RANT: How sad to kill anyone

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Wartime Disposability

At http://www.avoiceformen.com is an excellent article by Jon Gunnarsson called, “The Pinnacle Of Male Disposability” that highlights how men throughout history have always been considered expendable by politicians, and even the people they protect. An example is the White Feathers, a group of upper-class British women during WWI who would hand out white feathers to any man not in uniform as a sign of cowardice to shame them into enlisting. This included boys as young as 15 who lied about their age so they could enlist and die.

Wes Carr wesjcarr@yahoo.com

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I guess if we had drafted women then there would have been a different reaction.

(I’m very much against using women i this fashion. Or, men for that matter.)

If we were Israel where there is no safe “rear”, or the enemy was landing on the coast. (Unless they had quarters to play the games.)

I have moved completely from my youth when I believe everything our Gooferment said.

Gulf of Tolkin changed that. Then I started to really study my history.

Somewhere along the way, for anyone who cares, I became a miniarchist almost an anarchist.

Wish I could say I was finished in my political maturaton.

I’m going to be more of a loon as I get I get older.

I could cry over the youngsters and their stupidity.

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MEMORIES: Our Girl loved Grentz’s and her coaching

Monday, August 19, 2013

http://www.news-gazette.com/associated-press/2013-08-19/grentz-wins-lapchick.html

Grentz wins Lapchick

Mon, 08/19/2013 – 10:11am | The Associated Press
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Photo by: Rick Danzl

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NEW YORK — Former Illinois coach — and women’s basketball pioneer — Theresa Grentz has been selected as a 2013 recipient of the Lapchick Character Award.

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We were season ticket holders in the old college avenue gym.

Before RU women were big time. 

Frau Reinke would pick me up at the train station so we could make the games on time.

I asked her once why it was so important to her.

“I know I could have done that if we weren’t so poor. Those girls have no idea how lucky they are.”

Makes me sad to think about it now.

Glad that Grentz is honored.

I know she has one fan in high places pulling for her.

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RANT: What did my grandmother know?

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/5-scary-food-secrets-corporations-dont-want-you-to-know.html

5 Scary Food Secrets Corporations Don’t Want You to Know
Diana Herrington
July 10, 2013
8:00 am

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If you just have to eat yogurt, choose plain, or you guessed it — read the label. Here’s an easy rule to go by: Don’t eat any ingredients that your grandmother wouldn’t have heard of!

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That’s easy enough for a fat old white guy injineer.

Neither my maternal grandmother, and surely my paternal grandmother, ever used “strange foods”.

Laff!

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FUN: After action report @tswift13 concert

Monday, July 15, 2013

Dear Ms. Swift (@tswift13):

Re: 13 July 2013 MetLife appearance

You are missing a large sales opportunity. Clearly, from the extremely long lines at your merchandise sales booth, you are missing a LARGE volume of sales. May I suggest that some one on your staff immediately look into these lost opportunities. While many swiftees will seek your merchandise online, some percentage of sales are lost forever. As well as the bad image!

Since I know you bring your own displays, you should consider your own vending machines to augment the process or at the very least include in a venue contract a maximum line length.

I am, of course, will to consult on this matter with you at no cost to you at you convenience.

fjohn
@reinkefj

#tswift #tswift13

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To the Met Life operators:

Good job reassigning most mens rooms to the ladies. Mond putting up some temporary signs direct us men to the few you have.

Bad job on the parking lot and traffic control. With all the engineering schools in the area, I can believe that exit traffic, and to some extent entering, is a disaster. I’ve been to many large venues that with bigger crowds empty faster. Last night, I saw an ambulance and trailing EMT truck stuck in the traffic with lights and sirens.  In addition, I’m astonish there wasn’t injuries mixing pedestrians and cars. I know I could do a better design job and I’m not that type of engineer.

fjohn

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RANT: Afghanistan = nothing to show for it

Monday, June 24, 2013

http://www.the-free-foundation.org/tst6-24-2013.html

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“We are leaving Afghanistan after 12 years with nothing to show for it but trillions of dollars wasted and thousands of lives lost. Afghanistan is a devastated country with a weak, puppet government—and now we negotiate with those very people we fought for those 12 years, who are preparing to return to power! Still we learn nothing.”

— Ron Paul

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Imagine if the Sheeple and Clovers could have seen who the ONLY anti-war candidate was.

And, he’s the “loon”?

As Clint Eastwood said: “I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean — you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it — they did there for 10 years.”

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SCANDAL: Initial post

Friday, June 21, 2013

I was listening on WMAL in DC and Joe deGenova rolled off lots of scandals. I thought under this heading that it would be useful to itemize them. 

_gate

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Obama-phone

Bengazhi – talking points 

Bengahzi – relief / stand down

NSA-gate

Sebelius HHS fundraising the Insurance companies

Holder – Fast and Furious

Holder – AP spyings

IRS – targeting Tea Party

Obama – food stamp fraud

…

I know I missed a lot.

Not that anyone cares.

No Sheeple or Clover will read my blog and wake up. 

But for my own sanity, I thought it would be useful to have a taxonomy.

For some future researcher if nothing else.

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RANT: How much do you do?

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

It’s sad to say but when do you draw the line?

… when it’s beyond your reach?

… when it’s beyond your care?

… or, when it is beyond your keen?

…

sometimes you just have to cut your losses?

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WRITING: At the end of the race?

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

My life is over,

Day is done.

You can say more, 

but you can not give me “extra innings”.

Nor would I want them.

When the game is irretrievable,

extending the game is insanity!

Best be done,

and move on to the next one.

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with apologies to McCarra-Fitzpatrick MaryAnn (MC1989)

fat old white guy injineers should not veture into Arts and Science!

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POLITICAL: Why do we have these TLAs?

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

http://lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w327.html

The FBI: An American Cheka
by William Norman Grigg

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From its inception, the Soviet secret police agency was engaged in what we now call “Homeland Security Theater.” The same could be said of the FBI, which actually had a nine-year head start on its Soviet counterpart. J. Edgar Hoover’s two chief priorities were the collection of what the Soviets would call kompromat on significant public figures – politicians, policy-makers, celebrities – and the management of his secret police agency’s public image. With the advent of COINTELPRO in the 1950s, the FBI became fully engaged in a campaign of surveillance, harassment, disruption, and assassination (if only by proxy) targeting political dissidents. Since that time, the FBI has been a fully realized political police organization, in every evil sense of that expression.

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I remember the FBI story with Jimmy Stewart.

If I’d been paying attention I’d have seen the flaws.

Right at the beginning, a “federal agency” to handle interstate crime.

How could I have been so stupid?

The Goofermentcreates the problem with Prohibition and Banking laws, then of course they need an agency to combat what they create.

Stupid!

Well, 60 years later, I’ve wised up.

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JOBFINDING: Security Risk and Vulnerability Consultant Chicago

Thursday, May 9, 2013

In case you know of anyone actively looking – Security Risk and Vulnerability Consultant Needed. Multiple Roles. The windy city…

Resumes need to be submitted by Wednesday 4/24 by 12noon CST

This is a contract position with one of the largest healthcare insurance providers in the US. This consultant would be working out of Chicago for between $80-$105/hour, for the next three months utilizing their experience and background identifying security vulnerabilities. Security researcher hat on here. Enterprise level.

They will be conducting application analysis, network analysis and debugging – reporting the security vulnerabilities and the risks they present to all levels of stakeholders within the department. They will also be recommending mitigating solutions to remediate the risks found. Working with a very cool team of cats…not the meow kind…although they could be construed as such…from a herding perspective; they’re some of the best!

More details upon request. All the best –

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TINFOILHAT: Boston Bombing — Saudi connection

Friday, April 26, 2013

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/26/oreilly-to-beck-on-saudi-national-story-were-always-willing-to-give-you-a-hearing/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share+Buttons

GOVERNMENT
O’REILLY TO BECK ON SAUDI NATIONAL STORY: ‘WE’RE ALWAYS WILLING TO GIVE YOU A HEARING’
Apr. 26, 2013 9:06am Mike Opelka

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During Thursday night’s episode of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, Glenn Beck discussed TheBlaze’s investigation into the government’s curious handling of the Saudi national who was questioned in the hospital after the Boston Marathon bombings.

The two former Fox colleagues talked about the possible reasons for DHS detaining the Saudi man and O’Reilly said he’s willing to give Beck “a hearing.”

Beck laid out the story to O’Reilly, showing him a copy of the front page of the report on Ali Abdulrahman Alharbi and explained that page two described the man as “armed and dangerous.”

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Clearly, we can not get the straight scoop from our politicians and bureaucrats.

Do any of the Sheeple and Clovers care?

Argh!

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A minor thought

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

God bless us all tonight.

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FUN: LOVE THAT LASTS!

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

“Oh, now there’s only one kind of love that lasts. That’s unrequited love. It stays with you forever.” – Woody Allen

Nah!

You hit the right opposite and you wake up several decades later and say “it was over in a minute”!

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Interesting: What are emotions?

Monday, April 15, 2013

“Are there any particular emotions that you want to explore?”

I’ve always thought in paradigms and memes!

Paradigm = how you perceive the real world.

Meme = the rules of thumb in how you react and process your perceptions?

My (now passed) wife taught me “loyalty” as a meme. And, “acceptance” (still not sure what that is?)

What’s “emotion”?

“love”, “hate”, “friendship”, “fraternity” … … ???

(Beats the hell out of me!)

“Fear” is emotion to expect the worse when the cop hit me with the blue lights look of a drunken drive. (He just had the wrong night?)

Is there another “architectural” construct of human beings that I am as unaware of as “Sheldon” in TBBT?

Argh!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Yahoo is not sending out the email!

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Distribute_Jasper_Jottings · Distribute Jasper Jottings

My Groups

Post Message Help
We’re sorry, but we were unable to complete your request at this time.

If you continue to receive this error for more than 48 hours, please contact our Customer Care team. We apologize for this inconvenience.

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[JR: Once again … yahoo is being uncooperative! It’s not sending out the email! Argh!!!  ]

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ADMINISTRATIVE: Blue hair?

Monday, April 1, 2013

I have challenge a friends daughter in law to a donation to the Autism charity of her choice if she’ll dye her hair blue. TO add a little zest, I’ve offered to dye mine blue if there’s a 500$ donation.

As Doctor Zia said: “No partial credit”; the price is 500$ in sum.

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POLITICAL: Where do the Second and First Amendment intersect? A fat old white guy injineer wants to know.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/federal-legislation/2013/3/us-senate-judiciary-committee-passes-semi-auto-and-private-sales-bans.aspx

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Semi-Auto and Private Sales Bans

Posted on March 15, 2013

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On March 12 and 14, the Senate Judiciary committee held two working sessions to deal with gun-related bills.

The result of those hearings was the passage of Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) S. 374, the “Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013”–which would criminalize virtually all private firearm sales, even temporary transfers–and Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) S. 150, the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2013.”

Both of these bills pose a direct threat to our Second Amendment rights and both were passed on party-line votes, with committee Democrats supporting the bills and all Republicans voting no.

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Respectfully, let’s apply these restrictions to the “First Amendment”?

You can blog, xerox, or anything else.

DO you think this is what the Dead Old White Guys had in mind?

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Donated a “double” of platelets

Saturday, February 23, 2013

On Friday, I did another “double”!

You doing anything important?

It is the Gift of Life.

Can’t get it any other way!

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Armed robbers snatch $50m in uncut diamonds from Brussels airport

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Armed robbers snatch $50m in uncut diamonds from Brussels airport

Reads like a Hollywood movie. And, reeks of an inside job. No dye packs? Seems like a lame security setup. And, airports that can be entered like a shool playground. Have the suicide bombers taught us nothing. Anyone ever heard of a culvert? 

Argh!

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GUN: Put to good use

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

GUN: Put to good use

Homeonwer wins one. And, that is why you need full auto and big mag. 

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RANT: Where are the bananas?

Monday, February 11, 2013

I must be getting old and stupid?

I read the artcle that said make bananas last longer by separating the siblings. And, wrapping the tops in saran wrap.

So I bought a bunch green at WalMart.

Gottem home, separated them, knotted each individually into its own walmart bag, and stored them in different places. IN the crock pot, in the microwave, in the dish cabinet, in the food cabinet.

Now I’m concerned I haven’t found them all. I think there are two unacounted for?

Argh!

When my executrix cleans out the place, I’m sure she’ll find them.

LAFF!

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Pope Benedict XVI in shock resignation

Monday, February 11, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI in shock resignation

Prayers for the man and his sucessor. 

Alzheimers?

One of my fears.

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MONEY: Banking cartel is a bandit that doesn’t move; how stupid are we?

Friday, February 8, 2013

http://lewrockwell.com/orig9/polleit5.1.1.html

Banking and the State

by Thorsten Polleit

 

At other end of the spectrum is the stationary bandit. Like the roving bandit, he also holds the monopoly of coercion over his victims.

However, the stationary bandit has an encompassing interest in society’s welfare. He wishes to keep his victims producing: the more his victims produce, the more there is to take for the stationary bandit.

Sharing in society’s losses, the stationary bandit will make sure that his thievery is limited. The higher the losses in production from thievery are, the lower will be the level of aggression at which the stationary bandit’s take is maximized. The stationary bandit’s time preference will therefore be lower than the time preference of the roving bandit.

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A great discription of the Federal Reserve System, (which isn’t Federal; reserves nothing; and only a ‘system’ as like OPEC for money!), “stationary bandit”!

Argh!

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POLITICAL: WH ever heard of the First?

Monday, February 4, 2013

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/02/02/White-House-Warns-Don-t-Photoshop-Obama-Gun-Pic

“This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.”

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I would really laff my butt off if this is photoshopped FROM the WH!

I just doubt is veracity.

Unless someone did some funky stuff, how did the get the plumes?

And, is the Prez a lefty shooter?

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RANT: The Gooferment and highways

Monday, January 21, 2013

Any suspicion that the sign diverting “thru traffic” on to the Richmond 295 bypass, was to feed “speeders” into the radar traps set up there?

YEah, it was just coincidence!

And, I’m lucky in that I smeeled a rat and set the cruise at 60. (Five under!) And watched them ruin some ppor slobs day off!

Coincidence my A double q!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: PIcking up a lot of followers

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Interesting in that follows from WordPress are other bloggers. Don’t really understand it. Have a lot more followers than readers. Maybe my stuff provides a springboard for someone to write something different. Strange. 

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