“Do or do not… there is no try.”
(To do it justice, you must say the word try with all the revulsion and disgust you can put on it. Like you were talking about a rapist, a child murderer, or a politician!)
— Yoda (Fictional character from George Lucas's "Star Wars" movie)
I now try to never ever say the word try!
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Posted on Wed, Jul. 14, 2010
Man posts bail with counterfeit bills
By Peter Mucha Inquirer Staff Writer
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Most people post bail to stay out of jail.
Not to risk a lot more time there.
According to Cinnaminson Police, a Camden man included counterfeit $20 bills while paying his $400 bail on July 7.
Lousy counterfeit $20s.
Run off on a color copier, apparently.
“They’re pretty poor. I didn’t have to touch them and I knew they were bad,” said Detective Sgt. William K. Covert.
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But the funniest part of the story is that the Gooferment TOOK them. It wasn’t until later that they realized they we counterfeit.
Argh!
How stupid are the people in Gooferment?
Obviously as stupid as the guy passing the fake bills.
Having gotten away with it. And, after all, how are they going to PROVE that he gave them the bogus bills? He returns with more of them in his possession.
Dumb criminals and dumb Gooferment bureaucrats.
Is this dumb and dumber?
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Just killing time in the CCU!
TOP TEN THINGS HEARD AT MY FUNERAL:
⑩ “Who’s got the keys to the Shore House?”
⑨ “Whose got his passwords?”
⑧ “What do we do with 1,000 pounds of nitrogen packed rice?”
⑦ “What’s this about him having a George and a Martha at home?”
⑥ “Who wants 200 copies of CHURCH 10●19●62?”
⑤ “What can we do with 10,000 rounds of 22 longs?”
④ “How many long guns did he buy and where are they buried?”
③ “Never mind that, you fool, where did the old fart bury his gold?”
② “Remember: Don’t anyone touch the refrigerator! He was certifiable.”
AND THE NUMBER ONE THING HEARD AT MY FUNERAL:
① “Man! Am I glad that know-it-all-sob has left the building. Now lets get to the reading of the will.”
(ROFL, everyone will be surprised. I’ll have spent it all!)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/us/politics/12governors.html
July 11, 2010
Governors Voice Grave Concerns on Immigration
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
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BOSTON — In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.
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Interesting that there is very little worry about the massive problems that face the country. That’s of little concern. It’s all about getting reelected. And, what issues reflect upon that goal. Never a concern that if they had real solutions they’d be whisked into power.
At the root of the Gooferment’s problem is their starting point — force. It immediately makes what they do: immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. They have a tremendous unavoidable and imho unrecoverable burden.
It seems so apparent to me: adopt honest money by repealing the “legal tender” diktats, end the income tax returning to funding the Gooferment by tariffs and excise taxes; repeal the mandatory school attendance diktats; reduce the size and scope of the Gooferment by shutting down whole sections of Gooferment; stop the various wars; end the “war” on (some) drugs; pardon non-violent drug offenders; repeal the 17th for the direct election of Senators; and institute a single 18 year term for Supreme Court justices.
Seems so obvious to me!
Then stand back and watch the economy take off.
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http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/07/apple-geeks-google-technology-cio-network-ipad_3.html
Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Center for Digital Business.
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I hope the vitriol and alarmism around the iCosystem dies down, because it’s not doing much good. Maybe Barry Goldwater was right that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. But crying wolf surely is.
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I could care less about the “iCosystem”. If Apple can con folks into paying a health markup for some dumbed down hardware / software platform, more power to them. (Happened to be at the Apple store yesterday, saw a lot of playing but not a lot of buying. Saw quite a few monitors being exchanged. Saw a lot of bitching about hardwre problems. Including me, with a defective Time Capsule. Saw two purchases. One cash and one credit card. Have to do a lot better to pay the rent, I suspect.) While if given one, I certainly would refuse, put it in the trash, or put it in the corner. But, why should I buy an expensive dead end on the Information Super Highway. It has just enough “features” to fool the technological illiterate into buying it. First, which model do you buy. Cheap “small” wifi or expensive “big” talker? You don’t get the ubiquity of the cloud without getting the talker. With only wifi, then the device is shown to be an “island” as one struggles to find free wifi. Not very “ubiquitous”. And, like a coffin, the “closed” nature of the beast starts to give you claustrophobia. Buy the WSJ, buy more apps, buy games, buy, buy, buy. Bye bye wallet. And, what do you have after all these “purchases” (Oh, I should say “licenses”!) when you can “lose” your access to what you think you bought. We haven’t heard that screaming yet. But sooner or later it’ll come. Nope, it’s a dead end. Designed to allow the old media to pretend to have adapted. imho
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Republicans should embrace Paul Ryan’s Road Map
By: Fred Barnes Weekly Standard
July 12, 2010
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For Republicans, the road map authored by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the most important proposal in domestic policy since Ronald Reagan embraced supply-side economics in the 1980 presidential campaign. It’s not only the freshest, boldest, and most comprehensive Republican thinking, it’s also the most relevant. If Republicans adopt the road map as their basic ideological blueprint, it offers them the prospect of a landslide in the midterm election this year, followed by victory in the presidential election in 2012.
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Well, you have to have something to allow you to win. The Republicans are the only choice. We’ve seen what the Democrats can do. Not that the other side of the duopoly is much better.
“We, The People” had to turn the District Of Corruption into a revolving door until we can unwind it.
Secession is the only way to cut this mess down to size. Maybe the USA has to split into pieces like the USSR. Too big to allow to exist. Vermont may be the first to go. California if spun off would be the 12th largest country in the world. Texas.
Time to let everyone go their own way. Peacefully. The American experiment has failed. As predicted, once folks figured out how to vote themselves benefits from the public treasury.
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Trashing Obama’s Economic Team
by Lloyd Grove
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Yet Stockman hopes the Republicans gain the majority in the House and Senate next November, because “then the next Congress gets down to the business of trying to reform entitlements and cut spending. Also, while we’re at it, we have to get out of the imperialism business, okay? No imperial power has succeeded on the edge of bankruptcy.”
Which means: Get out of Afghanistan and Iraq right away—the same prescription touted by renegade Republican congressman Ron Paul.
“I’m totally in agreement with Ron Paul,” Stockman says. “I don’t think he can be elected president, but I think he’s the only guy who really understands monetary policy, economic policy, the proper role of the state, the proper role of the U.S. in the world. On the other hand, the world is changing pretty dramatically before our eyes. I wouldn’t rule out anything right now. But if you asked me who is speaking truth to power, it’s Ron Paul.”
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One can only hope that “We, The People” get our country back from the fascists and socialists that have taken over!
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Afghan attacks kill 8 US soldiers in 24 hours
By MIRWAIS KHAN, Associated Press Writer Mirwais Khan, Associated Press Writer – 50 mins ago
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Eight American troops died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including a car bombing and gunfight outside a police compound in Kandahar, officials said Wednesday as the Taliban push back against a coalition effort to secure the volatile region.
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Bring the troops home.
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http://store.apple.com/us/write/review/MC343LL/A
One of the reasons for moving from Windoze to Apple as opposed to Linux was the Time Capsule.
It worked fine, until it died.
(Restoring files was balky at times, but any time I really had to do it, I was able to get it off. The User Interface for partial or complete restores could be easier imho.)
One day, I just was dead. No power. Plugged it into a different outlet. Flickered but died.
When I went on the web, it said “OOW! Sorry. You lose!!! Should have bought AppleCare on it.” Which really put my shorts in a knot. Pay a couple of hundred bucks for a 500$ item. Typical “extended warranty rip off.
I got around to taking my now deceased and out-of-warranty TIME BRICK back to the Apple Store. And, played dumb.
The Genius plug it in and it flickered and died. Another Genius was called over to consult. Replugged it in and same thing. Another Genius came over looked at the bottom of it and called a team huddle in a corner away from me and I couldn’t hear or read lips.
Genius One went to the docked macbook and began wildly typing. Then he announced “bad power supply, we’ll replace it but you’ve lost all the data. OK?”
Sure, it was just my backup device.
Another Genius, number FOUR if you’re keeping score, came over an typed in their machine and paper began to spit out of their printer.
I signed off on the paper. They took the BRICK. And said they’d call in three days for me to pcik up my brand new unit.
A duccessful jaunt, but I’m still annoyed.
What if I believd the website and tossed the unit in the trash?
Argh!!!
This is “barbara streisand” that you have to be a mind reader and guess what’s been recalled.
Argh!!!
I’d call that an “unfair deceptive practice”.
SO, if ANY Apple product dies, I’d drag the dead smelly carcass into an Apple Store. And moan and groan until you got something for your trouble.
I’d even go one step further. I wouldn’t be adverse to visiting ALL the Apple stores within driving distance dragging the dead body into the store.
Sooner or later, you might run into someone who’d have pity on you.
Argh!
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http://www.macworld.com/article/152634/2010/07/timecapsule.html
Apple announces replacement program for some 2008 Time Capsules
Posted on Jul 12, 2010 8:30 am by Serenity Caldwell, Macworld.com
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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69218
Census ‘Successfully Completed’ Work to Date Despite ‘Shaky’ Computer Problems, Census Director Says
Monday, July 12, 2010
By Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter
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(CNSNews.com) – The director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Dr. Robert Groves, told CNSNews.com that the Census “successfully completed” all operations to date despite a “shaky” information technology (IT) system that affected the early weeks of door-to-door counting. He added that he does not have “any evidence” that the IT problems had a “quality impact” on the accuracy of the population count, but encouraged people to wait for a final report that will be issued by the Commerce Department’s inspector general to “see what he has to say” as an “independent voice.”
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Can you say “cooking the books”? What better way to get the result you want than to blame it on the technology.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/gatto5.1.1.html
‘I’m a Saboteur’
by Daniel H. Pink
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How do you unlock that inborn genius?
When the mind is tested against something unfamiliar, it grows in front of your eyes. Adopted children have a horrible track record in adult life, and yet they often measure on IQ tests about 20 points higher than their equals in their biological family. For years, the medical community tried to figure out what could account for this. Just to transfer from your natural parent increases your intelligence? Well, sure. You’re in this desperate situation; you don’t even have enough language to find your way out. You’re looking around a lot more than you would if it was all Mother Goose.
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I never knew this but it makes sense. Survival demands adaption. The question becomes how do we get children adopted earlier and seamlessly. The current system, run by our old “friend” the Gooferment, needs to be replaced. By Churches?
Now how do we make the Gooferment give up power?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100710/ap_on_re_us/us_border_wrong_person
NY woman questioned again and again over ID mix-up
By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Writer Michael Hill, Associated Press Writer
Sat Jul 10, 3:49 pm ET
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“They never apologize,” Nelson said. “They basically tell you that they’re doing their job for the better good of the world.” Nelson has struggled to get information from Homeland Security officials. They will not tell her who she is being confused with or why the problem persists. She doesn’t know why her passport triggers alarms some days but not others.
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Please, citizen, the costumed elite apologize to a “mundane” serf such as yourself. Have you lost your mind? They were “protecting” you. And, you are paying for this treatment. Brings a new meaning to S&M!
As a fat old white guy injineer, I have to laugh at the idiots who thought that using “name” as an identifier and the other idiots who programmed a technology solution that is in essence a random number generator. When someone pulls up to the border crossing, the costumed rent a cop would be better off draw a card form a deck of cards and checking a list of winners for the day. “Queen of Spades, you’re free to go.” “Three of Diamonds, you win an anal cavity body search. … sotto voce … unless you’re fat and ugly. Or, I can overlook this, if you give me a small gift. Or,we most definitely can’t, if you give me a hard time. Argh! And, we mock third world countries for their graft and corruption?
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http://wcbstv.com/topstories/pool.armed.guards.2.1799352.html
Jul 13, 2010 6:40 am US/Eastern
Armed Guards At Pools After Lifeguard Attack
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (CBS/AP) ―
Armed security guards have been posted at public pools in Buffalo after a lifeguard was pulled into the water by rowdy teenagers and other unruly behavior prompted safety concerns for parks employees.
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Why is the Gooferment running a swimming pool? Why does the Gooferment try to operate anything? Why do we have the modern day equivalent of the Roman “Bread and Circuses”?
Argh!
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Mort Zuckerman Admits He Helped Write One Of Obama’s Speeches
Posted July 12, 2010
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Media mogul Mort Zuckerman tells FOX News he helped write one of Obama’s speeches.
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I don’t see what the big deal is? Does any President write his own speeches? Does anyone think they do?
Presidents are merely actors who are reading from a teleprompter. Like David Letterman, Jay Leno, or others of that ilk.
Presidents are mere “the face”.
And you want “leadership”? From a talking head?
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[Disclaimer: I’m neither a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, nor an Indian Chief. Nor do I play one on TV! Nothing here should be construed as legal, medical, or investment advice. For that, you should seek out the appropriate certified credentialed and licensed professional. Advice given here is in the nature of entertainment and should be relied on. In the event of an emergency, hang up and dial 911.]
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/gatto4.1.1.html
What Really Matters
by John Taylor Gatto
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After 12,000 hours of compulsory training at the hands of nearly 100 government-certified men and women, many high school graduates have no skills to trade for an income or even any skills with which to talk to each other. They can’t change a flat, read a book, repair a faucet, install a light, follow directions for the use of a word processor, build a wall, make change reliably, be alone with themselves or keep their marriages together. The situation is considerably worse than journalists have discerned.
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It’s really sad when you think about it.
Mandatory attendance laws, the Prussian model of education, and the forced funding of “education” have resulted in this.
Here’s some anecdotal evidence. I’ve seen three generations of children absolutely ruined by “public education” aka Gooferment Skrules. All three generations contain multiple examples.
Let’s take generation one with three children. “One” was a total disaster dropping out of this prison training propaganda camp. I saw what and how it was taught. Interesting how the statistics were cooked to avoid having his drop out count in their numbers. The township bragged about a 100% graduation rate and how 95% went on to college. As if that’s a measure of success. He was a complete mess, forever broken by a one size fits all system that didn’t meet his needs. “Two” completed school, undistinguished, apparently learning little, went on to college, got a degree, and husband. Was she better off for the experience? I’d say not. Her “art” was crushed. Her “drive” was too. Did she reach her potential? I’d say not. But one can’t know for sure until Final Judgment when we’ll know what was possible. “Three” also graduated, undistinguished, his athletic career that seemed important to him as a child was non-existent, he went to the military, on to graduate degrees, and a good Gooferment job after the military. Did he reach he potential? Again, won’t know for sure, until that Final Judgment, but I’d say not. As a child he was dreaming of being an athlete, read voraciously, and was “smart”. School sure seemed to drain all that enthusiasm out. Generation One scoreboard: One lost, and two seemingly fell short of apparent maximum potential. Given that two out of three achieved some measure of success, It’s not due to their time spent in Gooferment Skrules imho. I’d say is testament to the indomitable human spirit. Humans can make a life out anything. Look at the lands of abject poverty. People make the best of bad situations.
Let’s take generation two, sample size two males, Gooferment Skrules was a bad fit for both of them. “One” was another smart as whip youngster. Somehow he went to the Gooferment Skrules and came out dumb as a bag of rocks. Pleasant apparently happy fellow. But in the dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) measurements missing a lot of dikw. Now maybe when I went to Catholic School, we were terrorized into memorizing a lot of data, led into being able to regurgitate meaningless info (I’m a self called “font of useless information”), acquired a lot of knowledge, and maybe even some wisdom. But, this “smart kid” was transformed into a “wise
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Biden’s Leno Stop Clogs LAX; Passengers Furious
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Vice President Joe Biden held up airplane traffic for hours on Friday night at Los Angeles International Airport after an appearance on Jay Leno ‘s ‘Tonight Show,’ leaving restless passengers fuming.
A spokesman for the vice president said he was unaware of the FAA temporary flight restriction that stopped flights coming in, and delayed those going out.
“I know we didn’t ask for anything,” Biden’s spokesman James Carney told TheWrap. “There was no sign of any stoppage. And there shouldn’t have been one.”
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Like Clinton’s haircut, the elite feel it’s their right to special treatment.
And, nothing in the article mentions how much this all cost. Direct in resources expended and indirectly in resources wasted. And, how much “carbon footprint” did this stomp on Mother Earth? See they’re all watermelons. Green ont he outside; red communist on the inside. It’s the crude exercise of power of the mundanes.
Out of the “god’s” way, serf. You should be happy to sacrifice for the leader and his elite.
Unfortunately, to quote Bob Dylan, “a hard rain is gonna fall”.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/judge_declares_3.html
Judge declares US gay-marriage ban is unconstitutional
July 8, 2010 06:55 PM
By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff
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A federal district court judge in Boston today struck down the 1996 federal law that defines marriage as a union exclusively between a man and a woman. Judge Joseph L. Tauro ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage law violates the Constitutional right of married same-sex couples to equal protection under the law and upends the federal government’s long history of allowing states to set their own marriage laws.
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Today, a Justice Department spokeswoman, Tracy Schmaler, declined to comment on Tauro’s ruling, saying in a statement, “We’re reviewing the decision.”
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Interesting how the Obama administration is “studying” this one. Studying how it can let it stand. Since it aligns with their identity politics. Isn’t Kagan the Solicitor General? Doesn’t she have to appeal that. Talk about a conflict!
As a little L libertarian, it’s always been my assertion that the Gooferment has no business in the definition of “marriage”. Churches do marriage; not Gooferment. Remember the purposes of “marriage licenses” was, in the South, to keep black men from marrying white women.
The tax code confers benefits to “marriages” that are inexcusable. The Gooferment already has “corporations”. That it favors with tax breaks and stuff. Perhaps it can just extend “corporate status” to individuals. Like a subschapter S.
Or me could just remove the tax favored status of marriage and simplify the tax code.
See, bottom line, it’s really the right of the people to be left alone and to make their choices without the Gooferment trying to influence those choices by picking winners and losers. Or, the things it “likes” better than other things. Gooferment fails at everything; so why is this any different.
It’s always about force. In this case, forcing people to do what the people in chage of the levers of Gooferment want them to do.
A recipe for disaster.
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http://www.ricedelman.com/cs/pressroom/pressroom_detail?pressrelease.id=1397
Is Your Pension Threatened?
For Immediate Release
July 09, 2010
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WASHINGTON D.C., July 8, 2010 — Controversy hit The Ric Edelman Show this week, when award-winning talk show host Ric Edelman ignited a debate on the future of public pensions in America.
A caller to Edelman’s nationally syndicated radio program sparked the debate. Mary Ellen, a 51-year-old, has little money in savings. But because she works for a city government, she can retire immediately thanks to a pension that will pay her $46,000 for life annually plus provide full health care benefits for the rest of her life. While she wondered if she could afford to retire, many of the show’s listeners wondered how our society could pay for her and millions of other public employees like her.
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Interesting?
I’m more concerned about the trial balloon that urges the Gooferment to “save” old people from poor returns in the Stock Market by seizing all IRA / 401Ks from the custodians in exchange for an as yet undetermined “enhanced Social Security benefit”!
Wish Ric would opine on that.
We can all be in the same boat as the poor people in Zimbabwe!
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I've learned the hard way that idle speculation on what might have been is counter productive and a waste of time.
Probably the day I decided which College to attend.
I had been accepted to: Stamford, Notre Dame, Fordham, and Manhattan. I chose Manhattan because it was easiest and cheapest. It's hard to imagine one day in my life that was so pivotal. That decision determined so much of my future. It was the choice that cut off three other branches.
In my novel, I'd have the ability to see "… the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …" CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45.
That would tell me how things would have been different. Unfortunately, unlike the Bill Murray movie "GROUNDHOGS DAY", you don't get the benefit of do overs.
So, I'll never know what could have happened.
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! They'll kill you.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/07/reclaiming_language_on_the_rig.html
July 05, 2010
Reclaiming language on the right
Harry Beadle
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At any rate, I would argue there are many other words which better describe the true nature of our liberal friends. One I would propose is “effete.” The same online American Heritage Dictionary defines the word this way: “marked by self-indulgence, triviality or decadence; as in an effete group of self-professed intellectuals.” I am sure you see the relevance. Another definition from the same online source is: “unable to produce, sterile.” Liberals surely do not produce original ideas; as for sterility, we can but hope.
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I agree.
From hence forth and forever more, I will refer to the Progressive ex-Liberal self-annointed Socialist “elite” as “The Effete”.
It fits them so much better.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66763A20100709
California transit cop verdict sparks looting
By Steve Gorman and Peter Henderson
LOS ANGELES/OAKLAND | Fri Jul 9, 2010 4:52am EDT
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LOS ANGELES/OAKLAND California (Reuters) – A white former transit police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man last year in Oakland, California, sparking a wave of looting and destruction in the city on Thursday.
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Jurors can render an involuntary manslaughter conviction if they believe the defendant lacked an intent to kill but engaged in conduct so grossly negligent that it amounts to a crime.
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Obviously, California juries are “interesting”. They may have gotten this one right. But shouldn’t there be an “enhancement” for police who are supposed to be “professional”. And the video akes this look like an execution.
The looting is probably opportunists rather than upset citizens.
Makes one wonder what’s going to happen in the next “Greatest Depression” which is right around the corner. When folks are really hungry, scared, and pissed off?
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http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20100710/OPINION02/7100313/Kyleigh-s-Law-a-big-mistake
Kyleigh’s Law a big mistake
July 10, 2010
JAKE NIEMAN
Kendall Park
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The law is much too strict, with the costs far outweighing benefits. Our legislators have spent considerable time and manpower on passing this bill. The law was passed in hopes of reducing teen driving fatalities, an admirable goal. There are approximately 5,000 teenage driving deaths per year, a large number alone but when in comparison to the total numbers not as bad.
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I agree, Jake. But see you’ll learn that three things motivate politicians: rewarding their friends, punishing their enemies, and feathering their own nests. And, I’m not sure as to the correct order. In this case, the politicians and bureaucrats “win”. You can’t vote, and usually don’t, so who cares if your rights are infringed. The costumed thugs, masquerading as police, get to steal more wealth. And, obviously, we need more bureaucrats to support this diktat, who turn around and vote religiously for their patron sainted politician. My biggest fear is that the Gooferment has put a huge bullseye on young drivers. If I’m a criminal, who should I target. Reminds me of when the (imaginary) State of Florida removed all rental car identification and aggressive tourist-injuring “hot” car thefts dropped dramatically. So, if I had a child, I wouldn’t permit them to put this modern day “Star of David” on any car they drove.
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http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=141537&catid=188
Man loses unemployment benefits after dipping into 401k
Lori Obert written by: Anastasiya Bolton
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LONGMONT – After 32 years at IBM, in August of 2009, Bob Jackson was laid off and looking for a job.
“I never dreamed I’d have to have unemployment some day,” he said.
Jackson has been looking everywhere, including retail and home improvement stores, for more than a year. He hasn’t gotten anywhere.
“We’re lucky to get half way through the month before we’re completely out of money. It’s been rough,” Jackson said. “It’s a hard market right now to find a job, especially at my age.”
In November, Jackson filed for unemployment and received two checks.
As part of the rules for receiving benefits, every two weeks, Jackson had to call into what is called a CUBLine (The Colorado Unemployment Benefits Line.) The automated line goes through a series of questions unemployment benefit recipients answer. During one of the calls, Jackson was asked if he’d taken out a distribution from his 401k. He said he did, $10,000 to pay for his son’s college.
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“Under our unemployment insurance program we’re following state law, which is if you touch even $5 dollars for your 401k it will impact your benefits,” said Cher Haavind, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. “It’s an employer-funded program, whether it’s severance, pension or distribution of 401k, all those things, any other money you have received from the employer will play into your benefit amount.”
Haavind added, “The program is there to meet one’s needs again when they’re transitioning from job to job. Perhaps the perception is if you have other resources available to you that you should look at those first before receiving unemployment insurance benefits.”
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Perhaps, the perception is that it’s “unemployment insurance”.
Argh!
Gooferment, and its bureaucrats, really drive me off the deep end.
So it’s not insurance; it’s welfare.
It’s “employer funded”. Sure it is. If they put it in your paycheck, you could save for your own “unemployment”! Argh!
So the politicians justifiy messing with people’s lives and money on the basis that they are too stupid to manage their own money?
Argh!
This is welfare for the lucky few and for the goofermetn bureaucrats who run the program.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100710/D9GS7K7O0.html
NATO: 6 US troops killed in Afghanistan
Jul 10, 9:48 AM (ET)
By RAHIM FAIEZ
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Six American service members and at least a dozen civilians died in attacks Saturday in Afghanistan’s volatile east and south, adding to a summer of escalating violence as Taliban militants push back against stepped-up operations by international and Afghan forces.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul#Nonintervention
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Paul’s stance on foreign policy is one of consistent nonintervention,which opposes war of aggression and entangling alliances with other nations. Paul advocates bringing troops home from U.S. military bases in Korea, Japan, and Europe, among others. He also proposes that the U.S. stop sending massive, unaccountable foreign aid.
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I distinctly remember in the debates Ron Paul saying “the first thing coming this way”. So why didn’t we elect the only true anti-war candidate? BHO44 was a fraud; he had no intention of ending the wars.
And, now six more are lost.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell070610.php3
Jewish World Review July 6, 2010 / 25 Tamuz 5770
Santa and Frank
By Thomas Sowell
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People who remember the old comic strip “Peanuts” will recall an often repeated situation where Lucy offers to hold a football for Charlie Brown to kick. Then, as Charlie coming running up to kick it, Lucy snatches away the ball and Charlie Brown loses his balance and goes crashing on his backside.
The reason this same scene remained funny, despite how often it was repeated, is that in the later repetitions Charlie Brown would express suspicion at Lucy, recalling how she had tricked him before. She would then come up with some claim that she wasn’t going to do that any more— and of course she did.
There is a similar routine that has been repeated many times in Washington, over the years, with the Democrats playing Lucy and Republicans playing Charlie Brown.
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I hate to disagree with the learned Thomas. (The number two of the few economists I respect; behind Walter Williams.)
In his little “morality play”, I’d cast the Taxpayer as Charlie Brown and the politicians and bureaucrats in the District of Corruption as Lucy.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.subzin.com/s/Objection!+-+Overruled
A Few Good Men (1992)
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01:17:07 The defense strenuously objects and requests an 802 conference so that His Honor might have a chance to hear discussion before ruling.
01:17:15 The objection of the defense has been heard and overruled.
01:17:19 – Move to reconsider. – Your objection is noted.
01:17:22 The witness is an expert, and the court will hear his opinion!
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For some reason, I like this quote. It’s not used frequently enough. Peole just repeat and repeat themselves. Argh!
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