DATA: Open Gooferment data in New Hampshire

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/0112246/New-Hampshire-Begins-Open-Data-Efforts

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Now, with over a dozen Free Staters elected to the NH legislature, these geeks are starting to affect government data-sharing policy.

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http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/new-hampshire-opens-its-states-legislative-data

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Chalk up a new one for the open-government-data geeks.

In the past few days, New Hampshire’s General Court, as the state legislature is officially known, started releasing data on legislation and legislators in nerd-friendly, “pipe-separated” files, uploaded daily. In non-geek speak, this means the data is presented in a way that any competent web developer can easily process for use in an application or a researcher can feed into a database system to explore.

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Seems like the “crazy Free state Project members” are making a change that was completely unexpected.

They are cracking the Gooferment data open like a dropped Chinese porcelain urn.

Imagine that people are actually interested in what the Gooferment is up to.

“Very interested”!

Now we just need to make the Gooferment switch to free Open Source Software and save some money.

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TECHNOLOGY: Serendipity! I get to watch a red light camera from wife’s ICU room

Monday, February 14, 2011

I find the Universe has a sense of humor.

In observing the Red Light Camera by Saint Peter’s University Hospital, I think it’s “unacceptable”.

I don’t have a stop watch to determine the timing.

Some folks obviously enter the intersection on red and it ain’t even close. Other’s not so clear.

If a car is in the intersection to make a left turn, and the light goes red, sometimes it “fires”.

If a car yields to a light’s ‘n’ sirens ambulance while in the intersection, it fires?

If a pedestrian interrupts some poor slob making a legal right or left, and he’s caught in the intersection, it fires.

To do a good study, we need to mark the pavement with what I’d call the 25mph line. If a poor slob is doing 25mphs, how much distance does the yellow give him to stop. I can’t tell with out some tools: radar gun; pavement markings; and a stop watch.

If the Old Lady is stuck in the ICU long, maybe I’ll have time to do a real study.

Make a movie?

Yeah, I have too much time on my hands.

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TECHNOLOGY: Red light camera as like an ATM to the Gooferment

Monday, February 14, 2011

http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/07/more-fights-over-red-light-cam

More Fights Over Red Light Cameras
Radley Balko | February 7, 2011

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Actually, the argument is that there’s good evidence showing that lengthening yellow times is a far better way to prevent intersection accidents than red light cameras. It’s more effective, and doesn’t come with the creepy surveillance state vibe. Somehow, that doesn’t seem as appealing a policy to city governments. Another reason we critics have impugned the motives of public officials is that several cities have been caught shortening yellow times at intersections after they’ve been outfitted with cameras. That would seem to be a pretty good indication of a government that values revenue more than safety.

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Yes, cash-strapped jurisdiction would have a very good motivation to install the camera and then shorten the yellow.

See the Gooferment can’t be both a participant in the game and the game’s referee.

Any illusion that there is a difference between the supposed three branches of Gooferment is just a corrupt illusion.

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Happy Saint V’s Day

Monday, February 14, 2011

After a weekend of mostly “altered mental status” — with unexplained causes, and after the innumerable transports of Frau Reinke to the toilet, I returned her to the comfort of her recliner. She couldn’t get comfortable. In a raspy strained voice struggling for breath, she said: “I have to get fresh air. I have to stand up.” So for the innumerable plus one time, I helped her to stand. I doing most of the lifting. “Just stand here” was her quiet words as she tightened her grip around my neck and held me close. Like one of the many slow “dances” we shared forty plus years ago. Until her legs tired out, she said “thanks”, and I placed her back in the recliner. Where she promptly was sound asleep. And, I was energized for the innumerable plus two times to come. Happy Valentine’s Day.

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NETWORK: “In the same way”? Not Quite

Sunday, February 13, 2011

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/ipv6-marks-next-chapter-in-history-of.html

IPv6 marks the next chapter in the history of the Internet
2/03/2011 01:39:00 PM

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In the same way your phone is associated with a unique number, your computer is assigned a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address when you connect to the Internet. The current protocol, IPv4, allows for approximately 4 billion unique addresses—and that number is about to run out.

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Unfortunately, not really.

I’ve had the same home phone number for more than three decades. Thru three PSPs (Phone Service Providers).

ISPs play all sorts of games with “my” IP address. Not to mention that I have wifi router that automagically “counterfeits” the mac addresses to allow me to “fool” the ISPs network.

Argh!

It’s more imprecise language that encourages fuzzy thinking.

We really have two different kinds of internet. An internet of things controlled by the manufacturers with mac addresses and the internet of people controlled by the ISPs.

We can say that the IPV4 problem is an ISP problem; not a User problem.

Certainly, not MY problem. I get nothing out of it.

I’m more interested in mesh networks and P2PDNS.

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FUN: Vote Betty White as the new Wonder Woman

Saturday, February 12, 2011

http://www.tvguide.com/photogallery/wonder-woman-cast-1029055

Photo GalleriesWonder Woman: Who Should Be Cast?

Why Betty White, of course. Who else is a wonder!

Vote Betty White! #wonderwoman #bettywhite

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NEWJERSEY: Revolving door?

Saturday, February 12, 2011

https://local.nixle.com/alert/4652443/?sub_id=241886

Community Message has been issued by the South Brunswick Twp Police Department.
Friday February 11, 2011 11:21 AM EST
3 ARRESTED IN TARGET PARKING LOT

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At 3:25pm Thursday afternoon South Brunswick Police were called to the Target department store on Route 1 for a theft. Officers arrived and learned that Target loss prevention personnel stopped Ashley Vohdin age 27 of Metuchen as she was leaving the store with stolen baby formula. Officer Ken Herman and Officer Lazlo Nyitrai determined that two other suspects were in the parking lot waiting for Vohdin.

Officer approached the two men Brian Bomba age 31 of South River and Anthony Kunsevich age 29 of East Brunswick. Officers obtained consent to search their vehicle and discovered another 17 cans of stolen formula. In addition police recovered heroin and a syringe in the car. The officers investigation determined that the suspects had been shoplifting all day. The suspects had stolen the items from a Target and A&P in Edison prior to coming to South Brunswick. The suspects had intended on selling the formula to small stores and getting money.

A judge authorized all suspects to be released on summonses pending their first court appearances. All three were charged with possession of stolen property. Bomba and Kunsevich were charged with heroin possesion. Vohdin was charged with shoplifting

For full details, go to https://local.nixle.com/alert/4652443/?sub_id=241886.

Contact Information:
Sgt Jim Ryan
PIO
732-329-4646 jryan@sbtnj.net

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Summonses?

Does this judge live in my world?

They are addicts. They need a fix. How are they going to earn the money to get that fix.

That’s why the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” has to end. It’s stupid.

If drugs were legal, then they’d be cheap and maybe addicts wouldn’t have to steal to feed their habits.

Argh!

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GOLDBUG: The FED “preserves the dollar’s value

Saturday, February 12, 2011

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/fry5.1.1.html

Tracing the Fed’s Vital Role in the Decline of the US Dollar
by Eric Fry

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… let’s consider the plight of two hypothetical buddies from 1914. The first buddy, Caleb, stashes a $500 “rainy day” fund under the floorboards of his house – a roll of ten $50 Ulysses S. Grant dollar bills. The second buddy, Josiah, also stashes $500 under the floorboards – he walks into the neighborhood bank with ten $50 Ulysses S. Grant Gold Certificates and exchanges them for gold. Josiah then takes his gold and hides it under his floorboards.

Both buddies forget about their hidden stashes. Eventually, let’s say 2010, the respective heirs of these two long-deceased buddies happen to conduct simultaneous renovations of their respective residences. Caleb’s heirs find the ten ancient $50 bills. “How quaint,” they think to themselves. Josiah’s heirs find $32,172 worth of gold!

Thus, 98 years of history demonstrates conclusively that a blind monkey could have preserved the dollar’s purchasing power better than a Federal Reserve Chairman. Unfortunately, it’s tough to find a blind monkey who will take the job.

Reprinted with permission from The Daily Reckoning.

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A longer version of my summation: “Which would you rather find? A pirate’s chest of gold coins, a chest full of Confederate money, or a chest full of Federal Reserve Banknotes?”

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MONEY: The IMF turns against the USA and its dollar

Friday, February 11, 2011

http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/10/markets/dollar/index.htm

IMF calls for dollar alternative
By Ben Rooney, staff reporterFebruary 10, 2011: 4:37 PM ET

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

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And, why are we funding this group of snakes?

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SERVICE: GOOGLE starts to make two factor authentication available

Friday, February 11, 2011

Advanced sign-in security for your Google account
Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:30 AM PST

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Most of us are used to entrusting our information to a password, but we know that some of you are looking for something stronger. As we announced to our Google Apps customers a few months ago, we’ve developed an advanced opt-in security feature called 2-step verification that makes your Google Account significantly more secure by helping to verify that you’re the real owner of your account. Now it’s time to offer the same advanced protection to all of our users.

2-step verification requires two independent factors for authentication, much like you might see on your banking website: your password, plus a code obtained using your phone. Over the next few days, you’ll see a new link on your Account Settings page that looks like this: …

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Now maybe this will embarrass the financial institutions into real security. As opposed to “password theater”.

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SERVICE: Extended Opt Out Time is unacceptable

Friday, February 11, 2011

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Opt out

You have successfully opted out of Clearance Jobs Communications. It may take up to 10 days to fully process your opt-out request.

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TEN DAYS!

Ya gotta be kidding?

CONSTANTCONTACT does it INSTANTLY!

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POLITICAL: We need those who pay to vote; unlike here in the US where freeloaders vote

Friday, February 11, 2011

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9213

Nuns denied opportunity to vote in Ontario election
February 10, 2011

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Four nuns were denied their right to vote in the Cambridge (Ontario) municipal election for Catholic school board candidates last fall.

Sister Michael Daniel Dumais, 39, said that a poll worker told her that “because I had taken a vow of poverty, I don’t pay taxes, so I’m not contributing to any school board, and therefore I don’t have a choice in voting for the separate school.” Instead, she and the other nuns were handed an incomplete ballot.

City Clerk Alex Mitchell downplayed the nuns’ complaints, saying that “there’s an onus on the voter to make sure you’re casting the right ballot.”

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I pay school taxes on three houses in two jurisdictions!

Never have had any children.

So why am I pay to educate children I never had? I had no vote in the decision to have them.

Why do I have to pay for other people’s choices?

Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: Huffington, an “opportunist”?

Thursday, February 10, 2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020805179.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Arianna Huffington’s ideological transformation

By Dana Milbank

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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This transformation should come as no surprise to anybody who has followed Huffington’s remarkable career. Greek-born and Cambridge-educated, she has always been on the move ideologically, from her early squabbles with feminism to her role as a minister with the new-age Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness, from her membership in Newt Gingrich’s brain trust to her stint as populist activist – all before her greatest act, the Huffington Post.

I say this with admiration. Huffington deserves every one of those millions she’ll be paid by AOL for creating this online sensation.

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Could, perhaps, she better be characterized as an “opportunist”?

Moving her “beliefs” to what sells “best”!

I remember listening to her when she was on the tube in the “conservative role”. She just didn’t ring true. As if she was working form talking points. (You can always tell a “true believer” they have their talking points engraved on their heart. I always attributed her stumbling on points to “English as a Second Language”. It really was I’m just peddling the pablum to a willing audience.

I find that distressing. This whole episode distressing. It’s like she’s an entertainer changing roles.

By definition, she has no credibility. When you hear her spout, she’s merely repeating someone else’s ideas. I’d rather hear from the originator. Newt, Walter Williams, Rick Santelli, Bill Cosby, even the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Give us the original thinkers speaking in their own voice. Not regurgitated <synonym for excrement>!

Given that AOL is a shadow of its former self, relying on surviving on the ignorance of old people to pay a monthly subscription, thay have to find a source of revenue that’s not dying.

Sorry to say, I think they just pumped more money down a rathole.

Due to a good pitch by a master saleswoman.

But they shouldn’t feel bad, Adam was sold an apple by the same type of gal!

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RANT: This shows that medical regulation is hopeless

Thursday, February 10, 2011

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3403090/Brit-wannabe-hip-hop-star-Claudia-Aderotimi-died-after-her-illegal-op-went-tragically-wrong.html

Bottom implant op kills hip hop girl
By ALEX WEST, CAROLINE GRANT and PETE SAMSON, US Editor

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THIS is British wannabe hip-hop star Claudia Aderotimi, who died after an illegal cosmetic procedure to enhance her bottom went tragically wrong.

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Police said she and her pals checked into the cheap Philadelphia hotel to have the illegal procedure.

But almost 12 hours after receiving the injections in her rear she began complaining of chest pains and was rushed to hospital, where she died at 1.32am on Tuesday.

It is suspected she may have been injected with industrial silicone normally used as a sealant instead of the more expensive variety usually used for legal breast enlargements.

It is also thought the substance was mistakenly injected into a vein.

US cops were last night seeking the “doctor”, who left after giving the jabs in room 425 of the Hampton Inn hotel, near Philadelphia airport.

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RIP Claudia. You looked beautiful; you were beautiful. What made you think you needed more?

Perhaps if we had LESS Gooferment regulation of medical stuff, this might not have happened.

Hard to believe that a free market in medicine would not have made her more suspicious of a strange practitioner, given her options that she could afford, and permitted her to have it done at a cost she could afford safely.

In this case, the Gooferment has failed in its only duty to protect “We, The People” from force or fraud.

“Medical tourism” gone awry. Why didn’t she go to Asia or India like the other folks do?

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FUN: The girl of his dreams wasn’t

Thursday, February 10, 2011

http://www.hltmag.co.uk/oct09/

Half Cup of Tea
submitted by Cynthia Beresford, UK

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Jeremy, who was a very timid young man, had one or two little manias. One of these was that he never wanted more than half a cup of tea. Mostly, though, people were too thoughtless or too generous and they always seemed to fill his cup up.

This girl he met, the daughter of friend of his mother’s, she asked him:

“ Would you like a cup of tea?”

“ Just half , if you don’t mind”

She poured him exactly half a cup.

Over the next few weeks they got to know each other better and nine months on they got engaged.

When he had timidly given her the ring she asked:

“ What was it about me that……?”

He smiled: “I asked you for half a cup of tea and you gave me what I asked for”

She blushed: “It was a terrible moment, that was all I had left in the pot…… I felt awful.”

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A Spoonful of Salt
submitted by Alan Maley, UK

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He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, all the guys were chasing after her. As for him, he felt so ordinary and nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised, but being polite, she agreed. They sat in a nice coffee shop, but he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, and thought, please, let me go home…. when suddenly he asked the waiter. “Would you please give me some salt? I’d like to put it in my coffee.”

Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red, but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously; why salt? Why not sugar?” He replied,”When I was a little boy, I lived near the sea, I liked playing in the sea and the taste of the salty sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have salty coffee, I think of my childhood, think of my hometown. I miss my hometown so much, and I miss my parents who are still living there”.

Tears suddenly filled his eyes. She was deeply touched by his words. A man who can reveal his homesickness, must be a man who loves home, cares about home, feels the responsibility of home. Then she also started to speak, about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family….her life. And that was the beautiful beginning of their story. Later, after their marriage, every time she made coffee for him, she put a spoonful of salt in it as she knew that was how he liked it.

40 years later, he passed away, leaving her a letter which said:

“My dearest, please forgive me. My whole Life has been based on a lie. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time. I actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead. I never thought that would be the start of our life together! I wanted to tell you the truth many times in but I was too afraid to do that. Now I’m dying, I’m afraid of nothing so here is the truth: I don’t like salty coffee – I hate the taste… But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life!”

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NETWORK: Carriers Hold the Cards

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/iphone-verizon-sucks/

Verizon iPhone Shows You Can’t Win: Carriers Hold the Cards

By Brian X. Chen February 7, 2011 | 4:45 pm

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On the day that iPhone preorders began last week, Verizon quietly revised its policy on data management: Any smartphone customer who uses an “extraordinary amount of data” will see a slowdown in their data-transfer speeds for the remainder of the month and the next billing cycle. It’s a bit of a bait-and-switch. One of Verizon’s selling points for its version of the iPhone is that it would come with an unlimited data plan — a marked contrast to AT&T, which eliminated its unlimited data plans last year.

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“A BIT”!

Are you kidding me?

Where’s the FTC on false advertising, the FCC on “telecom regulation”, and DOJ on “restraint of trade”? (… or do you think APPLE’s IPAD just isn’t welcome on the T-MOBILE network.)

How come they (DOJ) took AT&T apart at the seams and ruined a “national treasure” (Universal cheap local phone service and Bell Labs)? But they leave the cesspool of cable and telcos “unregulated”. Talk about “regulatory capture”!

I think it’s “real simple”. Reintroduce the idea that you can make hardware, software, or the network. But never the twain shall meet. If you open an “app store” then you can’t be in the business of making software.

How about the doctrine of “first sale” and all this “licensing” nonsense? You have to be kidding me!

The crippled DVRs of the cable and telcos is unfair competition with TIVO.

And, billing? Sorry but you can’t mislabel “fees” as “taxes”. And, you can’t pre-bill, post-bill, or change it as you go along.

Finally, “agreements” that are “agreed to” after the purchase, or have legalese, or that are 37 pages of small print designed to be “read” in real time on a computer screen should be presumed to be fraudulent and thus null and void.

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QUOTE: Foreign aid

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

“Foreign aid: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.” – Douglas Casey

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JOBSEARCH: Another reason to NEVER use your employer’s email for YOU_INC

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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Dear HotJobs® Job Seeker,

This is our final notice to let you know that Yahoo! HotJobs has been acquired by Monster® and the integration will be completed on Feb. 12, 2011. This means that you can have a more robust job search than ever before — more employers, more opportunities, more industry depth, and more tools — if you give us permission to transfer your information.

{Extraneous Deleted}

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Of course, this ASSUMES that the email that was registered with HOTJOBS is still current. :-) Given the way folks have been getting nuked, and they stpidly use their employer’e email address as if it was their own, oh well, they may be OUTTA_LUCK?

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POLITICAL: “We Can’t Legalize Drugs Because …?

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/07/hillary-clinton-we-cant-legali

Hillary Clinton: We Can’t Legalize Drugs Because ‘There Is Just Too Much Money in It’
Jacob Sullum | February 7, 2011

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Last week, while visiting Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was interviewed by Denise Maerker of Televisa, who asked her opinion of proposals to address black-market violence by repealing drug prohibition. Clinton’s response illustrates not only the intellectual bankruptcy of the prohibitionist position but the economic ignorance of a woman who would be president (emphasis added):

Maerker: In Mexico, there are those who propose not keeping going with this battle and legalize drug trafficking and consumption. What is your opinion?

Clinton: I don’t think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. I hear it in my country. It is not likely to work. There is just too much money in it, and I don’t think that—you can legalize small amounts for possession, but those who are making so much money selling, they have to be stopped.

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Many a true word comes through in an unguarded moment.

Think of all the politicians and bureaucrats that would be out of job. At the very least, ¼ of the federal prisons could be closed.

Money being spent on the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” could be returned to the taxpayers.

Drugs were once available in a true free market. We had addicts. We will ALWAYS have addicts. Time after time, we see that there’s about a 10% addiction rate. No matter what the law is.

So, if we “legalize drugs”, then we will put the Columbian Drug Kingpins on welfare. And, think of all the children and young adults that we will save from bad drugs and from addiction. (Addiction, because when drugs are no longer illegal, they won’t be “kool”.)

We will also remove the corrupting effect of drug dealers bribing cops and repeal the whole civil forfeiture laws.

Or we can continue doing it “Hillary’s way”!

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GUNS: The heck with “wasp spray”; get a gun and practice

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

SOMEONE FORWARDED SOME INTERNET “ADVICE”:

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Note: Read all the way to the bottom, wasp spray and key fob are the best ideas of all!

There are some really great tips here: The best are near the end. Common sense applied in a vigorous way.

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THIRTEEN THINGS YOUR BURGLAR WON’T TELL YOU

If you don’t have a gun, here’s a more humane way to wreck someone’s evil plans for you. (I guess I can get rid of the baseball bat.):

WASP SPRAY

A friend who is a receptionist in a church in a high risk area was concerned about someone coming into the office on Monday to rob them when they were counting the collection. She asked the local police department about using pepper spray and they recommended to her that she get a can of wasp spray instead.

The wasp spray, they told her, can shoot up to twenty feet away and is a lot more accurate, while with the pepper spray, they have to get too close to you and could overpower you. The wasp spray temporarily blinds an attacker until they get to the hospital for an antidote. She keeps a can on her desk in the office and it doesn’t attract attention from people like a can of pepper spray would. She also keeps one nearby at home for home protection. Thought this was interesting and might be of use.

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Put your car keys beside your bed at night. Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, your Dr.’s office, the check-out girl at the market, everyone you run across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night.  If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It’s a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won’t stick around. After a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won’t want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.

P.S. I am sending this to everyone I know because I think it is fantastic. Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can’t reach a phone. My Mom has suggested to my Dad that he carry his car keys with him in case he falls outside and she doesn’t hear him. He can activate the car alarm and then she’ll know there’s a problem.

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I’ve read the “wasp spray” advice before.

In the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee and other of the socialist states, you can’ do that legally. (Don’t yell at me. I don’t make the diktats.) It gives the presumption of preplanning.

AND, in line with the great libertarian rules of thumb, like “the three Ss — shoot shovel and shutup”, “better judged by 12 than carried by 6”, and “Where Guns Are Outlawed Terrorist Need Only Boxcutters” — I wouldn’t tell you not to do it. It’s your tush.

BUTT (there’s always a big but) for woman your size, I suggest a nice 380. And, no one’s going to have to compromise their safety. A 1911 might be too big. It’s the gun that tamed the Philippines. A hopped up native with a machete found it difficult to advance when hit ANYWHERE with the equivalent of a ¼ car.

If you don’t want a handgun, I’d then suggest a shotgun. No aim required. And, jacking the shell into the chamber makes a sound that is very satisfying.

One thing the mainstream media never reports is what the gun nuts call “the violence avoided by a firearm”. You’re at home and wave your shotgun at an intruder who runs away; that will NEVER be reported in the press.

Remember an old and true, military motto, “Si vis pacem, para bellum” from Flavius Vegetius Renatus circa 375 AD: “If you want peace, prepare for war.”

Donna Nobis Pacem!

;-)

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/05/11/gunz-why-is-the-380-a-girlie-gun/

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RANT: Responding to a comment about “Gooferment Skrules”

Monday, February 7, 2011

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2011/02/private-funding-for-public-schools.html

>Corporate America, … are all on board for school “privatization”

In America, I doubt you could get that lot “on board” for anything. And, btw, the Facebook guy gave his money to what? Wasn’t it a “public school system”?

>charter schools and school vouchers would be dead in the water

The really ARE “dead in the water”. The Teacher’s Union will ensure that they are crippled out of the box with restrictions and conditions.

>libertarians hate public schools because they are selfish

No, this little L libertarian hates Gooferment Skrules because they are funded by force.

>just don’t want to pay taxes.

You’re right. I want to buy services in the marketplace where I can pick and choose. Yes to Burger King; no to Wendy’s. I don’t want to be forced to fund McD’s and then told “but you’re free to go elsewhere.” If you steal my wealth, (what little of it I have), then I am NOT free.

>They got their public education

Nope; I got none of that there “pub lick eddykation”.

>attitude is tough luck to the children who are

>being educated in public schools.

Were that they WERE being “educated” in those Gooferment Skrules! They are being propagandized! And, poorly at that. If you look at the stats.

>I received a public education

Well, good for you. Nice to hear that the money poured down the rathole wasn’t totally wasted. And, I’m sure you will tell us how wonderful that Gooferment education was. No propaganda or brain washing there. You’re just defending anything the Gooferment does because that’s the right way to do it.

>I consider it to be an investment in the future.

I love when folks muddle the language. “Investment” is when someone puts capital at risk in hope of a return. My capital was seized by the State and I have no hope of a return. It ain’t “investment” to spend stolen wealth on the euphemism of “public schools”. It’s about “milking the system” for the benefit of politicians, bureaucrats, and their “friends”.

> I got my public education and I want current and future kids to receive a public education.

And, I want to be thin, young, hndsome, and live in peace with my neighbors. It ain’t going to happen! For as long as you and your gang of costumed thugs continue to rob me like a mafia.

>We pool our tax dollars for the common good

No, WE DON’T “pool”. We are ROBBED to fund the things that the elite think are important.

Why do I have to be robbed to to fund any of those things. If I want that “service”, I should be allowed to “buy” it.

Just because, you yell about the Gooferment paying for stuff, doesn’t make it the only way or the right way to do it.

Because ALL Gooferment actions are rooted in FORCE — forcing people to pay for this stuff, those actions are IMMORAL and doomed to failure.

Those things that are NOT outright failures — and it’s hard to think of one thing that is not, are too costly when compared with “private” alternatives. (That’s because a “greedy” businessman is incentivized to satisfy the buyer at the lowest possible cost.)

> NJ public schools are top rated

That’s like saying I have the “prettiest pig in the pen”.

>graduation rates

Are manipulated by politicians and bureaucrats. For example, dropouts are not counted.

>population living in poverty

We disagree about the definition of “poverty”, but I blame the Gooferment for what you cite.

>some schools with serious challenges

Like graduating children scarred for life by not being able to read!

>If we had universal health care and state supported after school care

We’d all be broke and the problems would still exist!

>Germany or Finland have

So why are you here, trying to turn us into them.

>School choice is not a free ride

I don’t like anything that uses tax dollars. Parents had the children; they should educate them. It’s NOT my responsibility!

>Chinese immersion charter school is approved with no input from tax payers.

All Gooferment Skrules are nuts!

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INTERESTING: Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams autobiographies are published

Monday, February 7, 2011

http://www.garynorth.com/public/7563.cfm

Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams: Still Out of Step After All These Years
Gary North
Jan. 28, 2011

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Walter Williams has written an autobiography, Up from the Projects (Hoover Institution, 2010). Not counting the index, it is 142 pages long. It makes for a nice afternoon’s read. I read it this week. A week ago, I re-read Thomas Sowell’s autobiography, A Personal Odyssey (Free Press, 2000). Williams is 74. Sowell is 80. The two of them have similar stories. Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. Williams grew up in Philadelphia. Sowell served in the Marines. Williams served in the Army. Both of them provided plenty of aggravation for their superiors. They both knew how to work the system. Sowell got more out of the experience. He became a first-rate photographer.

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Might actually have to break down and buy these books. KINDLE4iPAD actually.

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SERVICE: Google Chrome Print

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Worked with a meaningless email on Gmail mobile from the IPAD. Interesting!


SOFTWARE: OPERA1101 can’t send a link?

Sunday, February 6, 2011

In my quest to find a browser that fulfills my needs (whatever they are), I’ve been using OPERA (version 11.01).

I just noticed a blunder in the User Interface.

There’s no menu option under “file” to forward a link.

Curious oversight.

Otherwise, the browser is quite good.

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SERVICE: Google can’t verify a Google Site?

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Verify ownership

Verification status

Not Verified – Last attempt Less than a minute ago – Hide history

Attempted Method Outcome

2/6/11 10:06:00 PM UTC Meta tag Verification failed. Your meta tag is not in the <head> section of your home page.

2/6/11 10:04:01 PM UTC HTML file Verification failed. Your verification file was not found.

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Ok, Google, how should it be done. Sigh!

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RANT: My favorite Socialist rants; needs a little L libertarian perspective

Sunday, February 6, 2011

http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1566726651374&id=1331644592

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First they do contribute by putting money back into the economy via Wal-Mart target, grocery stores. Many of them work to support a child born here who is therefore a citizen. Yes they send money home to Mexico but they’ve worked for the mo…ney and should support their families. Do they pay tax- no but so many upper middle class and above earners cheat on their taxes thats its a hypocritical argument. The corporations who essentially pay little to tax due to laws written to protect their profits do more damage to the economy then illegal aliens. The current health care bill would allow you to keep the insurance you have now, but would provide affordable health care to the less fortunate. It would also create jobs and reduce the deficit by a couple of hundred million dollars. We are not looking to model Canada-the vast majority of Americans wouldn’t even notice the change, so your process would have remained the same, thank God. But a member of your church whose been laid off with no insurance for five months and is diagnosed with a terminal illness will have options for affordable and competent care without concern of being denied for a pre-existing condition. Babies born here to illegal immigrants are US citizens at birth and are no different than Liv and Luke and they are entitled to first rate health care. I’d say Luke 12:48 says it well- to whom much is given from much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, a larger amount will be demanded. Since everyone and their brother uses religion as a shield I think it’s important to remind them that Jesus surrounded himself with the dredges of society- criminals, whores, lepers and the disenfranchised. He didn’t forsake them because they were poor, in the minority or out of touch with mainstream society. He asked for nothing but faith and in return promised life everlasting. Today churches judge you on a few things- what do you make, what can you give, and can you argue against the poor, disenfranchised, downtrodden trying to make a change. Tonight at church the pastor stood in his 10 million dollar church and talked about material things not being important. I bet a 37000 square foot barn could have been built for a lot less and that a lot of money could have been given to the poor for training programs or education programs. Alas a church was built for the affluent congregation that we are, where we could listen to stories about the poor, but when service ends we go back to our Volvo’s or BMW’s and drive to our house on the cul-de- sac, turn on the flat screen TV and make a nice dinner and drink some wine. Now of course we’ll do a food drive, label the bag with the church logo, and deliver the food in our church sweatshirts and hats while we sip our latte’s and check our smartphone to avoid having to actually engage the downtrodden. If we do engage them we push Jesus on them but forget to mention how we can actually affect change in their life. I want a church where we don’t reinterpret Gods message but instead deliver it as he would- come in your welcome, who you are or what you have is irrelevant as long as you have faith and no-one will judge you based on your gender, race or sexual orientation. I am the God of love, not hate, and no one on earth should try to tell you what I meant or stood for, nor should they invoke Christianity into political arguments that are secular issues.

I think we would all get along better if we sought solutions based on what’s happening today, not trying reinterpret the constitution or the bible because no one knows the true intent of either document.

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Ahh, an diatribe or rant by my favorite Socialist. Let’s put it under the little L libertarian’s microscope.

(On an editorial note. I see no paragraphs or outline. Hmm, not evidence of a post-graduate writing. And, it forgets that whole “between stimulus and response” thing. And, is it trying to convince?)

>First they do contribute by putting money back into the economy

I don’t think we SHOULD have “illegal aliens”. I think people should be able to move freely. Subject to a border check for criminals. I think “Green Cards” should be issued at the border. We need all those, willing to work, to jump in the boat, grab and oar, and start rowing. As such, in a Libertarian America, there’d be no welfare to sponge off of, so no need to keep willing workers out. Also, since there’d be no “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”, there would be very few “contraband” to be smuggled.

Current day “illegal aliens” do pay taxes. Every product purchased in the store carries a hidden tax — remember the 35% corporate tax? Only real people pay taxes, so it’s passed along. Rent an apartment; who really pays the rea estate tax. And, let’s not forget those poor slobs who get a “real job” with a fake SSN, where does their FICA go? Uncle Sugar!

> …but so many upper middle class and above earners cheat

If you are being ROBBED, hiding stuff from the thief isn’t cheating!

>The corporations who essentially pay little to tax

Corporations DO NOT PAY taxes; they pass them along. Only REAL people pay taxes. It’s a fraud on the American Sheeple. Let’s kill this meme once and for all.

> due to laws written to protect their profits

Ahh, but your friends the D’s, the champions of the little people, had all three branches of Gooferment. So, those problems were fixed already. Right!

>The current health care bill would allow you to keep the insurance you have now

Can’t keep what is available. Folks are finding it out the hard way. More Insurance Companies are stopping coverages. WHICH was the very purpose of the law. Single payer. Medicare for all.

How stupid are people?

And, dnf, the 750+ “exemptions”.

> but would provide affordable health care to the less fortunate.

In your dreams. The catastrophic care isn’t being signed up for. And, the state exchanges ain’t gonna be created.

>It would also create jobs and reduce the deficit by a couple of hundred million dollars.

Sure, for Gooferment bureaucrats!

>We are not looking to model Canada-the vast majority of Americans wouldn’t even notice the change, so your process would have remained the same, thank God.

Sorry, but with docs thinking about leaving medicine and practices shutting to new patients, there’s going to be huge changes.

>But a member of your church whose been laid off with no insurance for five months and is diagnosed with a terminal illness will have options for affordable and competent care without concern of being denied for a pre-existing condition.

So the Gooferment creates the problem (i.e., medical insurance tied to employment as a result of WW2 wage and price controls), and the solution is (taaa dah, wait for it) … more Gooferment diktats and programs.

p.s., “pre existing” — like placing your bet after the race. why would the racetrack survive?

>Babies born here to illegal immigrants are US citizens at birth

That may or may not be true. It depends on an “interesting” reading of the 14th, designed to ensure freed slaves got to vote. It’s never been tested in the courts that an “illegal immigrant” would satisfy those conditions.

>are no different than Liv and Luke and they are entitled to first rate health care.

Sure are. They are the children of a privileged high-ranking Gooferment bureaucrat. Like the old USSR, they are far ahead of all the “mundanes”.

>I’d say Luke 12:48

Perhaps, it might be referring to the Final Judgement? Nothing prevents you from being charitable. But, what the Gooferment does is NOT charity.

>- criminals, whores, lepers and the disenfranchised.

Well, it’s hard to make a joke around serious topics, but working in the Gooferment, I’d suggest you’re surrounded by the first. Not sure about the rest.

>political arguments that are secular issues.

It’s not my place to critique others’ charity or faith. I’ve got enough to worry about my own. Unfortunately, with the Gooferment’s intrusion into ALL areas, and a direct hostility to “religion”, “faith”, and “charity”, EVERY argument is a “political” one.

In the movie the Three Muskateers (any era), the Church is the natural opponent of the King for the loyalty of the People. Just as in a hive, there can be only one Queen. So too, the Gooferment has to kill its rival “The Church”. That’s why it claims jurisdiction over “churches” by its insistence that they become “corporations”. Zoning, 1099s, classifications, rules, diktats. Had to be faithful with the Gooferment “helping”.

>I think we would all get along better if we sought solutions

I think we’d all be better off if we sought solutions based on freedom and liberty!

> based on what’s happening today,

What’s happening today is for the most part a product of the past errors. Building upon past mistakes is putting lipstick on the pig!

> not trying reinterpret the constitution or the bible

Both are relatively simple and need little “interpretation”

>because no one knows the true intent of either document.

Well the Constitution is pretty well understood as far as intentions. The Federalists, who wanted a strong central Gooferment, were unhappy with the weaknesses of the Articles. So they pulled the wool over the eyes of the Sheeple and swapped in the “Constitution”.

Now, it’s just ignored.

The “Bible” is an interesting research project in and of itself. Who knows what the original “Bible” was.

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Let’s get back to basics. People will be free. Even in the worst dictatorship, a prison, or a “free society”, they will do what they want to do. Civil disobedience that evidenced everyday. Example, speed limits. If the Gooferment can’t keep drugs out of its prisons, then how does it expect to keep them out of Gooferment Skrules.

Let’s seek solutions that are based on freedom and liberty. They’ll last.

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