For the first time in a long time, I see GMAIL choking. Timeouts. The IPAD client barfing. Unable to sync and all sorts of strange errors.
Has Google jumped the shark?
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SERVICE: Has Google’s GMAIL broken
Monday, December 10, 2012
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RANT: Gas is going up and staying up?
Monday, December 10, 2012http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-chart-implies-something-very-troubling-about-the-price-of-gas/
THIS CHART IMPLIES SOMETHING VERY TROUBLING ABOUT THE PRICE OF GAS
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 12:50pm by Becket Adams
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See that? Although the price of crude has fallen in recent months, as the above chart clearly indicates, the price of gasoline remains at a record high.
“Anecdotally, it feels like when oil prices rise, gas prices at the pump rise; but when turmoil pauses in global geo-politics – or some entity decides that high oil prices just will not do for the world’s economy – gas prices at the pump seem not to drop so quickly,” writers are Zero Hedge note.
“Yes there are pipeline, inventory (and even tax) issues but the following chart suggests ‘gouging’ on a national level,” they add.
It’s also worth noting that what we’re seeing today with the price of gasoline and crude is eerily similar to what we saw right before the economic collapse of 2008.
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I think there maybe a big overhang on the markets due to increased costs (i.e., Obamacare) and increased taxes (i.e., the fiscal cliff).
Given the “gouging rules” passed after Sandy. Or used during Sandy. I wouldn’t lower my price un my competition forces me to.
Hmmm?
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POLITICAL: Maximo Guillermo “Max” Manus
Sunday, December 9, 2012Notes from JWR:
by Jim Rawles
December 9th, 2012 would have been the 98th birthday of Maximo Guillermo “Max” Manus. He was was one of the few Norwegians who had the testicular fortitude to put his life on the line, fighting the Nazi occupiers. (There surely would have been many more active resistance fighters in Norway, but fearing widespread reprisal executions by the Germans, King H7 urged the civilian populace to stand down.) Manus passed away in 1996. His exploits are fairly accurately shown in the movie Max Manus: Man of War
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MONEY: What have we allowed to be done?
Sunday, December 9, 2012http://www.cmi-gold-silver.com/blog/government-money/
Book Review: What Has Government Done to Our Money?
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In the United States we currently have a stated policy by the Federal Reserve to create higher levels of inflation while artificially lowering interest rates. This is a policy devastating to savers and those attempting to live off of the proceeds of their capital. How did we arrive at the point where a government created agency can arbitrarily opt to destroy the value of people’s savings?
Murray Rothbard’s What Has Government Done to Our Money? lays out the step by step process by which the commodity based monies of the free market are slowly and deliberately usurped by governments and their central banks. The end result of this control is the ability of government to take purchasing power from the savings of its citizens through inflation.
Understanding money and its creation are essential to understanding how inflation originates. Rothbard assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and begins with first principles to derive what money is and how it is used in a free market. He then covers the manipulations used by government to wrestle control of money away from the free market. Finally he finishes with a two hundred year history of money and currencies in the Western world. It is through this history he demonstrates how government abuse has resulted in a series of breakdowns of the dollar with respect to gold that have inevitably led to our current global monetary crisis.
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We have allowed the politicians and bureaucrats to inflate the paper currency and silently steal from everyone — rich and poor alike — their wealth. For the poor, it’s the value of their labor. For the rich, it’s the value of their savings.
argh!
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FUN: Hat, scarf, and gloves as heart attack prevention
Saturday, December 8, 2012http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/bennett-l4.1.1.html
Woolly Hats and Heart Attacks
by Lizzie Bennett
Medically Speaking
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Each winter there is a myriad of articles published warning us about the dangers of hypothermia, how to spot it and what to do about it. There are articles warning about cold injuries such as frostbite, warnings to the elderly about the dangers of not keeping at least one room warm. Warnings to get the boiler serviced in case carbon monoxide builds up if its faulty. We are warned that we may need extra vitamins, warned to drive carefully, warned to take care if using candles and warned not to leave the lights on the Christmas tree switched on overnight. Not once, anywhere in this plethora of warnings have I heard the one that warns you that you are more likely to suffer a heart attack if you don’t wear a warm hat in cold weather.
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Makes a believer out of me.
Interesting that my work location is always cold. Even in summer time.
The women are always saying it. And, recently, I couple of ties I felt it. Power of Suggestion? Anyone who knows me that I like it at “Meat Locker” temps. Wife used have a blanket when we took car trips. (Although I always thought she was being sarcastic.)
Maybe there is something to the article.
Maybe if I wear a hat, gloves, and a scarf in the office they think I’ve gone around the bend and pay men off?
Then, it’ll off to New Hampshire to get warm.
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RANT: Any one remember Pearl Harbor day?
Friday, December 7, 2012… and remember who caused that disaster?
No, not the Japanese. FDR!
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GUNS: Bringing a gun to a knife fight
Friday, December 7, 2012KNIFE-WIELDING HOME INTRUDER BREAKS INTO WRONG HOME, GREETED BY .40 CAL HANDGUN
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:52pm by Jason Howerton
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A homeowner in Grand Prairie, Texas shot a knife-wielding home intruder after the suspect shattered a side window to gain entry into the home, KXAS-TV reports.
The homeowner, who has not been identified, was reportedly on the phone with 911 operators when he shot 21-year-old Gilberto Banderas. The shooting occurred at around 2:30 p.m. after the sound of breaking glass prompted the homeowner to get his .40 caliber handgun.
The suspect, Banderas, was shot in the stomach. As it turns out, police discovered he lives just blocks away from the home he attempted to break into. In other words, he apparently tried, and failed, to rob his neighbor.
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“During the conversation with him, we could hear him yelling, ‘You came at me with a knife,’” Grand Prairie detective Lyle Gensler said. “We responded within about a minute and 30 seconds.”
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Note for the unarmed, dial 911 and die.
Critique of the shooting: The suspect was still alive.
The military taught me to keep pulling the trigger until nothing moved.
I’ve heard that advice often repeated.
Even if the bullets are going into the floor and ceiling, no one in their right mind wants to be down range of a loon with a gun and is using it.
Critique of the shooting: Good dhot to the center of mass — the belly.
Hope I never have to do it. Hope no one ever has to do it.
But the best way to stop crime is get rid of few of the criminals.
Make getting caught by the police an unlikely outcome.
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RANT: Schools are prison training centers
Thursday, December 6, 2012http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/127265.html
November 28, 2012
End the Pretense that Government Schools and Prisons Are Different
Posted by William Grigg on November 28, 2012 03:13 PM
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It’s for your own good, kids: The “Isolation Box” at Longview, Washingon’s Mint Valley Elementary School
Warrantless “drug sweeps” in government-run schools have become routine in recent years. So have “lock-down” drills in which SWAT teams conduct training exercises involving hostage or terrorism scenarios. In some lock-down drills, students inmates have been kept in the dark about the fact that the incident is a training exercise, rather than a genuine crisis.
Vista Grande High School in Casa Grande, Arizona, held a lock-down drug sweep on October 31. Students Inmates were confined to their classrooms, then led in small groups to another room where they were forced to line up against a wall and be searched with the help of drug-sniffing dogs. This exercise introduced a new element: Among the four law enforcement agencies involved in the search was a group of prison guards employed by the Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest for-profit prison contractor.
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We need the home schooling movement to break out.
I suggested a 40 year plan to end gooferment skrules during the tax revolts in Nu Jerzee. First 20 years was to get them out of the operations; the second 20 years was to end the funding.
Argh!
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MONEY: Thinking about employer 401Ks and IRAs versus retirement savings
Tuesday, December 4, 2012http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/11/26/401k-with-no-match-should-contribute/
An interesting article. My gripe with 401ks has always been the investment options and fees are “unacceptable”. Especially when you consider the real inflation rate.
I know I am a gold bug. But with the FED printing money and the subterfuge of them buying their own bonds, I think we are at risk of an even higher inflation. I remember the Cater inflation. And, I am not buying that the interest rate is zero.
I think an interesting facet is that the price of gas, which goes into every product indirectly, has actually decline in price since 1968. (Ron Paul said it best: “Three silver dimes bought a gallon of gas in the Sixties; today, those same three silver dimes equate to a gallon and half.”)
As a poor retiree, inflation is my concern. (If it evokes more sympathy, I’m also an orphan.) I realize that I probably personally have a lot to worry about. It’s really just me. But for posterity, this stinks. Hence my obsession on commodity bullion.
And, it is a way of avoiding the estate taxes.
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INTERESTING: Bitterly disappointed
Wednesday, December 5, 2012http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9686219/I-am-bitterly-bitterly-disappointed-retired-naval-officers-email-to-children-in-full.html
‘I am bitterly, bitterly disappointed’: retired naval officer’s email to children in full
This is the full email that retired Royal Navy officer Nick Crews sent to his son and two daughters in February expressing his and his wife’s disappointment in them.
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When I read this, I saw a boomerang.
Were you such a bad parent that you weren’t able to steer the children correctly?
My parents made a lot mistakes. But, I would never fault them for the choices they made. I’ve made a lot of my own bad choices.
This 0 for 3 tends to make me blame the “builder”.
imho.
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