RANTING: William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, Requiescat In Pacem

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/band-brothers-vet-william-guarnere-dies-90?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Marketing&utm_term=Facebook&utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=wild-bill

‘Band of Brothers’ vet William Guarnere dies at 90
March 9, 2014 – 6:34 PM
Associated Press
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries “Band of Brothers,” has died. He was 90

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Without comment.

His nation asked and he delivered.

In spades.

Requiescat In Pacem

I may argue about “greatest”, but they gave what was asked. 

Dona Nobis Pacem

We should not waste the effort of ANY of these brave women and men!

Send politicians. Or their children instead.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Personal Loopholes

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

http://www.gretchenrubin.com/happiness_project/2014/02/which-of-these-10-categories-of-loopholes-do-you-invoke/

Which of These 10 Categories of Loopholes Do You Invoke?
The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin 

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1. False choice loophole – “I can’t do this, because I’m so busy doing that” – this is one I often use, myself
2. Moral licensing loophole — “I’ve been so good, it’s okay for me to do this”
3. Tomorrow loophole — “It’s okay to skip today, because I’m going to do this tomorrow”
4. Lack of control loophole — “I can’t help myself”
5. Planning to fail loophole, formerly known as the “Apparently irrelevant decision loophole”
6. “This doesn’t count” loophole – “I’m on vacation” “I’m sick” “It’s the weekend”
7. Questionable assumption loophole
8. Concern for others loophole — “I can’t do this because it might make other people uncomfortable”
9. Fake self-actualization loophole – “You only live once! Embrace the moment!”
10. One-coin loophole –“What difference does it make if I break my habit this one time?”

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I use all 10!

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RANT: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; terrorism?

Monday, March 10, 2014

http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2014/03/lost.html

Saturday, March 08, 2014
Lost

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Answers to those questions–and others–will be revealed in the days and weeks ahead.  And while few things are certain at this point, the use of stolen passports to put mysterious passengers on the plane certainly raises the specter of foul play.  It is also worth remembering that terrorist organizations have never lost their interest in aviation targets, and the Pacific region has long figured in their plotting.  We may soon learn if the bad guys have finally achieved their murderous goal.   

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 certainly sounds like terrorism.

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RANT: Argh! ESPN3 isn’t not ESPN

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Argh! It was supposed to be on ESPN. But the Jaspers are on ESPN3. Bumped by the women?

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SOFTWARE: BLUEGRIFFON chokes on an errant copy and paste

Sunday, March 9, 2014

2014-Mar-09

In doing my weekly Jasper Jottings, I was delayed by a data formatting error.

Apparently, when I posted an article in the daily blog, using MARSEDIT, some how the article was posted as the title.

I didn’t realize it and did a copy and paste from MARSEDIT into BLUEGRIFFON.

That cause BLUEGRIFFON to make the page width six times larger than it needed to be.

Took a break.

When I came back to it, I did CNTL Z’s until BLUEGRIFFON restored the page size.

Then the hunt for what was causing the problem.

Repeated the cut’n’paste into SIMULTRON5 text editor. Couldn’t see anything. Back into BLUEGRIFFON same result.

Deleted all the blank lines and made sure that each line had an EOL on it.

Cut’n’paste back to BLUEGRIFFON; same result.

Then I cut’n’pasted the first line to BLUEGRIFFON; same result.

Then I cut’n’pasted just the text part of the first line to BLUEGRIFFON; that worked correctly.

Resumed and everything was now right with the world.

Argh!

Still don’t really understand what happened.

The issue went out about 8 hours late.

Argh!

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RANT: 7½% growth rate

Saturday, March 8, 2014

China’s Economic Growth Forecast at 7.5% This Year
China’s government aims to deliver economic growth of about 7.5% this year, Premier Li Keqiang said in a report to the country’s legislature released on Wednesday.

The target is unchanged from last year.

Gross domestic product growth has repeatedly outpaced the official target, coming in at 7.7% last year. But economists say that achieving that rate of growth is becoming more difficult as the economy matures.

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Imagine the USA with a 7½% growth rate.

We could be prosperous again!

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RANT: Social Security is bust

Friday, March 7, 2014

http://www.sherrodbrown.com/petition/w140120/?subsource=CK-SB-ESS-A02-FB-FBLP.D-FKW-NA-MS256-BO-40p-T6.P1.C03

Members of Congress:

When I hear politicians in Washington talking about “reforming Social Security,” I know that what you really mean is “cutting benefits” or “privatizing retirement accounts.”

What you should be talking about is expanding Social Security — extending solvency and ensuring the economic security of our seniors.

Senator Sherrod Brown, along with some of his colleagues, is working to expand the life of Social Security for this and future generations of seniors in America — and I am calling on you to do the same.

Signed,

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Sorry, but Social Security was FDR’s Socialist destruction of America.

It enabled Grandparents to abandon their families and move to warmer climates. And, make people dependent upon the Gooferment.

Economically, it’s a Ponzi scheme. Based on unrealistic assumptions and an ignorance of human aging.

Also, by the wide-spread introduction of abortion, we have put humanity into a death spiral.

(Akin to the Chinese One Child policy or India sex-selection policies that have put them on the Road to Perdition.)

Social Security is bust. Best thing is to emulate Chile in the 1970’s. Privative for the youngsters, reassure the old folks, and screw the folks with assets.

Fact of life.

The last investor in Ponzi gets <synonym for the past tense of the procreation act.>

At least, Ponzi had the decency not to point a gun to his victims’ heads. He just appealed to their greed.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Kurt Vonnegut’s advice

Thursday, March 6, 2014

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2014/02/ladies-gentlemen-of-ad-2088.html

Friday, 21 February 2014
Ladies & Gentlemen of A.D. 2088

Kurt Vonnegut

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Reduce and stabilize your population.
Stop poisoning the air, the water, and the topsoil.
Stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems.
Teach your kids, and yourselves, too, while you’re at it, how to inhabit a small planet without helping to kill it.
Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars.
Stop thinking your grandchildren will be OK no matter how wasteful or destructive you may be, since they can go to a nice new planet on a spaceship. That is really mean, and stupid.
And so on. Or else.

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Maybe we can start a KICKSTARTER project to get off this rock?

(My belief is that Gooferment keeps us on this plantation!)

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FUN: Things I worry about?

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

http://blog.biographyonline.net/2010/09/random-interesting-facts.html?m=1

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It is unknown if odd perfect numbers exist
A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to itself such as 28: 1+2+4+7+14=28

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Laff!

A project for when I’m in the nursing home.

Wait where am I?

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RANT: Another reason to separate the Gooferment from the roads

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

http://users.ipfw.edu/diclemej/Learnsomethingneweveryday.htm

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If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

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Argh!

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