POLITICAL: Where does the Ron Paul energy go?

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Where does the Ron Paul revolution (i.e., peace, nonintervention, economic freedom, personal liberty, sound money, and a drastically limited government) go?

The shell game of Republican and Democrat bigger gooferment prevents any other “choice”.

Argh!

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RANT: About the pork fest “stimulus” bill

Sunday, February 8, 2009

reinkefj has left a new comment on the post “Not as stimulating as we’d hopede“:

No? Tax cuts, when accompanied by spending cuts, don’t accomplish anything? Please explain how Kennedy’s “rising tide raises all boats” tax cut and Regan’s “government is the problem” tax cut ignited decades of prosperity. Guess it was just luck.

Personally, I’d like to see the congress critters ELIMINATE the corporate tax (corps don’t pay taxes they just pass them along to real people hidden in the prices), the death tax (grave robbers! destroy a person’s life’s work like the real family farm), and the regressive payroll tax (humorously referred to as the employee’s and employer’s share; like it all doesn’t come out of the employee’s pocket).

Of course, to pay for it, I’d close the Department of Agriculture (for rich psuedo farms), Commerce (for big business), HHS (meddling the State’s business and spend lots of money), … … did I pay for it yet? … … I’d end the psuedo-Drug War, pardon all non-violent drug offenders, shut down Selective Service, close Job Corps, Head Start, … … did I pay for it yet? … AMTRACK, Post Office, … … I must be close … … Repeal legal tender laws.

If we did that I’m SURE that there would be an economic boom that would rival any previous one.

I’d shut down the TSA, shut down welfare, and take the plastic bag off the Statue of Liberty. No illegal immigration problem if there are ZERO freebies. Everyone has to work. No free loaders in the life boat.

I’d task the FBI to review every fraudulent loan document and prosecute the fraudsters.

I think that would be a good first step! It’s easy once you get the country moving back towards Liberty!

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LIBERTY: Consider carefully where you will “land”!

Saturday, February 7, 2009

When I was but a wee lad, (OK I was never “wee”. And even “lad” might be doubtful. But play along!) before I graduated college, even before I found my soul mate, I went on vacation to Nevada. It was, at that time, a land of freedom. The Wild West. No speed limits, no drinking age, no gambling age, no taxes, not much gooferment, not much water. It was Paradise in the dessert. (Or desert!) I said to myself: “Boy, what great place to live. I should move here after graduation.” And, when vacation ended, I went home. And, forgot about it. (Guess I didn’t write it down. And, there were no blogs in those days to capture the possibilities.)

Lo and behold, I wake up many decades later and “Shouldas, wouldas, and couldas” are eating me alive. How would life have been different if I had moved for Freedom, Liberty, and the “Wild West”. Now, I’m “anchored” with the thousand strings that held Gulliver in Lilliput. And, old fart stuck in his ways.

But you’re not!

May I point out that there is another “land of freedom” emerging? The Free State Project is moving 20k Liberty Lovers to NH. They will transform the landscape. And, bring liberty to that State. Too late for me; not for you!

I urge you to take a jaunt to Porcfest and meet some pioneers.

Lest, like Scrooge, you wake up one Christmas morning, many decades from now and say “Shouldas, wouldas, and couldas”.

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PorcFest 2009 – Porcupine Freedom Festival

Celebrate and Explore the Live Free or Die Spirit!

Time and PlaceStart Time: Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 7:00am

End Time: Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 11:55pm

Location: Roger’s Campground Lancaster, NH

Contact InfoEmail: PorcFest@FreeStateProject.org

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JOBSEARCH: An interesting “job search” “social networking” site

Saturday, February 7, 2009

http://www.zumeo.com

Interesting approach to start. Should weed out the zombies and other strange people.

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SERVICE: Ruckus.com Shuts Down

Saturday, February 7, 2009

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/06/college-music-service-ruckus-shuts-down/

College Music Service Ruckus.com Shuts Down
by Jason Kincaid on February 6, 2009

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At around 5 PM EST today the site went down with a notice stating that it was undergoing an update. As of 5:30, it was displaying the shutdown notice seen above.
We’re told that music that has not passed its “renew date” still works, but that music that has expired will no longer work because the DRM licensing server has apparently shut down.
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And, people argue that “cloud computing” is the wave of the future?
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RANT: THE 1T$ poop

Saturday, February 7, 2009

The so called stimulus bill is a national disgrace. We may, in fact, need a stimulus for the economy. But, that issue, imho, is very much in doubt. If so, the way to do that is to ELIMINATE the corporate income tax. Corporations don’t pay taxes; people do. Corporations just pass taxes along and hide them in the price of goods sold. TO everyone; even poor people. (Eliminate the corporate tax and watch the foreign government REALLY complain about unfair competition.) That will jump start the economy! DOn’t come back to New Jersey and try to “sell” this stimulus as a good thing. If you want me to EVER vote for a D agin. THe D’s ‘own” this mess.

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SERVICE: JIBBERJOBBER as a Ventine’s Day gift? Sure!!!

Friday, February 6, 2009

Now this may sound dumb or unromantic but in these tough economic times, how about something that can help their significant other keep their earning power — Jibber Jobber. http://www.jibberjobber.com

(Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in Jibber Jobber. I’m not even an active user. I did alpha testing for Jason Alba the owner developer. But, I do help a lot of out of work folks who have no clue about networking. An, think this would be a very valuable gift.)

Assuming that the relationship is heading towards marriage or whatever today’s equivalent is, a gift subscription might make real sense. The couple could even cuddle up in front of a warm computer screen as the couple works to get all the significant others contacts into the Jibber Jobber database.

If both are yuppies, it could be a mutual gift and each could help motivate the other’s data collection and networking activities.

It may sound goofy, but it’s an off-beat cheap gift that can pay big dividends by next Valentine’s Day. Other than working on each other’s income taxes, I can’t think of a better couple building activity. After the flowers, chocolate, expensive dinner, and jewelry are long forgotten, JibberJobber will be paying big dividends.

Yeah, I know, I’m a real romantic. But romance ain’t going to keep the paychecks rolling in. Networking, assisted by the focus that JibberJobber gives, will pay off handsomely.

And, I bet you won’t see that suggestion in any other Valentine’s Day story!

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RANT: Tax revolt?

Friday, February 6, 2009

FROM FACEBOOK:

Bill Buran’s Notes

Complete hypocrisy by the Democrates on Taxes
Yesterday at 8:03pm

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Now I am against all form of income taxes and certainly try to limit my exposure, but I still unwillingly pay…more and more each year.

Yet…when a Democrat going for higher office knowingly does not pay taxes while insisting we all need to pay more to “spread the wealth”…I guess just not his wealth.

This angers me more each day and gives more reason to vote them all out…to be fair this goes for all in Congress and the Senate.

If a Democrat evades paying taxes that must paint a bigger picture of this insane overburden tax system.

So when do we all just say NO and stop giving our fruits of labor (private property) to a dysfunctional government.

Tax Revolt anyone????…..seriously!

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MY RESPONSE:

It’s actually worse than anyone thinks. Inflation is the hidden tax on all of us. Taxes, via corporations, are hidden in all we buy. Some taxes, like gas, and “fees”, like real estate closing taxes or car excise taxes, are added onto the purchase prices and become invisible to the buyer. And, the only indicator of the total tax load is the total gooferment spend. See tax reduction without spending reduction is an illusion. Inflation, debt, regulation, and “fees” are the “evil stepsisters” of the taxes we pay. We can’t even fathom how much we pay in taxes. It’s theft by deception!

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SERVICE: CNN LIVE VIDEO steals your bandwidth silently

Friday, February 6, 2009

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/090205/

Watch a live video, share your PC with CNN
By Brian Livingston

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Many people who watched live streaming video of the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Jan. 20 may not realize that their PC was used to send the video to other PCs, too.

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Watch the CNN Live Video, and you too may get booted by your ISP.

This is worth a five minute read about the “dirty pool” being played on users and ISPs. (I’m no fan of ISPs, but in this case they are being taken advantage of as well.)

Argh!

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JOBSEARCH: H1Bs benefit at the expense of American workers?

Thursday, February 5, 2009

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F24%2F078245&from=rss

Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 24, @08:18AM

from the checking-their-priorities dept.

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CWmike writes “US Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) told Microsoft this week that US citizens should get priority over H-1B visa holders as the software vendor moves forward on its plan to cut 5,000 jobs. ‘These work visa programs were never intended to allow a company to retain foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American workers, when that company cuts jobs during an economic downturn,’ Grassley wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The letter asked Microsoft to detail the types of jobs that will be eliminated and how those cuts will affect the company’s H-1B workers.”

Reader theodp adds, “On Friday, Microsoft coincidentally announced it would postpone construction of a planned $500 million data center in Grassley’s home state of Iowa, although work on data centers in Chicago and Dublin will continue.”

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Sounds like the “barbara streisand” is going to hit the proverbial fan.

I’m no fan of gooferment action. But corporations are creations of the gooferment.

Sounds like INS should yank 5k of H1Bs serving Microsoft. Today!?!

imho

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