Anyone going to remember the blood shed on a French beach many decades ago?
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RANT: D-day is coming
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
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POLITICAL: A license to sell food?
Monday, June 3, 2013Government Creates a New Criminal Class
by Jeffrey Tucker.
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Woo-hoo! It is a wonderful thing when the good guys win one for a change. Well, it wasn’t a total win, but it gives hope.
In a case brought by the Wisconsin state government — with full cooperation from the federal government — a jury refused to convict Amish farmer Vernon Hershberger on all counts for distributing milk, cheese, and meat without a license. He did he end up with one conviction, for which he faces a year in jail, but that’s nothing compared with what might have happened.
Now, there are still many people who would read the above and say: Wait just a minute here. You mean to tell me that a farmer was hounded by bureaucrats for selling his own food to others who wanted to buy it?
Indeed. His farm was raided in 2010, and much of his milk and cheese was destroyed by the police. The conviction was based on Vernon’s desire to fulfill his commitments and distribute what remained.
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A willing buyer from a willing seller?
Why is that the Gooferment’s business to interfere?
Argh!
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GUNS: Use handguns to fight our way to a rifle
Sunday, June 2, 2013http://lewrockwell.com/orig14/merkel1.1.1.html
AR-15 Rifle – the King of Home Defense
by Paul Merkel
AmmoLand
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When considering the defense of your home against intruders there are a few question you must ask yourself and realities you must face.
Before we delve into the hardware aspect, we need to engage in a very simple question and answer exercise. That is, what is our legitimately anticipated problem and what is the most practical and effective solution.
Tough Questions: What is the Threat?
First and foremost, when you consider protecting your home, what is the anticipated threat? Naturally, we are concerned with the stereotypical burglar, the lone criminal. Professional criminals will generally “burgle” your home when you are out. The most dangerous threat is what we’ll call the “home invasion”.
One, two, three or more armed vermin force their way into an occupied home intent on robbery, rape, and potentially murder. While rare, the threat is real enough to send chills down the spine of any home owner.
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My paternal grandmother had a rifle hung over her fireplace until she went into a nursing home in the late 60’s. When I asked her if it was loaded, she replied: “Weren’t no good if it weren’t!” I knew from other family members that she’d used it when she traveled the Oregon Trail.
So do we need such an attitude today.
Sad to say I think so.
The Liberalism and “Secular Progressive” society of post-WW2 has create a parasite class that has no fear. Caught and sent to prison, they come out with new criminal skills, physically stronger, and with a worse attitude than they went in with.
Every good man and woman should have access to Sam Colt’s equalizer!
Like the bumpersticker says: “When seconds count, the police are minutes away” and “You are your own First Responder”!
I have mine. I hope you have yours. Mostly I hope it’s like insurance and we all never need it.
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JOBFINDING: Divisional Portfolio Director, Healthcare payer, NYC Metro
Saturday, June 1, 2013Release Date: 05/06/2013
Company:
$40.0 Billion, Healthcare payer, NYC Metro
Salary:
Open
Remarks:
As a leading healthcare payer organization, this company is in the midst of an exciting phase of large scale and comprehensive transformation of its business model which offers an abundance of opportunities for those leaders at the top of their game to create and implement high-profile, impactful solutions.
A major healthcare services organization located in the New York Metro area has engaged us to identify a Divisional Portfolio Director [DPD]. This is a newly created position and will report to the Senior Director of Enterprise PMO as well as, dotted line, to divisional Senior Vice Presidents.
Main responsibilities:
• The DPD will assume responsibility for providing leadership and direction to a portfolio of IT and business projects and programs in support of a selected number of key divisional business strategies. Annual portfolio size will be approximately $50 MM, with a total cost range of between $100M – $200M.
• Will be primary point of contact for portfolio status, conducting monthly portfolio reviews with SVPs and core portfolio management team
• Will provide oversight and management direction of divisional projects/programs, facilitate project/program reviews of key enterprise activities, ensure tools and processes are operating effectively and efficiently, and ensure all EPMO deliverables meet quality standards
• The DPD will also manage internal and external systems/application development projects from inception to successful implementation
• The DPD will recruit, develop and supervise staffs of up to 50 professionals
Background and skills required:
• 10 – 15 years of experience with progressively larger scale, broad-based project/program management
• Experience managing multi-year programs/portfolios with budgets of at least $25MM
• Your background will demonstrate the ability to lead, develop and motivate professional staffs of 25+ in size to perform at their best
• Your background will also demonstrate a strong track record as a change agent helping drive business model transformations
• The core skill sets of this position are demonstrated talent for conceptualizing, documenting, presenting and selling creative solutions to senior IT and business management
• A background in Healthcare or Pharmaceuticals is highly preferred
• Degrees: BA/BS required; MS in Computer Science, Business Administration or Engineering strongly preferred. An MBA with extensive project management experience is highly preferred
• PMP certification is required or must be acquired within one year of hire
• Candidates located in the New York Metro area are preferred
This is an exceptional opportunity for a strategic thinking IT professional to play a key and highly visible role in the transformation of a major healthcare industry organization.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Yes, I’m here
Saturday, June 1, 2013“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
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Sad to say, did I ever anticipate to be where I am today?
Never in a grazillion years.
Am I sad? Yes!
Am I sad about the choices I’ve made?
That strikes me of Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! thinking.
Argh!
Life is not a VCR. Neither is it a deterministic world.
If you presented with a choice of X and Y, then until you get to the Final Judgment will you know that if you had chosen the alternative that you’d have stopped off the curb and gotten hit with a mack truck.
Thankfully, as boy I read the “Lensmen” series, … by Edward Elmer “Doc” Smith …, that postulated a Universe that was deterministic. (The Arisians could foresee the alternatives of the future and how things worked out.) The lesson was that humans weren’t Arisians and we had to guess!
I took that to heart with my meme “less than a year, might be a mistake; more tun a year is a lesson!”
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Back to Adams.
Since each intention was a decision, I’ve ended exactly where I planned to be.
Once happy; now sad. Running out the clock!
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Reinke Faces Life 