales taxes. A weak recovery from the longest recession since the 1930s, reducing job prospects and retirement benefits for most nongovernment workers, has churned up a backlash against the pay and benefits of public employees nationwide.

“If voters think that legislators have made a serious policy change, then the chances for the tax increase improve,” said Jack Pitney, who teaches politics at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. “But if they think it is nothing but window dressing, then chances get a lot worse.”

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He also wanted to raise the retirement age to 67 from 55 for most new state employees.

Rising retiree obligations are straining the budgets of states such as California and cities across the U.S. still grappling with income- and sales-tax revenue slammed by the recession.

California’s state pensions in 2010 had about 81 percent of what they needed to cover the benefits they promised, down from 87 percent in the preceding year, according to an annual study by Bloomberg Rankings. The median for all states was 75 percent, the data show.

Steinberg said the pension changes would save the state “tens of billions of dollars” over the next 20 to 30 years, though he later added that an analysis of the cost savings had yet to be done.

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Sorry, but Gooferment pensions are a vestige of “golden watch” thinking.

No pensions for ordinary people; why should the political class get them.

It a terrible abuse of the taxpayer.

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FUN: “Well then good news! Today’s the day a girl’s finally going to touch you in your little special place.”

Friday, September 7, 2012

http://the-big-bang-theory.com/quotes/episode/419/

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Penny: Give my friend his stuff back.

Tod Zarnecki: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Penny: Well then good news! Today’s the day a girl’s finally going to touch you in your little special place.

*Kicks him in the groin*

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Never fails to make me laugh!

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PRODUCTIVITY: DROPBOX response; “drugs in prison”

Thursday, September 6, 2012

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/08/should-your-company-just-say-no-to-dropbox.php

Should Your Company Just Say “No” To Dropbox?
Brian Proffitt

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As the business world increasingly turns to mobile devices and cloud-based file-sharing services to store or collaborate on important documents, the amount of information that’s falling into the wrong hands keeps climbing.

The numbers tell the tale: 90% of organizations had a leak of sensitive or confidential information over the past year. That’s one of the take-aways from a new study from security analysts at the Ponemon Institute.

Dropbox Is Useful – And That’s The Problem

Services like Dropbox, Bitcasa, YouSendIt and others are useful and efficient ways to get documents and files from one worker to another, especially in this age of mobile devices and distributed workforces. Plus, they’re cheap (or free) and easy for individual workers or small departments to set up.

But increasing use of these tools in the workplace, even for legitimate business reasons such as collaboration, puts a lot of private information at risk. And companies are starting to notice.

How bad is the situation? According to the Ponemon study, 60% of organizations have employees who frequently or very frequently put confidential files on services like Dropbox without permission. And just about that same percentage (59%) reported that what controls they do have in place were ineffective at managing who has access to sensitive files.

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Some companies are already reacting with strong policies regulating use of such file-sharing services. IBM, for instance, has banned employee access to services like Dropbox and iCloud. Even the iPhone’s Siri is turned off for fear that sensitive information could be discovered from search query data stored at Apple.

This might be going too far for many companies. Especially if they don’t provide some sort of alternative. IBM has its own custom-built solution for file sharing, but many smaller operations can’t afford such measures.

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Sure, that’s going to stop the practice.

Every hear of encryption.

Sensitive file? Run it thru PKZIP.

Use LASTPASS to select a 97 character password to encrypt it.

Problem solved.

Argh!

IMHO the rule should be if you can’t able it; you can’t ban it.

Bans don’t work.

Why?

“Drugs in Prison”!

The human being is the world’s best “rat” in terms of adaptability and maze solving.

Tell some one they can’t in an obnoxious enough fashion, and they will spend every waking hour proving you’re wrong.

Enable the behavior in a secure fashion.

Security should never say “no”; they should say “yes, and here’ s how to do it”.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Convention feedback or “what lever Jesus would pull”

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

AN EMAIL FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL CHUM “CHIEF RACCOON”

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I don’t watch that much TV but I had to watch the convention last night mainly to see what Ann Romney is all about because up till now I only associated her with horse ballet.

When she started speaking I found myself holding my breath because i was concerned for her. There was something that I couldn’t put my finger on in her delivery … it was a cross between bravado and terror … I think. At one point I turned to Stella and said ” I’m really uncomfortable for her “. But then slowly as I listened and thought about her raising 5 boys, and that ain’t easy even if your a Kennedy, and it began to dawn on me that I liked this woman. Here she was for literally all the world to see and thru the schmaltz and the rehearsed hand gestures she seemed to be a genuine person/mother in a solid marriage who had to summon the courage to do this public speaking thing for her husband and family … and Oh yeah she also has MS.

Then she was done and the Mittster came out and I was desperate to read his lips but it was clear that he was delighted and proud of her and I thought he said something like ” fantastic ” and shook his head in a “how about that!” manner. I really haven’t paid that much attention to Mitt either up until now but he certainly looks presidential with a chin the size of my couch and his family looks like they’re straight out of central casting.

I got to admit I was thinking ” OK if Obama doesn’t make it I can live with this guy.”

Unfortunately I didn’t go back to reading my ” New Yorker ” magazine ( yeah that’s right I got a deal for 26 weeks cheap and I took it ) instead I decided to watch the much hyped Gov from NJ who I also really didn’t know that much about other than he once took a helicopter to his son’s pee wee football game.

So the Gov walks out to the podium clapping as he walks and I swear I saw Reginald Van Gleason the Third. But I had still had a glow from Anne’s speech ( not that kind of glow you animals ! ) and I was anxious to see just how he would compliment the nominee’s wife and how much he would linger on her. Well, it’s about 14 hours later and I’m still lingering waiting for his assessment of Ann.

I looked again at Stella and dumbfounded I said ” he isn’t going to say anything about her speech ? !! … maybe he’s waiting for the end and he’ll close with glowing praise for her … and then I get caught in a senior moment and I think that Christie is the nominee because he’s talking about his mother and his father and I half expected him to pull out his 1040 or whatever for public viewing. Diane Sawyer later remarked that it was 17 minutes into his speech before he mentioned Mitt. When the cameras would pan on Mitt and Ann while the Gov was speaking, I could hear Ann psychically saying that if this fat Ahole doesn’t acknowledge my speech and my hubby makes it into the White House, I’m going to try and get him planted next to Hoffa in the meadowlands !

Please someone tell me that they think it was famously rude of this guy not to give a single freaking shout out to to the wife of the guy he’s “fighting for “.

I thought it additionally disturbing that all of the post speech pundits that I heard didn’t mention what I would call ” the snub. ” Some people thought it was right on the mark for Repubilcan thinking.

Ann had a love message but Reginald uh I mean Christie’s message was … not love ?

I hope I have poked a stick in a bear hole and that Briscoe and Reinke and Phelpsy will weigh in with their views ( which usually go over my head ) and tell me what lever Jesus would pull

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I love the characterization “Reginald Van Gleason the Third”.

I don’t watch political speeches. My bp would go thru the roof and I get distracted from the content by the theatrics.

I did like Ann and Clint. They came off as “real people”.

I did read the texts of all the speeches.

As a little L libertarian, I am amazed that everyone D and R can ignore the 800# gorilla in the room — the AfPak war where young girls and boys are dying, or worse coming home crippled for life. Sorry to rain on the politicians and bureaucrats’ parade but this is a national disgrace.

When I have to watch TV commercials pandering to get these troops what they need to recover some how Reginald Van Gleason the Third isn’t funny.

My guy, Ron Paul, didn’t get the nod. It was a long shot from the start. He didn’t get to speak and warn the R’s that they face being at the helm as the Titanic goes down. Talk about what BHO44 got from Bush43; that’ll look like a gift.

Ron is right on the War. No one else even addresses it.

Sadly, I think that we are leaving posterity a sack of <synonym for excrement>. Like lemmings off the cliff, we follow “leaders” who have their own hidden agendas.

Maybe Rand Paul will run. I hope it’s not too late.

I do think that this has DEMONSTRATED beyond a shadow of a doubt that ALL the anit-war groups, with the exception of the Quakers, are really just shills for the D’s. Talk about astroturf! Boy, did those people fool a lot of people. But not me. As a libertarian, I KNOW it’s all about control. Who has the levers to tell other people what to do.

Hope this is the rat’s nest you wanted to stir up.

But I did laff at the Reginald Van Gleason the Third line,
Pf-reinke-nstein

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I love the characterization “Reginald Van Gleason the Third”.
I don’t watch political speeches. My bp would go thru the roof and I get distracted from the content by the theatrics.
I did like Ann and Clint. They came off as “real people”.
I did read the texts of all the speeches.
As a little L libertarian, I am amazed that everyone D and R can ignore the 800# gorilla in the room — the AfPak war where young girls and boys are dying, or worse coming home crippled for life. Sorry to rain on the politicians and bureaucrats’ parade but this is a national disgrace.
When I have to watch TV commercials pandering to get these troops what they need to recover some how Reginald Van Gleason the Third isn’t funny.
My guy, Ron Paul, didn’t get the nod. It was a long shot from the start. He didn’t get to speak and warn the R’s that they face being at the helm as the Titanic goes down. Talk about what BHO44 got from Bush43; that’ll look like a gift.
Ron is right on the War. No one else even addresses it.
Sadly, I think that we are leaving posterity a sack of <synonym for excrement>. Like lemmings off the cliff, we follow “leaders” who have their own hidden agendas.
Maybe Rand Paul will run. I hope it’s not too late.
I do think that this has DEMONSTRATED beyond a shadow of a doubt that ALL the anit-war groups, with the exception of the Quakers, are really just shills for the D’s. Talk about astroturf! Boy, did those people fool a lot of people. But not me. As a libertarian, I KNOW it’s all about control. Who has the levers to tell other people what to do.
Hope this is the rat’s nest you wanted to stir up.
But I did laff at the Reginald Van Gleason the Third line,Pf-reinke-nstein
— —Pf-reinke-nsteinprep64 @ reinke . cc908-209-3625

 

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GUNS: Common in mass shootings is the shooter is a nut!

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

http://libertyslifeline.com/2012/08/28/guns-psychopaths-training-and-left-wing-bluster/

Guns, Psychopaths, Training, and Left Wing Bluster by Bill O’Connell on August 28, 2012

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No, what is common in these mass shootings is that the shooter is a nut job. Page was a white supremacist crackpot; Jared Loughner in  Tucson was known to be off his rocker for at least six years before the shooting, which by the way made it illegal to buy a gun but the gun laws didn’t stop him; the Colorado movie shooter was also seeing mental health professionals; in the Virginia Tech shooting, it was the same story, but in our PC world they couldn’t force him to get counseling. Nowhere in her article, nor anywhere else in the main stream media do they talk about the real problem: figuring out how to keep dangerous psychopaths off the street before they snap and kill someone.

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Yes, guns are just tools.

And, there’s never a kop around when you need them.

And, to conclude the argument: “God made man and woman; Sam Colt made them equal.” — anonymous

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INTERESTING: Taylor Swift can turn the tables on the Trolls

Monday, September 3, 2012

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120902/COLUMNIST0101/309020082/Hey-Taylor-Swift-here-s-how-get-sweet-revenge?nclick_check=1

Hey, Taylor Swift, here’s how to get sweet revenge
2:04 AM, Sep 2, 2012

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Internet trolls have hijacked an innocent contest waged by country megastar Taylor Swift. She will give a free concert and $10,000 to the school that gets the most votes online after “liking” her Facebook page.

Swift’s foes are urging people to vote for the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. Because there’s nothing more hilarious than using deaf children as the punchline to a lame joke aimed at poking fun at a superstar, right?

Swift has legions of public relations people, millions of dollars in income and an international career. Her new song, “We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together,” is topping charts.

So the 22-year-old phenomenon does not need advice from a 51-year-old local news columnist in Nashville. But here’s some anyway: Babe, embrace this. Own it. Take the joke and turn it around on them. If the Horace Mann School wins — and, with the votes at around 25,000 so far, that looks pretty certain — you get on a plane to Boston and sing your pretty little heart out for them.

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It would be a wonderful, generous gesture for her to perform there. After all, music therapy is commonly taught to deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

“Music belongs to all people, and all people have the right to music experiences,” wrote Patricia Winter, a music therapist, in an online article.

Children with hearing impairment, with or without hearing aids or cochlear implants, connect with music. They feel the vibrations. They “hear” lyrics through sign language. Touching the neck of someone singing helps them improve speech skills.

What better revenge would there be for Swift than having photos of sweet deaf children touching her as she sings posted all over the same Internet that’s trashing her?

And one more thought, based on Swift’s own lyrics.

She’s right: People do indeed throw rocks at things that shine. But when you take the high road, they can’t hit you.

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An EXCELLENT response. 

Rub the trolls nose in it and do good works while you do it.

Sounds very Taylor-esque!

Maybe she good give a duplicate prize to the Number #2 runner up.

I love this idea. When handed lemons, make lemonade.

Webcast it and enshrine yourself as America’s sweetheart. Like Bob Hope or Lucile Ball.

LOL!

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POLITICAL: Thoughts about Labor Day

Monday, September 3, 2012

Labor Day Weekend, a time to goof off. 

Perhaps think about the essence of labor? Where we extract our sustinence from a cruel hard world. Such is our lot in life.

I joke with my much younger coworkers that what we do can’t be considered “work”.

The construction worker, the gardener, even the cooks in the cafeteria are “working”.

Paper pushing and keyboard tapping aren’t “work” in the same sense.

But what the division of labor and trade in a free market have given us has been taken away by the rise of “drones”.

Look around at what people “do” to make a living: paper pushing and key tapping is “work” in comparison to the politicians and bureaucrats. What I’d call the “Political Class”.

They make a living by telling their inferiors what to do. Right out of the Prussian School Model.

How did the workers let themselves get exploited by yet another set of “bosses”?

I think it was the adulteration of money that led everyone into a sense of complacency.

When the “dollar” was as good as gold, things were a lot different. The FDR gold theft allowed the common man to be taxed silently without his recognition. Withholding was a similar strategy. As was “social security insurance”. Debt. All frauds intended to steal the seed corn of future generations. 

Leaving them impoverished, while the past generations of politicians and bureaucrats feathered their nests.

How does it change?

I’m not sure. They say that admitting the problem is the first step towards a solution.

I admit that we have problem; does anyone else?

Happy Labor Day, fellow serfs.

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INTERESTING: WHo can morally kill who?

Sunday, September 2, 2012

http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2012/08/selective-prosecution.html

Friday, August 31, 2012
Selective Prosecution?

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Like many Americans, I’ll be watching 60 Minutes on Sunday night. Not that I’m a regular viewer of the program; from my perspective, the MSM is like bad medicine, best taken in small doses, and only when necessary. So why am I tuning in to CBS? Because the network’s venerable news magazine will have the first broadcast interview with Mark Owen, the Navy SEAL who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and has written about the mission.

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While the Constitution provides the Congress the power of marque and reprisal, the President just goes off and kills people.

Sorry, but I don’t believe anything those politicians and bureaucrats say.

Sounds like this EYEWITNESS has a different story to tell and the “establishment” would rather he did “spill the beans”.

Maybe I’ll watch. 

Always nice to get something first hand.

Maybe?

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POLITICAL: Camden politicians and bureaucrats abdicate?

Sunday, September 2, 2012

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/24/camden-nj-to-reboot-police-department-by-new-year

Gritty N.J. city of Camden to scrap police department amid budget woes
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published August 26, 2012
FoxNews.com

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Crime-ridden Camden, New Jersey – often referred to as the most dangerous city in the United States—is getting rid of its police department.

In the latest example of a cash-strapped municipality taking drastic measures to deal with swollen public sector liabilities and shrinking budgets, the city plans to disband its 460-member police department and replace it with a non-union “Metro Division” of the Camden County Police. Backers of the plan say it will save millions of dollars for taxpayers while ensuring public safety, but police unions say it is simply a way to get out of collective bargaining with the men and women in blue.

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There are few, some would say if any, valid Gooferment functions. A citizen exchanges their loyalty for the protection of the group. Police protection is the the platinum “service” that the Gooferment fails to provide. If it doesn’t do that, why have it.

The argument can be made that a citizen can buy protection service more cheaply from “the Mob” that is much more effective. I remember in the Fifties, one NEVER heard of an old lady being mugged or a store being shoplifted. One did hear of from time to time of a ne’er-do-well tripping on the apocryphal sidewalk crack and spending several weeks in hospital and several months learning to walk again. Those sidewalk cracks are very dangerous. I was give also to understand that members of the local Italian American Club rush to the poor unfortunate’s aid and whisked him to the doctor by way of a small clearing in the Inwood Park informally call “You disrespect my neighborhood; you disrespect me?”.

Ahhh, so here we have the politicians and bureaucrats, having robbed the good taxpayers of everything they have, cuts the one essential service. How about if every one of the politicians and bureaucrats on the public’s dole, gets cut to minimum wage?

Defined benefit pensions are the dodo of the financial world. Time to correct this abuse. Welcome to the 401k world.

A brave new world financially.

Argh!

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SERVICE: LastPass offers Grid Multifactor Authentication to free Users

Saturday, September 1, 2012

http://helpdesk.lastpass.com/security-options/grid-multifactor-authentication/

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At LastPass, we strongly encourage our users to take advantage of our multifactor authentication options. Multifactor authentication requires the user to present both username/password and information from another, often physical, item. This means that if a hacker gets your password, they are still unable to access your LastPass account without this second factor.

LastPass offers multifactor authentication as a Premium feature, but we also believe that everyone should be protected online, so we have created the Grid Multifactor Authentication as a feature available to both Premium and non-Premium users.

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Another service beefs up security.

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