Can I get some regular blood donations?
Got to get this done. I promised.
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ADMINISTRIVIA: Updated the platelet bag total to 52/75. This year might do it.
Monday, December 31, 2012
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POLITICAL: How much pork is in “Sandy” relief?
Monday, December 31, 2012*** begin quote ***
Dear Friend,
This is a critical week for New Jersey.
This week the United States Congress will vote on a Sandy Relief Package that will provide $60.4 billion to help New Jersey and other states recover and rebuild from the devastation of Superstorm Sandy.
While $60 billon is an incredible amount of money, numbers alone fail to paint the full picture of what we have seen throughout New Jersey. The full story lies in the faces of displaced people who find themselves homeless; their possessions and keepsakes gone. The full story lies with the small business owners who have had to shut their doors.
The preliminary damage estimate provided by Governor Christie is now up to $36.9 billion. So $60.4 billion in federal disaster relief funding to be spread across the region is a good start. But we must pass the Sandy Relief Package quickly, and in its entirety, so we can tell New Jerseyans that they are not alone; that all Americans are in this together. This vote says that we are ready as a nation to help families, businesses, and communities recover.
Yesterday, on the Senate floor, I once again made the case for New Jersey. I made the case for New Jersey families and small businesses still trying to recover; for homeowners in Little Ferry; shopkeepers in Moonachie; for every family who lost property and possessions all along the Jersey Shore and across the State; for our commuters who rely on public transportation to get to school and work; for those who lost power and went without fuel.
And, while some of my Republican colleagues may not be able to fathom the sheer scope of the damage, I explained that entire neighborhoods — where several generations of families lived in close-knit communities – are now gone; that thousands of decades-old small businesses are ruined. I pointed out that even though those scenes are no longer showing in living rooms across the country, it doesn’t mean that the recovery is over.
The need is clear for the passage of the entire Sandy Relief Package. A piecemeal recovery will be a stalled recovery and, in all likelihood, a failed recovery. And failure to recover and rebuild New Jersey’s infrastructure, economy, small businesses and communities is not an option.
This is one country: the United States of America. And when there was destruction along the entire Gulf Coast with Katrina, or a tornado in Joplin, Missouri, or crop destruction in the Midwest, we have come together as a nation to support these communities. The time is now for all members of Congress to stand with New Jersey, just as we have stood with them in times of crisis and natural disasters.
New Jersey has been battered, but we are not broken. We are stronger and more united in our efforts to work together to recover, rebuild, and recommit ourselves to uniting around our common concerns and shared values. That is the lesson we have learned, and together we will rebuild. The Garden State will bloom once again.
And I for one will not rest until the rebuilding is done.
Sincerely,
Robert Menendez
United States Senator
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Why, o why, am I so cynical?
What’s in the bill?
And, why is it a Federal problem?
Sorry, but the Gooferement isn’t insurance.
Or even kind.
The politicians and bureaucrats steal from us. distribute our own fnds, and then claim the mantle of sainthood for themselves.
Argh!
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GUNS: On Christmas Eve, trust but verify
Monday, December 24, 2012http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/12/15/get-ready/
Get Ready…
by eric
December 15, 2012
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A child could – should be able to – see through the infantile idiocy of banning handguns. (How’s that ban on arbitrarily illegal drugs – or murder, for that matter – working for you, Herr Schumer, Moore, et al?) People who feed on such pap are already over the event horizon and cannot be salvaged. It is the adults in the room – the people who can grasp the principle at stake – that must be the focus of our attentions. Who may still be reached before they, too, slip across the threshold and into the abyss. Taking the rest of us along with them, alas – if we fail to reach them before it’s too late.
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I personally object to calling man’s diktats from this king or any other “authority” a “LAW”.
Now the “Law of Gravity”, that’s a REAL LAW. Defy it at your peril.
The Gooferment, at any level, can’t keep drugs, cell phones, weapons, or other “contraband” out of their prisons. How can they hope to enforce any ban?
JPFO actively reminds us of what happens to a disarmed citizenry.
Remember Waco?
“Dial 911 and die”.
AND, remember that the Supreme COurt say that the State has no obligation to protect you.
SOOooo, it is up to you to protect yourself.
Arm the teachers. Arm anyone who wants to take up arms in defense of the body politic.
Let’s be at peace, by always being prepared for war.
No one loves peace more than old soldiers. So too, no one wants to be left alone than a gun owner.
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POLITICAL: Menendez jumps on the tragedy to do a gun grab!
Friday, December 21, 2012Dear Friend,
The senseless, horrific tragedy that took place in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday has shaken us all to our cores. We ask ourselves, why? Today, I spoke on the Senate floor to join with every American in expressing our deep and abiding grief as a nation and our deepest — most heartfelt — condolences to the families of the victims.
As the father of two, this strikes painfully close to my heart, painfully close to the heart of every parent. There is no greater sorrow — no deeper pain — than the enormous grief that these families are suffering: 20 innocent children, 6 teachers and school employees and their families. No parent should ever have to bear the unspeakable pain of losing a child, especially to this type of tragedy.
Enough is enough.
We must ensure the Newtown tragedy marks a turning point when we are all willing to come together and do what’s right. As we pray for the victims, I believe we must commit ourselves — as a nation — to a long-overdue debate about gun violence and how we help those who suffer mental illnesses in our society.
We must finally pass common sense gun laws. No more politics. No more excuses.
Sincerely,
Robert Menendez
United States Senator
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My response: “Repeal the gun free zones around schools. Allow the school folks to pack heat. Worked for the Israelis!
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ADMINISTRIVIA: Asserting ownership
Monday, December 17, 2012
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FUN: Hat, scarf, and gloves as heart attack prevention
Saturday, December 8, 2012http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/bennett-l4.1.1.html
Woolly Hats and Heart Attacks
by Lizzie Bennett
Medically Speaking
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Each winter there is a myriad of articles published warning us about the dangers of hypothermia, how to spot it and what to do about it. There are articles warning about cold injuries such as frostbite, warnings to the elderly about the dangers of not keeping at least one room warm. Warnings to get the boiler serviced in case carbon monoxide builds up if its faulty. We are warned that we may need extra vitamins, warned to drive carefully, warned to take care if using candles and warned not to leave the lights on the Christmas tree switched on overnight. Not once, anywhere in this plethora of warnings have I heard the one that warns you that you are more likely to suffer a heart attack if you don’t wear a warm hat in cold weather.
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Makes a believer out of me.
Interesting that my work location is always cold. Even in summer time.
The women are always saying it. And, recently, I couple of ties I felt it. Power of Suggestion? Anyone who knows me that I like it at “Meat Locker” temps. Wife used have a blanket when we took car trips. (Although I always thought she was being sarcastic.)
Maybe there is something to the article.
Maybe if I wear a hat, gloves, and a scarf in the office they think I’ve gone around the bend and pay men off?
Then, it’ll off to New Hampshire to get warm.
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POLITICAL: Voluntary?
Thursday, November 22, 2012http://ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle697-20121118-01.html
THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE
Number 697, November 18, 2012
Letters to the Editor
Letter from A.X. Perez
Re: “Making ‘Voluntary’ Service Mandatory—One Step At A Time”, by C. Jeffery Small
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I continue to be amazed that people who call Heinlein’s Starship Troopers fascistic for suggesting that honestly voluntary service a condition of voting or holding office
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What was wrong with that concept?
I always thought that this would filter out the grifters and war mongers!
Remember Heinlein’s idea was not just warriors, but all sorts of dirty dangerous jobs that make one value being part of the body politic.
sigh!
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political: am i just being a grinch?
Monday, November 19, 2012I was listening over the net to NJ101.5 to get info about Seaside Heights.
The Guv’s wife, Mary Pat, was on touting the Guv’s amd Ms Guv’s charity.
Now I’m sure that she’s a very nice lady, but doesn’t anyone see a “structural problem”.
The government is taking over “charity”.
In the old days, “relief societies” were formed. Fraternal organizations abounded. Churches were virogous.
I remember reading how after the Chicago fire folks were helped with loans and such. There was networking and judgement. The able body were shown were work was available. Loans were provided and paid back. The truly devastated were taken in.
So what I see is that cradle to grave, Mommy Government will take care of all your needs. Daddy Government will hand out welfare checks.
Handouts are not a hand up.
Only by affiliation can people be truly moved out of poverty. They walk out of it by their own efforts with help and guidance of good people helping. Not doing for.
Sorry, but I guess I am the modern embodiment of old Ebenezer!
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RANT: Taking the pledge … only predict Libertarian races
Thursday, November 8, 2012After Tuesday night’s stunning … …
… (to me; how could the Catholic, the Jews, and the under/un employed be so dumb?) …
… … results, I’ll refrain from further political predictions.
Got the electoral count right; just got it the wrong way.
In light of my “great success” as political predictor, I’ll retire with my record of incorrect calls. Like the weathermen, I just keep you amused with know-it-all blather
I will now begin the litany of: “Don’t blame me, I voted for Ron Paul”, “Shut up and enjoy Obamacare”, and my personal l favorite “Have you heard about the Free State Project? I’m moving nlt January 2017”.
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ADMINISTRIVIA: Demonstrating that 51F may have survived
Thursday, November 1, 2012
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