On Aug 20, 2010, at 9:29 AM, XXXXXXXXX wrote:
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Isn’t this like the “Mission Accomplished” banner? ‘We no longer have combat troops in Iraq’….but….there are still 50,000 there. And I have a crisp $100 bill that says they have guns on them!
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If they don’t, then they are victims.
How dumb does BHO44 and his media think we are?
Is this like Germany? We’re going to have troops there for eternity.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
August 12, 2010
Describe the one who got away.: Going, going, gone
http://www.plinky.com/prompts/504/answers/new
This is an encouragement to delve into “shoulda, coulda, and woulda!” thinking. That’s always a disaster. You can’t win from that POV.
“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45
It’s not like you can examine the “eternal possibilities machine” that will tell you what the results were from every choice. No matter how small. How trivial. Perhaps you become a millionaire if in the third grade, you’d have picked Wheaties as opposed to Cheerios that morning before you went to school. (Yeah, I know there’s no relation possible between the two. But how do you know for SURE?)
See, there have been so many “decisions” that I made, had made for me, made by default, or even made by failing to make a decision. And, I could drive myself crazy by trying to second guess those “decisions”. Off the top of my head, where I lived, where I went to school, who I dated, where I went to work, and choices made about jumping to another job. Countless decisions, large and small, that like Gulliver, those are the tiny Lilliputian threads, which bind us down.
Who’s to say which thread, which if loosed, would make a huge alternative possibility into a reality?
Even later in life, I made decisions that I know regret. For example, when my MBA classmates decided to go together to law school at night as a group, I was burnt out from schooling. I knew I’d never finish that path with my mind in its state at the time. Too bad! Maybe it was just too much school. Another six years. Argh! I had four years of VA benefits left. But it wasn’t the money, the tax deductability status, or even the commute. It was the time! Funny because after a few years off, I went and did a four year program in CompSci. Crassly, my motivation was to collect my last VA benefits. (Hey, I was being robbed by Uncle Sam so this was just my attempt to mitigate my damages.) Turns out, it was a useful credential. When I was young enough to exploit it.
So, consulting the EPM (i.e., mythical Eternal Possibilities Machine in CHURCH 10●19●62), I can see the “law school” track, leading to failure, alcoholism, divorce, or even death. (That was a traffic accident when rushing home from school tired and after a night cap!) But you never really know, one track might have led to “world peace”. (Hey, if beauty queen contestants can wish for a great result for which they have absolutely zero impact on, so can I.) Maybe I could have a degree and a license. Maybe I could have a future. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
But it is fun to wonder in an idle moment to wonder what might have been.
Where in the world is Virginia Barry?
ROFL! (Only a really kool girl, like her or Frau, would go to a College dance called the “Engineers’ Balls”. ROFL
Maybe the “shoulda, coulda, and woulda!” exercise is valuable to demonstrate all that we have.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0810/Dont_look_birthers_Obamas_passport.html?showall
August 17, 2010
Don’t look, birthers: Obama’s passport
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Here’s something new for the birthers to chew over: President Barack Obama’s passport. Says he was born in Hawaii! But the White House has strategically fuzzed out certain data, so the mystery continues.
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This is just another effort by BHO44 and his handlers to do everything in their power to obfuscate and evade answering the questions over his legitimacy. Calling his detractors “birthers” and other pejoratives does NOT answer the outstanding questions.
A blurry passport means nothing. It’s just more nail in the coffin of truth, transparency, and eventual exposure. It’s just more smoke ‘n’ mirrors.
Why does someone spend more than a million dollars to hide documents from his past?
It’s not just the birth certificate; athough that was the first deception. It’s the all the records. Where their is smoke; there’s fire.
Is this his new Presidential passport? The one with diplomatic immunity. Think he went to the post office, with two pictures, his birth certificate, and 175$ and waited a month like you have to? Argh!
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Also, a well written take on it.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=192577
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Posted by reinkefj
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda!
Hey, stupid! Yeah, you with your head up your a double q.
You’re not as smart as you think.
Success for you is ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt.
The adults in your life are not stupid, but in some cases they are just wrong. They are not teaching you the life skills that you need to learn!
Forget school. They are teaching you facts; some of which are even wrong. Worse than that, they are fooling you into thinking that life is like school. It ain’t by a long shoot. You need the “education” and the piece of paper, but there are so many other skills you need. Forget it in the sense that’s it’s giving you all you need. Sorry, but it’s not even teaching you the minimum you need.
Write down your goals. I know you heard that, but you didn’t do it. Do it! It’s critical. (Why didn’t you do it?)
I can’t say your life would be “better”. Only the Creator can answer that. But, I can say it would be very different. And, from this fat old white guy injineer’s point of view, you’d have been better off.
Sadly. Much better off.
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Posted by reinkefj
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On Aug 13, 2010, at 9:12 AM, LUDDITE wrote:
I almost submitted on your blog, but decided this should be a ‘personal’ post! I found your letter quite interesting given your Libertarian label. Isn’t this a little hypocritical? Maybe it is hitting ‘too close to home’? Being a FOWG like me? lol
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Well, exxxxcuuuuse me. :-)
Think my “libertarianism” is not “pure” enough? That’s why libertarians rip each other up. Over who is the “pure-est” in the land. Very counter productive to success.
(You could have made it a public post. I take criticism well. I think.)
Let me explain my thinking on EEO and corporations. Maybe you can show me the error of my ways?
When a thief steals your wealth, you have the right to self-defense. Part of self-defense is working the system to get back what was unjustly taken. Think Robin Hood stealing back the King’s unjust taxes. Fighting against injustice is always the correct thing to do.
Corporations are a creations of the Gooferment. So, any diktats leveled on their subordinate entities are of no concern. In my little L libertarian world, there should be no “limited liability companies”. Just people doing business as. You might have “groups” operating under a “trade name” but liability would be unlimited but shared under a contractual arrangement. Thus a “BP” would be responsible for cleanup and damages.
(Sigh!)
But we are NOT in my little L libertarian world.
If the thief has ways of recovering some of your wealth, then, as a principle of common law, I must mitigate my loss.
Some libertarians believe that “true libertarians” should be “pure” and complete forego any voluntary interaction with the Gooferment. These are the anarcho capitalist faction.
Some libertarians believe that “true libertarians” should be confrontational and get in the Gooferment’s grill at every opportunity. These are the social action / peaceful civil disobedience faction. (Think like Gandhi. Of course, it is never moral to initiate force or violence. It’s always moral to defend yourself. In proportion. Can’t kill a politicians and bureaucrats because they rob you of a few dollars. But, in Ruby Ridge, Waco, or Kelo, you defend vigorously.)
Some libertarians believe that “true libertarians” should pick their battles. Steal anything you can back if you can. Pay when you have to. So, each time an opportunity to “interact” with the Gooferment appears, you decide: comply, ignore , or “snipe”. One motivation is to recover lost wealth or liberty. One is to demonstrate the Gooferment’s oppression. One is to gum up the works (i.e., pay tickets in pennies; use their system against them to demonstrate to them or others that they are tyrants).
My EEO post was that the Gooferment permits another part of itself (i.e., corporations) to injure people while the Gooferment is claiming to champion the people and protect them from age discrimination. It circles back on itself. If you look at “corporations” as part of the Gooferment, then the illusion really dissolves.
Does that make sense? Strip away the costumes & labels, and it all seems much clearer.
imho,
fjohn
p.p.s., For example, that’s why like the “University of Maryland” is really the Gooferment in disguise. And, they should not be allowed to fool “We, The People” with different costumes and labels. It’s just all just Gooferment. Big! Overpowering! And, ubiquitous. They call themselves the UoM but it’s just an extension of Big Government. When you total up, you have to figure: politicians and bureaucrats added to all the people who are the “feeders at the trough” of Big G!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://freekeene.com/2010/08/13/n-david-krouses-closing-speech-in-nashua-district-court/
N. David Krouse’s Closing Speech in Nashua District Court
August 13, 2010 by N. David Krouse
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The destruction and damage to peoples lives far in excess of anything a drug itself does, must stop. Drug prohibition has gone on long enough and must end, and the struggle to end it must start somewhere.
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Like (alcohol) Prohibition, Drug Prohibition must end.
It’s no one else’s business what some one puts in their body.
Don’t ask me to pay for cleaning up after your bad choices. And, especially, don’t force me to pay to cage these people.
Focus on the criminals who initiate force or fraud upon peaceful people.
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Posted by reinkefj
Dear Reader:
I told the story of how I first started to give blood in Jasper Jottings back in 2005.
http://www.jasperjottings.com/2005/jasperjottings20051023.htm
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Like the good Brother who encouraged me to give blood for the first time with the exhortation, “you’re probably not too stupid to bleed right … …
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I started giving and it seemed easy enough. I never kept track of how much I gave over the years. But it was a lot. Never thought too much about it. Just a function of habit. Have an opportunity present and I’d go bleed.
(Always thought about that forgotten Brother, and wonder if he thought we all got smarter with age?)
That ALL changed in the last five weeks.
Frau was in the ER, CCU, and various parts the hospital. She had a (still) unexplained blood loss. She required 26 pints over the 5 weeks in and out of the hospital as the various doctors tried to figure it out. The magic liquid just came every time it was called for.
Wasn’t until today, when I received an email from the Red Cross about donating blood, that it really clicked.
It was this past week end, when they gave her steroids, and the blood loss slowed to a manageable pace. (She’s on a pace that says she’ll need a pint in a month.) Not a cure by any means, BUTT (there’s always a big but), if those 26 people hadn’t made time to donate, we’d be having a completely different blog post.
Now, evidently, we have good health insurance, since no one has asked me to replace or pay for the blood she’s needed.
But, believing in the Law of Karma, I’d like to replace those 26 pints. Since I don’t have 26 to spare, it would take me a few years to satisfy that “cosmic debt”. (Even though, I’ve probably “pre paid” it.) So I’m going to ask for your help.
We don’t need a formal “directed donation” of O+. But, I would appreciate if you would donate a pint. In her name, for her: “Frau Reinke”.
p.s., don’t tell her, she’d be embarrassed at the attention and mad at me for make her the center of attention.
By way of “reward”, or “punishment” depending upon your view point, I will enter everyone who donates a pint into a raffle for an autographed copy of “CHURCH 10●19●62”. Value somewhere between zero and about $60. Contest runs between now and the last day of September. Please email or mail me some evidence of the donation. I’ll figure out some way to get a random number.
Thanks for considering this request.
fjohn
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It is often difficult to collect enough blood to meet the needs of patients during the summer months. With schools out and families on vacation, it’s important for eligible donors to come forward and give the gift of life.
All blood types are needed, especially types O negative, A negative, and B negative.
Please call 1-800-RED CROSS (800-733-2767) or CLICK HERE http://www.redcrossblood.org/make-donation to find a convenient donation opportunity and to schedule an appointment.
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Posted by reinkefj
US breast cancer drug decision ‘marks start of death panels’
America’s health watchdog is considering revoking its approval of the drug Avastin for use on women with advanced breast cancer, leading to accusations that it will mark the start of ‘death panel’ drug rationing.
By Nick Allen, in Los Angeles and Andrew Hough
Published: 10:07PM BST 16 Aug 2010
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Avastin, the world’s best selling cancer drug, is primarily used to treat colon cancer and was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2008 for use on women with breast cancer that has spread.
It costs $8,000 (£5,000) a month and is given to about 17,500 women in the US a year. The drug was initially approved after a study found that, by preventing blood flow to tumours, it extended the amount of time until the disease worsened by more than five months. However, two new studies have shown that the drug may not even extend life by an extra month.
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Every one sneered at Sarah for “death panels”. However it appears she was right. It’s one thing if a patient decides to forego the drug. Even if it’s just that they don’t have the money. But, when politicians and bureaucrats make decisions based on money, it doubtful that this is in our best interests.
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Posted by reinkefj
Is anyone listening to this?
Is he serious? “Social Security is NOT in crisis.” And the stock market diversification is “risky” because in 2006 the market went down.
Social Security is generally stipulated to be a negative return on investment of between 1 and 3 per cent. Compare that to the average 8 to 10 percent over any decade. (Even if you put your thumb on the scale, there are only 3 out 20 plus ten year periods where the return is negative or below 5%. Argh!)
And, why do we have “enforced savings”? Are people to stupid to balance their current and future needs?
Argh!
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Stossel does a much better job of skewering the economically illiterate BHO44!
http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/19/obama-demagogues-private-enter
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused Sharron Angle, who’s challenging Reid’s re-election bid in Nevada, of “raiding” the Social Security trust fund because Angle has talked about phasing out Social Security. There are two problems with that statement—as Reid must know: First, there never has been a trust fund! Your FICA tax payments were not saved or invested. Social Security transferred them to current retirees. Second, in return for IOUs, Congress raided Social Security’s budget surplus every year and spent like any other tax revenue.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://cafehayek.com/2010/07/monopoly-privilege-agents-are-skilled-at-verbal-legerdemain.html
Monopoly-Privilege Agents are Skilled at Verbal Legerdemain by Don Boudreaux on July 24, 2010
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Translation: “Ambassador Ron Kirk is committed to holding the interests of American consumers hostage to the interests of American corporations and labor unions. He is tough in his determination to ensure that any trade deals struck on his watch will shield politically powerful U.S. producers from the competitive consequences of free consumer choice.”
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The Gooferment is not our friend. It’s has its own agenda. That’s rewarding those who put money in the pockets of politicians and bureaucrats. Can anyone explain price controls — ceilings or floors — that benefits “We, The People”?
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Posted by reinkefj
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FJohn Reinke
Consultant at Technology Legacies LLC
Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
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Philosophy of Liberty
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