JOBSEARCH: Seeing more of these “mistakes”

Sunday, November 7, 2010

I’m seeing more of these “mistakes”. (Mistakes imho)

• Folks put their “corporate” twitter on LinkedIn. It’s not “yours”; it’s corporate pr.

• Folks put their “personal” twitter on LinkedIn. With all the “social updates”. That definitely won’t help your “brand”.

(You know I disagree that you can “brand” yourself. A “brand” is a collective typing of related things to convey a standardization and imply value — Kellogg’s cereals, Big Bertha golf clubs, Hilton Hotels. You’re unique; you must sell your unique value equation <UVE>. You can have “attributes” which can be “standardized” (i.e., Degree; PMP; Outward Bound survivor); you can fashion your own UVE-advanicing attributes — if you can prove, demonstrate, or have external validation. But you can’t brand yourself imho. “Image creation”, maybe.)

• Folks put their “corporate” web page on LinkedIn. It’s not “yours”; it’s also corporate pr. (You are NOT your job.)

• Folks put their “personal” web page on LinkedIn. Or worse, FACEBOOK with “social updates”. Or worst, MYSPACE.

• Folks mix up their LinkedIn & Facebook effort. I tell my turkeys to use a “professional name” like Ferdinand J. Reinke and “personal name” like Fjohn Reinke to make it more difficult to “align” information. With different pictures. (My tin foil hat says that’s like a finger print. And folks use the same profile photo.)

• Folks put up the corporate email address on LinkedIn and / or Facebook. Or they use an email connected to something other than their own domain. (No joke; actually saw ‘studmuff @ free mail service dot com. Great image maker; not! Have also seen worse, but can’t cite them in mixed company.)

(I suggest that everyone have your own domain! The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!) I gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain+email+webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy. And, it’s not hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal permanent eternal locator”.)

I also caution that NO dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) should be put online with out careful consideration. I use the “Mom test”. Would I be happy to show this item to my now deceased Mother? She expected the best from me at all time. That’s the standard I try to use.

• Folks don’t have a personal web site with all the good content that they create. Sanitized if done for work. Everything can be used if if is designed to communicate DIKW for the benefit of the reader. (I really don’t care if it is “how to clean a toilet”. Any thing can advance your image as a caring communicating human being who shares.)

Just some thoughts.

FWIW,
fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself

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POLITICAL: Helping the R’s cut spending

Saturday, November 6, 2010

http://gopleader.gov/Contact/default.aspx

May I suggest the idea one inet pundit had? A flat 10% across the board cut. We’re paying a lot of bureaucrats well, let them figure out how to do it. If the administration wants to favor one program over another, fine. As long as the year over year total is 10% less, I’d suggest that you agree. Simple, easy to communicate, and dramatic. Then insist on the same every year. imho!

p.s., if the math is too complicated for those smart folks, as a fat old white guy injineer I can demonstrate “move the decimal” and cut that amount.

fjohn reinke

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MONEY: Just don’t

Saturday, November 6, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner438.html

Rising Food and Energy Costs to Add to Retirees’ Problems by Bill Bonner

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Our advice: don’t grow old. Don’t retire. Don’t get sick. Don’t trust the feds. And don’t sell your gold.

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Yup, it’s gonna be tuff to be old!

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RANT: Unemployment?

Saturday, November 6, 2010

>In regard to unemployment, if you need to rely on that to survive

Agreed. Unfortunately, they pitched it as “insurance” and it ain’t. Unemployment is not an uninsurable risk. It’s not random. (Learnt that in the MC eckynomics class; I am after all a fat old white guy injineer with a low index.)

>So let’s agree to disagree.

Agreeably.

>government stands to make a profit. As they have on the bailout money.

So, they stole 10K$ from my wife’s retirement fund to enrich the unions, Wall Street, and the big banks. Then they sell the proceeds of that theft, make a profit, and me as the victim are supposed to be happy about that? If they had been forced to go thru bankruptcy, she would have gotten some money back. Estimates were 25¢ on the dollar. So we got screwed; I’m not happy. It was only a small percentage of her retirement and our portfolio. But it was the principle. By allowing anyone to avoid bankruptcy, the Gooferment took the pressure off the various managements to find a solution. By allowing Leman Brothers to fail but bailing out others, they created a mess. Goldman Sachs was picking winners and losers. Lehman was the biggest GS competitor. Timmy and others were all ex-GS people. It was a raid on the public treasury.

>I know you’ll never agree with me, but that’s my humble opinion.

You’re right about that. I’ve worked on Wall Street and I KNOW how the sleeze think.

>I believe most of today’s unemployment is due to skills gap.

> There are a lot of jobs out there, but individuals don’t fit the profile.

Might be. I think that the unemployment is due to the uncertainty that the Gooferment has introduced.

>I fear those jobs will not be coming back.

Well you could get them back if there were tariffs. But then, like Smoot Hawley, will create a worse Depression. We have to reinvent America. I think we have a natural global advantage in the production of food. So instead of paying farmers not to grow, we need to incentivize the food production process.

>This due to improper planning and reliance on another stipend from uncle
> sam, social security.

Another welfare program designed to transfer control to Washington DC. And, racist, xfer $ from poor minority men to rich white women. And, another mislabeled program; how can you “insure” old age?

>Why is Obamacare socialism when Medicare is a sacred cow?

Both are “socialism”!

>I think the free market is a viable option, with premiums being tax deductable.

I think we should just leave everyone alone to chose what they want and STOP using the guns of Gooferment to “social engineer”?

>Unfortunately, I do agree the Bush tax cuts must be repealed for the more wealthly americans.

Sorry, but when you take the money away from the rich, who will save and invest?

>Its an effective way to deal with the deficit. (Which Bush did wonders to increase.)

Nah, the Lafer curve, and the fact that you’re not dealing with idiots, will frustrate you. Lowering taxes will generate more revenue as it frees up people locked in by taxes. And, rich people aren’t stupid. How many docs will choose leisure over treating folks when their income is going to exceed 250K. And don’t forget it’s 250k$ on small business, so you’re paying on gross not net of expenses. It’s stupid. So like Maryland found out when they levied a “millionaire’s tax” over ½million, about ½ of their millionaires disappeared. Moved or feathered back their taxable income.

> legacy costs, defense and servicing debt.

I like the idea of a 10% across the board cut every year. But, no one is allowed to impact the citizens. Should drive the bureaucrats nuts!

>All of business is not hurting, this could be a record year on wall

>street. Bonuses are back up and greed is back in vogue.

You know that looting the public treasury is very profitable.

>Additionally, whether Republican or Democratic, I support my government.

That’s where we disagree. I’m a little L libertarian like Jefferson. It’s NOT my government. If we were having a beer, I could go into great detail about why it ain’t. :-)

> I disagree with some legislation, but I know it is a basic

>part of what makes this country great.

No, what makes this country great is liberty. And, then people make the most of it. Then, everything flowed from their “greed”.

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IPAD: Reports to HQ?

Saturday, November 6, 2010

The IPAD today popped up, or perhaps it would be better reported that when the IPAD was syncing ITUNES popped up on McBa and requested permission to report to HQ how the IPAD was being used. For my benefit, of course.

I wonder what it is reporting. User played KLONDIKE. (Who cares?) User updated CARINGBRIDGE. (Now were into medical privacy. HIPPA?) SAFARIed to the following websites. (Now we’re treading close to that privacy line.)

Who knows what gets reported to HQ?

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POLITICAL: So how do we apply the calculation problem today

Saturday, November 6, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north900.html

The Police State Is Doomed
by Gary North

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In 1920, Ludwig von Mises wrote a short essay, “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.”

He argued that socialist economic planning is inherently blind. Without free market prices that are based on private ownership, the government’s central planners have no way of knowing where to allocate scarce resources. This is especially true of capital goods. The planners are forced to copy prices in the non-socialist societies. This was his theory. It turned out to be correct in practice.

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Today, in the Gooferment, they don’t know how to use capital or expense dollars? It’s obvious every time you look at their pronouncements. Real people make decisions about trade offs all the time: If I do X, it precludes Y. Does the Gooferment even have the concept of capital and expense? Look at New Jersey’s version of the Big Dig, the new trans-Hudson tunnel. The Guv is expecting a cost overrun. And, how does that get paid for? But the bigger question is: does it make economic sense? A private entrepreneur investing his own capital would say: does the roi exceed the cost of capital? The Gooferment can’t even phrase the question. They don’t know the answer and because it’s the taxpayer’s money. Or the posterity of the taxpayer who will pay. The politicians and bureaucrats just don’t care.

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RECOMMENDED: A florist in Conover NC

Friday, November 5, 2010

http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Thornburgs.Florist.Gifts.And.Interiors.828-464-9750

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Thornburg’s Florist Gifts & Interiors
505 1st Ave S
Conover, NC 28613
828-464-9750

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Highly recommended. Called on Saturday night; they called me back on Sunday morning. (That’s good.) I had a rush request. (Are there any others?) They were able to stay a little later and meet my need for an early Monday morning delivery. The feedback I got was that their work was beautiful. I am stunned that they went the extra mile for me, a stranger. If I need flowers again their geography, then they have my business. I’d suggest that they should have yours as well.

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POLITICAL: How about we end the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”?

Friday, November 5, 2010

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/21298/holy-father-praying-for-drug-addicts-in-november

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Vatican City, Oct 31, 2010 / 06:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has announced his prayer intentions for the month of November, calling for an increased focus on victims of drug and other substance addictions as well as prayers for the well being of the Church in Latin America.

Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for November is: “That victims of drugs or of other dependence may, thanks to the support of the Christian community, find in the power of our saving God strength for a radical life-change.”

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Now don’t let the milk on your cereal shoot out your nose, BUTT (there’s always a big but) how about we end the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”?

So, you logically ask, “how does that help”?

First, and foremost, we give people liberty and freedom. That’s always good.

Second, there is a “natural rate” of addiction that doesn’t change much. Some people will become addicted regardless of what we do. Let’s focus on that. So how does locking them up in jail help? The Gooferment can’t even stop drugs in their prisons.

Third, by ending the PWOSD, and putting WalMart, WalGreens, and all the other legitimate ‘drug dealers’ in charge, drugs will be cheaper. Seriously MJ is a weed. I’ve read knowledgeable pundit who say that the currently “illegal” drugs will be priced like generic aspirin. This has four immediate benefits: <a> addicts will not have to commit crimes to get the exorbitant sums needed to feed their habit; <b> we will immediately drain the profits from Drug Gangs (What does a Drug Kingpin do next?) making or streets safer; <c> pure ‘safe’ drug will be available so, that if someone does decide to experiment, they will not die from a ‘hot shot’ or rat poison; <d> now ‘no longer illegal’ drug will lose their ‘bad boy’ allure as it’s no longer ‘kool’, but boring.

Fourth, by pardoning all the non-violent drug offenders, we will free up needed prison space for violent felons. Also, perhaps, some of the prisons and the associated bureaucrats will no longer be needed and can be freed up to do more productive work.

Five, all those ‘savings’ can be aimed at studying how to effectively ‘cure’ drug addiction — probably a mixture of brain chemistry, chemical engineering, and the assumption of personal reliability.

Six, it would end the corrosive effect of corruption in out police forces. And, it would end the militarization of our police force, as the “war” gets more violent. We can get our Fourth Amendment rights back and return to a peaceful civil society.

Time to ‘solve’ the drug problem by ending the PWOSD!

By the way, where in their precious Constitution did they get the power to outlaw a weed and create this whole mess?

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POLITICAL: The Libertarian Pledge to America

Thursday, November 4, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance213.html

The Libertarian Pledge to America
by Laurence M. Vance

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Here is the Libertarian Pledge to America:

   * I promise to end the war on drugs.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Energy.

   * I promise to abolish all anti-trust laws.

   * I promise to abolish the Federal Housing Administration.

   * I promise to abolish the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).

   * I promise to abolish the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddy Mac).

   * I promise to abolish the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae).

   * I promise to repeal the Fair Housing Act.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

   * I promise to abolish the Federal Trade Commission.

   * I promise to abolish the EPA.

   * I promise to abolish the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Education.

   * I promise to end federal funding and control of education.

   * I promise to cease funding Head Start.

   * I promise to cease funding the National School Lunch Program.

   * I promise to repeal the federal minimum wage.

   * I promise to repeal the National Labor Relations Act.

   * I promise to repeal the PATRIOT ACT.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Homeland Security.

   * I promise to abolish the TSA and return airport security to airports and airlines.

   * I promise to repeal all federal gun regulations.

   * I promise to abolish NASA.

   * I promise to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts.

   * I promise to abolish the National Endowment for the Humanities.

   * I promise to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

   * I promise to cease all drone attacks and covert activities.

   * I promise to bring all U.S. troops home from foreign soil.

   * I promise to close all foreign military bases.

   * I promise to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries.

   * I promise to limit the Department of Defense to actual defense.

   * I promise to end all federal bailouts.

   * I promise to stop funding the UN, World Bank, and IMF.

   * I promise to end all foreign aid.

   * I promise to end all farm subsidies.

   * I promise to repeal all trade restrictions, import quotas, anti-dumping laws, and trade agreements.

   * I promise to abolish the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission.

   * I promise to repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act.

   * I promise to repeal all Affirmative Action, minority set-asides, and public accommodations laws.

   * I promise to repeal the Family and Medical Leave Act.

   * I promise to cease funding Planned Parenthood.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Health and Human Services.

   * I promise to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

   * I promise to end Medicare and Medicaid.

   * I promise to end all federal funding and control of medicine and medical research.

   * I promise to abolish the FDA.

   * I promise to abolish NPR.

   * I promise to abolish the Department of Labor.

   * I promise to cease funding any scientific research on climate change.

   * I promise to end the FED.  

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Might it not be easier to itemize what should be kept?

I’d add:

* Repeal the 16th Amendment — the income tax.

* Repeal the 17th Amendment — the direct election of Senators that destroyed the feedback loop to State Gooferment and permitted the unfunded mandate.

* Repeal the legal tender laws

And, I’d add one positive “right”: Federal Courts must always find ANY evidence of innocence admissible, timely, and required. To deny any convict the chance of exoneration by DNA evidence for “technical legal reasons” (i.e., not raised on a timely basis; waived by counsel; expense; other administrivia) is unconscionable.

That’s why secession will be easier. Smaller is better!

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JOBSEARCH: Why are email riot broke out on a jobsearch yahoo group

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Re: Stop Welfare….. and all Government taxing that is out of contr

Posted by: “Dawn”
Wed Nov 3, 2010 9:03 am (PDT)

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i thought this was an IT roundtable discussion group. if we want to talk about job opportunities then ok. I don’t understand the political tone this has taken.

This should be apolitical, focusing on jobs, not politics.

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Dear Ms. Dawn:

Taken off the mailing list to calm the off-topic traffic down.

Unfortunately the political meddling has taken it’s toll on the economy. Many, including myself, are casualties of the bad economy. It doesn’t take long to realize that there are ‘structural reasons’ why businesses are not hiring:

* Uncertainty — with Obamacare — no one knows how much an employee is going to cost in 2011 and beyond;

* Higher taxes — with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the Gooferment is going to take a bigger cut of any profits. That increases the ‘hurdle rate’ as well as the implied rate of return required for any new project. That gets factored into the risk calculation. So business is “frozen”

* Higher political risk — Gooferment Motors demonstrated that the politicians and bureaucrats will seize the assets of bondholders, like it was a two bit South American dictatorship, for the benefit of the powerful labor unions, the brokerage houses, and the banks. Why would you ever loan money to anyone when it can lost in the blink of a politician’s eye.

I have a bunch more examples of the chilling effect that the Gooferment has had on the economic climate. But three’s enough.

The reason that the firestorm started is some deluded fool suggested that more unemployment benefits was a good thing that Washington should do. And, implied that the Democratic Party was the more charitable organization. A lot of folks who’s nerves are frazzled, like mine, just descended upon that. Neither Party is “charitable”; nor should they be “charitable” with stolen wealth. Fiscal austerity in the Gooferment is what is needed. Less welfare, and less warfare, and less Gooferment is the bitter pill.

That’s why the political tone. Jobs, the economy, and prosperity are now in the political arena. To think that you can now separate them is naive. It’s like looking for a deck chair on the Titanic … as it’s sinking.

imho, trying to change opinions, one person at a time,
fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself

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GUNS: I trust that women can tell how their attacker got that fatal bullet wound

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Hmmm, we need to issue all women a handgun when they turn … 14? OK, maybe 15. When did pioneer children learn to shoot?

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/4967-hoplophobia-is-curable

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Gun control is the theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

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RANT: You still fly. Why?

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The big question is are Americans “We, The People” or “We, the sheeple”. I haven’t flown since this nonsense started and don’t plan to. I’d suggest that each of us has to decide when enough is enough. As a little L libertarian, I object to the Gooferment infringing upon our rights to supposedly “make us safe”.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Ben Franklin

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. — Samuel Adams

Why aren’t we all screaming and boycotting the airlines?

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Kathryn Muratore
[address deleted]

October 25, 2010

US Airways
ATTN: Customer Relations
4000 E Sky Harbor Blvd
Phoenix, AZ 85034

Dear Sir or Madam:

I am writing regarding my plans for Christmas travel with my family from Washington, DC to [a town in] CA. I purchased my tickets on your airline – via orbitz.com – about a month ago. However, I just learned that BWI has backscatter scanners as primary screening for all passengers, so I am changing my plans. I was not alerted of this gross invasion of privacy when I purchased my tickets and, having flown out of BWI in June without going through a scanner, so I had no knowledge of this requirement at the time of purchase. I am requesting that you do one of two things in order to keep this customer happy:

1. Refund the entire amount of my ticket so that I can use the money to make alternative arrangements. My ticket # is 03777558XXXXXX and I paid $651.80.

2. Or, cover my expenses to fly to BWI from another airport without the scanners installed so that I can make the flight that I’ve already paid for. For example, I can rent a car one-way (est. $100), drive to Norfolk, VA and catch flight 4084 to Philadelphia at around 1:30 pm, then connect from PHL to BWI on flight 3407. Orbitz has this flight listed at $141. I won’t charge you for the time and inconvenience – just the car, gas, and flight.

My husband will be on the flight from BWI to [a CA airport] on ticket # 03777558XXXXXX and I will be traveling with my baby daughter. Because of his work schedule, he can not commit to any of the alternative travel arrangements that I am considering. This is why, if I don’t get a refund, I want to be on the same flight from BWI to [a CA airport] with him.

I made the same trip in June – from BWI to [a CA airport] – for the funeral of my husband’s maternal grandmother. We hope to see his paternal grandmother this Christmas and for many years to come. Unfortunately, unless the airline industry starts protecting their customer’s human rights, this will be the last time I will fly to California.

I am deeply concerned about the non-choice of a backscatter scan or an enhanced pat-down for my daughter and myself. I dare say that US Air’s complicity in the TSA policy is anti-American, since it violates our Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure, without a warrant and without probable cause. I’m sure that, by buying a ticket from your company, I did not become a suspect in a crime. If I did, then you would also be involved in the conspiracy and would presumably be getting an enhanced pat-down with every ticket sold!

I’ve never been frisked in my life. I don’t intend to be frisked now and I don’t want my daughter to be frisked before her 2nd birthday. And I certainly won’t show a stranger parts of me that I intentionally keep covered with clothing around all other strangers. If US Air doesn’t have the guts to stand up for their customers’ rights, then you don’t deserve any business.

The short-term goal of this letter is to fix the problem of my upcoming holiday travel. But, in the long term, US Air must stand up for what is right. For that reason, I will be making this letter public, and, your response or lack of a response will be public as well. I will state the obvious intention here – to humiliate the travel industry into doing what it ought to have done already: tell the TSA that you know how to protect your customers best and to take their mitts off of us!

Sincerely,
Kathryn Muratore

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IPAD: And, a secondary mail account

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Something is odd in how the IPAD handles a secondary mail account. It doesn’t appear to work. Yet this morning, I see the test message in the McBa’s inbox for this account.

Wierd?

IPAD is intended, it appears, to have no “moving parts”, It doesn’t tell you the progress steps for making the connection or what errors, if any, occurs under the covers.

Argh!

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RANT: Election Results

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

With all the angst leading up to the election, and the same old characters are reelected over and over again. You can’t beat the system. You an’t change the system. The only choice is to leave the system!

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RANT: You have to be joking me! Gooferment Motors is tax free.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

General Motors won’t have to pay federal taxes on up to $50 billion in profit under an unusual provision of its government-funded bailout, giving the car maker an added boost as it prepares to return to the stock market this month.

GM may use the $50 billion in so-called tax-loss carry-forwards to shield that amount of profit from U.S. taxes for up to 20 years.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590642149103202.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

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RANT: Too bad; they deserved an award for nailing John Edwards

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/01/business/main7011590.shtml

NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2010
Popular U.S. Tabloids in Trouble?
American Media Inc., Publisher of The National Enquirer, Star, Plans to File for Bankruptcy Protection in 2 Weeks
(AP) Last updated 3:53 p.m. ET

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After years of dishing tales of celebrity folly and misfortune, The National Enquirer’s publisher has fallen on hard times of its own.

American Media Inc. plans to seek federal bankruptcy protection in the next two weeks or so. The privately held company, based in Boca

Raton, Fla., announced its intention Monday without sharing any details about its finances.

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They did save the USA from one lying politician. They should have received a Pulitzer for investigative journalism. But attacking a big Gooferment Socialist with the “D” label is politically incorrect. If they had done it to an “R”, they’d have won.

American needs to clean its house of the “liberal elite”. We can no longer afford the luxury of their muddled thinking and obvious biases.

Sorry, time to grow up!

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GOLD: Gather a few “coins” whule you can still preserve your “wealth”

Monday, November 1, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/powell-chris1.1.1.html

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The valid documentation about the gold market also practically screams at financial journalists:

• There are the huge and disproportionate gold, silver, and interest rate derivative positions built up at just two or three international banks, positions that never could be undertaken without the express or implicit underwriting of the U.S. government.

• And there are the dozens of official records, records collected and publicized by GATA over the years, demonstrating the plans and desire of the U.S. government to suppress and control the price of gold.

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Perhaps a few “coins” (i.e., bullion gold, bullion silver, common nickels) might be a valid “investment choice”? But, to avoid all the scams, you have to have them in your possession.

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LIBERTY: Repudiate

Monday, November 1, 2010

<Broken Link>

Obstructionism reaps its reward

Posted: October 28, 2010 by Patrick J. Buchanan

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Tuesday’s election, too, will be no embrace of the GOP, but rather a repudiation of what Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have come to represent. All are seen as power-hungry politicians of an out-of-touch regime that is seizing control of private wealth and private lives as it fails in its duty to win our wars, balance our budgets and secure our borders.

Republicans will be the beneficiaries of this repudiation, as Republicans are, almost everywhere, the only alternative on the ballot, and because they are seen correctly as having opposed the Obama agenda with near-drill-team solidarity.

Every Republican in the Senate but Arlen Specter and the ladies from Maine voted against Obama’s stimulus bill. Every Republican in the House, save eight, voted no on cap-and-trade. Every Republican on Capitol Hill voted no on Obamacare. More GOP senators opposed Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan than opposed any Supreme Court nominee in memory.

Tuesday, obstructionism reaps its reward.

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It’s not like the R’s have been the great defenders of liberty. It’s just that people have zero choice. The only remedy is secession.

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MCBA: MacBookAir (old one) loses sound

Sunday, October 31, 2010

For no apparent reason, there is no sound on the McBa. The volume controls on the keyboard don’t work. And in the system preferences | sound, there are no output devices defined.

The only help I can find online says to run the permission fixer, which I did to no avail.

Argh!

So much for Apple’s reputation of “bulletproof-ness”. I go get this on a Windoze machine.

Time for a bare metal restore?

But I’ll lose all my email archives.

Argh!

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MONEY: Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is what?

Sunday, October 31, 2010

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How Will Financial Reform Affect You? by Ric Edelman For Immediate Release October 29, 2010

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After months of debate, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is law — and a long one at that. At more than 2,300 pages, the law requires regulators to create some 240 new rules, conduct 68 studies and issue more than 20 periodic reports. All this will occur over time; in many cases, implementation dates and deadlines are unspecified.

Parts of the law will impact the products and services that are available to you; others are designed to improve the nation’s financial stability. Read on to learn about some of the law’s most important provisions.

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Ric Edelman has a lot of smart people looking into this. It’s going to impact everything. And, I doubt that it will be good. Who know what the “unintended consequences” will be? FYI!

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GUNS: Turn that goat into shepherd’s pie!

Saturday, October 30, 2010

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/25423256/detail.html

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“Nobody saw what actually happened. They heard Bob yell,” Baccus told the Daily News.

The goat stayed, standing over Boardman, as he lay on the ground bleeding.

Bill Baccus, a park ranger not on duty but familiar with mountain goats, said he moved forward with a safety blanket and shook it at the goat, the newspaper reported.

He also pelted it with rocks, and after what seemed like a long time, “it moved away, but it stayed close by,” Jessica Baccus said.

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Are you kidding me? The attack in the first place while attempting to “shoo away” an aggressive goat, then the first aid delayed, and everything complicated by the thing “hanging around” — all because We, The Sheeple have lost our stones and our Second Amendment rights! If he’d have been properly outfitted for a hike, like a Misguided Child, he have had his primary weapon, a rifle, to send the darned goat to pet heaven. Even a secondary weapon, like a girlie 380, would have been enough to “shoo away” anything smaller than a grizzly. Grizzly might have required a reload. My personal preference, from my time in the ‘Effete Force’, is the good old urban yute discouragement device Colt M1945. Guaranteed to turn an “aggressive Mountain Goat” into Shepherd’s Pie. And, “discourage” everything including the aforementioned grizzly. Of course, the poor victim would then have to face charges for the firearm’s discharge, ruining the goat’s day, and who knows what else PETA could dream up. But he’d be alive. Unbelievable!

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INTERESTING: Wrong way corrigan; probably just as old?

Saturday, October 30, 2010

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/elderly-woman-caught-on-video-driving-in-wrong-direction-on-i-95/

Elderly Woman Drives ‘Wrong Way’ On I-95
October 29, 2010 11:27 PM

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DELAWARE COUNTY, Pa. (CBS) — Pennsylvania State Police questioned an 84-year-old female from Wilmington in connection with a wrong-way driving incident on I-95 Thursday afternoon.

Witnesses say she was travelling east in the westbound lanes of Route 322, and then she got on the southbound lanes of I-95 travelling northbound, causing a number of crashes along the way.

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Amazing. The skill for everyone to get out of granny’s way! Isn’t there a saying about God protecting the idiots and fools. Where were her family members who didn’t yank her license? I’ve had to do it to an elderly relative who acted like replacing the side mirrors was normal maintenance. We’re all just fortunate it wasn’t a bigger disaster. We have enough of those when everyone is going in the SAME direction. Now watch some politician save us from older drivers. Oh yea, right, that won’t happen because old folks vote. I guess a politician will award her a safe driving certificate because SHE didn’t hit anything?

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IPAD: Appliance, Thin Client, or something else

Saturday, October 30, 2010

The IPAD is a platform which may or may not be an appliance. It may or may not depend upon the cloud. It may or may not be: a stand alone platform (not so good), a bridge to the cloud (maybe good), a thin Client with cloud integration (not so good based on the Caring Bridge application), a true Client / Server Client platform (haven’t seen that), or something else.

Right now to me it is in the “something else” category .. as long as you have a credit card?

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POLITICAL: Dirty tricks — absentee ballots not sent to the board of elections

Friday, October 29, 2010

https://formerspook.blogspot.com/2010/10/chicago-way.html

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ADDENDUM: And oddly enough, a similar scandal is unfolding in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, where Democratic incumbent Patrick Murphy is in the fight of his political life. Hundreds of voters in the district were warned that their votes might not count unless they returned an enclosed absentee ballot to a post office box in Bristol, Pennsylvania. The box was controlled by Murphy’s campaign manager, who then “re-mailed” the ballots to the local election board.

As National Review has learned, there was a sudden surge in Democratic absentee ballots in the district last week, and many were mailed in identical, pre-labeled envelopes. Local GOP officials say some of the suspicious ballots were post-marked as far back as August, suggesting they had been held by a third party–perhaps the same individual who controlled the P.O. box where they were mailed? You know, the same guy running Murphy’s re-election bid?

At this point, there’s no proof that Congressman Murphy was involved. Officials with his campaign insist that no ballots sent to the post office box were discarded or tampered with.

Riiiighhhtttttt…..

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There ought to be a law!

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IPAD: “Office” applications are $30

Friday, October 29, 2010

The IPAD doesn’t come with the iworks or ilife suites. iworks is sold in three a la carte apps for 30$. I’m not sure the equivalent functionality is available. Searching for the apps is cumbersome.

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RANT: The corporate tax should always be zero

Thursday, October 28, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams53.1.html

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What about the politician who tells us that he’s not going to raise taxes on the middle class; instead, he’s going to raise corporate income taxes as means to get rich corporations to pay their rightful share of government? If a tax is levied on a corporation, and if it is to survive, it will have one of three responses, or some combination thereof. One response is to raise the price of its product, so who bears the burden? Another response is to lower dividends; again, who bears the burden? Yet another response is to lay off workers. In each case, it is people, not some legal fiction called a corporation, who bear the burden of the tax.

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So the corporate tax rate should ALWAYS be zero. Anything higher and it’s the politicians trying to sheer the sheeple!

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