http://survivalblog.com/seventy-five-ways-to-save-money-for-prepping-by-e-s/
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“Boxed mix does not a cake from scratch make.”-Yentil (cousin of Yoda)
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Who knew that Yoda had a cousin?
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QUOTE: Yentil, a cousin of Yoda?
Friday, June 13, 2014
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RANT: Gooferment program defrauded
Thursday, June 12, 20142014-Jun-10
Taxpayers Face Big Tab for Unusual Doctor Billings
More than 2,300 providers earned $500,000 or more from Medicare in 2012 from a single procedure or service, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
A closer look at a few of the doctors who make most of their money from just a few procedures reveals that they are operating outside their areas of expertise or deviating from standard medical practice.
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What a surprise! A Gooferment program that is defrauded?
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca
I’m shocked that there is corruption going on!
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POLITICAL: Hillary interview?
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DIANE SAWYER, ABC NEWS: It has been reported you’ve made $5 million making speeches, the president’s made more than $100 million.
HILLARY CLINTON: Well, if you — you have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. We had no money when we got there and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education, you know, it was not easy. Bill has worked really hard and it’s been amazing to me. He’s worked very hard, first of all, we had to pay off all our debts which was, you know, we had to make double the money because of obviously taxes, and pay you have at debts, and get us houses and take care of family members.
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Are you kidding me?
What about the famous book advance?
Argh!
And never mind the whine about she was responsible for security? She just hired the people who did it. Guess she didn’t do such a good job!
And the response about Monica; “I am not going to comment on what I said back in the 90’s”. How does she get off with that response.
Also, don’t get me started on “What difference does it make?”
Argh!
I don’t understand the Liberal’s “Love Affair” with this woman.
We can also roll back the clock to Whitewater — when the Clinton’s defrauded poor black retirees out of their retirement dreams!
Argh! to the n-th power.
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INTERESTING: Unfair competition?
Tuesday, June 10, 2014http://news.yahoo.com/california-chrome-co-owner-rips-triple-crown-rules-011737855–rah.html
California Chrome co-owner rips Triple Crown rules
Reuters
By Larry Fine
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“If you’ve got a horse that earns points to run in the Kentucky Derby, those 20 horses that start the Kentucky are the only 20 eligible to run in all three races,” he said.
“This is the coward’s way out.”
Belmont runner-up Commissioner, who lost by a head, also did not run the first two Triple Crown races, and third-placed Medal Count skipped the Preakness after finishing eighth in the Derby.
Only three horses in the 11-horse field ran the entire Triple Crown series, including Ride On Curlin’, who finished dead last at Belmont.
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Interesting, so they other owners “game” the system.
I’m sure that there is money as a motivation.
Guess they have to make better “rules”.
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INTERESTING: DNA Sequencing Diagnoses
Monday, June 9, 2014http://www.popsci.com/article/science/dna-sequencing-diagnoses-boys-mysterious-bacterial-disease
DNA Sequencing Diagnoses Boy’s Mysterious Bacterial Disease
This is the first time doctors have used DNA sequencing for emergency diagnosis and treatment.
By Francie Diep Posted 06.06.2014 at 4:00 pm
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In this case, 14-year-old Joshua Osborn fell seriously ill in the summer of 2013. Fluid collected in his brain and he had serious seizures. Yet all of the tests doctors gave him didn’t found any traces of fungi, bacteria or viruses, the doctors reported in The New England Journal of Medicine. So the doctors asked Osborn’s parents’ permission to try an experimental DNA test.
The test looked for bits of genetic material of illness-causing microbes in samples taken from Osborn’s blood and spinal fluid. This contrasts to the medical genetic testing most people are familiar with, in which scientists search for genetic problems in a person’s own DNA. In Osborn’s case, doctors were looking for bits of DNA from foreign critters. The international team that developed the test published a paper about it this week.
Two days after scientists received Osborn’s samples, they had a diagnosis: leptospira, a type of bacteria that only rarely causes the symptoms Osborn was suffering. The boy’s doctors decided to treat him with penicillin. He recovered gradually over the next seven days, his doctors reported.
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Now we are getting somewhere!
Hate to think of what it cost, but WOW! What results!!!
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RANT: The spin turns to whirlwind
Sunday, June 8, 2014http://nypost.com/2014/06/07/obamas-well-honed-media-strategy-unraveled-with-pow/
How Obama’s media strategy unraveled with recovered POW
By John Podhoretz
June 7, 2014 | 11:41am
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The bottom line is that the president settled on a controversial, high- risk strategy here in a difficult and problematic manner — and then sought to use his mastery of pop culture to change the story to a more palatable one. But some stories just can’t be gussied up.
More important for the president’s future fortunes is this lesson: You can only spin for so long before you start spinning yourself. Spin and spin and spin and soon you have a whirlwind to reap.
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1. We negotiated with terrorists putting Americans further at risk.
2. We released dangerous men back into the wild.
3. Why do we have Gitmo? Shouldn’t we be killing those that attack up?
4. This President is inept at best.
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GUNS: Drinking and packing heat is dumb
Sunday, June 8, 2014http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/222104/drunk-racists-shoot-and-kill-black-cop-at-waffle-house/
In News by Robyn Pennacchia
Jun 2, 2014
Drunk racists shoot and kill black cop at Waffle House
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This weekend, 43-year-old police officer Kevin Jordan was shot and killed while working an in-uniform off-duty overnight security shift at a Waffle House in Georgia. After three inebriated customers–Tyler Taylor, Michael Bowman and Chantell Mixon–were asked to leave the restaurant for causing a disturbance, Jordan walked them outside to their car. The three summarily started screaming racial slurs at Jordan, and Mixon started to try to physically fight him. When Jordan tried to restrain Mixon in order to arrest her, Bowman pulled out his gun and shot him in the back several times, killing him.
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While I’m a gun nut, I would no more concealed carry and drink than I would doing a roof or working with a chainsaw.
That being said, this was a terrible foreseeable tragedy.
Similar to a DUI, we should have little tolerance for carrying a firearm “under the influence”.
For some reason, I suspect that these three are not “fine upstanding citizens”. Like many criminals, they may have been through the “revolving doors” at various courthouses and jails.
I’m anxious to see further details of their careers.
Argh!
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CLOUD: GOOGLE makes an interesting change–for the better–even though it costs them
Saturday, June 7, 2014Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Protecting Students with Google Apps for Education
Today more than 30 million students, teachers and administrators globally rely on Google Apps for Education. Earning and keeping their trust drives our business forward. We know that trust is earned through protecting their privacy and providing the best security measures.
This is why, from day one, we turned off ads by default in Apps for Education services. Last year, we removed ads from Google Search for signed-in K-12 users altogether. So, if you’re a student logging in to your Apps for Education account at school or at home, when you navigate to Google.com, you will not see ads.
Of course, good privacy requires strong security. We have more than 400 full-time engineers — the world’s foremost experts in security — working to protect your information. We always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email in Gmail, which means no one can listen in on your messages as they go back and forth between your laptop, phone or tablet and Gmail’s servers — even if you’re using public WiFi.
Today, we’re taking additional steps to enhance the educational experience for Apps for Education customers:
We’ve permanently removed the “enable/disable” toggle for ads in the Apps for Education Administrator console. This means ads in Apps for Education services are turned off and administrators no longer have the option or ability to turn ads in these services on.
We’ve permanently removed all ads scanning in Gmail for Apps for Education, which means Google cannot collect or use student data in Apps for Education services for advertising purposes.
Users who have chosen to show AdSense ads on their Google Sites will still have the ability to display those existing ads on their websites. However, it will no longer be possible to edit or add new AdSense ads to existing sites or to new pages.
We’re also making similar changes for all our Google Apps customers, including Business, Government and for legacy users of the free version, and we’ll provide an update when the rollout is complete.
On Thursday, May 1 at 9:00 am PT, we’ll be hosting a Hangout on Air on our Google for Education G+ page with myself; Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management for Docs and Drive and Hank Thiele, Chief Technology Officer for District 207 in Park Ridge, IL who uses Google Apps. We’ll be discussing these changes and answering your questions. We look forward to hearing from you.
For more information about student privacy in Google Apps for Education, please visit our website.
Reposted from Google Enterprise Blog:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/04/protecting-students-with-google-apps.html
Posted by Bram Bout, Director, Google for Education
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INSPIRATIONAL: The Man! Andrew Higgins
Friday, June 6, 2014http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-man-who-won-war-for-us.html
Friday, June 06, 2014
“The Man Who Won the War for Us”
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On D-Day, most of the landing craft that ferried troops and equipment ashore were the Higgins design, and many came from his yard in New Orleans. The two-fisted, hard-drinking man who told the Navy it “didn’t know a damned thing about small boats” had revolutionized warfare. No longer were amphibious forces required to attack through heavily-defended ports, to reach docks where troops and equipment could be off-loaded. With Higgins’ LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle/Personnel) and larger LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank), amphibious attacks could be planned over wider areas, complicating enemy defenses. Even Adolf Hitler acknowledged Higgins’ contribution to the war effort, referring to him as “the new Noah.” General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who led the Normandy invasion, put it more succinctly, calling Andrew Higgins “the man who won the war for us.”
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And as usual, he dies broke and forgotten!
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RANTING: Does anyone remember?
Friday, June 6, 20146 June 2014 – D Day, WWII
Normandy Speech: Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary
President Reagan’s Address at the Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-day at Point-du-Hoc – 6/6/84.
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