INTERESTING: “flip a toaster”; dumb!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

“You can flip a toaster on its side and grill cheese in it.”

Luddite sent with this in a number of items in a recent spam. (Hey, he’s doesn’t know any better.)

This one seemed STUPID to me.

Anytime I make grilled cheese, it’s messy.

Seems like a good way to ruin a toaster or have a fire.

Rejected!

And, when I attempted to go to the cited source, my security software went nuts!

So, I backed off quickly.

Didn’t even bother to SNOPES it.

And, Frau Reinke wouldn’t have called it “grilled cheese”! She made her’s in a frying pan with butter and a lot more work! It tasted better too.

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INTERESTING: Is the inet “catalog buying” of yesteryear?

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

It occurs me that in the old days, folk sat at home far from the store and ordered from the Sear’s catalog and waited for it to arrive. Is that the same as today’s “order via the inet”?

Not sure if “inet ordering” is such a new meme.

(See what happens when you can’t sleep? You ponder the trivial.)

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INSPIRATIONAL: More advice to deaf ears?

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

>but Im trying to live life

“NO! … Try not! … Do or do not… there is no try.” (To do it justice, you must say the word try with all the revulsion and disgust you can put on it. Like you were talking about a rapist, a child murderer, or a politician!) — Yoda (Fictional character from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” movie)

One doesn’t “try to live life”. You’ll do that without “trying”. Unfortunately, it’ll just slip by if you don’t savor every moment. You waked up old and look back and say “Wow was I dumb!” LOL!!! The Buddhists have the concept of the “Three Joys of Suffering”. We cause our own unhappiness by not being in the moment.

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MONEY: Plan to work until your 90?

Monday, June 11, 2012

Bloomberg news: AIG Chief Sees Retirement Age as High as 80 After Crisis

Jun 4 (3 days ago)

American International Group Inc.
Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said Europe’s debt
crisis shows governments worldwide must accept that people will
have to work more years as life expectancies increase.

http://bloom.bg/LdwGLe

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Anyone surprised?

Reality has to set in sometime!

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RANT: COX TV — strike one; it’s out

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Thank you for choosing Cox Communications. A representative will be with you shortly.
You are now chatting with ‘Louis’.

Louis: Welcome to Cox Live Chat Support. I will be assisting you throughout this Chat session.

ferdinand reinke: “temporarily off air”?

Louis: I understand you are experiencing inconveniences with your cable service. Am I correct?

ferdinand reinke: all tv is “off the air”?

Louis: I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Louis: To better assist you, I will need the following information:

Louis: 1. The 10-Digit Phone Number as it is listed on the account.

Louis: 2. Your full name as it is listed on the account.

Louis: 3. Your complete home address where the service is located.

Louis: 4. The last four digits of the Social Security Number, or the four-digit Cox PIN if you are a former or current Cox Digital Telephone subscriber.

ferdinand reinke: is it or is’t it?

ferdinand reinke: {Privacy Invoked}

Louis: Thank you for your information.

ferdinand reinke: Is all tbv KO-ed or is just me?

Louis: Just a moment, please.

Louis: I have verified with my resources:

Louis: Unfortunately, Cox is experiencing some inconveniences with our services in your area.

Louis: Cox technicians are aware of this issue, and are working towards a resolution. Although there is no official estimated time of repair at this time, we are hopeful this issue will soon be resolved, and normal operations restored.

Louis: I do apologize.

ferdinand reinke: FYI! It’s not an inconvenience. It’s an outage.

Louis: Thank you for your information.

Louis: Is there anything else I can help you with?

ferdinand reinke: nope!

Louis: Thank you for choosing Cox Communications as your friend in the Digital Age.

Thank you for chatting with us. Please click the “End Chat” button on the top right of the chat window to tell us about your experience today.

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TINFOILHAT: Is BHO44 a “paper man”?

Sunday, June 10, 2012

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle673-20120603-02.html

THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE
Number 673, June 3, 2012
“This is the strangest era ever,
in American politics. So far.”

Paper Man
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@netzero.com

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Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

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Although details are a bit hazy after forty years, in Paper Man, a small handful of college kids gets tired of eating dormitory food and yearns for the finer things in life. They decide they need a credit card, and invent what we would call a virtual person to apply for one. They use the campus mainframe’s primitive networking ability to give their creation—they call him “Henry Norman”—credentials: birth certificate, educational background, employment history, banking record, and so on. They receive their credit card and start to enjoy it.

Until they begin to die, one by one, apparently killed by Henry Norman.

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So I suppose it’s altogether appropriate that Henry Norman has shown up again—as America’s first Paper President. Barack “Barry” Hussein Obama—or is it Soetoro?—is an individual whose personal history, from the very moment of his birth, is no more than a collage of contradictory lies and hidden truths that may never end up sorted out.

Where was he born? He and the entire progressive establishment claim it was Hawaii, but name two different hospitals, neither of which has records of it, as the location of the Blessed Event. One of his grandmothers says (or said—I think she’s conveniently dead now) that Barry was born in Kenya, and that she was right there when it happened.

Nobody can prove that his mother and his alleged father, a British subject, were ever married (some investigators believe Obama’s real father was Frank Marshall Davis, another old commie, who took naked pictures of Barack’s mommy), or had anything more, fundamentally, than a one-night stand, although it’s claimed that face-saving divorce papers were eventually filed, which Obama Senior ignored—he already had a wife back in the Old Country. We do know that little Barack’s step-father signed him into school as an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim.

What do we know about this man who thinks he owns us and that he can kill one of us at any time he likes, for any reason he cares to offer?

We certainly have no idea who he is. His famous birth certificate—legally a matter of public record—has been “sealed” away and may not be inspected or investigated. Even little baby Barack’s baptismal record has apparently become a matter of national security. Obama’s original signed, embossed paper “Certificate of Live Birth” is also hidden away, and the cybercopy offered in its place so incompetently forged it wouldn’t fool a three-year-old. We do know that he isn’t a front man for the FBI, the CIA, NSA, or Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, or Boy Scout Intelligence—their fakes would have passed muster.

We also have no idea what Obama is. Here’s an essentially penniless son of a penniless single mother whose mother and father (who raised the boy more than his mom did) didn’t have much money, either.

And yet the left wing money machine that I described in my speech “You Can’t Fight A Culture War If You Ain’t Got Any Culture” somehow came through and sent him to an expensive private school in Hawaii, then to Occidental College—those records are sealed—then to Columbia College—records also sealed along with Barack’s Master’s thesis—and then to Harvard College where his records are also sealed.

Obama apparently went to college (and paid tuition) as a foreign student, and used a foreign passport to visit Pakistan in 1981. His Selective Service records are sealed. His Social Security number— issued by a state he never lived in and actually belonging to a guy who’s dead—reeks of fraud. His medical records are sealed. For ten years he was carried as Kenyan-born by his literary agency. His Illinois State Senate schedule and Illinois State Senate records are sealed, as is his Law practice client list. For some unexplained reason he and his wife Michelle turned in their law licenses in Illinois.

He can’t make a coherent speech without a teleprompter.

I can’t help thinking of that movie Paper Man and coming to the bizarre but unavoidable conclusion that Obama is just a little nobody that his mentors—his creators—employed as a wire-frame to hang item after item of false credentials on, credentials so incompetently manufactured that they must now be kept hidden away to avoid expert scrutiny.

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I think this raises the great issues that the brithers, proofers, and whateverers try to articulate. Before they get hooted down as tin foil hats.

I have no idea what BHO44 is or is not.

This is either the biggest hoax ever pulled OR one sloppy mess of random coincidences since the JFK assasination!

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INTERESTING: Taylor Swift “does” WalMart and imho makes a rare blunder

Saturday, June 9, 2012

http://www.theimproper.com/40997/justin-timberlake-taylor-swift-work-walmart-watch

Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift Go to Work for Wal-Mart (watch)
TheImproper.com
By TheImproper, June 2nd, 2012

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Justin Timberlake and Taylor Swift were Wal-Mart employees for a day, but you can bet they made more than minimum wage without health benefits. The duo and other stars were paid to perform at the retail giant’s annual …

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I’m surprised for a social media maven, Miss Swift, who made her mark by pioneering on MySpace / Facebook / Twitter AND who usually has great rapport for her fans, lets her “label” block this video.

It is a stunning failure.

Let’s not kid anyone, she’s the prize “cow” in their “barn”. You tell me if she pitches a hissey fit — which I have never heard of her doing — that they won’t do what she wants?

Unbelievable!

Just doing that ONCE for the FIRST time would even make a bigger impact on the “label”. Bet that would be online in two shakes of an inet admin in one hand and graphic artist in another. THe label head would be grabbing huevos to please the prize “cow”!

Please!?! <<making a real prune face in disbelief!>>

I also read that the “label” was concerned that performing for WalMart might damage her “image”. I think trying to “kinda partially hide” is a bigger dent.

She has slipped a couple of notches in this old Swiftie’s estimation. She’s generally pretty astute and comes across as caring. I’ve no way of knowing, but that’s the image that they seek to project.

Restricting the video is contrary to that image.

imho …

… but then I’m just a fat old white guy injineer, who thinks that WalMart for all it’s faults and flaws ain’t Amerika’s biggest problem. (Politicians are!)

Come on, Miss Taylor, free the video.

p.s., We now know why she couldn’t go to that sick kid’s prom. Boy! Have some WalMArt marketing execs missed a HUGE opportunity? I can think of a half dozen ways to spin this into a BIG win for everyone!

Dumb seems to be going around lately.

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FUN: BBT “This is going to look great next to my retraining order from Leonard Nimoy” — The Excelsior Acquisition 03/01/10

Friday, June 8, 2012

LOL!

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INTERESTING: Pineapple; an interesting chemical?

Thursday, June 7, 2012

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=34

The World’s Healthiest Foods

The George Mateljan Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation with no commercial interests or advertising, is a new force for change to help make a healthier you and a healthier world.

Pineapple

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Potential Anti-Inflammatory and Digestive Benefits

Bromelain is a complex mixture of substances that can be extracted from the stem and core fruit of the pineapple. Among dozens of components known to exist in this crude extract, the best studied components are a group of protein-digesting enzymes (called cysteine proteinases). Originally, researchers believed that these enzymes provided the key health benefits found in bromelain, a popular dietary supplement containing these pineapple extracts. In addition, researchers believed that these benefits were primarily limited to help with digestion in the intestinal tract. However, further studies have shown that bromelain has a wide variety of health benefits, and that many of these benefits may not be related to the different enzymes found in this extract. Excessive inflammation, excessive coagulation of the blood, and certain types of tumor growth may all be reduced by therapeutic doses of bromelain when taken as a dietary supplement. Studies are not available, however, to show these same potential benefits in relationship to normal intake of pineapple within a normal meal plan.

Bromelain extracts can be obtained from both the fruit core and stems of pineapple. Potentially important chemical differences appear to exist between extracts obtained from the stem versus the core fruit. However, the practical relevance of these differences is not presently understood. Most of the laboratory research on bromelain has been conducted using stem-based extracts, however.

Although healthcare practitioners have reported improved digestion in their patients with an increase in pineapple as their “fruit of choice” within a meal plan, we haven’t seen published studies that document specific changes in digestion following consumption of the fruit (versus supplementation with the purified extract. However, we suspect that the core fruit will eventually turn out to show some unique health-supportive properties, including possible digestion-related and anti-inflammatory benefits.

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Fascinating stuff.

“Important chemical differences” appear between the extract from the stem and core.

What a wonderful world we live in. 

Imagine what could be possible if “we” could get ourselves organized.

Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Anyone remember the Sixth of June?

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/d-day/d-day-and-the-battle-of-normandy-your-questions-answered

D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: Your Questions Answered

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How many Allied and German casualties were there on D-Day, and in the Battle of Normandy?

“Casualties” refers to all losses suffered by the armed forces: killed, wounded, missing in action (meaning that their bodies were not found) and prisoners of war. There is no “official” casualty figure for D-Day. Under the circumstances, accurate record keeping was very difficult. For example, some troops who were listed as missing may actually have landed in the wrong place, and have rejoined their parent unit only later.

In April and May 1944, the Allied air forces lost nearly 12,000 men and over 2,000 aircraft in operations which paved the way for D-Day.

The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the usual D-Day casualty figures are approximately 2700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6603 Americans. However recent painstaking research by the US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has achieved a more accurate – and much higher – figure for the Allied personnel who were killed on D-Day. They have recorded the names of individual Allied personnel killed on 6 June 1944 in Operation Overlord, and so far they have verified 2499 American D-Day fatalities and 1915 from the other Allied nations, a total of 4414 dead (much higher than the traditional figure of 2500 dead). Further research may mean that these numbers will increase slightly in future. The details of this research will in due course be available on the Foundation’s website at http://www.dday.org. This new research means that the casualty figures given for individual units in the next few paragraphs are no doubt inaccurate, and hopefully more accurate figures will one day be calculated.

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In my life, I’ve met few D-Day vets. When you could induce them to talk about it, the memories were vivid.

The Sixth of June, how many will remember it at all?

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