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TECHNOLOGY: Interesting panel
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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POLITICAL: Fixing Arizona using power point?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Stopping the Social Security Ponzi scheme! “Cold turkey”?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010http://cafehayek.com/2010/05/stopping-the-social-security-ponzi-scheme.html
Stopping the social security ponzi scheme
by Russ Roberts on May 4, 2010
in Social Security
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The way to keep social security from bankrupting the country is to make it a welfare program for the elderly. But what about all the money I “contributed”? Alas, that was a lie. The money wasn’t set aside for the future. It’s like asking why don’t I collect food stamps even though I’m rich. Hey, I contributed so I should get food stamps. That’s a bizarre belief to have. That’s not the way food stamps work. That is the way social security is supposed to work, but it’s a bad idea, it was an illusion that your contributions were really yours and there isn’t enough money to keep the illusion going.
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The problem is that the gooferment took the “seed corn” from everyone. They skimmed the “cream” off the top. We could have saved MORE for our own retirement, but they STOLE it early (when the savings would have had more impact) and OFTEN (by inflation eats up savings and raises costs). So everyone to now say “too bad, you’re screwed” is the perpetuation of a fraud and a theft. We didn’t get into this mess in a few years and won’t get out of it in a few years. It was decades. So, like Chile, we need time. <sub 40, recognition bond for contributions payable in 40 years; over 40 below 60, you get some choices; over 60, you get the old plan> And you work your way out.
I pitched a similar idea in the NY Tax Revolt in the 80’s. A twenty year plan to get out of gooferment education at 5% a year. Followed immediately by a twenty year plan, to get out of gooferment funded “education” completely. Forty years, like the time the Jews wandered the desert, gives you time to reeducate people and allow them to adapt to the new realities. Too bad they didn’t adopt it, we’d have been half way out by now. NJ’s education expense is crippling the State.
Paradigms and memes don’t change over night. And, folks have to be able to see the path, where it leads to, and how it can be accomplished with 960 (40 times 12) easy monthly payments of some modest amount gets them to Freedom.
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Upon reflection, this would cause violence in the streets. Only the wealthy could survive this body blow. And, with the gooferment planning to “monetize the debt” (i.e., inflate the currency so it can pay off the debt), those on fixed incomes and retired will be slowly strangled. Think the German pre-WW2 hyperinflation that made Hitler possible.
No, we need an orderly multi-generational way to get form here to there. Peacefully. The Chile solution worked well; why not here?
One problem is they were all illiterate and could ignore the liberal media telling us the gooferment’s propaganda line. We’re too “smart” for our own good. And, the youth propaganda reeducation camps are ensuring continued stupidity!
Argh!
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JOBSEARCH: Myths are killers in job search
Wednesday, May 5, 2010http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/6-myths-that-stand-in-your-way/
6 Myths That Stand In Your Way
April 18th, 2010 by Mark Harrison
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1. Myth: There is time
2. Myth: You can rely on other people
3. Myth: You are important
4. Myth: You should put others before yourself
5. Myth: Conflict should be avoided
6. Myth: The difference between success and failure is LUCK.
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Ahhh, myths, I can relate to this one. I was so … … stupid, lazy, dumb,
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda!
Paradigms are the way we perceive the world (i.e., the JoHari window). Memes, like genes for ideas, are the units of thoughts that transfer and modify behavior.
Myths are a erroneous paradigms and memes.
So is the problem, the difference, that we now perceive them as “wrong”. By what standard?
So we have paradigms and memes that, being wrong, interfere with a successful life and a successful jobsearch.
Some of them that have particularly screwed me up.
1. I believed people. They lied. I acted on those beliefs. And, I did damage that I can’t even know or assess.
2. I “coasted” when it would have been trivial to do the work. Again, another hit that can’t be assessed.
3. I read a mensa piece (i.e., human being owner’s manual) many many moons ago. I thought it was a joke. Little did I know how true it was.
4. I have heard many of the self-help gurus and read many of the self-help texts. Read, but didn’t grok. Preused but didn’t action.
5. I didn’t play the “political game” at my various stops along my career path. Who knows what could have been?
6. I urged people to forgive themselves. I have to do the same. The “more than a year” amnesty. All sins forgiven; not forgotten.
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TECHNOLOGY: MEGAMILLIONS site is overwhelmed
Tuesday, May 4, 2010Winning Numbers – Mega Millions Official Home
Winning Numbers: 4/30/2010. Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11:00 p.m. Five balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 56; …
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The page cannot be displayed
The request cannot be processed at this time. The amount of traffic exceeds the Web site’s configured capacity.
Please try the following:
* Click the Refresh button, or try again later.
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HTTP Error 500.13 – Server error: Web server is too busy.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Technical Information (for support personnel)
* Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 500.
* Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Monitoring and Tuning Web Application Performance, Performance Monitoring and Scalability Tools, and About Custom Error Messages.
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GOVERNACIDE: Kent State murders
Tuesday, May 4, 2010http://aaeblog.com/2010/05/04/the-state-in-action/
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Forty years ago today, Ohio National Guardsmen murdered four unarmed students at Kent State and wounded nine others, permanently paralysing one.
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So soon we forget.
From whence does the State, any state, get the right to execute its citizens?
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POLITICAL: What a novel idea: voluntary funding of services
Tuesday, May 4, 2010http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/the-audacity-of-deceit-92614219.html
May. 02, 2010
The audacity of deceit
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ
I don’t think Barack Obama tells the truth.
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The freedom ideal would be no compulsory taxation, at all — let all keep their own earnings to invest in growing the economy, while what minimal government is required would be supported by voluntary user fees.
The statists will pretend to object on pragmatic grounds. Let them first answer whether or not they agree this would be the ideal. If they do, then we can try to solve the pragmatic problems. I grew up in a small town, for example, where voluntary membership fees funded the ambulance and the volunteer firemen. The ambulance and the firemen would still respond to a home that had not subscribed — but that homeowner would then receive a bill for the full cost of their services. Few waited to get a second bill before signing up as paid members.
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My gripe with gooferment is:
- It uses force even when not needed;
- We pay for “services” that we don’t want.
- We pay for “services” that we don’t need.
- We pay for “services” that we can’t afford.
- We pay for “services” that are “over priced”.
- We pay for “services” that are “under functional”.
- We pay for “services” that are delayed or way overdue.
And pay, and pay, and pay, and pay.
Enuf is enuf!
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RANT: ABC broke The View for OBH44
Tuesday, May 4, 2010ABC broke The View for OBH44 to “update the American people”. Argh! They never did that for Bush. And, he’s congratulating everyone.
Hey guys, we were just lucky that this fellow was so inept.
And, our technology infrastructure can’t track folks traveling to and from Pakistan.
And, our gooferment is still as inept as it ever was.
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MONEY: WW2 Wage and Price control were disasterous and carry through today
Tuesday, May 4, 2010On Apr 24, 2010, at 5:58 PM, LUDDITE wrote:
At a time when some firms have cut back on benefits, these employers offer notably generous plans. Fortune picks some of the best.
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Good for you. But bad for us as a society. Pensions and benefits are a result of the WW2 wage and price controls. Big companies bent the salary cap rules by giving these inducements to get good workers. This was a gooferment distortion of the employment marketplace which as usual has had disastrous side effects. I’m not a economist; nor a social scientist, but let see if I can enumerate the ones I know about.
(1) Medical insurance tied to employment had several bad effects. It locked up workers who couldn’t or wouldn’t change jobs due to losing their benefits or the “pre-existing conditions of going to a different insurer. Lose your job due to poor performance, bad economy (i.e., recession), or structural changes in the economy (i.e., rust belt) lose your benefits. It disconnected the link between the expense and the pain of paying thus inducing folks not shop around, negotiate, or even look at the bills.
(2) Pensions are in effect deferred compensation. It locks up capital in the company pension plan — with its risk in bankruptcy — from the individual. So, for example, an employee, if they had that money, could have used it as they saw fit to provide for their own retirement. In my own case, I could have had an extra X$/month to pay down my mortgage sooner and had that capital asset for my retirement. It’s about Freedom and liberty. I was FORCED to trade X$ per month at that time for a future cash flow at age 65 assuming I lived so long. If I didn’t, it was lost. Like “Social Security”!
(3) Pensions were such an expense that the Aircraft companies were firing “old” injineers just before their pensions vested to hire new graduates cheaper. (The fact that much of their work was for the military and the gooferment made it hurt even more.) Hence, having created the problem, the Gooferment gave us the solution — more gooferment — the ERISA laws. (Argh!)
(4) Pensions and benefits, due to it hidden sunken costs, makes the workforce less flexible and nimble. You had to have a much bigger opportunity in a new job in order to justify leaving the security, pension, and benefits in an old employer.
(5) Increased regulation of the workplace, such as OSHA, FALSA, and NLRB, all sprung out of that New Deal thinking. And, was as taxation and regulation, a drag on our economy.
So that’s why this is bad for us as a nation.
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JOBSEARCH: Build a inet biz; it may take off
Monday, May 3, 2010http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/01/advice-from-founders-who-bootstrapped-their-way-to-success-2
Advice From Founders Who Bootstrapped Their Way to Success
by Vivek Wadhwa on May 1, 2010
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It was founded in 2000, after Nickell, then a 20-year-old web developer, won a t-shirt-design contest. With an investment of $1000, he built a website to which people submitted t-shirt designs, and the favorites were printed in limited-edition runs. In 2006, the company had gained traction, was generating nearly $10 million in revenue, and took a small investment from Insight Venture Partners.
My Q&A with Jake:
Would you have taken a VC investment if you could have, when you started?
Definitely not, as I was starting a hobby and not a business. It’s kind of like asking if I would consider a VC investment to help me start learning to skateboard. Sure, I’d spend a couple hundred bucks on a board, some pads and maybe some materials to build a ramp, but I’m not looking for millions or even hundreds or tens of thousands to just create something for fun. Even if I was starting a business, I don’t think I was raised that way or have that type of personality. I didn’t even have my first credit card until I was maybe 23, so I really just don’t do well with spending money I don’t have.
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This timely post reinforces my formula points #5 and #6. (imho)
Success for your generation is:
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(5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open;
(6) a free time hobby that generates income;
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In the cited example, the hobby became his internet business and it carried him away. We should all be so lucky.
But don’t over look the essential point, bootstrap a hobby into a source of income.
Thanks to my old workmate Vivek. Guess I should have listened to him more when we worked together. Who knew he was so smart?
(Sotto voce: He didn’t seem that smart at the time.)
ROFL!
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INSPIRATIONAL: My Summertime friends
Monday, May 3, 2010One of the interesting parts of owning a “summer home” is neighbors.
You become attached, involved, and friends.
But, only for the “summer”.
That’s defined for us from when we turn the water on to when we turn it off.
Each spring, we sort of hold our breaths while we find out if everyone survived. As one of the “younger couples” on the street, each year we dread losing a few neighbors.
“Life goes on.”
Some of the neighbors are like us and open up asap and close as late as possible.
(I wish it was year round. Virtually no people in the winter. Perfect for an ITSJ like me.)
When one of my neighbors was AWOL, I decided to break my own rules about phones — I didn’t have her email — and call. With some trepidation.
(Our “rutgers womens bball games” friends have also suffered the fate of old age and passed. We have a similar dread of the first game each season to see who didn’t make it.)
So I called fearing the worst.
But it was good news, there’s a baby on the way. So we’ll have a baby next door this summer. Great. It means life goes on. And, someone to inherit that family’s summer home.
And, maybe some one to mark when our time comes.
I informed the lady in question about the direct path to my will for children named “Ferdinand”. She thanked me for a good belly laugh.
That’s me just spreading humor around.
When I introduced myself as “her favorite author calling”, she laughingly told me that I was the only author she knew. (She’ll have to get out more.) And, she too had an excuse for not reading it over the winter. Pregnancy. Guess you have to keep your priorities straight.
She should have read the book! ROFL.
Great news!
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POLITICAL: Thinking about “fair”!
Monday, May 3, 2010I was watching an old episode of Family Fued and one of the questions spurred a RANT. Really political.
“What do you think is a fair salary for a new teacher?”
Arghhhhhh!
Regardless of the answer, this had so many “teachable moments” it was astonishing.
(1) Opinions are like …, everyone has one. Who cares what people think is “fair”? The ONLY “fair” price is one that is freely offered and accepted. A marketplace establish what is “fair” better than any vote or opinion.
(2) The teacher is an employee of the gooferment. With a capturing captive union that exerts tremendous political pressure. Starting salary is political. Very political.
(3) The salary of day care “teachers” is by definition “fair”. And, much lower than that of “real teachers”. Why do we have gooferment “education”? I’d call it “youth propaganda prisons”. And we sneered at the Communists and their “political reeducation camps”; what’s different?
(4) The whole education system isn’t “fair”. I don’t decide ANYTHING in a child’s life, but I’m forced to pay for their education. That ain’t “fair”.
Argh!
Did I miss anything?
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FUN: 57 PIC from Mom’s stash
Monday, May 3, 2010
My father, who everyone called “Ferdie”, my paternal grandmother Marie, me, and an unknown person.
Going through my Mom’s old pictures. Too bad people don’t write the names, date, and place. Start now to memorialize your history.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Eliminate the Public Schools
Sunday, May 2, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/galvin5.1.1.html
Strike a Victory for Federalism: Eliminate the Public Schools
by Paul Galvin
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But eliminating public schooling, an institution not extant at the country’s founding, would have national implications extending well beyond the boundaries of any one state. Chief beneficiaries would be an overall strengthening, and rehabilitation, of the American federal system and an increase in individual liberty.
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The whole public school “sysstem” is:
(1) Immoral
• Forcibly separating children from their families. The model was to create cannon fodder and factory workers easily led by the elite.
• Indoctrinating future voters to support the government.
• Excessive costs drive senior citizens from their homes
• The “public education” model demotivates the student, “un-involves” the parents, and creates an “education” political force.
(2) Ineffective
• Education results are in free fall; without factoring in all the tricks being used to pump up results.
• Unlike a free market, education isn’t delivered where it is needed at price that can be afforded. It’s political; not market based.
• One size fits all squeezes everyone into the same mold; the smart are held back and the “dumb” are lost.
(3) Inefficient
• The Horace Mann model hasn’t changed with the times; University of Phoenix delivers over the inet, why not everyone?
• Cost per student “educated” is double Catholic, private, or other parochial schools.
• Mandatory attendance, child labor, and licensing laws deprive us of non-academic education (i.e., craft apprenticeship)
(4) Harmful
• Creates “education factories with gun free zones” that are an undefended target rich environment.
• Puts children is a hostile environment where they are exposed to drugs and bullying.
• Some teachers are sexual predators.
• Children are not taught the skills they need to survive in the real world. School life is completely unlike real life.
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JOBSEARCH: An example of “Using Your Corporate Email”
Sunday, May 2, 2010http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/24/how-not-to-handle-a-resignation-gracefully
How Not To Handle A Resignation Gracefully
by Jack McKenna on Apr 24, 2010
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I should note, that instead of responding, he instead removed my email account. Real pro of him. Good thing I forwarded it to myself first :P
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Argh!
Now while the story is about who’s the bigger a hole, a fact which is debatable.
I would like to direct your attention to the email account. And, how fragile that threat is.
You should be EXTREMELY careful how you use any email address that you don’t own and control. You’re employer can nuke your email address on a whim as you are escorted out of their premises. Even your Internet Service Provider, whom you pay faithfully every month, can nuke you or change your email address on a whim. Sell out, buy out, merge, or exit the biz and you are the one who is screwed!
Your address book may go up in internet smoke in a heartbeat never to be seen again.
You try and find everyone who knows you by that email address. And, remember, you may not have given someone the address. They could have gotten it from a third party. Try and find those.
And, when you used that now lost email address to register for sites, you’re stuck with the obsolete sign on. And, don’t have a a password malfunction with the now defunct email address because you can’t get a password reset there. Good luck changing that old email address for a new one. (I’ve even seen a site restore my old one on me!)
Bottom line: If you don’t own your own domain, you are asking for trouble and the Universe will send you what you ask for when you can least afford it.
For a few bucks? Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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TECHNOLOGY: “Drive by” messages!
Saturday, May 1, 2010Ever notice how many more what I call “drive by messages” are being sent?
That is a message that includes a disclaimer saying that it won’t be read.
I imagine them saying: “If you ask for clarification, we’re going to ignore you”!
Arghhhh!
Wasn’t “marketing” supposed to be a “conversation with customers”?
Well, that’s like “Customer Service” being expected to “service” “customers”?
I know I feel like I’ve been “serviced”! In the sense of bulls and cows.
Argh!
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This is an automated email, and replies will not be delivered. If you need to contact us, please log on to your account and click the “Contact Us” link to send an email.
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Please do not reply to this message. This is a service email related to your use of XXXXXXX. To learn more about XXXXXXXX’s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy.
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RANT: Government is not us
Saturday, May 1, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/56930.html
Not Us. Never, Ever Us.
Posted by Charles Featherstone on May 1, 2010 10:50 AM
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But second, it’s important to emphasize again and again and again that this notion that we, the people, are in any way the government is fraudulent. The government is not us. It cannot ever be us. If it were, there’d be no need for signs that say “Property of the United States Government” with warnings to trespassers because how can citizens — who are sovereign — trespass on the property over which they are sovereign? It’s the problem of socialist property writ large, and it’s why popular sovereignty is bunkum. All human societies become societies in which a relatively tiny elite rule a majority, and democracy (along with ideology) is just modernity’s method of legitimizing that elite rule. I have compared democratic rituals to religious rituals before, and I do believe that elections are the central sacrament of democracy. A pointless sacrament of an idolatrous religion.
The truth is governments are always a menacing entity. Often times they are evil. Sometimes they are even foreign. Government is not us. And it will not ever be us.
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Important to underscore.
This is not a democracy.
It’s an oligarchy.
Leadership by a political elite, who do what they want.
(Think the healthcare polls!)
We have to follow Gandhi and just not cooperate!
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TINFOILHAT: OKC and the second man
Saturday, May 1, 2010http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=143865
What Clinton didn’t say about OKC
Posted: April 22, 2010
Jack Cashill is an Emmy-award winning independent writer and producer with a Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue.
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“The magistrate, Ronald L. Howland, ordered McVeigh to be held without bail after listening to four hours of testimony from FBI special agent John Hersley in which he described eyewitness accounts of a yellow Mercury with McVeigh and another man inside speeding away from a parking lot near the federal building.”
Rather than put a single witness on the stand who could place McVeigh in or near Oklahoma City on April 19, the prosecution chose to build an entire case on circumstantial evidence.
The Justice Department had lost all interest in the eyewitnesses as soon as the White House had established its talking points. They also lost interest in any Islamic connection.
“Could the al-Qaida explosives expert [Ramzi Yousef] have been introduced to the angry American [Terry Nichols] who proclaimed his hatred for America,” writes Richard Clarke of Nichols’ visit to the Philippines in “Against All Enemies.” “We do not know, despite some FBI investigation.”
“Some FBI investigation”? Why was there not a massive FBI investigation? The reason is fairly obvious: McVeigh and Nichols served as poster boys for the natural progression of the “Republican revolution.”
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Seems like some unanswered questions about “OKC BOMBING”.
As usual, we never get the truth. And, yes, I think we can handle the truth.
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POLITICAL: No more Vietnams
Friday, April 30, 2010http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=146437
35 years after fall of Saigon
Posted: April 28, 2010
By Richard Botkin
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America’s investment in Vietnam was significant. Aside from the tens of billions of dollars spent to fight the war, 58,000 men paid the ultimate price. Several times that number were wounded, and every man who endured combat has been marked forever by that experience.
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Even those, who didn’t endure that combat, has been marked forever.
Good “boys”, really men, followed their consciences to Canada or underground. Some of them died as well. Driven from society, their friends, their family, their supporting social circles, their dreams into who knows what type of personal and civil hell. My best friend died in that hell. I didn’t know about it because he was on the wrong side of the law and I had a security clearance. His girl, who in normal times, might have become his wife, drifted on without him. He was a “casualty of war” as much as any man lost in combat.
There were a lot more casualties.
“No More Vietnams” to me means no more welfare / warfare state illusions. George Washington was perceptive about “entangling alliances” and MYOB!
Donna Nobis Pacem!
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INSPIRATIONAL: My father’s sister has passed
Friday, April 30, 2010http://www.seefeldfuneral.com/index.cfm
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Berniece M. Reinke
(June 14, 1919 – April 21, 2010)
Berniece M. Reinke, age 90, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at Elijah’s Place in Oshkosh. Berniece was born on June 14, 1919, the daughter of the late Jerome and Amanda (Plude) Burbey. She attended school in Dunbar and graduated high school there in 1937. Berniece was married to Robert E. Faehling from May 1937 to 1946. She married Carl E. Reinke in 1947 and he preceded her in death on March 30, 2006.
Berniece was a welder in the Sturgeon Bay shipyard during World War II and later worked for Hudson Company in Oshkosh. She was also employed by Sears in Oshkosh and other locations where her husband Carl was stationed with the Air Force. Berniece was also a volunteer Gray Lady for many years.
Berniece will always be cherished and missed by her daughter, Diane (George) Clark of Oostburg; son, Robert (Evelyn) Faehling of West Bend; seven grandchildren, Michael (Jody) Clark of Monument, Colorado, Todd (Debra) Clark of Stevens Point, Kristen (Kevin) Pisula of Orlando, Florida, Tami (James) Slayton of West Bend, Michelle (Brian) Schraufnagel of West Bend, Chip (Rhonda) Faehling of Kewaskum, Robin Faehling of West Bend; and fourteen great-grandchildren. She is further survived by several nieces, nephews and friends. Berniece was preceded in death by her husband, Carl; parents; four sisters and four brothers-in-law; six brothers and six sisters-in-law; two nieces and two nephews.
Memorial service for Berniece will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 2, 2010 at Seefeld Family of Funeral Chapels, 1025 Oregon Street, Oshkosh. A time of visiting and sharing of support will take place at the funeral chapel on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. until the time of service. Please visit http://www.seefeldfuneral.com to send online condolences to the family.
The family would like to a send a special thanks to the staff of Elijah’s Place, Chaplain Vicki Marxen, and Hospice Care for the kindness and wonderful care they showed our loved one.
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It’s serendipity that I found this sad news. My Mom just died in April. She always spoke lovingly about “Bernie” and how she helped her, a “Nu Yawker”, with a newborn out on the “frontier”. Strange how fate joins, separates, and rejoins us.
Even though, I didn’t know my father’s family well, I have fond memories of Grandma Reinke and my visit with her in the nursing home when I was enroute to Fairchild AFB.
I feel a little poorer now. “No man is an island, entire of itself … any manʼs death diminishes me”. I am sorry for your loss.
I’ll try to post some pictures later. Or on my blog “Reinke Faces Life”.
(I’m top row on the right.)
It’s like the “hidden from me” pane of my JoHari window just became a little smaller. I’ve opened a special email address if any of the Oregonians want to communicate with me.
Tonight, I will say a prayer for Aunt Bernie and for all that might have been. Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! They’ll kill you. You have to declare an amnesty after a year, or you’ll drive yourself nuts. Still hard to imagine what would have been possible. Were war time marriages doomed to failure? Does this all have to be chalked up to the casualties of a long ago war?
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” — Robert Frost
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I guess I wasn’t clear enough. Bernice was married to Carl that’s my father’s brother. That makes her my aunt-in-law.
When my Mom and Dad separated, (never divorced; Catholics), it was nasty. And, I had very little contact with my West Coast Oregon Reinke family. Whenever my East Coast Bellew family did something I didn’t like, I’d always declare I was a “Reinke”. My Mom always laughed, but I think she knew it was true. I didn’t share a lot of the East Coast’s values. Still don’t. And, I attribute my “I don’t give an <synonym for excrement>” attitude to my Reinke roots. I remember my Dad wistfully describing how when fishing season came, everyone dropped everything and went fishing. While I don’t fish, (Thanks, to Ferdie, my childhood pet goldfish who died on me!), I do like that meme. Drop everything and go relax!
ROFL!
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POLITICAL: Beck is morphing into a libertarian
Friday, April 30, 2010http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=144405
Beck breaks from the pack
Posted: April 23, 2010
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But more importantly: good guy Glenn is finally espousing a foreign policy compatible with limited authority and republican virtues.
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Glenn Beck has been slowly moving toward being a libertarian in thought, word, and deed.
The shift to a “humble foreign policy” is essential to getting our troops home and our “collective nose” out of everyone else’s business.
The question is it real or is it like “Rosie O’Donnell”? Where after the fame is no longer needed, the star rips off the mask and we see the truth.
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RANT: Prayers for Ms. Bullock
Thursday, April 29, 2010http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20364464_20364640,00.html
EXCLUSIVE: Sandra Bullock Has Filed for Divorce
Wednesday April 28, 2010 07:00 AM EDT
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I give not a rat’s tush for Hollywood, its marriages, or its politics.
After Rosie (Queeeen of Nice when she needed us) O’D, I don’t believe any celebrity’s public persona.
I enjoyed Bullock’s movies. Even the bad ones. They were mostly clean and mostly funny.
She conducted her personal life in a dignified and quiet manner.
For her to be ignored by the Hollywood elite for an Oscar somewhat endeared her to me. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend.)
When what’s his face appeared on the Apprentice (Hey Season One was good!) I had no idea who he was and, when I found out, I said “everyone gets to choose their mate”.
When she spoke highly and lovingly of him at the Oscar win, I was impressed.
Then this trash came out.
I felt sorry for her. They say Reagan became the heros that he portrayed in the movies. I wish the same to her. She always (for the most part) played “happy”. I wish her “happiness”.
While she (unlike the rest of us) probably never has to worry about money again, I hope she’s able to overcome the betrayal by this slimy fellow (I’d say that about any man who cheats on his wife. No matter how good he is at golf. We should shun them all. They are untrustworthy and, to me, completely despicable.)
I’ll say a silent prayer for her to rebound. And, unlike Jane Fonda, (an old vet never forgets), I look forward to her next movie.
I hope she rebounds. I hope she uses her platform to cry foul eventually, call on me to grow up, and sneer at all this “sex rehab” stuff.
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POLITICAL: … leave you alone!
Thursday, April 29, 2010http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2010/04/libertarian-conspiracy-t-shirts-bumper.html
I LOVE this one!
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POLITICAL: Energy independence and the debt!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010http://dailyreckoning.com/8-very-public-false-starts-for-us-energy-independence
8 Very Public False Starts for US Energy Independence
By Rocky Vega
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* In 1974 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources, President Richard Nixon said
* In 1975 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources, President Gerald Ford said
* In 1979 with 40.5% of oil from foreign sources, President Jimmy Carter said
* In 1981 with 43.6% of oil from foreign sources, President Ronald Reagan said
* In 1992 with 47.2% of oil from foreign sources, President George Bush said
* In 1995 with 49.8% of oil from foreign sources, President Bill Clinton said
* In 2006 with 65.5% of oil from foreign sources, President George W. Bush said
* In 2009 with 66.2% of oil from foreign sources, President Barack Obama said
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Who cares what they said!
Look at results.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
Tariffs are constitutional.
How about a 5% import duty on all “foreign” energy?
That 5% is used to reduce the national debt.
And, at the same time. tie the congress critters salary to the deficit in the prior year. Salary zero if there is any!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Foreign Policy
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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I made my own. Anyone can borrow it.
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Clip art courtesy of http://www.worldatlas.com/clipart.htm
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TECHNOLOGY: Security has to be a core value; not an after thought
Wednesday, April 28, 2010http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/20/security-policy-privacy-technology-cio-network-data.html
Commentary
Keeping Data Safe From IT Snoops
Mike Schaffner, 04.21.10, 06:00 AM EDT
How to improve data security and privacy.
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If possible, add a formal security role. This job isn’t just about limiting access and changing passwords. It involves looking at all of the processes from the user side as well as within IT. It is important that this role audit compliance and educate users and IT alike about security issues.
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With all due respect to Forbes and the author, this is indicative of reactive and “after the fact” thinking.
“If possible”?
(Argh!)
Either Information Security, and it’s natural sidekick Business Recovery, are core functions of your infrastructure or they aren’t. If they are, then they are essential components of your Strategic Requirements with resources to accomplish their mission. If not, then this is lipstick on the proverbial pig.
You don’t say: “If possible, we should have a CFO.”!
Customers, Employees, Suppliers, and everyone are quick to pick up the implications of your deeds. Words don’t matter; actions do! Spot one of these “bolt on” “paper over” tactical cover overs and you should be looking for your replacement. Get away before they take you down with them.
What are your requirements? Else your next credit card statement may be delivered to Lagos Nigeria. There’s no substitute for “doing it right”. After the fact can never be right.
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