Here’s a site to keep your bucket list.
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SERVICE: A site where you can keep your “bucket list” and get suggestions
Sunday, February 15, 2009
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POLITICAL: Abortion is genocide
Saturday, February 14, 2009http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87549
The George Bailey Effect
Posted: January 31, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
By Larry Burkett
Editor’s note: The late Larry Burkett, popular Christian financial counselor and author, penned this article in 1998. It is a compelling “response” to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent statement that the economy benefits from “family planning.” Joseph Slife contributed to this column.
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As the preceding evidence demonstrates, abortion is not simply a matter of private conscience, but of public concern. Abortion-on-demand has effects that are rippling throughout our society and could even threaten our future liberties.
This is why abortion, even if all moral arguments are totally discounted, cannot be ignored in framing public policy. Simply writing off abortion as a “moral” or a “religious” issue is a short-sighted approach that fails to reckon its economic and demographic consequences.
We can’t undo the past, of course. We can’t undo the fact that we have had 35 million George Baileys, people never born, people whose lives were never allowed to touch other lives. Indeed they have left an “awful hole.” But for the sake of our nation’s economic future and national security, as well as its moral character, we must resolve to promote from this time forward an ethic that is pro-family and pro-children. Only then can America continue to have a wonderful life.
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When Pelosi and the Obama Democrat “liberals” advnace the pro-abortion agenda, everyone has to think of the “George Bailey” effect.
Have we aborted the future of America?
Like a self-imposed genocide.
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LINKEDIN: Notes don’t seem to be working?
Saturday, February 14, 2009I added a note to a contact, saved it, and xed out. Coming back the note is “gone”?
Any ideas?
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GAMBLING: One way to cheat at roulette
Saturday, February 14, 2009http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/feds-bust-alleg.html
Feds Bust Ring of Alleged Casino Cheaters By Kevin Poulsen February 11, 2009 | 6:36:30 PM
Federal prosecutors in Tacoma, Washington are charging four alleged members of a cheating ring that hit roulette tables at three Indian casinos before being arrested last November.
The men are accused of pulling a simple scam that takes advantage of the variably-colored “non-value chips” issued at roulette tables to identify different gamers’ bets. Every player at the table is assigned one of eight colors. The chips have a default value of $1 each, but a high roller who wants to bet more on each spin can ask the croupier to count his chips at a higher value, such as $25.
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Here’s one way to win at roulette. One wonders at what level of theft it could be detected? Could it be done on a “retail” level?
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RANT: Media bias in the “witch hunt”
Saturday, February 14, 2009http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1878509_1878508,00.html
25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis
TIME’s picks for the top 25 people to blame for the financial crisis includes everyone from former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and former President George W. Bush to the former CEO of Merrill Lynch and you — the American consumer. As you read our choices, we’d like to know who you think deserves the most blame, and the least. After voting on the relative guilt (or innocence) of each person, view the full results here.
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Typical media bias. Missing from the choices: Congress, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, or any big Democrat!
Argh!
Probably imho this mess gets laid at the feet of the Fed: Greenspan and “Helicopter” Ben.
Next biggest tranche of blame: Frank and Dodd.
Then the “regulators” FED (again), SEC, FTC, FDIC, and so forth and so on.
Finally, Bush and Clinton
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POLITICAL: Is Obama “foreign born”?
Friday, February 13, 2009http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88746
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With Kreep out of town for a business trip, he did not respond immediately and the motion eventually was filed. It states that the records, which could reveal on what name Obama attended classes at Occidental and whether he attended on scholarship money intended for foreign students, “are of no relevance to this moot litigation.”
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What’s to hide, Mister President?
We will not be “shocked” if this comes out eventually that he was “foreign born”. As in, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca.
Inquiring minds want to know!
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MONEY: How does burdening future generations help us?
Friday, February 13, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/01/republicans_won.html
In the House Republicans’ meeting with Obama on January 27th, Maryland’s sole Republican Congressman, Roscoe Bartlett, said it best:
“Mr. President, I probably come at this from a slightly different perspective. I remember when FDR beat Hoover in 1932. So I remember the Great Depression very well. I don’t remember any of the many government programs affecting the course of the Depression. Government programs didn’t work then; I don’t know why we think they would work now. Mr. President, I think our obsessive borrowing has fully mortgaged my kids and my grandkids. Now we’re working on mortgaging my two great-grandkids. Mr. President, I think it’s more than a little bit selfish to try to solve our economic problems which we created by burdening future generations yet to be born.”
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Sounds like this fellow should be Treasury Secretary!
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RANT: No one knows what is in the “stimulus bill”!
Friday, February 13, 2009DRUDGE: Dems Break Promise To Post Stimulus Bill Online For 48-Hour Public Airing…
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30697
SURPRISE! Dems Break Promise: Stimulus Bill to Floor Friday
by Connie Hair
02/12/2009
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In a press conference Thursday, the House Republican leadership spoke candidly about being kept out of the House-Senate conference on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid so-called “economic stimulus” bill. They confirmed they had not yet seen the text of the bill as of 4 p.m.
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he was unsure how many Democrats would vote with Republicans again on this bill but that he thought Republicans “may get a few” Democrats to side with them. The fact that the Demos have now broken their promise to have the public able to see the bill for 48 hours may drive more Dems into the Republican camp.
“[I] don’t know, ‘cause they haven’t seen the bill either,” Boehner said.
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They don’t need to READ THE BILL they are voting on. Do they?
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WRITING: Printing the final draft of Church
Friday, February 13, 2009Revision C!
Now we have to see how it comes out.
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TECHNOLOGY: The risks of cloud computing
Thursday, February 12, 2009Vista News (email newsletter)
Vol. 2, # 56 – Jan 29, 2009 – Issue # 65
Venturing into the Cloud – A Little Bit at a Time
Editor’s Corner
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One frequently expressed suspicion of the cloud computing concept is that the companies offering these services are a little like schoolyard drug dealers. The first ones are free, but once they get you hooked (that is, once the cloud replaces desktop applications completely), then they’ll start charging you for the service and you’ll have to keep paying and paying and paying to use your computer productively.
Folks don’t like that idea. They know that technically, they don’t “own” the software they buy in a box or download from a vendor’s web site, but they feel comfortable in the knowledge that after they pay a one-time licensing fee, they can use that program for as long as they want without paying more – at least until they change operating systems or hardware. The notable exception is antivirus and other anti-malware programs, but the rationale there is that you aren’t paying a subscription fee for use of the program itself, but for the new definitions that it has to download on a regular basis.
Most of the individual computer users I’ve talked to about this say that even if the overall cost turns out to be lower, they want to pay for their software up front instead of via a monthly or annual subscription. They absolutely hate the idea that if they stop paying, their applications will stop working (or in the case of storage services, they might be locked out of their data). It’s similar to the way most people would prefer to buy a car rather than leasing it; they like that feeling that it’s theirs until they decide to get rid of it, that someone can’t just take it away from them (although I guess in the case of most car buyers today, that’s just an illusion because the vast majority of folks finance their vehicles rather than paying for them in full).
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That’s the essential concern. Switch from free to pay?
No, I think the concern is that the “service” — free or pay — just goes away taking your data with it. Kodak pictures is the ONLY one that I’ve adopted and I have been EXTREMELY carefull to keep a complete backup. But it’s still a concern.
And, what do you do when you can’t get a network connect at a price you can afford?
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