SERVICE: Cloud Computing has risks

Sunday, September 13, 2009

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-punkd-us/#comment-2977957

Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us by Michael Arrington on September 10, 2009

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Today that changed. They punk’d us, and we fell for it. Hard.

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With all due respect to some good clean fun, it does make a “teachable moment”.

(1) Cloud computing is not without its risks. You can’t run “production quality” “books and records” type applications on services that you don’t control.

(2) Not everything is as it appears on the internet. The bad guys have the ability to hide behind a “web front”, stand in the middle of your conversation, and read all your traffic.

(3) Without end to end encryption, nothing is private. Every packet is a post card.

(4) In the desire for a scoop, confirm that others have seen the phenom you’re scooping about. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it is reported on the internet.

(5) TANSTAFL! Every once in while, someone plays a practical on you. It’s the cost of doing business.

Hmmm!

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RANT: Too big to fail?

Saturday, September 12, 2009

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aUTh4YMmI6QE

Lehman Monday Morning Lesson Lost With Obama Regulator-in-Chief
By Alison Fitzgerald and Christine Harper

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“They should be broken up and sold off,” Fine, 58, said he declared, as Geithner scribbled notes before thanking him for his time and ushering him out into the January chill.

The Treasury secretary didn’t follow through on Fine’s suggestion, just as he didn’t act on the advice of former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. head Sheila C. Bair, or the dozens of economists and politicians who pressed the White House for measures that would limit the size or activities of U.S. banks.

One year after the demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. paralyzed the financial system, “mega-banks,” as Fine’s group calls them, are as interconnected and inscrutable as ever. The Obama administration’s plan for a regulatory overhaul wouldn’t force them to shrink or simplify their structure.

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Washington is corrupt.

Big financial entities make BIG financial contributions.

We probably don’t know half of the stuff that goes on below the surface.

So, we the taxpayers, get screwed repeatedly.

If you were the regulator, and you were presented with an “easy” solution (i.e., break up, sell off, and limit the future size), what would you do?

Seems easy to me.

Pick a big number say 1B$ (that’s billion with a B) and say “No finaincial entity insured by the Fed or the Federal Government gets bigger than that!”

Seems trivial to me.

But, where would the big campaign contributions and payoffs come from?

Washington and all the little DCs are corrupt.

We need more work, workers, and a lot less politicians.

Every wonder why there are SO MANY lawyers?

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FUN: What should Insurance Companies do in response to Obamacare? (WWICD)

Saturday, September 12, 2009

http://knappster.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-insurance-companies-should-do.html

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In my last post on ObamaCare, I put myself in the shoes of the President of the United States. Now I’m going to put myself in the shoes of the president of an insurance company. If I found myself in that position, I’d be getting my ducks in a row right now — calling emergency board meetings, working out details with the company’s officers, etc. I’d be ready to move the instant it became obvious that this bill was going to pass, and this is what my move would look like:

– I’d inform the company’s policyholders that the company is going out of business at the end of the next billing cycle, that their policies will be canceled effective that date, and that they’ll need to find coverage elsewhere;

– I’d inform the company’s workers that their employment is drawing to an end; and

– I’d inform stockholders that the company’s assets are to be liquidated through arranged profitable sale where possible and auction where necessary, and that after the company’s debts are settled and liabilities zeroed out, each stockholder will receive a final dividend per share from any remaining monies.

I might or might not send a note to President Obama, Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi. If I did, it would be short and to the point:

Find some other business to run, asshole — this one’s no longer available.

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ROFL, but absolutely correct.

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SERVICE: Amazon updates their sales process

Friday, September 11, 2009

AMAZON changes it’s sales process

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Dear Seller,

You recently signed up for Charge When Ship in your Seller Account.

With Charge When Ship:

* When you ship an order, you confirm the shipment, and provide shipping information in Manage Orders. If you have a Pro Merchant Subscription you can also use text-file feeds for this.

* We charge the buyer after you confirm a shipment, rather than when the order was placed, providing a better buyer experience.

* To keep buyers informed about their shipments, we display the shipping information in the buyer’s Amazon account, and we also send the buyer an e-mail notification with all the shipping information.

* You can cancel an order, if necessary, instead of confirming the shipment, and then we will not charge the buyer at all and you will not have to issue a refund.

We think you will find managing your orders is easier and more efficient with Charge When Ship. If you have questions, contact us using the “By e-mail” or “By phone” button in the Seller Support box found on the right side of seller Help pages.

Thank you for selling on Amazon.com

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IMPORTANT REMINDER

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For each order you ship, you must confirm shipment within 30 days of the date the order was placed. Any order that has not been confirmed as shipped will be automatically cancelled after 30 days. This means we will not charge the customer and you will not be paid for the order.

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HOW TO CONFIRM SHIPMENTS

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You can confirm shipments easily in Manage Orders:

1. In your Seller Account, under the “Manage Your Orders” heading, click “View your orders” to find the order you want to confirm.

2. Click the “Confirm shipment” button next to the order (or below the order if you are looking at an order detail page).

3. Select the Ship Date and Carrier (such as USPS) from the drop-down lists.

4. Enter the Shipping Service (such as Ground) and the Tracking ID, if any (supplied by the carrier).

5. Click the “Confirm shipment” button.

For information on using a Shipping Confirmation feed to confirm shipment of multiple orders at once, follow this path in Amazon.com Help:

Selling at Amazon.com > Confirming Shipment > How to Confirm Shipment of Multiple Orders at the Same Time

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HOW TO CANCEL ORDERS

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If you are unable to ship an order, you can cancel it easily in Manage Orders:

1. In your Seller Account, under the “Manage Your Orders” heading, click “View your orders” to find the order you want to cancel.

2. Click the “Cancel order” button next to the order (or below the order if you are looking at an order detail page).

3. Select the appropriate reason, and then click Submit.

For information on cancelling orders using an Order Cancellation feed, follow this path in Amazon.com Help:

Selling at Amazon.com > Confirming Shipment > How to Cancel Orders

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SOFTWARE: Apple’s calendar is an “island”

Friday, September 11, 2009

Not that outlook is much better, but you can import to it.

iCal is supposed to, but try to figure out the format.

Hmmm!

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RANT: Another 9/11 and still we haven’t … …

Friday, September 11, 2009

… rebuilt the WTC (I prefer the middle finger design!);

… found OBL;

… brought our troops home;

… dismantled the TSA; and

… instructed our representatives about American values!

Donna Nobis Pacem

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QUOTE: Gooferment spending

Friday, September 11, 2009

“When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it.

When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on.

When a man spends someone else’s money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn’t care at all how much he spends.

And when a man spends someone else’s money on someone else, he doesn’t care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that’s government for you.”

—-Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman

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LIBERTY: How do we get there?

Thursday, September 10, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/35350.html

September 8, 2009
On Larken Rose, Libertarian Organizations, and the Means to Achieving Liberty
Posted by Karen De Coster on September 8, 2009 09:17 AM

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I think, at this point, that nothing can be fixed via the political process. No ballots, no politicians, and no libertarian-lite legislation is going to restore liberty, because the political process has become so corrupt and its agents are immensely wealthy and empowered. We don’t have the political power to defeat them outright, but we do have the individual power – working in concert with one another – to resist them, impede them, protest them, deny them, and ally with others who wish to do the same.

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She thinks it’s too late for a peaceful solution. Hope he’s wrong.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Copyrights hinder wisdom

Thursday, September 10, 2009

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/10/death-of-a-president200910?printable=true

A Clash of Camelots

Within months of J.F.K.’s death, the president’s widow asked William Manchester to write the authorized account of the assassination. He felt he couldn’t refuse her. Two years later, nearly broken by the task, Manchester found himself fighting a bitter, headline-making battle with Jackie and Bobby Kennedy over the finished book. The author chronicles the toll Manchester’s 1967 best-seller, The Death of a President, exacted—physically, emotionally, and financially—before it all but disappeared.

By Sam Kashner

October 2009

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By virtue of their original agreement with Harper & Row, the Kennedys continue to control the fate of The Death of a President. Even now, after William Manchester’s original manuscript has come home to Wesleyan, where it is held under a kind of house arrest—heavily censored, and subject to extremely restricted use—the Kennedy family has allowed the book to go out of print, according to John Manchester. Sitting in the bar at the Four Seasons Hotel in sight of Boston Common, where his father had first met Kennedy, when both men were newly home from the war, he says, “The Death of a President helped build that library, but if you go there today, there’s no mention of it or him anywhere. He was written out of their history.”

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Interesting. Copyright law was intended to allow ideas to spread. Shouldn’t books that are “out of print” go into the public domain? With vendors like Lulu Print On Demand, there should NEVER be a reason for books to go “out of print”!

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FUN: Shore report for Thursday

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Windy, feels like it will blow down the three pigs’ houses with lots to spare.

Last night, the surf was huge. Cold, dark, and multiple breakers.

Cloudy,but not as overcast as yesterday. Briight clouds in spots.

Cold, chilly, refreshing.

“I vant to be alone.” And, I have it all to myself.

Yesterday, down to AC. Borgata had a $999 give away every 9 minutes. It was mobbed. Didn’t win the give away; won the old fashioned way.

Borgata has adopted “winter hours” at the buffet. (Seeking to cut costs?) And, eliminate shrimp from the lunch buffet. (Cutting costs?) Sigh, change is never good!

reporting from seaside heights new jersey
grumpy

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RANT: Big insurers may gain from Obamacare

Thursday, September 10, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/cato090309

Cato Daily Podcast, 09/03/09
Cato Institute

“Big insurers may gain from Obamacare,” featuring Michael D. Tanner. [MP3] (09/03/09)

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I am shocked — “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — to hear that.

But I knew it when they started advertising for its passage.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Disconnect between consumer and cost

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/l56vsx

The best healthcare plan you’ve never heard of
Fox News Forum
by John Graham

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“By refusing to even consider consumer-driven healthcare (CDHC), congressional leaders are proving that they’re more interested in putting the government in charge of Americans’ healthcare than in actually improving patient outcomes. Decades of evidence show that CDHC-style reforms can achieve the stated goal of would-be health reformers: high-quality care at low cost. All the reform plans under consideration in Congress fail to address the biggest problem with our healthcare system: third parties, like insurance companies or the government, pay for just about everything. Consequently, Americans have no idea how much the medical services they consume cost. How much is a visit to a primary care doctor? Or a trip to a specialist? The average patient has no idea. Third-party payment shields people from the truth about how much they’re spending at the doctor’s office. As a result, most folks have no incentive to manage their healthcare expenditures, so make little effort to do so.” (09/03/09)

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Once again demonstrating the foolish disconnect between consumer and cost.

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FUN: Shore report for Wednesday

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Cloudy and overcast again.

Damp. Maybe rain? But, maybe. It’s dark and overcast.

“I vant to be alone.” And, I have it all to myself.

Yesterday, I feed a package of stale crackers to the birds.

Yeah, I know they’re winged rats. I’m not helping them survive. But it was “fun”. I am amazed how they can catch a randomly thrown cracker on the wing. Amazing. Amazing what humans could do if they too were truly “focused”.

I can hear the surf.

reporting from seaside heights new jersey
grumpy

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TECHNOLOGY: We’re at war against foreign powers and criminals

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0020002HDYSG&page=1

World War 3.0: 10 Critical Trends for Cybersecurity
September 2, 2009 7:22AM

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The Internet, private networks, VPNs, and a host of other technologies are quickly weaving the planet into a single, massively complex “infosphere.” These connections cannot be severed without overwhelming damage to companies and even economies. Yet, they represent unprecedented vulnerabilities to espionage and covert attack.

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Bottom line: We care complacent. We’d better deploy IPv6 for its improved security now. Next, we better start encrypting everything in sight.

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RANT: How O could pass health care

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

http://knappster.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-president-obama-should-do.html

Tuesday, September 08, 2009
What President Obama should do

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I don’t support any variant of Obamacare that I’ve heard about (a number of different proposals are apparently floating in and out of different congressional committees). I don’t support any “reform” that includes more, rather than less, government involvement in health care. And in point of fact, in broad outline, I just don’t support the Obama administration’s agenda, period. 90% of it is just plain bad, and the other, decent 10% (closing Gitmo, ending torture and unlawful detention, etc.) went by the wayside in record time once his hand came off the Bible he was sworn in with.

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I COMMENTED:

I too am a little L libertarian that has no use for EITHER party. Unlike you, if I was O, (being an unprincipled Chicago machine politician), I would give “stuff” galore to get ANY bill passed with a public option. Then I’d rest secure in the knowledge that this was the camel’s nose. And, in a decade or two, like FDR’s ponzi, there would be no way to prevent communism. They have the skools turning out functional illiterates. They’ve “won”. Too bad what they have won won’t sustain the parasite. imho

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RANT: The answer is always MORE gooferment

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

http://www.anncoulter.com/

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It doesn’t matter if liberals start calling national health care a “chocolate chip puppy” or “ice cream sunset” — if the government is subsidizing it, then the government calls the shots. And the moment the government gets its hands on the controls, it will be establishing death panels, forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions and illegal aliens, rationing care and then demanding yet more government control when partial government control creates a mess.

Which happens to be exactly what liberals are doing right now.

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The gooferment creates the problem AND, of course, the answer is more gooferment!

Argh!

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MONEY: UN says kill the dollar!

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/6152204/UN-wants-new-global-currency-to-replace-dollar.html

UN wants new global currency to replace dollar
The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations has said, proposing the biggest overhaul of the world’s monetary system since the Second World War.
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor
Published: 6:45PM BST 07 Sep 2009

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In essence, the report calls for a new Bretton Woods-style system of managed international exchange rates, meaning central banks would be forced to intervene and either support or push down their currencies depending on how the rest of the world economy is behaving.

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And, why are we in the UN? We’re financing this “barbara streisand” against our own self-interest. We “nuked” Sadam for suggesting oil should be priced in Gold not dollars. Let’s see if we do the same to the UN for a similar suggestion!

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FUN: Shore report for Tuesday

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Cloudy and overcast again.

Damp. Maybe rain? But, I don’t think so. It’s bright but overcast.

Tourists “evacuated” ysterday; most of the regulars are leaving today.

Yeah! “I vant to be alone.” And, have it all to myself.

I can hear the surf. No announcement about the “paid beach”.

reporting from seaside heights new jersey
grumpy

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LIBERTY: The end of the American Empire?

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

http://justsamachar.com/international/how-lehman-brothers-ripples-spread/?r=http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/04/lehman-brothers-aftershocks-28-days

guardian.co.uk
28 days that shook the world
How the collapse of Lehman Brothers pushed capitalism to the brink
The Wall Street titan’s bankruptcy triggered a system-wide crisis of confidence in banks across the globe
Andrew Clark in New York
Friday 4 September 2009 12.14 BST

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Barclays picked up parts of Lehman from the bankruptcy courts, salvaging about 10,000 of the bank’s 25,000 jobs. But many still question the wisdom of the US government’s decision to stand by and allow a vast investment bank to go bust, given the intertwined nature of Lehman’s trading relationships around the globe. Larry McDonald, a former Lehman vice-president, says the Bush administration could easily have offered the guarantee needed to help Barclays buy Lehman outright: “They put Lehman Brothers to sleep. They executed her. They put a pillow over her face.”

Researching a recently published book on Lehman’s failure, “a colossal failure of common sense”, McDonald interviewed more than 45 Lehman executives. They insisted that they warned both Bush’s treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, and the then chairman of the New York Fed, Timothy Geithner, of the consequences of inaction: “They were begging Geithner and begging Paulson. They were saying to Geithner ‘you’re going to unleash the forces of evil on the global markets – you don’t understand what you’re doing!'”

That is not to say that Lehman can shirk blame for its predicament. With $18bn of core equity on its balance sheet, the bank had taken positions of an astonishing $780bn in mortgages, stocks, bonds, oil, gold, derivatives and other investments. It had leveraged its books by an astonishing factor of 44 and it had opted to take a particularly huge punt on America’s teetering home loans market.

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This writer hits the 64k$ question, but doesn’t or can’t answer it.

Why does Lehman go under but everyone else gets rescued?

Perhaps the reason is Geithner and Paulson close relationship with Goldman?

Goldman makes out like a bandit in the chaos.

Not hard to leap to a conclusion there.

Bottom line: the taxpayer got screwed.

And, it began a series of actions to compromise “capitalism” and our liberty.

Misquoting Churchill: “the the American Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their worst hour.'”

Will this single event, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Bush administration’s response to it, be the single event that marks the beginning of the end of the American Republic?

Like the The Reichstag Fire, that allowed Hitler to accelerate the banning of the Communist Party, is Bush’s TARP1 the “October surprise” event that allows Obama to come to power and dismantle the American experiment.

Sad to think. Sadder still to think an old injineer see something that the political elite choose to ignore.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Castro is UN hero?

Monday, September 7, 2009

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/135908.html

Guess Who’s an Official UN Hero?
Michael C. Moynihan | September 4, 2009, 11:30pm

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Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, bestows official hero status on Bolivian President Evo Morales, the first president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere, and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

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And why are we still in the UN?

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SOFTWARE: Snow Leopard, ILife09, and IWork09

Monday, September 7, 2009

RE: SNOW LEOPARD

Mine went smooth. Don’t believe the estimates it spouts. I got the PACK with Snow, iwork09, and ilife09. Took about an hour each. Only surprise was TextExpander and Scrivner needed a refresh. Only grip is that it left iwork08 and iwork09 behind. Other that that it was a non-event.

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FUN: Shore report

Monday, September 7, 2009

Cloudy and overcast.

Damp. Maybe rain? But, I don’t think so.

Tourists will “evacuate”. Yeah! “I vant to be alone.” And, have it all to myself.

Clouds moving quickly to the east.

Maybe the sun will come out … … tomorrow!

ROFL!

reporting from seaside heights new jersey

grumpy

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RANT: Gooferment subsidized stupidity!

Monday, September 7, 2009

http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/09/27-billion-for-captain-morgan.html

John Stossel’s Take
Commentary from Co-Anchor of ABC News’ “20/20”
$2.7 Billion for Captain Morgan?
09/02/2009 12:52 PM

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40-70 jobs for the bargain price of nearly $3 billion?

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Turns out Diageo currently makes rum in Puerto Rico, so jobs there will be lost if the company relocates to the Virgin Islands.

“It’s insulting that the money we give is essentially paying for a foreign corporation to move from one U.S. location to another, while cutting jobs”

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You can’t make this stuff up. The gooferment should just not take our money in the first place. It delivers NOTHING!

Seriously, the guys at Free Talk Live posed the challenge: “Name one government program that works? Bearing in mind that overpaying is not being a success.” I’ve never heard anyone answer that. Can you?

And, you want them to have MORE programs? AND EVEN something as important as Health Care, Health Insurance, or whatever they are calling it today!

Sheeple.

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RANT: Let them play solitaire; better than passing “laws”!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/09/your-tax-dollars-at-work.html

Your Tax Dollars at Work
from John Stossel’s Take
by John Stossel

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The job of a Connecticut state representative must be grueling work, especially as the politicians have spent the state into financial crisis. The state borrowed a billion dollars and raised taxes to balance its budget. An AP photographer captured Democratic Reps. Barbara Lambert and John Hennessy hard at work.

As Republican Rep. Larry Cafero spoke about the budget, Reps. Lambert and Hennessy played solitaire on their computers. Another watched baseball.

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Are you surprised?

The gooferment is a joke.

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POLITICS: Van Jones is the tip of a very big iceberg

Sunday, September 6, 2009

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AHL8O80&show_article=1

Obama ‘green jobs’ adviser quits amid controversy
Sep 6 02:19 AM US/Eastern
By WILL LESTER
Associated Press Writer

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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.

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Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck repeatedly denounced Jones after a group the adviser co-founded, ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck’s show to protest his claim that Obama is a racist.

James Rucker, the organization’s executive director, has said Jones had nothing to do with ColorofChange.org now and didn’t even know about the campaign before it started.

Jones, well-known in the environmental movement, was a civil-rights activist in California before shifting his attention to environmental and energy issues. He is known for laying out a broad vision of a green economy.

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THe AP is playing politics with this report. Beck called him out as a “communist” BEFORE the boycott.

Having followed Glen Beck’s indictment of the “Czars”, this fellow was imho a racist communist.

One down and a slew of Czars to go.

Obama was known to 100% “liberal” before he was elected, why is anyone surprised at the people in his administration?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: What is our gooferment doing?

Sunday, September 6, 2009

http://www.reason.com/news/show/135830.html

George Will is Right
It’s time for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan
David Harsanyi | September 2, 2009

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Or is victory achieved when we finally usher this primitive tribal culture, with its violent warlords and religious extremism, from the eighth century all the way to modernity? If so, we’re on course for a centuries-long enterprise of nation building and baby-sitting, not a war. The war was won in 2002.

If the goal is to establish a stable government to fill the vacuum created by our ousting of the Taliban and al-Qaida, we’ve done quite a job. Most Americans can accept a Marine’s risking life and limb to safeguard our freedoms. But when that Marine is protector of a corrupt and depraved foreign parliament—one that recently legalized marital rape and demands women ask permission from male relatives to leave their homes—it is not a victory worth celebrating.

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Put the girls and boys on the next thing coming home.

Why do we have troops in 170 countries?

We can’t afford that any more than we can afford Obamacare.

Let’s finally end the welfare warfare state.

Switzerland is an excellent model!

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