Argh! It was supposed to be on ESPN. But the Jaspers are on ESPN3. Bumped by the women?
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RANT: Argh! ESPN3 isn’t not ESPN
Sunday, March 9, 2014
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SOFTWARE: BLUEGRIFFON chokes on an errant copy and paste
Sunday, March 9, 20142014-Mar-09
In doing my weekly Jasper Jottings, I was delayed by a data formatting error.
Apparently, when I posted an article in the daily blog, using MARSEDIT, some how the article was posted as the title.
I didn’t realize it and did a copy and paste from MARSEDIT into BLUEGRIFFON.
That cause BLUEGRIFFON to make the page width six times larger than it needed to be.
Took a break.
When I came back to it, I did CNTL Z’s until BLUEGRIFFON restored the page size.
Then the hunt for what was causing the problem.
Repeated the cut’n’paste into SIMULTRON5 text editor. Couldn’t see anything. Back into BLUEGRIFFON same result.
Deleted all the blank lines and made sure that each line had an EOL on it.
Cut’n’paste back to BLUEGRIFFON; same result.
Then I cut’n’pasted the first line to BLUEGRIFFON; same result.
Then I cut’n’pasted just the text part of the first line to BLUEGRIFFON; that worked correctly.
Resumed and everything was now right with the world.
Argh!
Still don’t really understand what happened.
The issue went out about 8 hours late.
Argh!
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RANT: 7½% growth rate
Saturday, March 8, 2014China’s Economic Growth Forecast at 7.5% This Year
China’s government aims to deliver economic growth of about 7.5% this year, Premier Li Keqiang said in a report to the country’s legislature released on Wednesday.
The target is unchanged from last year.
Gross domestic product growth has repeatedly outpaced the official target, coming in at 7.7% last year. But economists say that achieving that rate of growth is becoming more difficult as the economy matures.
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Imagine the USA with a 7½% growth rate.
We could be prosperous again!
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RANT: Social Security is bust
Friday, March 7, 2014Members of Congress:
When I hear politicians in Washington talking about “reforming Social Security,” I know that what you really mean is “cutting benefits” or “privatizing retirement accounts.”
What you should be talking about is expanding Social Security — extending solvency and ensuring the economic security of our seniors.
Senator Sherrod Brown, along with some of his colleagues, is working to expand the life of Social Security for this and future generations of seniors in America — and I am calling on you to do the same.
Signed,
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Sorry, but Social Security was FDR’s Socialist destruction of America.
It enabled Grandparents to abandon their families and move to warmer climates. And, make people dependent upon the Gooferment.
Economically, it’s a Ponzi scheme. Based on unrealistic assumptions and an ignorance of human aging.
Also, by the wide-spread introduction of abortion, we have put humanity into a death spiral.
(Akin to the Chinese One Child policy or India sex-selection policies that have put them on the Road to Perdition.)
Social Security is bust. Best thing is to emulate Chile in the 1970’s. Privative for the youngsters, reassure the old folks, and screw the folks with assets.
Fact of life.
The last investor in Ponzi gets <synonym for the past tense of the procreation act.>
At least, Ponzi had the decency not to point a gun to his victims’ heads. He just appealed to their greed.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Kurt Vonnegut’s advice
Thursday, March 6, 2014http://www.lettersofnote.com/2014/02/ladies-gentlemen-of-ad-2088.html
Friday, 21 February 2014
Ladies & Gentlemen of A.D. 2088
Kurt Vonnegut
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Reduce and stabilize your population.
Stop poisoning the air, the water, and the topsoil.
Stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems.
Teach your kids, and yourselves, too, while you’re at it, how to inhabit a small planet without helping to kill it.
Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars.
Stop thinking your grandchildren will be OK no matter how wasteful or destructive you may be, since they can go to a nice new planet on a spaceship. That is really mean, and stupid.
And so on. Or else.
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Maybe we can start a KICKSTARTER project to get off this rock?
(My belief is that Gooferment keeps us on this plantation!)
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FUN: Things I worry about?
Wednesday, March 5, 2014http://blog.biographyonline.net/2010/09/random-interesting-facts.html?m=1
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It is unknown if odd perfect numbers exist
A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to itself such as 28: 1+2+4+7+14=28
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Laff!
A project for when I’m in the nursing home.
Wait where am I?
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RANT: Another reason to separate the Gooferment from the roads
Tuesday, March 4, 2014http://users.ipfw.edu/diclemej/Learnsomethingneweveryday.htm
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If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
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Argh!
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RANT: Michael Bolton, health issues
Monday, March 3, 2014Argh!
A cancellation AFTER we had departed to the venue.
Seriously.
The day before I received an email about the event. They advertised the valet parking and their restaurant. So we were going to do it.
We arrived at the venue and the only sign was a 8½ by 11 “cancelled”.
Argh!
Seriously?
Did the “star” get sick 3 hours before performance?
Argh!
Oh, well, it makes for good blog post!
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4:45 PM (16 hours ago)
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We are writing to inform you that a performance you hold tickets to, Michael Bolton, originally scheduled for March 2, 2014, has been cancelled due to the artist’s health issues. We apologize for both the short notice and any inconvenience this may cause.
All patrons will be issued refunds. Please contact the Ticket Office at (301) 581-5100 or by email at tickets@strathmore.org with any questions.
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MONEY: WalMart as the “bank” for the poor
Monday, March 3, 2014http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb14/banks-obsolete2-14.html
Banks Are Obsolete: The Entire Parasitic Sector Can Be Eliminated (February 20, 2014)
What else can we do with the $1.25 trillion we’ll save by eliminating these obsolete financial middleman parasites? A lot.
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The entire notion that 100 savers put their money in a bank which then buys a mortgage with their savings and sells it as a security that supports a pyramid of derivatives is obsolete. Each saver can directly own (and sell on a transparent market) a piece of a mortgage, auto loan, business loan, etc. There is no need for a middleman banking sector at all–no skim, no concentration of risk, no opportunities for selling derivatives to unwary investors. All that goes away with the banking sector.
But what about holding deposits? We already have two institutions that could serve this role: credit unions and the post office. If those holding depositors’ cash do not issue loans, they have no source of income to defray operating expenses. The solution is obvious: charge fees for holding deposits and payor-payee transactions.
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And what about WalMart as the “bank” for the poor and middle class?
I see the politicians and bureaucrats whine about Payday Loans and Title Loans.
WalMart could be a great “bank” for the little guy!
Argh!
The Sheeple are so dumb and the Gooferment enables them!
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RANT: Gooferment “standards’ or Gooferment coverup?
Sunday, March 2, 20142014-Mar-02
Very Small Cars Fail New IIHS Small-Overlap Frontal Crash Test
BY Stephen Edelstein STEPHEN EDELSTEIN
6,717 views Jan 22, 2014 54 Comments
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RANT: Fonda lived longer and better than the POWs she betrayed
Saturday, March 1, 2014‘I have so little time left!’ Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can’t stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality
By COLETTE FAHY
PUBLISHED: 14:35 EST, 24 February 2014 | UPDATED: 17:47 EST, 24 February 2014
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Wonder if she think about what she did to the Viet Nam POWs?
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RANT: Inflated page views
Saturday, March 1, 2014Isn’t it interesting that the stats of internet clicks are inflated.
How many folk realize that Drudge’s reload inflate their stats.
At does it CRACKED that splits every page.
Argh!
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