POLITICAL: Too many different Gooferments

Monday, August 23, 2010

http://www.impactlab.net/2010/08/19/a-nation-of-90000-governments-maximizing-our-own-failure-points/

August 19th, 2010 at 8:23 am

A Nation of 90,000 Governments – Maximizing Our Own Failure Points

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Thomas Frey: The total number of governmental bodies in the U.S. is approaching a staggering number – 90,000. During normal economic times there is plenty of money to go around, but now every city, state, county, parish, township and special taxing district is competing for the same tax dollars that the federal government is.

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Sounds like this fellow has hit the nail on the head.

I’d suggest localization.

Only the lowest level of government should be able make “people” impacting laws or collect taxes. Let the State regulate the locals. Let the Fed regulate the States.

And, they will spend so much time fighting with each other they won’t have time to bother us.

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TECHNOLOGY: SPAM kills; even good messages

Monday, August 23, 2010

http://www.barracudacentral.org/

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Welcome to BarracudaCentral.org, devoted to sharing information with Barracuda Networks customers and the Internet security community. Here you will find a wide range of statistics, threat information, and a number of useful services to help manage and secure your network.

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http://www.emailreg.org/index.cgi?p=about

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About EmailReg.org

EmailReg.org creates responsibility for email sent from an IP address. EmailReg.org associates specific domains with a sending IP address. By creating a responsible party and identifying IP addresses, we greatly enhance our ability to fight spam and to eliminate false positives.

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I emailed an acquaintance. And that one email, didn’t get thru, and I was accused of spamming based on IP address. My IP address comes form my ISP. I have no control over it. Further, I have no control over the mail server run by the ISP.

So telling me:

— to fix it is a waste of your time and mine.

— “suggesting” that registering and pay you 20$ a year is toll boothing!

— I’ll recommend to everyone that this is not the solution.

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE: One of our troops killed!

Sunday, August 22, 2010

http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2010/08/22/sunday-1-us-soldier-4-iraqis-killed-43-iraqis-wounded

Sunday: 1 US Soldier, 4 Iraqis Killed; 43 Iraqis Wounded
by Margaret Griffis, August 22, 2010

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The first U.S. soldier to die since the withdrawal of combat troops this week was killed in during a rocket attack in Basra today. At least four Iraqis were killed and 43 more were wounded in other attacks.

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Great withdrawal plan!

Leave targets!!!

“Mission Accomplished”?

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INTERESTING: Did a 100k words over about 100 days

Sunday, August 22, 2010

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FUN: Children show us the way to visualize

Sunday, August 22, 2010

http://unclutterer.com/2010/08/12/go-big-or-go-home

Go big or go home?

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Most children, if asked to draw the house they’ll live in as an adult, will sketch a home resembling a bloated Graceland or Cinderella’s castle. A rare child might draw something akin to Skylab, but rarely will you see a home that is an apartment or small cottage. Kids dream big, and they almost always want yards, trees, and all the amenities of a suburban mansion.

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Maybe we should all draw where we will be in a decade?

ROFL!

A plot?

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QUOTE: As if someone had set out to *prevent* children from learning – John Taylor Gatto

Sunday, August 22, 2010

“I’ve come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us… I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it was possible that being in school itself was what was dumbing them down. Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children’s power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to *prevent* children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.” – John Taylor Gatto

http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html

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RANT: Cheaters do win

Saturday, August 21, 2010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100725/ap_on_sp_ot/cyc_tour_de_france_radioshack

RadioShack’s improper jersey stalls start to stage
Sun Jul 25, 9:39 am ET

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PARIS – Lance Armstrong and his RadioShack team have been forced to change unofficial jerseys honoring cancer patients before starting the final stage of the Tour de France.

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Comment by “The Professor”

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Lance’s cancer survival and recovery to win the Tour de France seven times is a story we all WANT to be true…. but if you think about it logically it can’t be true.

The odds of a steroid and EPO free athlete beating all of the steroid cheaters seven times are astronomically impossible.

I get disgusted every time I see a “Live Strong” yellow bracelet because I truly believe Lance’s cancer was caused by steroid abuse. I’ve known TONS of pro athletes and wannabe pro athletes that publicly decry steroids while they use them.

The truly disgusting part is they not only cheat to win, they want you NOT to use steroids so they have an even bigger advantage and greater chance of winning.

To them, it is ALL about winning and the glory and the money that goes with it. They don’t care about your health. They don’t care if you use steroids or not. All they care about is that you can’t compete with them and they get to win.

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Cheaters do win!

We have to have little mental “signs” that we hang around people when we see them speak on TV. I have a mental list:

  1. Jane Fonda “Sitting in a North Viet Nam Anti Aircraft battery as an enemy prop”
  2. Al Gore “Fraud profiting from Global Warming”
  3. Bill Clinton: “Liar”
  4. Hillary “Cheated Old People out of their vacation / retirement homes aka Whitewater”
  5. Obama “Socialist who has something to hide”
  6. Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, Reid “Corrupt politicians.
  7. Byrd “Racist”
  8. Any ABC, CBS, or NBC talking head “Socialist propagandist”
  9. Any Democrat and all but one Republican politician “Big Gooferment tyrant”
  10. Most sports figures “In It For the Money”
  11. Most Generals and Admirals “Perfumed Princes” aka politicians
  12. Most Hollywood types “Two faced” (One set of rules for them; another for everyone else.)
  13. Any environmentalist “Watermelon”
  14. Any Gooferment bureaucrat “Feeding at the public trough”
  15. Any “Businessman” who takes Gooferment handouts “Welfare Queen”
  16. Any “Gentleman Farmer” who takes Gooferment handouts “Welfare Queen”
  17. Any lobbyist “Welfare Pimp”
  18. Any politician who feathers his own nest “Felon”

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RANT: Hospital visiting policy

Saturday, August 21, 2010

I have to laugh as this appears on one of my regularly visited websites.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/miles5.1.1.html

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As Mendelson points out, visiting the hospital is serious stuff, and something most people don’t concern themselves with because they are not aware of the shenanigans that sometimes occur in hospitals, nor how terribly wrong things can go. Like our government many Americans think problems here and there are odd and rare, and not endemic to the system itself.

For all our revolutionary heritage, Americans in general seem to have this odd, misplaced, unblinking, and often unconscious respect for credentialed authority, apparently thinking that credentials and expertise somehow cleanse people from the baser parts of human nature like self-willed agendas, petty backbiting, authoritarian behavior, the brazen seeking of power, a cultic mentality, etc.

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FROM MY CARING BRIDGE SITE

Saturday, August 21, 2010 7:22 AM, CDT

“Good” morning from RWJUH New Brunswick

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Nurse informs me of “new policy”. “No visiting before 10. And, how did I get up.” A vigorous discussion of this policy. Even showed her the booklet, on Page 6 “Family members are welcome 24 / 7”, I was given last week. “It’s wrong.” I told her if that was their policy, that I’d transfer her out.” “All hospitals are like that.” I don’t need this <Expletive Deleted> “barbara streisand”! Frau Reinke was getting upset with me. So I let it pass. They’ll have to drag me out in handcuffs. <Expletive Deleted> “barbara streisand”!

And, what’s worse, I left my coffee in the car!

Guess I better alert my panel of attorneys. Who’s got bail money? I’m putting on my Gandhi person. Peaceful non-cooperation with Micky Mouse rules.

If hospital “policy” is “visiting hours are from 10AM to 9PM for patient safety”. (a) what’s happening during those hours that jeopardizes patient safety that a “visitor” will interfere with? The sleeping night shift! (b) The CUs say “no visiting during shift change from 7 to 8 AM and PM”. Lay those two “policies” on top of one another and it really restricts families in the evening. (c) You can’t tell me there are not “hidden exceptions” — neo natal, the dying, pediatrics, honchos, politicians. ARGH!

A peaceful non-violent non-cooperating resistor does have some obligation to avoid a fight. Didn’t want to upset the patient. If she’d said “leave”, I’d have merely replied “no”. If Frau Reinke was up to snuff, I might even comply. Might not. But it would be my choice; not theirs.

Maybe I’ll even have all new nurses tomorrow to deal with.

Nurses at the station have been having a “barbara streisand” session for the last half hour.

And, for the record, that old “no food” policy is “barbara streisand” too since I saw several of the staff eating at their stations.

So, asinine policies get the respect they deserve. Argh! I gotta stop hanging out in these kind of joints.

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TINFOILHAT: What specifically of BHO44’s “paperwork” is missing?

Saturday, August 21, 2010

BASED ON PRIVATE EMAILS QUESTIONING ME AS A “BIRTHER”

A number of challenges based on the constitutional requirement:

  • not born in Hawaii in 1961 as he claims;
  • dual citizen of the U.S. and the United Kingdom when he was born;
  • as a child, was a citizen of Indonesia, to get into school;
  • disclaimed his citizenship to get entrance into college; and
  • claimed privileges for foreign students in his applications.

The Constitution was specifically written to exclude dual citizens from eligibility.

BHO44 has kept from the public:

  • Kindergarten records,
  • Punahou school records,
  • Occidental College records,
  • Columbia University records,
  • Columbia thesis,
  • Harvard Law School records,
  • Harvard Law Review articles,
  • scholarly articles from the University of Chicago,
  • passport,
  • medical records,
  • files from his years as an Illinois state senator,
  • Illinois State Bar Association records,
  • baptism records, and
  • his adoption records.

The burning question is: Why the cover up? What’s being hidden? Who knew what when?

Why spend millions to prevent disclosure?

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INTERESTING: Heuristics; my ROTs (Rules of Thumb)

Friday, August 20, 2010

http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2010/07/reconsider-the-rules-of-thumb-you-use-in-everyday-life.html

Re-Consider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life.

from The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

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My adventures in the lands of happiness research led me to the concept of heuristics. Heuristics are “rules of thumb,” the quick, common-sense principles people apply to solve a problem or make a decision. They aren’t “rules for living” that you consciously try to apply; rather, they’re deeply embedded, often unconscious, rules that you use to make decisions, answer a question, or decide a course of action.

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My children are my most important priority.

Exercise every day.

People don’t notice my mistakes and flaws as much as I think.

My husband is my top priority.

“Yes” comes right away; “no” never comes.

Get some work done every day.

Whenever possible, choose vegetables.

I know as much as most people.

Try to attend any party or event to which I’m invited.

My parents are almost always right.

Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.

If I’m not sure whether to include some text in my writing, cut it out.

When making a choice about what to do, choose work.

I’m too busy to do that.

There’s no wrong decision.

Always say hello.

People in business, small or large, will take advantage of you if they can.

What would my mother do?

Actually, this is good news.

Say yes.

This is the fun part.

Do nothing, go nowhere.

Do everything all at once.

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MINE:

  1. Frau is Job #1.
  2. Doctors and nurses are educated and experienced resources; they are not the Pope and this ain’t matters of faith and morals.
  3. Fool me or make a fool of me once; no second chances.
  4. Stop lights are the Universe telling me to slow down and look around.
  5. In a decade, will I care? Will anyone? So, why do I now?
  6. MYOB!
  7. Go for the gusto; go “big” or go home.
  8. I am not my “job”. I am not who I was or am; I am what I will be.
  9. Focus on Quadrant 1 activities: “Important” and “Urgent”.
  10. Your priorities are not NECESSARILY mine. Your lack of planning doesn’t constitute n emergency on my part.
  11. Begin with the end in mind. Planning is everything; plans are meaningless.
  12. 7 P’s (PPPPPPP)
  13. There is no such thing as “over communication”. There is ALWAYS someone who is out of the loop thru NO fault of their own.
  14. There is no substitute for good written DOCTRINE; there’s no excuse for failing to do “LESSONS LEARNED”.
  15. Don’t get mad; get working.
  16. NEVER assume that the organization’s objectives are aligned with yours; figure them out and protect yourself.
  17. There’s no substitute for accurate written records; remember the hearsay rule.
  18. Can’t cheat an honest man. Live life as if you’re going to explain your conduct to your Mom, Grandmom, and the Creator.
  19. Life is not like Jeopardy. There’s no extra credit for rudely shouting out the answer.
  20. The only “dumb” question is the one that you don’t ask. If you’re thinking it, someone else is too.
  21. The Shouldas, couldas, and wouldas will make you miserable; discard them asap. One year amnesty on mistakes.
  22. Set up systems that are automatic; your intentions have to be backed up with actions.
  23. You are neither as smart as you think; nor as dumb as you act.
  24. Do quick tasks; partition and schedule big ones. Do something to advance the ball. Dispatch the long running tasks quickly.
  25. Multiple “top priorities” means you have no priorities.

What are yours?

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