JOBSEARCH: Aggressive networking example

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

The Fake Plane Ticket
http://thomsinger.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-fake-plane-ticket.html

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Our hero in this story decided he needed to take a chance to get more time with the speaker than just a handshake and a business card exchange.  The speaker had mentioned heading home later in the day and my friend began to wonder how to capitalize on this knowledge.  He thought about this person getting to the airport and having nearly an hour of waiting for their plane.  It would be an ideal opportunity to have a meaningful conversation, however Dallas is a big city with two airports, so he needed to think about the possibilities.

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I’m not sure if I’d have even thought of this. Let alone had the chutzpah to do it. I’m categorizing this as “being bold” and “unafraid to spend a few bucks”. FWIW!

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RANT: Monsanto’s Roundup Pesticide is expsed

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-monsantos-roundup-pesticide-glyphosate-safe/

Transcript: Is Monsanto’s Roundup Pesticide Glyphosate Safe?
Michael Greger M.D.

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Similar results were found for other major pesticides. It took until 2014, but 8 out of 9 pesticide formulations tested were up to one thousand times more toxic than their so-called active ingredients, so when you just test the isolated chemicals you may not get the whole story. Roundup was found to be 100 times more toxic than glyphosate itself. Moreover, Roundup turned out to be among the most toxic pesticide they tested. It’s commonly believed that Roundup is among the safest, though, an idea spread by Monsanto, the manufacturer. However, this inconsistency between scientific fact and industrial claim may be attributed to the huge economic interests involved.

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I sense that Crony Capitalists are manipulating the Gooferment’s regulations.

I’m shocked!

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

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QUOTE: “A good gauge of a statement’s fallacy is the conviction with which it is delivered.”

Monday, November 24, 2014

Heard one that I really like and want to share.

“A good gauge of a statement’s fallacy is the conviction with which it is delivered.”

—reported by Michael Greger M.D. in Weekly NutritionFacts.org Videos for 11/16/2014

So very very true.

I’m thinking “global warming”, “the good war” (oxymoron), and “(drug) prohibition”!

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INTERESTING: Is “sugar” causing an epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease?

Sunday, November 23, 2014

http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-added-sugar-is-too-much/ 

How Much Added Sugar Is Too Much?

Are table sugar and high fructose corn syrup just empty calories or can they be actively harmful?

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In 1776—at the time of the American Revolution—Americans consumed about 4 lbs of sugar per person each year. By 1850, this had risen to 20 lbs, and by 1994, to 120 lbs, and now we’re closer to 160. Half of that is fructose, taking up about 10% of our diet. This is not from eating apples, but rather the fact that we’re each guzzling the equivalent of 16-oz soft drink every day; that’s about 50 gallons a year.

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These may not be messages that the sugar industry or beverage makers want to hear. In response, the director-general of the industry front group World Sugar Research Organization, replied “Overconsumption of anything is harmful, including of water and air.” Yes, the overconsumption of sugar compared to breathing too much.

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How Much Added Sugar Is Too Much?

 

Are table sugar and high fructose corn syrup just empty calories or can they be actively harmful?


DARWIN: Grabbing the elevator cables in free-fall and slide down

Sunday, November 23, 2014

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2013-04.html

The Doors: Break On Through
2013 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin

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It is reasonable that elevator doors should open with a determined effort, otherwise people are physically trapped inside elevators when the power fails. It is unreasonable to protect idiots from themselves no matter the extreme. And idiots are made, not born — the person in question had voluntarily swallowed a mix of decision-impairing substances bringing his BAC to 0.17% with a Xanax chaser. Unfamiliar with Xanax, this writer thumbed through the Urban Dictionary and found Xanax described as one of the more addictive benzos with withdrawal effects including psychosis and epileptic-type seizures.
Summary? A DARWIN AWARD is granted to Chad Wolfe, while a STELLA AWARD for legal stupidity is awarded to the Estate of Chad Wolfe.

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Personally, I LOVE the Darwin awards.

Maybe it’s uncharitable, un-Christian, and un-Jasper-like, but I find it hard to be sympathetic to fools.

I have submitted many stories, but only really came close once.

It would be the highlight of my internet “career” to have a winner.

While I’d pray for the topic of the story, stupidity is it’s own reward.

Argh!

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RANT: 30,000 missing emails from IRS’ Lerner recovered | WashingtonExaminer.com

Saturday, November 22, 2014

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/30k-missing-irs-emails-recovered/article/2556522

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The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.

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Now things should get interesting!

Interesting that this dropped in on the “news dead zone” of the week end!

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POLITICAL: Ford aluminum truck is a Gooferment mandate

Saturday, November 22, 2014

http://ericpetersautos.com/2014/11/13/alloy-ally/

Is Alloy Your Ally?
by eric • November 13, 2014

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The bottom line is that Ford is going over to aluminum chiefly to make it politically feasible to continue building a mass-market full-size truck. As I have ranted about previously, the “driver” is not market demand so much as government mandate.

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So here we have again politicians and bureaucrats making the market conform to their wishes.

And yet everyone claims that the USA is “free”.

Guess I have the wrong dictionary?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/free

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free adjective, freer, freest.

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5.exempt from external authority, interference, restriction, etc., as a person or one’s will, thought, choice, action, etc.; independent; unrestricted.

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So there is no ECONOMIC justification to buy one of these.

Argh!

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HARDWARE: Russian Plane Zaps U.S. Warship

Friday, November 21, 2014

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/gary-north/russian-plane-disabled-us-warships-missile-defense-system/

A Russian Plane Zaps U.S. Warship’s Missile Defense System
By Gary North
The Tea Party Economist
November 14, 2014

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An unarmed Russian bomber in April flew over a high-tech U.S. ship. A crew member pressed a button. Poof! No more missile defense system on the ship. No more radar. The ship became a defenseless floating coffin.

Then the plane flew over the blind ship a dozen times. Basically, it was “Nyah, nyah, nyah.”

This story got no play in American media.

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So, we are sitting ducks again.

Anyone remember Pearl Harbor?

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TAGONIST: “… … and killed a young woman”

Thursday, November 20, 2014

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/samantha-ramsey-shooting/

Kentucky cops raid teenagers’ field party, kill girl who tried to escape
Deputy faces no charges after shooting girl 4 times.
Posted on November 12, 2014 by Site Staff in News

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HEBRON, KY — Police charged into a darkened field trying to arrest teenagers for consuming alcohol without government permission, and killed a young woman in the process.

Boone County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Brockman Boone County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Brockman
The deadly raid occurred in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26th, 2014. After witnessing “cars full of juveniles” and “hear[ing] loud music and people screaming,” Boone County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Brockman radioed for “several patrol cars for assistance, as it seem[ed] like a large party with underage drinking was going on,” according to an official report.

Deputies responded in force and attempted to surround the party, which was taking place on a rural road in Hebron, Kentucky.

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Deputy Tyler Brockman will not face any consequences for killing Samantha Ramsey. In November 2014, a grand jury issued him a “no bill” and effectively cleared him from legal responsibility for his actions.

Brockman claimed that Ms. Ramsey tried to run him over and that he was the victim. According to his version of events, he clung to the hood of Ms. Ramsey’s car in an attempt to enforce the law upon the fleeing suspect. In doing so, he feared for his life and had to open fire with his pistol.

“The shots were fired not only to save his life, but also the pedestrians walking on the road and the officers currently just down the road initiating other arrests,” the police report stated.

Although Deputy Brockman asserted that he “had no choice” but to kill the girl, it is evident that she would be alive had the police not arrived at the party in the first place. Samantha Ramsey’s untimely death was needless; her life was taken as collateral damage in the government’s overbearing control over a beverage. Fatalities like this are guaranteed when the law encourages armed enforcers to interject themselves incessantly into the lives of citizens.

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ANTAGONIST: Over and above the stupid laws about “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” — in this case: alcohol —the police botch the raid. What did they think was going to happen? And, was this their “first rodeo”? Where was the probably cause? And, of course, “no bill”. These “juveniles” were merely “mundanes”. Argh! 

PROTAGONIST:  The police were just enforcing the law, that is their job.  If a community does not like laws against underage drinking then they need to vote in people that will not write those laws.  As far as the incident, there is little to go on…from the little video evidence it appears that the girl was not going to stop her car after being ordered to do so by the policeman.  We don’t know what happened after that, except the officer’s report indicates he was stuck on her hood in trying to stop the vehicle and she was not going to stop…he was in fear for his life.

ANTAGONIST: Please, no more “voting makes difference”. What is the “community” but a flock of sheep to shorn, led, and eventually slaughtered. So the costumed man with a gun “orders” her to stop her car and she has to “obey” without question. Yes, it’s unfortunate that “COPS” was not the scene filming the “courageous” and “brave” police enforcing more drug laws. My question is if he was determined to stop traffic, why not block the road with the cop car? Would not that been more effective and safer for him? So now we have the death penalty administered without a court on the side of a Kentucky road.

You decide: Good Cop or Bad Kop?

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TINFOILHAT: PATCON and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/william-norman-grigg/the-feds-role-in-the-okc-bombing/

They’ll Be Back: PATCON, Oklahoma City, and Jesse Trentadue’s Lonely Crusade for Justice
By William Norman Grigg
Pro Libertate Blog
November 15, 2014

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It was during the second conversation with Quirk that Matthews explicitly mentioned his role as an undercover operative in an FBI initiative called called PATCON, or “Patriot Conspiracy.” This was a long-term provocation campaign in which the Bureau sought “to infiltrate and incite the militia and evangelical Christians to violence so that the Department of Justice could crush them,” explains Trentadue.

The man Matthews had known as “Don Jarrett” had been his FBI handler – and apparently still is, given the deference to him shown by Matthews. Now that the Regime has largely shifted its domestic focus from Muslims back to “sovereign citizens,” Jarrett is probably busy orchestrating homeland security theater operations involving the “Radical Right.”

Assuming that “Don Jarrett” is still the name of Matthews’ former handler, he may currently be working as an “Independent Insurance Professional” in Florida. According to his vita, Jarrett retired from the FBI in 1998, becoming an insurance investigator and security consultant for the NFL. It’s not clear how he wound up in Afghanistan last year: A May 1, 2013 email to Matthews reported that he was in Afghanistan, and that he expected to leave at the end of June. Using his last known email address, I sent Jarrett a number of questions to which he has not replied. Given PATCON’s history the chances are pretty good that wherever Jarrett finds himself, bad things are being done to innocent people.

“Ruby Ridge was a PATCON operation,” Trentadue has pointed out. “Waco was a PATCON operation. And so, too, I believe, was the Oklahoma City Bombing.”

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The Gooferment is getting bigger and bigger. The bigger it gets, the more out of control it gets.

Back tracking on key events — it always seems there’s Gooferment rat or rats in the proverbial haystack of needles.

This particular report casts doubt on the whole 1995 Oklahoma City bombing “story”.

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