FROM A POST ABOUT REGULATORS
And, don’t forget the only true purpose of any gooferment program is to make the politicians and their lackeys the bureaucrats look good. Along the way, they feather their own nest, reward their friends, and punish their enemies. On this side of the pond, the politicians rank lower than used car salesmen. At least, the used car salesmen and you both KNOW you are getting screwed — no pretense, no agenda, no HIDDEN gotcha. Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
#DEN-45763-514
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Unfortunately, your server is still under a DDoS attack and will move extremely slowly (if at all). As soon as the attack discontinues or is otherwise resolved, the server will function normally again. A DDoS attack is essentially a terrorist attack on the server, usually done by a hacker getting viruses in thousands of computers and having them send as many connections as possible, as quickly as possible, to the box.
We are working to reduce the effect of the attack and find out which account is being targeted. At that point we will have to ask that account to find a new host. Unfortunately, we can’t know which account is being attacked without extensive steps, as the IP Address on the server is Shared.
DDoS attacks can last anywhere from hours to days.
Your data is safe. Just currently inaccessible.
If you’d like to learn more about this kind of terrorist attack, check
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108507
Thought you might “enjoy” this. Get your BP up.
One more reason to kill “gooferment education”. As if that is what they are doing.
We know that the model was created to produce cannon fodder for the German Army and compliant workers for the factory.
Parents should be responsible for education. Just like they are responsible for everything else. They had them; not me. Why should I pay for their “fun”? It’s contra survival.
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Posted by reinkefj
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
— Benjamin Franklin?
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Posted by reinkefj
Argh!
And, I don’t know where it kept them.
Argh!
And I didn’t keep a list of them.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/30/free-the-h-1bs-free-the-economy/
Free the H-1Bs, Free the Economy
by Vivek Wadhwa on August 30, 2009
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This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa.
I have a suggestion for our President on how to boost economic growth without spending a penny: Free the H-1B’s.
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I know Vivek from our days at First Boston.
He’s absolutely correct. We need to disassemble the “illegal immigration” infrastructure. If we stop putting out milk (i.e., welfare in the form of freebies like education, health care, food stamps), then we will get fewer stray cats (i.e., immigrants who come for the wrong reasons).
Clearly, the H1Bs are valuable additions to the workforce. Let’s keep them rather than, thru ignorance, allow them to slip away.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/08/31/the-truth-about-taxes/&cp=1/#comment-195287
The Truth About Taxes
Monday, 31st August 2009 (by J.D.)
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Note: Although I try to keep GRS a politics-free zone, today’s topic is inherently political. I’ve stayed as neutral as possible in the article, but I know that there’ll be some political discussion in the comments. Please keep conversation civil, as always.
Because I was frustrated with my own ignorance about the U.S. federal budget and our tax system, I recently spent twelve hours researching a variety of tax topics. From my research came two articles: last week’s short guide to the federal budget and today’s post, which answers some of my personal questions about taxes.
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Welcome to the “tax wars”, by the time we’re finished with you, you too will be a raving loon!
Tactically, you can’t figure out how much “tax” you pay. We need to recognize that ONLY real people pay tax. So, the taxes that companies pay is really a hidden tax on the people who buy their products. BUT you can’t see it. Further, if there are capital goods used by a company, the taxes on that capital good are buried in the product’s price. Also, recognize that “costs”, “user fees”, or any unavoidable expense imposed by or as a result of the gooferment’s actions, laws, regulations, or diktats is a TAX! Try and figure out all of those. Good luck. One quick example, drugs. The FDA has rules, pharmacies have regulations, doctors have laws. Argh! It’s IMPOSSIBLE to figure out exactly what you pay in tax. And, then we can talk about monetary inflation as a gooferment tax. When you sum it all up, it might be greater than your annual income!
Strategically, taxes are NOT “the cost of living in civilized society”; they are THEFT. How does what dead old white guys did 233 years ago obligate me? It’s a principle of contract law that there has to be offer and acceptance to have a contract. Where is the offer? Where is my acceptance? What obligates me to pay? The definition of citizen states there is an exchange for the state’s “protection”, yet the courts have repeatedly held that there is no specific enforceable duty of the government to protect me. So why again do I have to pay for “services” that I don’t want, can’t use, and are horribly overpriced? In the case of Federal Abortion funding, it’s also morally offensive to me; yet, I still must pay.
Welcome to the tax wars. This is theft by deception. IMHO!
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Posted by reinkefj
Interesting. Google, the be all and end all of internet search, does NOT index comments. Very interesting.
Leaves an opening for a competitor.
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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/08/yes-virginia-insurance-companies-do.html
Friday, August 28, 2009
‘Yes, Virginia, the insurance companies do ration’
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MY RESPONSE
Two “minor” points.
FIRST!!!
“Health care” is not a “human right”!
Place a human alone in a forest. Where is their “human right” to health care?
If you assert that is a “right” then their is an obligation for some one to provide it. If I have a RIGHT to health care, then my neighbor is FORCED to provide it. If he’s a butcher, baker, or a candlestick maker, then my health care will not be so good!
OH, you’re just going to FORCE him to PAY for my healthcare. Just as I am going to be forced to PAY for his.
Don’t you see the moral hazard in that? Don’t you see the stupidity in that? Don’t you see the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of that?
Argh!
Please go back and revisit the whole history of John Locke and concept of negative rights.
SECOND!!!
No one want to see people treated like in a third world country. Sick and dying, covered in flies, in human misery.
BUT, (there is always a big butt), you have no right to compel “charity”. America is an unbelievably charitable country. You can not “force” it. When you make it a gooferment program, then you have “free loaders”. Part of our current problem is that people want something for nothing. In my childhood, there was charity care in hospitals. My relatives would pass the hat around the family rather than have a relative use “charity”. They were embarrassed to have their neighbors think that they didn’t love their family member enough to care for them. Freeloaders weren’t tolerated; down on your luck, you were given a hand up. That’s the essence of true charity.
Remember the great hospitals in America were created by the Churches and Fraternal Organizations. Only when the gooferment took over, did we create the mess we have now.
SUMMARY
(1) Health care is not a right.
(2) There will be true charity without the gooferment intrusion.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/08/whole-foods-hit-by-protests.html
MY RESPONSE TO: “Whole Foods hit by protests”
>People like Mackey, soulless wealthy sociopaths
Now I’m not going to assert that capitalists are the Mother Teresa’s of the world. BUT, (there is always a big butt), they are not the Devil Incarnate either.
Mackey feeds the hungry. OK, you’re not going to see it that way. And, he’s well compensated for his modest efforts.
I read his WSJ op ed and I thought the fellow has courage. He could have just as easily said nothing. Like the “Silent Majority”, who don’t have the stones to speak up and give us the benefit of their wisdom or whizdumb!
I think you misread his text and his intention. Creating more gooferment isn’t the solution to ANY problem. Fixing the gooferment’s perverse incentives is almost always the best answer.
>just don’t give a damn that there are tens of millions of Americans without health care in this
For the moment, let’s ASSUME that there are 45 million uninsured. They do GET health care via emergency rooms and hospitals, but there is some modest agreement that: (1) it’s not cost effective to do that; (2) it delays small problems into big ones; and (3) it’s not efficient.
Wouldn’t it be better to give everyone a tax credit to buy insurance? (Certainly better than ‘cash for klunkers!) I’m sure the “greedy” insurance companies would happily “suborn” the premium (i.e., like the tax prep firms, your social security number gets you a ‘refund anticipation loan’. So to your social gets you an ‘insurance anticipation loan for health insurance’.)
So why isn’t this idea debated?
Because the special interests don’t get control! Politicians don’t get to tell people what’s good for them.
And, obtw, those rich youngsters who don’t want to buy insurance don’t have anyone else to blame.
And, the supposedly “illegal” aliens wouldn’t be a problem if we didn’t have welfare programs. (That is, if there was no “free” education, welfare, and healthcare, then the only folks who came wanting to work would be coming here. Like the old days. Get on the boat and come, we always have room for more workers. Most of us have ancestors who hit the dock with just a smile! Heck, I’d be issuing green cards with tins at the dock and thanking them for coming. That’s the America personified by the Status of Liberty. Come one and come all. We have enough freedom for everyone. That’s Libertarian.)
And, criminals — “illegal” or not — lock them up!
And, obtw, in a Libertarian America, the drug dealers would have to find other work. We’d eliminate all the drug laws. (What would the Columbian Drug Lords do? Go back to farming or cheating widows?) So, we turn Big Pharma loose making the best cleanest drugs possible. (It’s estimated that currently “illegal” street drugs would cost little more than aspirin. And, do you think that WalMart or Walgreens would sell heroin to children? WalMart won’t sell X rated videos because their customers would punish them.) We could empty the prisons of non-violent drug offenders.
America would be supercharged!!!
>He’s filthy rich, he’s covered, his loved ones are covered and beyond that he does not care.
And, how about all those ‘caring’ politicians who say ‘good for thee, but not for me’.
>FDR called them economic royalists.
FDR was the biggest souless empoverisher, next to old “Honest Abe”, in American history. His economic ignorance created Social Security to empower the Democratic Party and set us on the Road to Hell. By eliminating gold currency, he permitted the welfare warfare state to explode.
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I really hope that some day we can try peace!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi117.html
FDIC Walks a Tightrope
by Bill Sardi
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Bair’s second assignment is to slowly put small insolvent American banks out of business, over a thousand of them, while fostering public confidence in the FDIC insurance company’s ability to insure the public’s money. The FDIC admits to only 416 on the agency’s “problem bank” list. Frankly, without bailout money, few banks would have adequate reserves. By collapsing small banks, depositors are likely to bank their money at larger institutions. So Bair is really a shill for the large bankers to rub out their smaller competition, though she may have no other option in this instance.
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So, why if “too big to fail” is bad, does the gooferment limit the size of a single bank to say ONE ONE THOUSANDTH of it’s reserve. And, oh by the way, why doesn’t it have a REAL RESERVE? Not so IOU from the FED or the Treasury.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, “It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”
Babe Ruth
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Posted by reinkefj
FROM DRUDGE
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Obama to make unprecedented address to all public school students; September 8…
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What the …
This is unprecedented all right!
When will folks learn the true purpose of “public education”?
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dailyreckoning/~3/BS0uO_tqS5Q/
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From the Bristol Evening Post:
“Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very polite car park attendant with the ticket machine. The charges are £1. per car and £5. per coach.
“On Monday 1 June, he did not turn up for work. Bristol Zoo management phoned Bristol City Council to ask them to send a replacement parking attendant.
“The Council said, ‘That car park is your responsibility.’ The Zoo said, ‘The attendant was employed by the City Council…wasn’t he?’ The Council said, ‘What attendant?’
“Gone missing from his home is a man who has been taking daily the car park fees amounting to about £400. per day for the last 23 years…!
“Total sum just short £2.9 million.”
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You just have to smile!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski236.html
Health Care Through Central Planning: A Helpful Analogy
by Karen Kwiatkowski
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We have examples – ophthalmology and veterinarian services come to mind first. You can get an eye exam for $50, and then order glasses online for another $20. Overall, that’s less than a pair of running shoes, or a meal out with the family at Applebee’s. The wide variety of eye surgeries available and the competitive and safe nature of these surgeries speak to the working of a freer market than what we see for the rest of our health care. The argument by the statist left and statist right is falsely premised by the idea that the current health care “system” is a free market system, and based on the ideas that free market systems can’t work for health care because people are not all equal in either health, desires for health or finances.
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We have to keep hitting the gooferment on all fronts. It’s ineffective, inefficient, and screws up everything it touches!
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Posted by reinkefj
Updating my meme for the future generations:
Success for your generation is:
(1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt;
(2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you;
(3) a white collar job, non-off-shorable, in order to save big bux;
(4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber;
(5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open;
(6) a free time hobby that generates income; and
(7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.
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It’s become apparent that any job that can be moved off-shore will be. The cheaper wage rates are making it more and more attractive for work to move globally.
Stories about IBM and their “playbook” style consulting can be done from anywhere.
TATA has an order of magnitude in any bidding war. My friend, a TATA-competing consultant, was told by the TATA sales guy that “they just offered contacting manager to drop the last zero off any bid they received”. Over drinks, the contracting manager confided to my friend that is exactly what he did. The contracting manager took my friend’s proposal for 1.2M$ and TATA took the bid at 120K$. The consulting company my friend worked for went out of business shortly after that.
So, when you look for that white collar job, make sure it’s one that will stay here. (Whereever here is for you!)
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57T0IV20090830
GM to form China venture, invest $293 million
Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:33am EDT
By Fang Yan and Edmund Klamann
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – General Motors said on Sunday it has agreed to set up a light commercial vehicle production venture with major Chinese automaker FAW Group, with total investment of 2 billion yuan ($293 million).
The 50-50 joint venture, based in the northeast China city of Changchun in Jilin province, will make light-duty trucks and vans, GM said in a statement.
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Bet they will have the UAW representing the workers? Not!
Hey, it’s only 293M$ of our tax money.
Glad the gooferment is branching out. From it’s Constitutionally mandated functions.
Now you see the meaning of Fascism. Oh, I mean gooferment – business cooperation.
How’s that “change” working out for you?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://lewrockwell.com/orig10/maymin3.1.1.html
Public Option Sports
by Phil Maymin
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The only conclusion one can reach from all this is public options are of course a great idea. They should also be applied to sports.
Sports and health care? Are the two even comparable in terms of impact on the economy?
They are. We pay about as much for health insurance as we do for sports. Health insurance companies had total revenue of $405 billion in 2007, according to the Highline Data Health Industry Aggregate. Total sports revenue, including the NBA, NFL, NHL, MBA and golf, are now around $400 billion a year, according to Plunkett Research, Ltd.
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Makes “perfect sense”!
As a matter of fact, when these SOCIALISTS are talking about NATIONALIZING healthcare, just substitute in any other industry.
If I have a “RIGHT” to healthcare, don’t I have a “RIGHT” to food?
It’s absurd.
But follow it to its logical extreme and you wind up back in the USSR.
And, we all know how that turned out.
I just shake my head at our collective foolishness!
Vote them all out. Speak out against this radical left into Socialism!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/golden-parachutes-sink-us-all.html
Golden Parachutes for Public Retirees Will Sink Us All, Experts Say
by Teri Sforza
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Recently, the chief egghead for the gargantuan California Public Employees Retirement System said the same.
“I don’t want to sugarcoat anything,” said Ron Seeling, the CalPERS chief actuary, according to a story in the Capitol Weekly. “We are facing decades without significant turnarounds in assets, decades of – what I, my personal words, nobody else’s – unsustainable pension costs of between 25 percent of pay for a miscellaneous plan and 40 to 50 percent of pay for a safety plan (police and firefighters) … unsustainable pension costs. We’ve got to find some other solutions.”
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No doubt, while the article studies California, every one shares this problem.
Socialism!
Private industry has long ago switched to the 401K.
Why not the public sector?
Then we wouldn’t care how much they got at retirement. And we wouldn’t be a risk for it.
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Posted by reinkefj
>I was struck this past week by the positive images and stories being told by the family and friends of the late US Senator Edward M. Kennedy. >His life knew more than its share of tragedy, ambiguity, and even disgrace. >But his life also had lots of good stuff to counterbalance all the drama
I was struck how the rich and powerful are able to skate away from the tragedy they cause. Mark Steyn called it “Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne”. I thought perfectly described it.
I grew up during the Camelot era. A product of Catholic schooling, everyone was enamored of the first Catholic President. Then over time, the inside joke got out. The sordid family history leaked out around the edges. Never an expose. Just an inside joke.
I was shocked — “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — to see Boston’s Cardinal Archbishop in the proceedings. Money talks; principles walk!
I followed the MJK story and an older wiser relative summed it up: “If you did it, you’d be in prison for a long time. But a kennedy, nothing will happen!” He was absolutely right.
Teddy was not a paragon. He was a typical “Liberal”. “Good for thee, but not for me.” He was born with all the advantages wealth could bestow. The womanizing, drugs, drinking, and such wouldn’t be so bad. Bad enough! But mainly self-destructive. He went to new depths when he killed a young girl in a particularly horrifying fashion (i.e., it took her an estimated FIVE hours to drown while Teddy sobered up and covered up)!
Where he really negatively excelled was in his role as “Senator”. He was the classic “Liberal”. He “knew” what was good for us! That ego would drive policy that would impact millions but not him. That’s the egotism of “liberals” that are “superior” to all the little people. He was a person who had it all given to him, and yet pretended to know what we all needed. In a different time, he’d not have survived. Somehow, in ours, he prospered. Guess it’s pretty easy when nothing, even murder, sticks.
My problem with him was that: (1) He masqueraded as a Catholic while active in the pro-abortion movement. That’s called giving scandal. We were always taught that was the worst sin. (2) He proscribed solutions while carefully exempting himself. Do you think he had Massachusetts care like an ordinary taxpayer of his state get mandated? (3) He had a particularly obnoxious habit — lately reported in the “liberal” media as if it were “cute” — of asking “if anyone had heard any good Chappaquiddick jokes”.
No, I wouldn’t call it drama. I would call it the tragedy of a wasted life. And, I fail to see the “good stuff”. He was a poltroon — where he was because of his family money, power, and influence. Like the modern day “super star” athletes, who should thank their lucky stars every morning, he should have been … … better.
Maybe great wealth is a great curse, but he certainly let it carry him down.
I think this is a motivator. No matter how much you are born with, you have to earn it. No matter how little your born with, you can do better.
It makes me sad. But not for the reasons on TV! Sad for what could have been.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/26/taking_liberties/entry5268079.shtml
August 26, 2009 8:26 PM
Democratic Health Care Bill Divulges IRS Tax Data
Posted by Declan McCullagh
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One of the problems with any proposed law that’s over 1,000 pages long and constantly changing is that much deviltry can lie in the details. Take the Democrats’ proposal to rewrite health care policy, better known as H.R. 3200 or by opponents as “Obamacare.” (Here’s our CBS News television coverage.)
Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and “other information as is prescribed by” regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for “affordability credits.”
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Over at the Institute for Policy Innovation (a free-market think tank and presumably no fan of Obamacare), Tom Giovanetti argues that: “How many thousands of federal employees will have access to your records? The privacy of your health records will be only as good as the most nosy, most dishonest and most malcontented federal employee…. So say good-bye to privacy from the federal government. It was fun while it lasted for 233 years.”
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And, CBS couldn’t possibly have a prejudice!
Please, the article is disingenuous. With a slap at a “free market think tank” as if that disqualifies them from having brought forward an “interesting fact”. THey point out to anyone who can read that the bill ENSURES that your privacy is gone!
Argh!
How’s “change” working out for you? Me, not so good!
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Posted by reinkefj
OVER ON Vincent Wright’s MyLinkedinPowerForum
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I googled him and found out that in addition of being a LI member (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mr-isaac-howells/13/7b1/35 and http://www.linkedin.com/pub/isaac-howells/12/b23/944 where you will notice that the same person works in two different African countries and has no connections), I also found out the Spanish based version of http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/index.php where warnings have been issued about this person being part of a worldwide fraud attempt.
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The scammers “DO” social networking too. Forewarned is forearmed!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html
Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
by Nicholas Monahan
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Of course when I say she “told me later,” it’s because she wasn’t able to tell me at the time, because as soon as I demanded to know what the federal employee had done to make her cry, I was swarmed by Portland police officers. Instantly. Three of them, cinching my arms, locking me in handcuffs, and telling me I was under arrest. Now my wife really began to cry. As they led me away and she ran alongside, I implored her to calm down, to think of the baby, promising her that everything would turn out all right. She faded into the distance and I was shoved into an elevator, a cop holding each arm. After making me face the corner, the head honcho told that I was under arrest and that I wouldn’t be flying that day – that I was in fact a “menace.”
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May suggest you read this account of an “encounter” with the TSA? I read it and found a few items of particular interest.
(1) The very expensive security theater it demonstrates.
(2) What I would call unconstitutional search (i.e., baseball cap; public humiliation of an obviously pregnant woman.)
(3) The topper: destroying evidentiary video after 3 days.
As a reaction to the TSA, I have only flown twice since 9/11. (I had no real choice! Business.) I refuse to get my bp up from this absurdity.
Perhaps you might comment on it in your blog and wake up a few more citizens.
We really should close down the TSA and return security and the airports to the airlines.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey16.1.html
Baby Bush: The Worst President in History?
by Doug Casey
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Catalog of disasters the Bush regime created.
* No Child Left Behind.
* Project Safe Neighborhoods
* Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
* Sarbanes-Oxley Act
* Katrina.
* Ownership Society
* Nationalizations and Bailouts
* Free-Speech Zones
* The Patriot Act
* The War on Terror
* The scope of the War on Drugs
* Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq
* Dept. of Homeland Security
* Guantanamo
* Abu Ghraib and Torture
* The No-Fly List
* The TSA
* Farm Subsidies
* Legislative Free Ride
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An impressive list. But Lincoln still holds the title for “worst” with the “Civil” War. No comparison! Hard to top that!
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Posted by reinkefj
Say what you like about the Google Books Kool-Aid, but it tastes much better than Microsoft’s sour grapes
by Paul Carr on August 22, 2009
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But one aspect of the settlement wasn’t so uncontroversial, and that was the issue of so-called ‘orphan works’ – books which are still in copyright but where the identity of the copyright owner is, for one reason or another, unclear. As part of the settlement, the book industry agreed that, with certain restrictions, Google could scan orphan works without being held liable for breach of copyright claims if the rights owner subsequently came forward. In return Google agreed to create an independent (and open to all) rights registry letting authors of orphaned stake their copyright claim.
At first glance, the deal over orphaned works seems as reasonable as the rest of the settlement – these are books for which no-one is being paid and which otherwise would be hidden away in libraries and second hand bookstores. But still Google’s competitors are crying foul.
The Internet Archive is particularly annoyed, arguing that they too are scanning millions of books for the public good, but without any blanket copyright protection for orphaned works. And so, through a group they call Open Content Alliance, they hope to pressure the Department of Justice to extend the terms of the settlement to everyone, not just Google.
For the other companies joining the Alliance – including Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon – there are more obvious and nakedly commercial reasons to oppose the settlement. But that doesn’t make their objections less valid. Back in April, Erick Schonfeld wrote a passionate – and compelling – argument for the immunity to apply to everyone so that Google wouldn’t have a monopoly position where they could effectively charge whatever they like for downloading digital copies of orphaned works.
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It would seem we need a law change. If you even believe in “imaginary property”. (It seems absurd to call what the congress critters pass “a law”. Now the Law of Gravity; that’s a LAW!)
When a book goes OOP (Out Of Print), or is otherwise “hidden” from the public, it should enter the public domain. Wasn’t the purpose of copyright law to encourage sharing of “intellectual (imaginary) property”? When that sharing ceases, shouldn’t the protection?
Seems only fair to me.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/fink1.1.1.html
IN gOD WE TRUST
by Gabriel Fink
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The merits of placing references to deity on currency is another debate. What should not be debatable to any of the three Abrahamic religions, is placing the name of God on something that is worthless, has no value, represents debt, usury, and facilitates war. The only type of currency that the phrase “In God We Trust” could be placed upon without taking the Holy name of the Lord in vain, is gold or silver coinage. After all, God indeed himself created these materials of intrinsic value, a feat the anointed Fed chairman can only feign doing in spite of his lofty seat in the marble temple in DC.
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Without a question, the American motto should be:
In GOLD, we trust!
Clearly anything less is fraud.
And, let’s just go with ounces. No need for the word “dollars” anywhere.
It’s even OK with me if we want to be international friendly!
KILOGRAMS of gold!
See ounces have flavors; even grams do to.
We need a crystal clear measure.
A stone. (The old New England measure for potatoes!)
Heck we can call it a nano-STONE.
Let’s just be honest in our vocabulary. And our money!
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