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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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LIBERTY: Your troops are stationed in 159 different regions
Tuesday, May 22, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance110.html
The Anti-Federalists on Standing Armies
by Laurence M. Vance
Laurence M. Vance is a freelance writer and an adjunct instructor in accounting at Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, FL.
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There are over 700 U.S. military bases on foreign soil. There are U.S. troops stationed in 159 different regions of the world in every corner of the globe. Foreign military bases and the stationing of troops abroad are for offensive military actions, not defensive ones. U.S. troops need to come home and then go home. But only a change in U.S. foreign policy can stop the evil that is America’s standing army.
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You have to admire how the dead old white guys very accurately predicted the mischief that the gooferment could get into if they had an army to play with. We should take away their toys.
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YAHOO ANSWER: trying to save up my money
Monday, May 21, 2007*** begin quote ***
saving money?
hi ive been trying to save up my money for soo long but i keep spending some of it cuz i think it wont make a difference. I have a bank account that i put it in . Please if you have anytips please help. thanks
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I’d suggest savings bonds. Put very small amounts into it. It’s semi-frozen for short periods of times and eventually can amount to something. You need to get some financial discipline. Maybe savings bonds with their lockup period might help. Use small denominations so if you just have to crack them, you can crack only what you need.
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RANT: State senator rear-ends while talking on cell phone. Punch line?
Monday, May 21, 2007http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_5937218
State senator rear-ends Vallejo woman while talking on cell phone
Medianews Group report
Article Launched: 05/19/2007 08:46:15 AM PDT
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A Vallejo woman reportedly suffered minor injuries Friday when her car was rear-ended by an SUV driven by a state senator talking on a cell phone while driving through Solano County.
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Why the audacity of that serf not getting out of the heroic senator’s way? The impudent woman driving the car that was hit should be stoned, lashed, or … … giving an award for demonstrating the hypocrisy of the ruling elite.
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RANT: WIC Killing children
Monday, May 21, 2007http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/05/21/wic-killing-children-with-kindness/
WIC: Killing children with kindness
By Michael Hampton
Posted: May 21, 2007 3:20 am
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The United States Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly known as WIC, distributes vouchers for food for low-income families. Among the food distributed is about half the infant formula in the entire U.S. According to a study from the University of Hawai’i, WIC’s distribution of infant formula not only distorts the market for infant formula, it puts these infants at risk of illness and death.
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Unfortunately, like many federal aid programs administered by the states, WIC has a vigorous lobby group — National WIC — made up of the thousands of state and local government officials that run the program.
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Isn’t that the usual standard for a gooferment program?
It doesn’t work. It actually harms those it seeks supposedly to help. Turns out to be a welfare program to some business or another, maybe even a industry. And, is protected by a huge lobby of gooferment bureaucrats that it supports.
And, you — the reader; yes, you, on the otherside of the glass! — defend this gang of thugs that is killing poor children in your name. with your money?
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Clarifying update at 2007.05.22 0730 edst
The original wording made it seem that the author Michael Hampton was the “you” in the phrase “you defend”. That’s one way for reading it; certianly not how I meant it. Considering he wrote the expose, it doesn’t make sense to take it that way. But once again, I have demonstrated the principle that two people can read the same text and often come away with many different meanings.
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TECH SERVICE: NetworkWorld Community
Monday, May 21, 2007http://www.networkworld.com/community/
Network World Daily News: PM, 05/21/07
Breaking news
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We’ve just added a new feature to NetworkWorld.com Community: Groups. Our groups are similar to Google and Yahoo groups (only way networkier, of course). They’re a way to bring together folks with a particular common interest. You can let anybody with a Network World Community account join your group or limit members to specific people. Member posts appear both in a Web archive and are sent out via e-mail.
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More groups? How valuable? Maybe a niche?
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YAHOO ANSWER:currency conversion a la Google
Monday, May 21, 2007*** begin quote ***
how many euros are 4 dollars????????????? please answer?
please i have to order something and i want to know…
how many euros are 4 dollars$$$$$$$$$$??? thanks
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4 U.S. dollars = 2.96493959 Euros
Under the heading for teaching a man to fish, you can use google and put in the search field “4 usd in euros” and it’ll pop the answer. Now you can a whole class of currency conversion at your finger tips.
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JOBSEARCH: Always be pitching and expressing your Unique Value Equation
Sunday, May 20, 2007FROM AN EMAIL TO A FELLOW TURKEY:
>actively job hunting in XXXXX, preferably something financial. Please feel free to look over my profile.
Hello,
I read your post in XXXXXXXXXXXX and was moved.
Moved to tell you that you missed a great opportunity to express your Unique Value Equation.
By way of background, I’m a big fat old turkey, who counsels fat old white guys on how to find a job. I do it as a way of repaying all the people who have helped me in the past with my transitions. And, Intelligent Designer forbid, build up a wealth of Karma for my next transition.
I have some resources that I offer to seekers over at my turkey farm.
Go directly to the “turkey farm”
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm
http://tinyurl.com/lxu93
I urge you not to be “actively job hunting”, but to express what you are going to do for someone that will unlock value for the both of you.
So if you had said something like:
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I’m seeking my next opportunity where I will count beans for someone, as one spammer said “most excellently”. Preferably in Gotham City, Alaska area, but I’m open to a relo. Preferable as a full-time employee, but I am flexible. I’m not rich, so I’ll need compensation. There to I’m flexible.”.
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See the diff?
You get the idea. Give people something to hang their hat on. I prefer informal and funny. You have to get them to read it, remember it, and act on it.
I use the Big Fat Turkey as a funny hook in people’s mind. (Hey, what was the name of that lunatic who thought he should be a CTO of an G50 firm. We’ve got the perfect position as a WalMart greeter for him. What a turkey he was. Yeah that’s it. Big Fat Turkey. Let me google that.) Hey it works for Coke, Ford, and Victoria’s Secret. Why not for a big fat old turkey. Guarantee you’ll think of me some thanksgiving, and say what a bird brain! If you don’t swear off turkey altogether.
Or course, you can connect to me on LinkedIn (reinke reinke reinke reinke), but I’m out of invites. Actually, I’m saving my last 100 for my own “next transition”.
I have job search and LinkedIn tips on my blog all categorized for easy reading.
Hope this helps.
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https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/tag/jobsearch/ has all the jobsearch items 170+ for “easy” reading.
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/tag/linkedin/ has my LinkedIn tips (only 15+ but some very good ones imho)
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LIBERTY: gooferment skoolz are a bad idea
Sunday, May 20, 2007FROM A LETTER TO THE LOCAL PRAVDA
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It’s no secret that I think gooferment skoolz are a bad idea. This, and all the other school bus accidents, are just one symptom of the consequences. It’s a bad idea that is why the gooferment has to FORCE us to do it!
(If it was a good idea, it could be voluntary and everyone would agree to do it.)
(Note: Gooferment is used because no one can name a government program that works, at all, in any way. Let alone one that is effective or efficient.)
Why is the gooferment running schools? Why does a parent hand over the most precious thing they have to the custody of the state for a majority of their waking hours? Why do I have to pay to educate your child in subjects and a manner that neither of us agrees with?
Anyone care to guess why American “education” is heading to the bottom on the international scale? Anyone care to guess why costs head for the moon while results set new lows? Anyone care to guess why the children think they are in prison, bored to tears, and learn nada that’s important? Anyone care to guess why the gooferment can’t keep drugs out of their prisons … oh I meant skoolz? (You can see the similarity!)
No, when you’re in LA with a map of New York, you have to recognize that the 415 doesn’t go by the Empire State Building. So to, when you’re in an Education Mess, you have to see the exit.
Separation of Gooferment from Education!
Please ignore the self serving anguished cry from the Teacher’s Union, Politicians, Bureaucrats, and all that make their living from the dole that we call “public education”. (It’s neither “public”; nor “education”.)
Let’s do the right thing. Free the taxpayer slaves. Open the school doors and let the children go!
Does anyone think that children will NOT get an education if the State doesn’t mandate it? Maybe they might even learn something that their parents want them to learn, if the State wasn’t in the way.
Hopefully, we can throw away a “wrong map” before we hurt ourselves.
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YAHOO ANSWER: Inheriting $35K
Saturday, May 19, 2007*** begin quote ***
Hello! ..Inheriting $35K, would like to invest (secure but agressive), any ideas?
I own a home, so I’m not sure what’s the best thing, I have c.c. debt about 12k
Thanks
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Since you’re ask here, I’d guess that you have no experience in investing. Assuming that you have no reason to do something odd, paying off the credit card debt is a great idea. (Unless you are going to run right out and charge more stuff!) You can then keep “paying” the credit card debt payment right into your investment account. (Training you to save.) With the balance, I’d suggest either a Treasury Direct account (very safe) to buy some 90 day tbills until you get “smarter”. Or, you can put it in a Vanguard account into a money market until you get savvy. Or you could do both splitting it 50-50.
You’ll learn very quickly. After all it’s your money. Either or both of those two options will keep it “safe” until you learn more.
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