I happened to click on the IOS IPHONE “HEALTH” app. Just out of curiosity.
It can interface with other apps to record steps for example.
But you can’t input BP.
That seems to be a glaring oversight. And, something I would have used.
Argh!
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Obama administration enacts protections for lions
Published December 21, 2015 Associated Press
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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration says it’s extending Endangered Species Act protections to two breeds of African lions.
The listings will be announced Monday and include an order that appears to touch on circumstances surrounding the killing of a well-known lion named Cecil earlier this year.
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Yeah, with all the problems that the USA has, this was important to do?
How does that improve the world?
Don’t get me wrong. I think shooting Cecil was immoral. If you’re going to go kill a lion to prove you’re a “man”, then do it like the Zulu “boys” have to do it — alone, with a short eighteen inch spear, and a small shield made of reeds. Then, you’re a man … … or lunch for the lion! Shooting the poor dumb thing — although lions are regarded amount the Zulu and Masai as cunning and smart — from 500 yards with a precision rifle is hardly an indication of manhood. I have read that these “hunters” don’t even carry their own rifles. Having humped awhile on practice hike in the military with a light scout rifle, toting a heaving big caliber hunting rifle around on a lion “hunt” would make for a early night.
Argh!
But back to BHO44 and the Gooferment. It’s just dumb and a waste of ink.
Sigh!
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2015-Dec-24
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/12/gary-north/dining-with-scrooge/
Dining With Scrooge
By Gary North
December 25, 2014
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Specialization of production in 1843 was slowly extending its reign through voluntary exchange, releasing mankind from the tyranny of the weather. Excepting only the famine of the 1840s in Ireland, which began while Dickens was writing his story, the West would not again experience a famine. That long-dreaded horse of the apocalypse was put out to pasture.
The driving force of this revolution was specialization — specialization funded by capital, itself the product of thrift, by double-entry bookkeeping, and by attention to detail. In short, it was men like Ebenezer Scrooge who were the architects of capitalism.
In a heartless environment marked by scarcity, there must be careful attention to details, to ledgers, to costs of production. There must be alertness to profit opportunities, which are found where consumers demand to be served — demand through competitive bidding, one against the other. In short, there must be attention to business.
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Another reason why Scrooge should be an positive icon and someone to be admired!
Argh!
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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/12/23/walpole-woman-celebrates-110th-birthday/
Walpole Woman Celebrates 110th Birthday
December 23, 2015 8:39 PM By Lana Jones
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WALPOLE (CBS) – Alice Fischer, who is believed to be the oldest living resident of Massachusetts, turned 110 Wednesday. She was born in New Hampshire, but spent most of her adult life in Fall River.
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“Work hard; enjoy yourself and your life.”
Alice Fischer, 110 and still going strong.
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My heroine!
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/patrick-j-buchanan/america-first-world-war-iii/
America First — or World War III
By Patrick J. Buchanan
December 19, 2015
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Midway through the debate, Trump cut loose with a sweeping indictment of mindless American interventionism in the Middle East:
“We’ve spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people that, frankly, if they were there and if we could have spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of the other problems — our airports and all the other problems we have — we would have been a lot better off. …
“We have done a tremendous disservice not only to the Middle East — we’ve done a tremendous disservice to humanity. The people that have been killed, the people that have been wiped away — and for what? It’s not like we had victory. It’s a mess. The Middle East is totally destabilized, a total and complete mess. I wish we had the 4 trillion dollars or 5 trillion dollars. I wish it were spent right here in the United States on schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling apart!”
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For all of The Donald’s flaws, he nailed this one.
Other than Rand Paul, all the other candidates are like escapees from the insane asylum.
The politicians and bureaucrats have made a mess of the USA — in both foreign and domestic matters. When I rant that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient, as well as untrustworthy, I think I understate the objection.
But I don’t know how you put the evil back in Pandora’s box.
First step has to elect a President who will step back from all the wars and the saber rattling.
Otherwise, we could all be “crispy critters” if an accident happens.
I think I know a movie quote that sums it all up.
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” — The Hunt for Red October (1990) by Admiral Josh Painter played by Fred Dalton Thompson.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1450365360.php
A Free Market in Interest Rates
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Under gold, the saver always has a choice. If he likes the rate of interest, he can deposit his gold coin. If not, he can withdraw it. By withdrawing, he forces the bank to sell an asset. That in turn ticks down the price of the bond, which is the same as ticking up the rate of interest. His preference has real teeth, and that’s an essential corrective mechanism.
Unfortunately, the government removed gold from the monetary system. Now you can own it, but your choices have no effect on interest. If you buy gold, then you get out of the banking system. However, the seller takes your place, getting rid of his gold and thereby taking your place in the banking system. The dollars and gold merely swap owners, with no effect on interest rates.
The Fed has kicked savers to the curb, along with gold. Now the dollar is considered to be money. And what is it, exactly? The dollar is the Fed’s IOU. If you have dollars, then you are funding the Fed. You—along with billions of others around the globe—are empowering the Fed. It can lend at any rate it wishes, because it has a seemingly unlimited credit line. The Fed is lending your wealth to profligate borrowers who use it for nonproductive purposes—and that’s putting it mildly.
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One of the essential truths that I’ve learned from the Austrian School of Economics is the concept of “malinvestment”. As I understand it, because there is no free market interest rate to evaluate the value of future purchases with, people make decisions that they would not have if they knew the actual correct market set rate of interest. This brings on the boom and bust cycle that we are all too familiar with.
Essentially the interest rate is set politically.
By the way, I am sure by complete accident, the very low interest rate makes it easy for the Gooferment to carry a large debt. Last estimate, I read was the current 18T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities is what our posterity will have to deal with!
Of course, this is unpayable.
So, the Gooferment will “default” on this debt by further inflating the money supply and rob all the holders of dollars of their purchasing power. Look at any of the charts of a dollar’s purchasing power and see it go to near zero. I’ve ranted about this before citing anecdotally my sainted Father-In-Law’s fifty dollar bill that he kept in his wallet (i.e., when he put it in it work house and feed his family for a month and when he died his daughters didn’t realize what had been lost), the three silver dimes for a gallon of gas in 1963 that could buy two gallons today (i.e., loss of purchasing power), and — my personal favorite — the Smithsonian exhibit of the French gold Franc over the time of the French Kings (i.e., from hockey puck to shirt button).
With a gold standard, there is a finite limit to the amount of credit available. And, like any scarce resource in a truly free market system, the invisible hand of that market will establish the time value of money. That will allocate credit to those people who will pay the most for it. Some people will have their projects funded; others not.
What we fail to understand is that these resource usage decisions are “the Great Calculator” that takes all our wants, needs, and desires as input and “rations stuff” to maximize satisfaction.
Too hard to understand?
Try it this way. If the cost of interest is more than you can afford, then you’ll change your wants.
Argh!
The Gooferment, by the mechanism of the The Federal Reserve Bank, — a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians. — is robbing us of our wealth and the dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) to make wise economic decisions.
Argh!
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2015-Dec-22
Donated a double yesterday. That brings my total to 109.
In chatting with the nurses, they said “thanks because we are really short of platelets”.
Remember it is the “gift of life”.
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http://ericpetersautos.com/2015/12/15/atlas-shrugging/
Atlas Shrugging
by eric • December 15, 2015 • 26 Comments
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Tailpipe exhaust emissions standards are just one example of real-world government demands that have become unreasonable – and which led VW to shrug.
Reasonable would be a requirement that 95 percent of a vehicle’s exhaust stream be free of noxious-to-health gasses. VW – and everyone else – met that standard about ten years ago.
It’s not enough.
It is never enough.
The demands always escalate.
Now 97 percent must be free of noxious-to-health gasses. And then 98 percent. When that bar is reached, they will insist upon zero emissions.
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Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
And, here’s a great demonstration of it developing a regulatory agency with a life of it’s own with a mission to crush the evil Capitalist empire.
Seems like “We, The Sheeple” better reign this nonsense in while we can still buy an auto.
Argh!
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NEW JERSEY
New Jersey Boy Scout leader fights off black bear with rock hammer
Published December 21, 2015 FoxNews.com
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I can’t imagine anything more stupid than going out into the woods unprepared.
To me a scout “leader” should be prepared to defend his troop.
A nice 1911 45 on his hip would have been a LOT more effective than a rock hammer.
And, depending upon the ages of the scouts, they could be packing as well.
What would out pioneering fore fathers say?
Fools and wimps, maybe.
Glad everyone survived.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/12/gary-north/really-happened-san-bernadino/
Eyewitnesses in San Bernardino: “Three Tall White Men”
By Gary North The Tea Party Economist
December 16, 2015
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The only eyewitness identifications that I can find speak of three white men.
I looked at several published timelines of the shootings. You can, too. Search for “timeline,” “Farook,” “San Bernardino.” No victim identified the two suspects immediately after the shootings, which had ended by the time the police and firefighters arrived at 11:05 a.m. The police had no clues regarding Farook and his wife. The two were shot in a firefight at 3 p.m. They were in a black SUV . . . four hours after the attack.
Four hours. What were they doing during this time? Where were they?
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The post-shootout photo of the SUV shows the windshield riddled with bullet holes. These bullet holes came from in front of the SUV. The media report says this: they fired 76 rounds, while police fired 380.
Who did the counting? When? Who verified this?
How did they shoot at police from inside the SUV? For how long? How long would it take to fire 76 rounds with semi-automatics? This time includes replacing empty clips. We are supposed to believe that it took 380 rounds to kill them. If so, these are not sharpshooters.
The two are dead. So, there is no legal liability for naming them the killers. There is no “alleged” visible in the media. This ends all discussion. Of course they acted alone. Everyone knows this.
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And again, all I have are questions.
I’m just asking.
Yet, I have a tin foil hat?
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