LIBERTY: We should be ashamed

Sunday, September 27, 2009

http://floatingcubans.com/

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The original attempt at reaching the United States was done with a converted 1951 Chevy pickup truck on July 16, 2003. The truck’s drive shaft was attached directly to a propeller and the craft could reportedly reach a leisurely 7 knots (8 mph). 55-gallon oil drums were used for flotation. The dozen or so Cubans in the truck were caught just south of Key West after being sighted by a U.S. Customs aircraft.

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We should put a giant garbage bag over the Statue of Liberty.

It mocks us.

If we eliminated welfare, then we could throw open the “Golden Doors”.

We’d be a better place.

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TECHNOLOGY: Cheap books everywhere when needed

Saturday, September 26, 2009

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0c1302e2-a3eb-11de-9fed-00144feabdc0.html

Google to offer hard copies of books
Financial Times [UK]

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“After five years of scanning books electronically, Google is finally entering the print publishing business for the first time. Through an arrangement with a printing company announced yesterday, Google will offer 2m out-of-copyright books that can be picked up or shipped from libraries, universities and other spots around the world. It has struck the deal with On Demand Books, makers of the Espresso Book Machine, which can print a 300-page book in less than five minutes, complete with a cover and a bound edge.” (09/17/09)

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As I know, Print On Demand makes it possible for ANYONE to publish a book!

We are truly entering the age of enlightenment.

It’s hard to imagine what this will mean to the third world countries. 8 bucks is a lot of money. But, it’s astounding to think what’s possible.

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FUN: Shore report

Saturday, September 26, 2009

200909261645.jpg

Picture = thousand words?

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TECHNOLOGY: Email is worse than a postcard!

Saturday, September 26, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/whoa_nbc_producer_to_antiacorn.html

September 26, 2009
Whoa; NBC Producer to anti-ACORN group employee: ‘Bite me, Jew boy?’
Rick Moran

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When Stone received an email urging Congress to defund ACORN from Alex Rosenwald, director of media outreach for Americans for Limited Government, the following sentence came back to Rosenwald from Stone’s account: “Bite me, Jew Boy!”

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   But Stone’s response email-provided to POLITICO-did not have any anti-Semitic comment. In fact, it had just one line: “Take me off this list!” (There are also subtle differences, including number of dashes, between the two emails).

   “Somebody, on the other end, I’m assuming, took the return stamp from the email and then put in this hateful message,” Capus said. “I don’t know who did it. It’s outrageous to suspect that somebody from NBC News would do it.”

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I always rant that email should be secured. It’s the vendors, the ISPs, and the technology community that has to do it. We can’t leave it to the users.

Like IPv6, the technology industry has been sitting on its hands for decades. FIgure it out boys and girls!

(Or should that be girls and boys. Do girls come before boys? Or is always alpha order?)

We have had the capability to do encryption for stuff for eons. PGP can encrypt messages. At the very least it can give you a hash of the message that proves if it’s been tampered with!

Then we’d completely avoid these little distractions about “who did it”.

Time has come for the technology folks to get their act together.

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TECHNOLOGY: Google advertising Chrome on TV?

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Just saw a Google ad for Chrome on GSN TV today now!

Huh?

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INITIALISMS: STOP

Saturday, September 26, 2009

http://www.lifetrekcoaching.com/provisions/20090920.htm

Provision #635: Broaden Your Focus
by Bob Tschannen-Moran

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One of the many tools for playing the Inner Game that Tim has popularized in his books is the STOP tool. STOP stands for:

   * Step back

   * Think

   * Organize your thoughts

   * Proceed

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Cute!

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POLITICAL: DO we need gooferment?

Friday, September 25, 2009

http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/09/motivation-and-greed-rant-2.html

Sunday, September 20, 2009
Motivation and Greed, Classism and Perks- Rant #2

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The concept that you should be able to keep 100% of your income is a fine one. It would not work because at the end of the day we need some level of government (how much can be debated hotly) and that costs money.

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I was with you up to that point.

I’m not so sure that is self-evident.

True, with only a few exceptions, we’ve always had “government”. We’ve also had social diseases too. That doesn’t mean we NECESSARILY have to have them.

Government IMHO is the meme that kills. It gets out of control so EASILY and QUICKLY. Maybe we could do without it.

Maybe, just maybe, we could buy insurance. And, insurance companies would buy protection for us.

Government is the only entity that can force us to buy products and services that we don’t want, can’t use, and at a price we can’t afford.

SOOooo, maybe we can do without it.

It’s interesting that someone will spend millions to get a job that pays thousands. That’s the tip off that there is something very wrong with the whole proposition of government.

imho.

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RANT: Commenting on a Progressive’s healthcare advice

Friday, September 25, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/09/public-knows-better-than-pols.html

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We should be talking about a single-payer system, which would remove profit from the system (health care companies boost profits by denying care) and place all of us on an equal plane.

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Sorry to tell you but then you will have a very expensive gooferment bureaucracy denying care.

Look at the VA (e.g., “My doc is trying to kill me”). Look at the Indian Health System (e.g., “Don’t get sick after June”). Look at Medicare (e.g., “If medicare denies your claim [for a Jazzy], we give it to you for free!”).

And, when the gooferment bureaucrat decides that you can’t get your hair plug replacement therapy, or that needed “experimental” procedure, to whom are you going to appeal? Your local newspaperman who urged this on you? Your Congressperson?

No! The gooferment is exceeding its role. Want single payer? Move to any of the lovely jurisdictions that have it: Canada, England, Sweden.

And, when you get really sick, come on back.

Progressives always want to give gooferment control. We need to stop this march to socialism before it kills us.

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UPDATE: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-government-would-really-like-for-you-to-have-a-wheelchair

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UPDATE: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2011-07-12-wheelchair-medicare-fraud_n.htm

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FUN: Shore report

Friday, September 25, 2009

Breezy and cool.

Mostly cloudy.

Only the “winterers” are here.

Gusts move the blinds when they come thru the jalousies.

Soon it will be all over for the seasons.

Four sets of contractors coming today to measure the kitchen. It’s vintage 1930 and needs to jump up to date. Well, as far as it can jump on an old retired / unemployed guy’s meager allotments.

Last night when I couldn’t sleep, I was working on my opus. A stray young kitten wandered by and peered in the door. I was smart. Didn’t feed it or even acknowledge it. It moved on. After all you know what happens when you feed stray cats? You make more stray cats. Still, a pet would be nice. Yeah, I know “with my second wife”. To which I respond: “One Dog. One Wife. One … …”

Maybe the sun will come out today?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The Kennedy seat belongs to the D’s; not the people!

Friday, September 25, 2009

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzO_Ki9dF9tOlEmbHGiBPp0hgzzAD9AU95JG0

Mass. GOP seeks to block Kennedy interim successor
(AP) – 3 hours ago

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BOSTON — The Massachusetts Republican Party is seeking to block the interim appointment of Paul Kirk to the Senate seat that was held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

The GOP has filed an injunction in Suffolk Superior Court that will be heard Friday morning.

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Now I realize that I have my law degree from the Judge Judy school of law,

BUT, (there is always a big butt),

(1) Shouldn’t this be unconstitutional on its face. The state legislators should just write the law that MA Senators have to be picked by the head of the Democratic Party!

(2) Shouldn’t this trigger one of those “This is so outrageous that it offends the sensibilities of the Court. Rule it unconstitutional Ex Post Facto. Et cum spiritu tuo two two oh. Or what ever Latin mumbo jumbo you want to use.

Huh?

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LIBERTY: Honest money begets success

Friday, September 25, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/smith-g.f5.1.1.html

How Much Money Do We Need?
by George F. Smith

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There will always be people who wish to live at the expense of others. Government does this through taxes and inflation – which is here used as an increase in the money supply – and in modern times, inflation, because it is generally misunderstood by the public, is a politically safer method of confiscation than taxes.

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Fiat paper money regimes are not designed to promote a healthy economy. They are designed as a means of wealth distribution for the benefit of a few.

That probably doesn’t include you, and it definitely doesn’t include me.

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It sure isn’t me!

Here in two paragraphs the author explains the problem with gooferment paper money.

I’m not sure how this all unwinds. We can see in history that: in France, the aristocrats lost their heads; in Germany, Hitler came to power; and in Zimbabwe, the people starve despite the fact that when it was Rhodesia it was Africa’s breadbasket.

As an “old guy”, I may not be here for the final act of this morality play. I think it’s going to make the Great Depression look like fun. All empires pass. And, the passing isn’t pretty for those in the empire.

Argh!

How do we fix it?

Civic virtue. Honest money. No more Ponzi schemes like Social Security. End welfare. End the Psuedo Drug War. Bring the troops home.

Will it happen?

I pray it will.

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RANT: The little kids get the message at school!

Friday, September 25, 2009

(No background music) School kids taught to praise Obama

This is an absolute travesty. We need to end “public education”. All they are doing is ensuring that the next generation of “voters” will be too indoctrinated to be free! Argh!

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RANT: Liberty; not gooferment

Thursday, September 24, 2009

  Anonymous said…

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   The consumer is king? No, he’s not. What’s my choice for electricity and gas? PSE&G or PSE&G? Or I have to move to another state. In many cases, one or two companies have a monopoly of a certain type of business or there is often price fixing and collusion between corporations. That is certainly true of the private for profit health insurance industry.

   What the hell is some poor working stiff in West Virginia supposed to do against giant coal mining corporations that are polluting the water, soil and air of their neighborhoods? Oh yeah, they have the option to move from their homes where they may have roots going back generations. We have no choice about how the energy is transmitted to our abodes. The only way to deal with these great polluters is through the power of the government or the legislature. We need a trust busting Theodore Roosevelt and an army of Upton Sinclairs to take on all these giant corporations which are raping the environment and our wallets. Corporate America has too much power, they are unelected but they control the media and have undue influence over Congress and our legislatures, (local, state and federal).

   We need strong unions to give workers a voice and to level the playing field.

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Blogger reinkefj said…

   >The consumer is king? No, he’s not. What’s my choice for electricity and gas? PSE&G or PSE&G?

   OK, let’s take PSEG. Who gave them a monopoly? The Gooferment. So aim your ire at the “state”! That’s why you don’t have a choice.

   Even when given a monopoly, that still doesn’t completely insulate the monopoly service provider. Comcast was the monopoly. Then, came DirectTv. Then, Dish. Then, Verizon FIOS.

   >In many cases, one or two companies have a monopoly of a certain type of business or

   > there is often price fixing and collusion between corporations.

   There is NO monopoly without GOOFERMENT. Competition disolves “natural monopolies” in a few years. Everyone always cites the Rockyfeller oil monopoly which lasted (I think) THREE years before competitors came in and took percentages.

   >That is certainly true of the private for profit health insurance industry.

   There is NO such industry. The Federal and State Gooferments regulate EVERYTHING about healthcare. AND, those companies LOVE it. It prevents competition. “Regulatory capture”, restriction on suuply, mandated coverages just make it expensive.

   >What the hell is some poor working stiff in West Virginia supposed to do against giant coal

   >mining corporations that are polluting the water, soil and air of their neighborhoods?

   Where’s the Federal and State EPA that are supposed to be preventing that?!? In fact, the gooferment is the biggest polluter. (Check some of the DOD and DOE sites.)

   If you had a fair judicial system, then they’d have a recourse. Read Healing Our World by Dr. Mary Ruwart. http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap14.html

   >Corporate America has too much power, they are unelected but they control the media

   > and have undue influence over Congress and our legislatures, (local, state and federal).

   It’s called Facism. Where the State and Business become “bedfellows”.

   >We need strong unions to give workers a voice and to level the playing field.

   Yeah, right. Like the UAW, Teachers Union, or SCIU are weak. Please, don’t make me laugh. They are AS corrupt as the politicians.

   So who’s going to save you now?

   The answer is we have to rescue ourselves. It’s our thinking that needs to change. We have to demand freedom and liberty. We can start by voting out EVERY incumbent. Call it voter imposed term limits. Demand TRUE deregulation. No licenses, no permits, no gooferment oversight. Liberty will protect us.

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MONEY: Why buy insurance?

Thursday, September 24, 2009

http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/insurance/should-you-hurry-to-buy-life-insurance/?cid=1230

Should You Hurry to Buy Life Insurance?
Hough: Policy prices are rising. Here’s what you need to know.

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Avoid it <<insurance>>, unless both of the following statements apply:

1. Your death would put someone you care about in a financial bind.

2. You’re not rich enough to set money aside for that person now.

Note that caring about someone isn’t enough of a reason, because insurance is a money-losing proposition, making it a poor gift versus simply saving. The purpose of insurance is to turn the unknowable (the probability of financial disaster brought on by your death) into the known (the cost of premiums today). Buy only enough so that your loved ones don’t suffer financially, not enough to make them feel like they’ve hit the lottery. They’ll feel like lottery winners anyhow after seeing your savings and brokerage accounts stuffed with all the money you saved on insurance. Buy only cheap term insurance, not expensive whole life or anything else that builds investment value, because you can build investment value in your brokerage account with more control and lower fees.

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I remember the old life insurance salesman’s canard: “A man who dies, leaving his family with no life insurance, doesn’t die; he absconds!”

I think this author nails it.

Worth a quick read.

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RANT: Demographic bomb explodes

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Khürt Williams wrote:

Why does the author think that “civilization” needs to be maintained and which civilization was her referring too? The contraceptives for Africa is not to stop people having babies but to stop the spread of AIDS and although I don’t agree with Pelosi’s politics, it does make sense that we do not want poor women having too many kids which then puts a burden on government (the people). Perhaps we need to start legally euthanizing the elderly instead of abortions.

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I REPLIED:

I’d like the gooferment to stop messing around with human beings. We need all the people we can create. Don’t kid yourself about the “purpose” of contraceptives. And, imho Africa’s problem is corrupt gooferments aided and abet by OUR corrupt gooferment. Imagine what would happen if the world said to the ruling elite of a poor African country, “No, you can leave your squalid little part of the Earth until you clean it up. You most certainly can not bank your stolen treasure here. You can’t enjoy our society while you are robbing and killing your own countrymen.” Argh, like that’s ever going to happen. Ever wonder why the world’s leaders eschew assassination? Not for the benefit of their citizens! Euthanasia, genetic selection, sterilization, and abortion is the complete undervaluing a human life. It’s the path TO the death camps. “Too many kids” from “poor women” is code for we have a gooferment that is out of control. Again, imho.

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POLITICAL: The true cost of war

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

http://www.wyff4.com/news/20973801/detail.html

Flags For Fallen Marine Create Bank Controversy
Woman Told Planting American Flags On Bank Property Against Policy
POSTED: 7:08 pm EDT September 17, 2009
UPDATED: 12:10 pm EDT September 18, 2009

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Fowlkes’ funeral will be Friday at 4 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Gaffney. He will be buried at Frederick Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Veterans’ officials are asking people to line Floyd Baker Boulevard as the funeral procession passes.

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I continue to think that every politician representing that district should be at that funeral.

Both Senators and the Secretary of Defense too.

Why not the President?

Then, maybe, just maybe, they will understand that we are killing our boys and girls.

For what purpose?

It may be necessary to order men and women to go and die for the country. But, boys and girls, that should be a damn serious decision.

Argh!

And, then we can talk about the financial cost!

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JOBFINDING: Infrastructure / Security Project Manager in CT

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Hi Ferdinand,

I came across your profile on the web. One of my clients is looking for an Infrastructure / Security Project Manager for a fulltime position at Windsor, CT. The job description is given below. If you are interested, please e-mail me a copy of your resume, contact number and salary requirements at the earliest. If you are not interested, please forward this mail to someone who might be interested.

Job Title Infrastructure / Security Project Manager

Experience Level 8 – 13 years

Location Windsor, CT & Atlanta, GA

Start Date Immediate

Duration Fulltime

No. Of Positions Multiple

Job Description

8 – 13 years in the Information Systems industry with strong Project Management Skills and process experience in two or more areas such as Security Strategy, Compliance Programs, Security Monitoring, Identity Management

Expected to managed the project reporting of one or more projects

Good understanding of security or DR terms and concepts

Some travel could occur based on project requirements

Ability to handle multiple responsibilities, prioritize tasks, and work under time constraints in a matrix environment

Must have strong process, project management and communication skills

Thanks & Regards,

Naushad Dawood

GSS America, Inc.

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POLITICIAL: Gooferment insurance!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/09/helping-unemployed.html

Monday, September 21, 2009
Helping the unemployed

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Wall Street may think we’re coming out of this recession, but there are millions of workers who may disagree. That’s why Congress is considering another extension of unemployment benefits that “would provide 13 weeks of extended unemployment benefits for more than 300,000 jobless people who live in states with unemployment rates of at least 8.5 percent and who are scheduled to run out of benefits by the end of September.”

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Unemployment is designed to help people as they seek other work

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“Unemployment is designed to help people as they seek other work”

Herb, herb, herb, typically muddled “liberal” (not classical liberal) left thinking.

“UNEMPLOYMENT” is the invisible hand of the marketplace telling you that it doesn’t “think” it needs what you are selling. You then have some choices. Seek other ways to server your fellow man. For which service, the marketplace will award, or reward, you suficient “Certificates of Appreciation” to reinforce that you are doing “good”.

Thus, “unemployment” is designed to TELL people to seek other work!

Unlike a beehive, we need the individual bee to figure out how to make their contribution to “the hive”. We’ve discovered that cooperation (i.e., division of labor) makes “prosperity” (i.e., support a larger number of people). “Subsistence farming”, as opposed to “division of labor”, which is in vogue in Africa, is less prosperous.

Since humans take direction very badly unless very motivated, it has been found that “liberty” seems to be a very good strategy to get those pesky humans to “produce”. It’s all very messy. And, has all the appearances of chaos. But, like a crowded city street, it does have the result of getting everyone where they want to go. With a minimum of friction.

So.

Unemployment is a necessary evil to motivate those pesky humans.

On the other hand, “unemployment insurance” is a gooferment program that PREVENTS humans from engaging in a host of beneficial behaviors. Saving, planning, training, … just to name a few. That bad gooferment program steals from every WORKER to REWARD unemployment. Also, the gooferment has bureaucrats to administer this supposed “insurance” program. (Note that insurance is for those semi random things that are beyond the individual’s control. Like a hurricane, flood, or other natural disaster. Unemployment is NOT unforeseeable, NOT random, and NOT beyond the individual’s control.)

Imagine if there was NO gooferment unemployment insurance, then workers would save for the future. Those savings would provide capital to the marketplace for growth.

It’s hard to underestimate the damage that these so called “insurance” programs do to the people and the economy. It trains people to look to Mommy Gooferment to “save” us. The gooferment creates the problem and then rushes in to “save” us. Often making the problem much much worse.

Sigh, today’s left liberals have to learn that it is only by VOLUNTARY participation do we secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. (Think I’ve read that somewhere.) Keep your gooferment “solutions”. There’s a reason that African, seeking to emigrate here, to “the land of fat poor people”.

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CORRUPTION: Shills for the gooferment shilling the party line

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle537-20090920-05.html

That Sinking GM Feeling
by Jim Davidson
Special to The Libertarian Enterprise

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Later he lies again, “So we’re putting our money where our mouth is.” No, you bastard, you stinking lackey of big government, you filthy thief, you aren’t. GM tried putting their money where their mouth is, and they lost. They went under. So now they are putting our money where their mouth is. He isn’t a nice old man, he’s an evil old liar.

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Absolutely correct.

This gooferment stooge ADMITTED he know nothing about cars. Didn’t do much for AT&T either. Guess he contributed big and get his reward.

Special place in eternity for all of them!

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LIBERTY: A real single payer

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109854

How ’bout a real single-payer system?

Posted: September 15, 2009

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What did we do, back during the years when most Americans had no medical insurance? I did what most people did. I depended on a “single payer” – myself. When I didn’t have the money, I paid off my medical bills in installments.

The birth of my first child was not covered by medical insurance. I paid off the bill, month by month, until the time finally came when I could tell my wife that the baby was now ours, free and clear.

In a country where everything imaginable is bought and paid for on credit, why is it suddenly a national crisis if some people cannot pay cash up front for medical treatment?

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We have 310M people with 15M “uninsured”.

So we are going to mess up 295 to possibly “insure” 15?

Sorry, but everyone should just pay their own. And insurance and charity care for the big bad wolf!

Start by making insurance tax deductible for everyone.

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INTERESTING: Islamic Ben Stein!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/136082.html

Hail to the Islamic Ben Stein!
  Nick Gillespie | September 15, 2009, 8:04am
  Islamic creationism is on the rise!

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Operating from Istanbul, Yahya is the founder of the Science Research Foundation, an impressive publishing empire that boasts more than 60 websites dedicated to his writings. It provides documentary films and audio recordings in fifteen languages, including Turkish, English, Russian, Amharic and Arabic, and claims to sell more than half a million books a year, including the infamous 850-page, fully illustrated Atlas of Creation, which was sent free in two volumes to dozens of universities, libraries and prominent scientists (including Richard Dawkins) across the world. In painstaking detail, with a mass of photos, graphs and statistics interspersed with verses from the Koran, the Atlas purports to prove that Darwin was utterly mistaken, that each plant and animal was created intact, and that no modification through natural selection ever took place.

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If I was Ben Stein, I’d be upset.

I always thought Ben was thoughtful and accurate.

This fellow may be wrong, But, he’s prolific. He must be funded and have help to do all this.

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SOFTWARE: MAC OSX 10.6.1 MAIL loses its mind

Monday, September 21, 2009

It begins reloading all mail again.

Argh!

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FUN: Gruzzle on Joe Wilson

Monday, September 21, 2009

http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2009/09/16/joe-wilsons-most-embarrassing-moments/comment-page-1/#comment-118887

Joe Wilson’s Most Embarrassing Moments
Posted in September 16th, 2009

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So, even though I am center-right on most issues, I made this Gruzzle on poor Joe Wilson, the cretin congressman from South Carolina.

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He did get the issue of coverage into the discussion. I’m not so sure that an “apology” was warranted. All politicians lie. They twist, distort, evade, and parse. If a child did half of it, they’d be in time out. (In my day, my Mom would extract some hair from my head to attract my attention to my failure to meet her standards.) So, I’d like to send the whole lot to time out a long time out by Getting Rid of Incumbent Politicians (i.e., voter enforced term limits)! My only question is if this is such a “crisis” why doesn’t it start until 2013. That and why the congress critters get a free pass. It’d be funny if this weren’t serious.

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RANT: Sorry it’s a duck!

Monday, September 21, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574425294029138738.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

* REVIEW & OUTLOOK
* SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Obama’s Nontax Tax
On a Sunday show, the President offers a revealing definition.

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“Mr. Obama: “My critics say everything is a tax increase. My critics say that I’m taking over every sector of the economy. You know that. Look, we can have a legitimate debate about whether or not we’re going to have an individual mandate or not, but . . .””

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If I can’t avoid it, then it’s a tax. Call it a “mandate”. Call it a “penalty”. Call it the “tooth fairy”. The IRS will ensure you pay it. If that’s not a “tax”, I don’t know what is!

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POLITICAL: Government pay now double

Monday, September 21, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/government_pay_now_double_that.html

September 15, 2009
Government pay now double that for the private sector
Rick Moran

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Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards takes a look at a new study that shows government bureaucrats now earning twice the pay and benefits of workers in the private sector

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There’s NO way to get this monster controlled.

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POLITICAL: Politicians can’t be trusted

Sunday, September 20, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/09/wither-change.html

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Wither change?

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I don’t want to use the word disappointment — and not just because it is still early in his presidency. I don’t want to use the word because it implies that the president somehow is letting down liberals. The reality is, of course, that he’s only doing what he told us he’d do — tack as much to the center as he could, while substituting bipartisanship for a principled commitment to a political philosophy.

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Obama is nothing more than an opportunistic Chicago machine politician. When his lips move, he’s lying. JUST like any other politician of either side of the supposed aisle. The guns of gooferment are too dangerous in ANY politicians’ hand. Power corrupt; absolute absolutely. We need to cut the beast down to the absolutely minimal size to protect us from force or fraud. And, not a smidge more. They have really feather their own nests at our expense. Champion? Please!

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