http://www.thefreedictionary.com/callow
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SOFTWARE: IE6 days are numbered
Tuesday, February 2, 2010Dear Google Apps admin,
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
The Google Apps team
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INSPIRATIONAL: A lot of opinions with no tuckus in the problem
Tuesday, February 2, 2010http://peadarroe.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/focus-on-this/#comment-285
Focus On This!
January 31, 2010 · 3 Comments
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Sometimes, you know, my mind takes me to another place. That ever happen to you? Take this, for instance…
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I’m talking about the one where this fellow Tebow says he’s happy his Mom let him get born.
Thirty seconds the ad is supposed to take. Thirty seconds squeezed in between all the beer ads with pretty girls and the car ads with pretty girls and the insurance ads and all the other ads with pretty girls, and the half time lollapalooza with pretty girls and ancient guitar players singing about how great it is to be us. Thirty seconds that cost the group that made the ad, Focus on the Family, about two and a half million bucks.
Now, Focus on the Family is one of those groups that says kids should be allowed to be born. I happen to think this is a good idea. They say some other stuff, too, that I happen to agree is a good idea. They say and do some stuff that I don’t happen to agree is so good an idea at all. But, that’s not what I’m on about, here.
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Well said, good sir, well said. But then, I’m just an injineer who had a low index. Seems obvious that: (1) potential human beings are getting killed; (2) a lot of people, without their tuckus on the line, have a lot of opinions about how others should live; and (3) getting the gooferment involved in a tough moral, ethical, and economic problem is like bringing that proverbial bull to help select china. Nice writing to bring light, not heat, to a tough subject. Glad I’m a man and will never have to make such a tough decision. I pray for all those that do. They’re better folks than I. Who knows what I’d do? Math is easier.
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TECHNOLOGY: Egg Watchers ROFL!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010*** begin quote ***
We’ve designed EggWatchers with hopes to banish forgetting, boredom, and bad cooking. We’ve done our best to make sure it’s awesome and works and stuff, but the fact is – we’re not responsible for any bad egg related incidents.
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Argh, tech for tech’s sake?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: It’s not YOUR house; it’s theirs!
Monday, February 1, 2010Avondale condemns home: Solar, batteries insufficient
Avondale woman says city treated her unfairly
by Eddi Trevizo – Jan. 27, 2010 10:52 AM
The Arizona Republic
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An Avondale woman who spent 11 days sleeping in her car said the city treated her unfairly when her home was condemned in December for lack of electricity.
But city officials said Christine Stevens violated building codes, a health and safety concern because Avondale homes are required to have heating systems and a running refrigerator.
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Where does the gang masquerading as “city officials” get off telling people how to live?
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: An example of a pure security system
Monday, February 1, 2010http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1f88d16f510d886b38f9ad334219fe45.131&show_article=1
US State Department clerk sentenced for passport peeking
Jan 22 09:22 AM US/Eastern
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A US State Department file clerk on Thursday was sentenced to 12 months’ probation for illegally accessing dozens of confidential passport applications of movie actors, professional athletes and other celebrities. The employee, Susan Holloman, 58, was also ordered by the judge in the case to perform 75 hours of community service. Holloman, a file assistant at the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, admitted that between February 2007 and December 2007 she repeatedly logged on to the department’s secure computer database and viewed passport applications belonging to some 70 celebrities and their families.
She acknowledged to prosecutors that she had no reason to access the passport applications, other than “idle curiosity,” a State Department press release said.
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The more interesting question with respect to technology is why was “idle curiosity” possible?
The security systems are obviously REACTIVE rather than PROACTIVE. There should be a way of specifying the “business requirements” such that there isn’t an open playground of personal data.
But, this is the gooferment, and it can’t do ANYTHING right!
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POLITICAL: Energy independence; absent leadership
Monday, February 1, 2010http://www.keywestlou.com/2010/02/sunday-is-supposedly-day-of-rest.html
My Life in Key West
Monday, February 1, 2010
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The article contained an observation that sticks with me. The United States has depended on the Middle East for years for its power supply, to wit: oil. That if the United States did not get into the manufacture of renewable energy quickly and in big time, our energy dependency in the future would move to the Far East. China!
And we would have replaced one less than friendly peoples for another in satisfying our energy needs.
All very interesting. Thought provoking. Part of Obama’s State of the Union speech.
Talk is one thing. Action another. Obama has to move us in the direction of manufacture and use of renewable energy dramatically. Now, not tomorrow. And everyone, Democrat and Republican alike, should support him in this endeavor. This is not a No issue.
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(1) Unfortunately for us, OBH44 is an inexperienced “talker”; not a “do-er”. We need a “leader”; not a “community organizer”. Every politician lectures us about “energy independence”. Little gets done. If we still funded the Federal Government on tariffs and duties like the Dead Old White Guys wanted us to do, then the gooferment would be a lot smaller and less intrusive. AND, we’d have energy independence. because solutions here would be cheaper than imported oil from there. Maybe we might have a car industry too, instead of having sent allt he jobs overseas. Too late, we get smart. It might be way too late.
(2) With all the secession talk, maybe Mike and Tina can do some stuff for real. When the S hits the fan, maybe we can replace the FED’s “dollar” with a Constitutional gold and silver money. The we’d be once again the envy of the world with “honest money”. Maybe then we could get working on the national debt so that we don’t condemn the children to Haiti-like poverty. Inter-generational theft will be how we are remembered as the progeny try to pay off the Chinese.
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RANT: Media Bias – Cost the FDIC?
Sunday, January 31, 2010http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Regulators-shut-banks-in-apf-1868747589.html?x=0&.v=2
Regulators shut down banks in 5 states
Regulators shutter banks in Calif., Fla., Ga., Minn., Wash., totaling 15 bank failures in 2010
By Marcy Gordon, AP Business Writer , On Friday January 29, 2010, 10:48 pm EST
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators shut down a big bank in California on Friday, along with two banks in Georgia and one each in Florida, Minnesota and Washington. That brought to 15 the number of bank failures so far in 2010 atop the 140 shuttered last year in the punishing economic climate.
The failure of Los Angeles-based First Regional Bank, with nearly $2.2 billion in assets and $1.9 billion in deposits, is expected to cost the federal deposit insurance fund $825.5 million.
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And, where, pray tell, does the FDIC get “its” money?
Yes, the taxpayer.
Either directly or indirectly.
Neither the gooferment, nor any corporation, have ANY money that doesn’t originate from a real person.
Some of the FDIC money is extracted from the banks that it “insures”, but that is extracted by the surviving banks from its customers which are, presumably, taxpayers.
Now, with the supposed “insurance” fund broke, it gets “its” money from the Treasury which means we borrow it from China!
Argh!
Hopefully, the AP writer will learn that 825.5 comes from the poor taxpayer.
And, we wonder why we are in a depression?
Economic illiteracy!
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NOTRECOMMENDED: O’Reilly and Beck Bold and Fresh; not live!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
OK, maybe I’m a sucker. I went to the movies last night. Yes, it was a (poor quality) movie. Not the live remote performance that I was expecting. I felt suckered. The previous night, I went to the Senior Showcase, EB Vo Tech, where aspiring high school seniors displayed their talent. One of their presentations was a better quality than the “professional” one I watched last night.
Now, I understand that weather in Norfolk prevented the live performance. But I felt cheated. It was supposed to be “live”!
The film was obviously edited. I paid for the full performance and I think some of the good stuff was left on the cutting room floor. And, if it was edited, why is there a twenty minute “intermission”. Sorry, that could have been cut. Maybe it was for the old folks to tap a kidney. But, I suspect it was to allow the theater to push some over-priced “refreshments”.
On to the content, I was again disappointed:
* Beck spent to much time mocking Nancy Pelosi’s physical characteristics. At first it was funny, but after a while it got boring.
* O’Reilly was “abbreviated”. He got in some great points about was NOT in Obama’s SOTU, but it seemed like, in his head, the TV timing bell went off and he’d truncate his thought.
The audience was obnoxious. It addition to being mostly old and lilly white. The guy next to us was a fidgeter; guy behind us dropped a big tub of popcorn; and the old lady behind us kept commenting to her party about what the guys were saying. Argh! A chorus of cellphone conversations would have been less distracting.
(18 seats per row, 50 rows, pretty much sold out, 900, time 25$, 225 * 100, 22500$ per theater, times 200 theaters, !!!4,500,0 00!!!, over a million a piece for two hours of work? Hmmm!)
As far as the content was concerned, I had the following observations:
* Beck is NOT a libertarian. No self-respecting libertarian would have a demonstration planned for 8/8/10 in from of the LINCOLN memorial.
* O’Reilly is an interesting amalgam of professed small government but pro-war guy. Interesting, but dangerous. He did correctly identify that OBH44 ignored the Iran threat in the SOTU and has potentially by ignoring them made the world a more dangerous place. If israel has to take Iran on, we are in a world of hurt.
* O’Reilly pointed out that in the SOTU address OBH44 avoided the whole “War” topic. (And, neither mentioned OBH44’s failure to praise the troops. I can’t imagine any President missing that point.)
* Beck makes a good case that the Progressives are the problem.
* O’Reilly was funny in his description of how the folks will wake up and right the ship. Hope he’s right. I’m not so sure.
* Beck portrayed OBH44 as evil; O’Reilly characterized him as an inexperienced unprepared Chicago corrupt politician. (O’Reilly was especially on point with his: comparison of Chicago’s South Side with Haiti; Reverend Wright’s 2M$ mansion in a all-white suburb, AND the KSM terror trial in NYC. He reminded me of Judge Judy when she says “If it doesn’t make sense, it’s not true”, when O’Reilly says that the “folks” can feel when the politician isn’t telling the truth. (Like when their lips move!)
Sorry, but I can’t recommend this.
I shoulda went to see Avatar; it’d been cheaper.
Yeah I know, violating my own dictum, “Shouldas, wouldas, and couldas” will kill you.
It was: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Desi and Lucy, and probably more physically accurate Abbot and Costello or Laurel and Hardy.
But not as timeless, or not as funny.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/the_beckoreilly_bold_fresh_tou.html
“15 minute intermission” live in Tampa
Why was ours 20 minutes?
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INTERESTING: Celtic Woman. a strange allure?
Sunday, January 31, 2010Celtic Woman: The women behind the Irish musical phenomenon
By Aliah O’Neill, Irish America Magazine
Published Thursday, January 21, 2010, 11:14 PM
Updated Friday, January 22, 2010, 7:29 AM
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The answer as to why American audiences have responded so enthusiastically to Celtic Woman has not always been clear. When I asked Lynn Hilary, who joined the group in 2007, why she thought American audiences continue to be so responsive to Celtic Woman, she admitted that at first, she wasn’t sure. “I didn’t really understand it for a long time, that they would react in such a way,” she said. “They’d be crying and on their feet every night applauding us. But American people really identify with Ireland, and a lot of Americans have Irish in their ancestry, so Celtic Woman allows them to re-identify with their roots and gives them a feeling of belonging.”
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Have to admit, I’ve seen the ads, watch some of the PBS, and there is some sort of strange allure? Just like Riverdance, which having seen live twice, it has that “grab” characteristic. Maybe it’s like Irish hip hop? Or with Celtic Women, it’s full size real women in movement — as opposed to the hollywood “heroin chic” that makes women look like refugees from a Nazi Death Camp? But 40$ for a DVD of 20 songs. Not going to happen.
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RANT: We’re broke
Saturday, January 30, 2010http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aC7VY11v6aMw
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Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, acting on a pledge to support nuclear power, will propose tripling loan guarantees for new reactors to more than $54 billion, two people familiar with the plan said.
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As much as I like nukes, we can’t afford it. And, it’s more socialism!
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TECHNOLOGY: WEP is worthless!
Saturday, January 30, 2010How To Hack Wireless
Safe for work
Warning for WEP users. Don’t do your banking, or anything important, on that connection.
Don’t you just love command line stuff? How long until it is packaged for the script kiddies?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: wh ?ASKS? justice
Saturday, January 30, 2010White House asks Justice Department to look for other places to hold 9/11 terror trial
BY Kenneth R. Bazinet, Adam Lisberg and Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Originally Published:Thursday, January 28th 2010, 8:04 PM
Updated: Thursday, January 28th 2010, 9:14 PM
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The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.
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Argh!
Last I checked the Justice Department WORKED FOR the White House?
I think I’d have different conversation than “asking”. A long the lines of “Bring me the head of the idiot who decide this!”
Does Holder have pictures of OBH44 with the proverbial goat?
How is he keeping his job?
Argh!
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QUOTE: Epitaph on the Politician Himself
Friday, January 29, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/47878.html
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Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
~Hilaire Belloc, Epitaph on the Politician Himself
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ROFL!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The true cost of gooferment
Friday, January 29, 2010http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/vin/WE_LOST_ARE_MEDICAL_COVERAGE.html
‘WE LOST ARE MEDICAL COVERAGE’
Posted by Vin Suprynowicz
Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 at 04:06 PM
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Many government educrats continued to receive “step” raises, “merit” raises, “cost of living” raises, raises “earned” by taking various “pedagogical” night courses, etc., in recent years, as always. Ask any government employee who claims to have “received no raises” for any period of years to show you his or her latest paycheck stub, and a paycheck stub from two or three years ago, to demonstrate that the base rate of pay has remained the same. In most cases, watch for the mumbling and backpedaling to then begin.
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Bottom line: we can NOT afford gooferment education. Nor, all the pensions and benefit costs of all the gooferment workers.
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POLITICS: A spending freeze? Is he kidding me?
Thursday, January 28, 2010reinkefj has left a new comment on the post “A spending freeze? Is he kidding me?”:
Amazing when the wacko left and the wacko right agree, a spending freeze is just dumb. What he needs to do is what he promised in the campaign. Sit down with the Federal budget and a red pen.
Freezing spending at current levels is just enshrining the past mistakes.
imho, for example, milk and sugar price supports. We pay money so that people have to pay higher prices?
imho, minimum wage, that puts minority youths out of work. If there is a marginal worker, he’s out as opposed to making a few bucks. And, it cost the taxpayers in all sorts of ways.
imho, military bases in 170 countries. Let have some base closings in strange places.
That’s the way to “freeze” spending.
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It merely “freezes” the increased spending of the past decade. Argh!
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POLITICS: My SOTUA!
Thursday, January 28, 2010http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/01/27/a-10-point-libertarian-sotu-address/
A 10-Point, Libertarian, SOTU Address
Posted by Jeffrey A. Miron
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1. Abandon Obamacare
2. Forget Cap and Trade
3. Reject the Card Check Bill
4. Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan
5. Legalize Drugs
6. Scrap the tax code and replace with a flat tax
7. Expand free trade and immigration
8. Stop the bailouts
9. Cut spending
10. Cut spending
BONUS – Cut spending
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1. End the war. Bring the troops home. Close foreign bases. Department of Defense is NOW in charge of national defense. All national defense.
2. Income tax is over. A drastically reduced Federal budget will be funded on import duties and excise taxes.
3. The drug war is now OVER. All non-violent drug offenders are granted a Presidential pardon. All violent drug offenders MAY apply for clemency.
4. The death penalty IS cruel and unusual punishment. All death row inmates are commuted to life without parole.
5. All welfare (including corporate welfare) will be phased out. All immigration rules will be phased out.
6. The Federal Reserve is to be audited. Legal tender laws are NOW unconstitutional.
7. Social Security and government pensions will be securitized by bonds. National assets will be pledged as collateral for these recognition bonds.
8. All “government entities” are suspended effective immediately. All especially the IRS, BATF, etc. etc. etc. will be shutting down. If States wish to fund an entity like the FBI with funding based on population.
9. All bailouts are to be recalled. Automakers will be spun out to the citizens.
10. All “health care” and “health insurance” rules are to be phased out.
That’s my LIBERTARIAN SOTUA (State Of The Union Address)!
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WRITING: Sometimes It’s A Gun (An Index Card Novel)
Thursday, January 28, 2010Sometimes It’s A Gun (An Index Card Novel)
The poor fat old white guy injineer had his home. Modest. Unpretentious. He prepped as best he could. He wasn’t handy. He wasn’t Supreman, Batman, or even Robin. And, certainly not rich. No Caddie survivalist; he had some food, water, and weapons put aside. He provided for his extended family as best he could. His big concern was the Golden Horde overwhelming them. It was truly something he could do something about. After all he was a smart injineer.
It started with a hunting cart, a gas cylinder, and a memory of how one of his long passed uncle’s neighbors scared crows. Controlled gas explosions directed by a tube. When the birds became to accustomed to it, a self-adjusting valve changed the pitch. From Boom to Bang.
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The S did hit the F. His extended family assembled at his “retreat”. Stuff was working out for them. The the MZBs began to circle. Conventional rifles drove off the scouts. That scared the poor fat old white guy into action. He rolled out his Domesday weapon. Their lives would depend upon an untested after thought memory of times past.
He handed out make shift Darth Vader helmets and foam temporary ear plugs. The teenagers thought it was dumb; the younger boys were kool with it. The babies were hard. Eventually everyone was protected.
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The local gang linked with two neighboring gangs with promising a “fat target” with women and girls. It was an easy sell. They gathered up for a straight bull rush up the dead end street and driveway. There was a little gas grill at the head of the driveway. Unconcerned, the rush was on. There was no firing from the house or grounds. Perhaps they residents had evacuated.
Half way up the driveway, they heard a small bang. Then, a HUGE one. At two meter intervals in the attacking mob, men and women collapsed with blood streaming from their ears. At five meter intervals, eyes exploded outward as interocular pressure surge in harmonic resonance. In the twenty five meter arc, attackers collapsed like pole axed from strokes caused by rupturing cranial blood vessels.
It was over in minutes. Those retreating blundered right into killing zones. When the “weapon” ran out of gas, (it had no shut off) the poor fat old white guy emerged from the house and switched to the alternative cylinder and was ready for another wave. He replaced the empty propane grill cylinder. There were a dozen ready to grill or defend. He looked at the bodies and wondered how he’d clean them all up. Guess his supply of garbage bags would have to be body bags.
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Eventually, order was restored. The “authorities” came to investigate how three gangs were wiped out by one household. They were looking, of course, for “weapons violations”. There had to be automatic weapons to be seized.
As they walked the street, it was interesting that arcs had been created bulging in the asphalt. They arrested everyone in the house. Even babies. For officer safety, of course. Their search went on for several days. Even to the point of bringing in metal detectors. Other than a few odd casings, they found nothing.
Autopsies of the “victims” showed no bullet wounds and that many had died of “natual causes”. The “authorities” were mystified. The residents were released. With out apology or comment. But with a warning, that the “authorities” would be watching them. Their guns were not returned.
The poor fat old white guy went back to his home. Amused, but safe. And, he still had his “gas grill”. He wondered if he could make it portable. Holster-able?
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RANT: BHO44’s Freeze!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/graph_of_the_day_for_january_2_8.html
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President Obama’s FY 2010 budget request (including stimulus) as percentage increases over FY 2009, by discretionary category (i.e., not including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or TARP):
Education: +209%
Commerce: +131%
Energy: +92.6%
Transportation: +70.8%
HUD: +40.8%
Labor: +39.5%
Interior: +32.7%
Agriculture: +30.4%
HHS: +28.0%
Veterans: +13.8%
International: +11.9%
Justice: +8.9%
Treasury: +8.7%
Defense: +2.5%
Source: The White House (Table S-12)
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Something to remember every time some one talks about “BHO44’s Freeze”.
“After the horse is gone” comes to mind!
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JOBSEARCH: Students, use your content to get ready for job search
Wednesday, January 27, 2010Monday, January 25th, 2010
Career Management: It Takes a Village
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Last week I attended the first of many college planning meetings at my daughter’s school. Jammed into the school auditorium with 200+ other neurotic parents of high school juniors, I listened to details about student entrance exam test dates, transcripts, and application deadlines.
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In some ways I think career management starts well before a person’s career starts. And choosing a college that is going to help with that process should be part of the plan. You know the saying; it takes a village to raise a child…I think every child needs that same village to start their career.
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I don’t understand for the inet generation to not create a “personal brand” using their high school and college work. I advise the College kids that I speak with to create a web presence. I am astonished that kids studying MARKETING have NO web presence. I’m all so astonished that they seem to fail to understand the concept of “indelible digital dirt”. Career management starts with making a sale of one’s labor possible. imho.
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INTERESTING: The term retronym
Wednesday, January 27, 2010http://www.dailywritingtips.com/whats-a-retronym/
What’s a Retronym?
by Maeve Maddox
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Earlier than that, back when he mowed the grass, my big brother longed for an “electric mower.” Now the kind of mower he called a “lawnmower” is called a “push lawnmower.”
“Cloth diaper” and “push lawnmower” are retronyms.
The term retronym came into the language in 1980 when William Safire credited Frank Mankiewicz, president of National Public Radio, with its first use.
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I never heard of this. Have you?
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FUN: Witling
Wednesday, January 27, 20101. One who aspires to wittiness. 2. One who has little wit.
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NEWJERSEY: Why Not Vouchers? It’s not moral!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2010/01/24/opinions/doc4b5899611e622323956261.txt#blogcomments
DISPATCHES: Keep public schools public
Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:41 PM EST
By Hank Kalet, Managing Editor
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Bret Schundler may be the state’s leading proponent of school vouchers.
The former Jersey City mayor, who twice ran unsuccessfully for governor, has been an outspoken advocate for using public money to help pay private-school tuition. And if newly sworn-in Gov. Chris Christie has his way, Mr. Schundler will be the state’s new education commissioner.
With this appointment, it seems pretty clear the governor is not just firing a warning shot at the New Jersey Education Association, the state’s teachers union. He is making it clear he plans to push one of the conservative establishment’s pet causes during his four-year term in office.
”We agree on the type of significant reform that needs to happen in our educational system here in New Jersey,” he said in announcing his education choice last week (The New York Times). “I want a strong, reasonable, bold leader who’s going to help me implement those policies.”
Advocates for school vouchers say they create competition among schools and improve education for all students. The theory is, by giving low-income parents a portion of the money that otherwise would go to their public school, they will be able to pay tuition so their children can attend better private or parochial schools. The threat of losing students — and money — then would spur the public schools to improve, improving quality for all students.
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Only an ideologue could fail to agree that the “schools” are a failure. Despite what the teacher’s union tells us on TV. They have failed in educating. AND, in failing, they have done it at a price we can’t afford.
So why not try “vouchers”?
(1) It reinforces the idea that the cost of educating a child is NOT that of the parents. (I didn’t have them so why to I have to educate them. I don’t feed them, clothe them, or make any choice about them.
(2) There is no Number 2.
Since I can’t get out from under the burden of paying to ecuate Other People’s Children, then let’s have vouchers which might EVENTUALLY result in my escape from this unfair levy!
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