Reinke Faces Life

FROM A LINKEDIN QUESTION

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Do you think we can drive new concepts, lifestyles, value systems… “Our Values – powered by IP – us / WE?”

Do you think we can drive new concepts, lifestyles, value systems… “Our Values – powered by IP – us / WE?” Can we come together and help the world through LinkedIn.com while at the same time help our own? Through groups of the smartest and brightest from around the world, can we create this next revolution online?

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Implicit in the question is a collectivist concept. The “we”. Is there ever a “we”? Does there have to be a “we” to accomplish worthy goals? I answer a question with a question deliberately.

The “invisible hand” of Adam Smith’s “free market” has no “we” in it! (Like there is no eye in team?) It’s just a bunch of very greedy people each selfishly pursuing what they perceive as “best” as measure by their own self interest. Walk through WalMart and see what the “free market” produces for you.

In addition, that very greedy behavior is essentially cooperation. It’s accomplished by inducing one’s fellow man into giving you one or more “certificates of appreciation”. Satisfy another person’s needs and you get to satisfy yours.

The Mayflower colonists starved because of “collectivism” and thrived when they discovered “greed”.

I’d suggest that by chasing our own individual dreams vigorously, and unhampered by the collectivists (i.e., governments, communists, socialist, and “do gooders” of all ilks) then “good things” will appear as if by magic.

If one insists that there is a “we”, then I think those good things will be delayed.

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Corporate Altruism?
By Robert Ringer

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“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right,
greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms;
greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked
the upward surge of mankind.”

– “Gordon Gekko” in the movie Wall Street (1987), screenplay by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone

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The fact is that greed is neither good nor bad. It is simply a human trait. Greed is technically defined as “an excessive desire to acquire more than what one needs or deserves.” And since no one has either the moral authority or omniscience to decide what is excessive (let alone what a person needs or deserves), what greed really means is desire. And everyone has desires – for wealth, power, prestige, love, understanding. No end to the list.

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It’s very interesting the paradox for greed.

One can only get rich by making your fellow humans give you certificates of appreciation. (Money!) The more you serve others the more certificates you earn. You can exchange these certificate for the goods and services of your fellow human.

So be as “greedy” as your miserable nasty grim soul drives you to be.

It means you are actually cooperating in the strange Kabuki dance that we call the “free market”.

It fascinates me that “greed” actually drives “social cooperation”.

You have to admire the Intelligent Designer’s sense of humor!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/peterson-brent1.html

How Much Did the Ancients Know?
by Brent Peterson

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The amazement at how a German monk knew what South America looked like before any European supposedly had been there isn’t well placed when such aspects were common of maps made at the time. We know that this knowledge came from maps that were very old when mapmakers compiled the information in the 15th to 17th centuries. There really isn’t any mystery to the creation of the maps themselves. The mystery is what is our real past? If we could ask these mapmakers of five centuries ago, they could not answer us. They were just the last in a long line of people who copied and preserved very ancient knowledge. Whatever our real history is, I know it isn’t the neat and tidy story we were taught in school.

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The hell with the ancients, how much do we really KNOW?

It seems that each week, we “uncover” more. More data, more information, more knowledge that indicates what we think we know is either mistaken, wrong, or just flat out wacky.

Just in the last few months, personally, I have read “Day of Deceit” that indicts FDR for inducing Pearl Harbor (If not actually, preventing its detection and mitigation). I read an article about another Kennedy assassination attempt prior to Dallas. And, see a flow of items that cast doubt about what was taught in “history”.

Certainly, maybe Mark Twain was righter than he knew. About what we think we know hurting us.

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FROM SMALL GOVERNMENT EMAIL

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IN THE FIRST 5 DAYS OF DECEMBER, WE’VE ALREADY GOTTEN AS MUCH
MASSACHUSETTS NEWS COVERAGE AS WE DID IN THE FIRST YEAR – THE FIRST
365 DAYS – OF OUR 2002 BALLOT INITIATIVE TO END THE INCOME TAX
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ABC Boston, MSNBC, Concord Monitor, Nashua Telegraph, front page
Boston Metro, WBZ, WBUR, WRKO, the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe,
Worcester Telegram and Gazette, SoCo Magazine, numerous talk radio
shows, several news radio shows, plus cable and broadcast TV news.

Six years ago, the Boston News Media tried to silence us and black us
out.

Then, in November 2002, our first END the Income Tax Initiative in
Massachusetts got 885,683 votes – 45%. We did it with volunteers, a
small budget, and advertising spending of less than $89,000.

And in the last 6 years, the Internet has become a 900-pound
information gorilla. Internet News and Opinion Media now drive old-
economy, Mainstream Newspapers, Radio, and TV News coverage.

The Internet is shattering the information control and gate-keeping by
Newspaper, Radio, and TV News Sources.

The Internet says, “No more censorship and news control by the
Mainstream Media and for the Mainstream Media.”

This is why we’ve already gotten as much Massachusetts News Coverage
in the first 5 days of this month for our 2008 Ballot Initiative to
END the Income Tax as we got in the first YEAR – the first 365 days –
of our 2002 Ballot Initiative to End the Income Tax.

See this (12/3/07) article in the New York Times’ OWNED Worcester
Telegram and Gazette:

http://www.telegram.com/article/20071203/NEWS/712030628

Or see Howie Carr’s column in the Boston Herald (12/02/07)

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1048284

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Imagine if these nuts can roll back the Income Tax in Taxachusetts?

It would be stunning.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_drugs/6

How America Lost the War on Drugs
After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever: An Anatomy of a Failure.
Ben Wallace-Wells
Posted Nov 27, 2007

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Even by conservative estimates, the War on Drugs now costs the United States $50 billion each year and has overcrowded prisons to the breaking point – all with little discernible impact on the drug trade.

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Isn’t insanity defined as doing more of the same and expecting different results?

Don’t need a long article to say you can NOT stop someone from using drugs. All you can do is minimize the harm to others.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/genocide_nearly_forgotten_by_h.html

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Through an interpreter, I asked Darina if she had any memory of Stalin. And this kindly proud old lady who has toughed through everything that humanity (The Nazis came through the Ukraine on their way to Stalingrad) and Mother Nature can throw at a person and survived it, became visibly frightened and started to shake. So many years after Stalin and the Soviets left the stage, what they did still terrifies her. She was unable to speak about it.

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Interesting!?

What scares the … out of a little old lady?

The thought of a gooferment genocide, what it has cost her, and what it still might do to her.

Wow, that is pretty powerful reporting. We should take heed.

It CAN happen here (i.e., Japanese Interment; the American Indian; Southern Lynchings, Waco)!

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/11/28/bitter_partisan_politics

Bitter Partisan Politics
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

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The reason why these issues produce conflict is because education is government-produced. That means there’s either going to be prayers or no prayers, “intelligent design” or no “intelligent design” and sex education or no sex education. If one parent has his wishes met, it comes at the expense of another parent’s wishes. The losing parent either must grin and bear it or send his child to a private school, pay its tuition and still pay property taxes for a school for which he has no use.

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Don’t forget that there is a whole segment of the population that are being robbed (i.e., those without children) who have “no dog in that fight”.

I’d like the gooferment out of education completely. Period.

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-11-25_D8T4MUPO0&show_article=1&cat=breaking

Social Security to Become Key Issue
Nov 25 08:47 AM US/Eastern
By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Three years after the collapse of President Bush’s plan for private Social Security accounts, Republican presidential contenders are eager to try again. Not so the Democrats, who gravitate toward increasing payroll taxes on upper-income earners to fix the program’s finances.

With the notable exception of former Sen. Fred Thompson, a Republican, presidential hopefuls in both parties shy away from suggestions that might offend their own primary voters. As a result, bipartisan commissions to resolve the program’s long-term financial problems are in. And longer waits for retirement are most definitely out.

Thompson’s proposal, by contrast, includes lower-than-promised benefits for future retirees, as well as new private accounts to make Social Security solvent for 75 years. “If somebody’s got a better idea let them put it on the table,” he said recently, daring his rivals.

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How about the gooferment just get out of the Social Security “business” now?

It’s Ponzi scheme. The scheme is unraveling. And, with most such schemes, the last ones in are the losers.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3902495&page=1

44 Years After JFK’s Death, New Assassination Plot Revealed
Just Three Weeks Before Dallas, Feds Uncovered Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago, Says Ex-Secret Service Agent
By CHUCK GOUDIE, WLS-TV
Nov. 22, 2007

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A former Secret Service agent has told WLS-TV there was a plot to kill President Kennedy in Chicago three weeks before he was assassinated in Dallas.

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Wow!

There’s a block buster. I’m not conspiracy theorist, but you have to wonder.

What else don’t we know?

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I was doing my daily work. (I’m anal. I have a little routine.) And, wow, was I shocked to find an obit for one of my fellow Prepsters, Prep64sters, Prep-64-er-ista, … fellow high school alums.

Reflecting back, I knew so little about him. I call that my “oblivious phase” — covering most of my life. Argh! He was an “old” guy. In high school, it was our first real exposure to “different people”. In Catholic grammar school, everyone was from the same parish other than the Jewish kid and some odd folks from outside the parish whose parishes didn’t have schools. In the age band, he was one of the “old” guys and I was one of the “young” ones. Silly the distinctions that were made. Our school divided up into “smart” and “dumb”. Even within the class, we were seated by alphabet and he was close to me. It is just shocking to me.

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http://www.unrlibertarians.com/2007/11/ron-paul-sweeping-northern-nevada.html

Monday, November 19, 2007
Chalking the US Constitution

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Members of the Ron Paul Pack and the College Libertarians chalked the entire constitution in front of Lawlor in preparation for Ron Paul!
I admit, I had my doubts, but it turned out great, and we got many thousands of words out on the concrete! Check out the photos!
Pictures taken by: Kelly

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Wow, you have to see the pictures. Some people put in a ton of work!

Impressive!

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071120_ron_paul_does_the_math

Cheering for Ron Paul
Posted on Nov 20, 2007
By Robert Scheer

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That money could have paid for a lot of things we could have used here at home. As Rep. Paul points out, for what the Iraq war costs, we could present each family of four a check for $46,000—which exceeds the $43,000 median household income in his Texas district. He asks: “What about the impact of those costs on education, the very thing that so often helps to increase earnings? Forty-six thousand dollars would cover 90 percent of the tuition costs to attend a four-year public university in Texas for both children in that family of four. But, instead of sending kids to college, too often we’re sending them to Iraq, where the best news in a long time is they [the insurgents] aren’t killing our men and women as fast as they were last month.”

How damning that it takes a libertarian Republican to remind the leading Democratic candidates of the opportunity costs of a war that most Democrats in Congress voted for. But they don’t need to take Paul’s word for it; last week, the majority staff of the Joint Economic Committee in Congress came up with similarly startling estimates of the long-term costs of this war.

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It is interesting when one hears costs put into comprehensible terms. I can imagine how that mythical family of four feels when they hear that they could have invested in their children or paid for the “emperor’s new clothes” (i.e., we can have ‘peace in our time’, ‘make the world safe for democracy’, ‘turn back the yellow hordes’, or what ever the phrase is for the next war). Sigh!

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http://seekingalpha.com/article/54831-the-5-stages-of-grieving-over-the-u-s-dollar

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Finally, stage five, acceptance. The foreign currencies rise to sustainable levels versus the US dollar. Inflation and real economic activity decline in the foreign countries. They begin buying more goods and services from the US, and dollar claims are redeemed. Inflation and interest rates rise in the US, as we have to produce more to pay off the dollar reserves now being redeemed by foreigners. (Send us goods and it will pay off your debts! Amazing how the US got good terms on both sides of the transaction.”)

Well, maybe. It will take a while before all major trading parties in the world float/adjust their currencies to fair levels. At the time that happens, though, it will be obvious that the US is less important to the global economy. The relative value of all US assets will be a smaller proportion of global assets, though it will still likely be the largest share in the world. My view is this process to get to stage five will take no more than 10 years.

By that point, the hopelessness of Federal social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare, plus underfunded Federal and state retirement plans, will force benefit reductions and tax increases on the US, and crimp borrowing capacity, unless they borrow in a currency other than dollars.

There are five stages of grieving for US social welfare programs as well, but I am afraid we are only in the first stage now, denial.

That is a topic for another day, and not one that I am excited to talk about.

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Happy tday! Enjoy it. The tough times are most certainly coming.

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http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle444-20071118-02.html

The River Rubicon
by L. Neil Smith
The Libertarian Enterprise

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Seven years ago—although thanks to the horrors of George Bush’s reign of state terrorism it seems vastly longer than that—the Waco Willy Clinton administration, ever fearful that Americans might be equipped for and capable of defending themselves from its predations, served up a list of 83,000 human sacrifices on the altar of victim disarmament.

“Victim disarmament” is the accurate term for “gun control”, as its principal purpose and effect is to render the act of self-defense impossible. Its visible effect on gun-grabbers in public debate is soul-satisfying.

Those 83,000 names belonged to military veterans suffering from disabilities like “post-traumatic stress disorder”, a phenomenon as old as war itself—it’s been called many different things: “shell shock”, “combat fatigue”—but which genuine science (as opposed to the primitive religion known as “psychology”) knows very little about. The names were added to the National Criminal Information System (NCIS) presumably so they would be red-flagged by a Brady background check and their owners could thereby be deprived, for highly dubious pseudomedical reasons, of their Constitutional right to buy or own firearms.

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Do you think perhaps that the congress critters might be a little afraid of having such a large segment of the population armed and unhappy? The fact that the gooferment has screwed over “the troops” in various wars has been well established. This war is no different. Leaving aside the media biases, which during the Clinton era swept “vet gets screwed” stories to the dust bin of history and now regales us with “vet gets screwed” stories on the front page because the White House is held by the “other team”, leave that aside, it’s an article of faith that the first casualty of war is truth. And, boy, do we have a lot of wars going, foreign and domestic. War on Drugs, which is really against our own people. War on Terror, (how does one make “war” on a “tactic”?) which covers anything the gooferment wants it to cover.

Sigh!

I’d say the experiment — as in the American Experiment with a republican form of government — is over. It failed. Shall we try anarchy?

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http://ncrcafe.org/blog/1122

On the Road to Peace
by John Dear S.J.
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007
Vol. 2, No. 10

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There were many consoling, inspiring and uplifting moments last Friday, Oct. 26, in Linz, Austria, at the beatification of the anti-war hero Franz Jägerstätter. The resounding applause for his 94 year-old widow Franziska. The reading of the declaration. The unfurling of the 30 foot banner with Franz’s photo and the sight of dozens of bishops and cardinals standing up, looking up — at last! — to Franz. But the most moving was the presentation of his relics. Franziska kissed them, gave them to a cardinal for the cathedral in Linz, then wept. She knows it now. Franz no longer belongs to Austria. Now he belongs to the world. And his work is just beginning.

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It’s hard to imagine having the courage to stand up an say “no”.

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http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html

The Right Brain vs Left Brain
Article from: AAP
October 05, 2007 12:00am

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The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

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I found it entertaining. Interesting!

But the best discovery was that by closing one eye I could make the dancer reverse. With both eyes open, there was nothing I could do to see the reverse.

Can you guess which way I default to?

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http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle443-20071111-03.html

Starship Troopers Revisited
by A.X. Perez
Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

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Starship Troopers is arguably Heinlein’s preachiest novel. This is because it is a rite of passage novel in which Johnny Rico progresses from a snot nose rich kid who “wouldn’t recognize civic virtue if it bit you in the ass” (to quote the movie version of ST which is vastly inferior to the book) to an adult who values his fellow man’s rights enough to voluntarily risk dying to defend them. Surprise, this includes a lot of internal debate in which Heinlein clearly demonstrates why ST is not a fascist book and instead is one in which the values held by a libertarian who chooses to serve his fellows through the state are spelled out.

Starship Troopers is not a fascist novel, instead it is an argument that only those who have demonstrated their love of and willingness to defend their brethren and sistern’s liberty should be trusted with political power. Golly, gee How dare Heinlein argue that?

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Did I mention that this is my favorite book?

Seriously, it was the first book I read that explained my thinking to me.

If only veterans could vote and hold office, then I bet a buck we would not be mired in losing war after losing war. I bet we be very careful about using the word “war” for anything.

We have a far better country if we were following Heinlein’s prescriptions.

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http://www.fandango.com/movies/1/moviefanreviews.aspx?mid=108973&

Lions for Lambs … …

… imho …

an indictment of the media, politicians, our ability to gather foreign intelligence, and dumb social engineering ideas.

* Cruise is unbelievable as the “intelligent but calculating Republican”. The left wing Hollywood types take a swing at West Point.

* Streep is unbelievable as a reporter. The left wing Hollywood types indict the “wind sock” media. Which was clever the first time it was used; not not so much the second and third time.

* Redford was believable as the “voice of America’s troubled conscience”. But, then he exemplifies the Hollywood “watermelon” (i.e., ecological green on the outside but communist red on the inside). The classroom presentation of “eliminating the junior year of high school for national service” was right out of the liberal play book and just as dumb there as it is in real life.

I agree with another reviewer. “no John Wayne heroics” That turned some believable characters into cartoons. And, in this day an age, of overwhelming American air superiority, it would be unbelievable that a ground commander would not have air assets stacked up all over the place. Twenty five minutes to give close ground support. Completely unbelievable. No radio comm with men on the ground. No smoke or flairs to mark their positions for air support. Please. But them one would not expect the Hollywood elite to know anything about a real fight.

And, what student would not take a “no work B”?

I agree with another reviewer that it does ask some questions. Questions that deserve an answer. I state it as “what are you doing?”

Unfortunately the film is soaked in the watermelon pov.

* It assumes that We The People have to do something for “our Country”. That National Servitude, national slavery, is a good thing. Does a “nation” even exist.

* It laughs at the military, and the sacrifices made by men and women for what they believed in. Rightly or wrongly. The ride past the graves in Arlington while Streep’s character weeps was insulting at best.

* It insults the American people, and the youth, by insinuating that we are living off the contributions of our parents. It’s the gooferment that is the parasite here.

So, I think you should see it and see how many more trite insults you can find.

NOT RECOMMENDED for anyone but a policy wonk.

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http://www.recruitingbloggers.com/rbs/2007/11/just-say-no-to-.html

The Electronic Recruiting News In Email_071108

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Just Say No To Forced Brothel Visits

Brands are fragile things, like snowmen in spring. That’s what Julie Roehm learned with Wal-Mart, a case study we concluded back in August. And now it seems Steve Biegel, former creative director for Dentsu America, is about to learn the same thing.

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Wow!!

There are so many lessons to take away from this one it’s hard to know where to start.

I’ll drop back to my first lesson in morality from a good Nun in Annunciation Parish too many years ago. “When you are presented with a situation, just ask yourself “When my Mom finds out, will she be proud of me?”. Seems like a real easy standard to meet.

After applying that lesson, I know I wouldn’t have been in this fellow’s shoes.

Also, the blogger’s observation — about upset about being fired or upset about the brothel visit — was pretty spot on. You have to make your objections in a timely manner. Hours; not years.

So here we have an illustration of another later lesson in morality from one of my first bosses at AT&T (Joe DJ) “don’t come to work drunk. don’t steal their pencils. don’t dip your pen in company ink.”. So that particular piece of guidance would have also dodged this bullet.

Finally, my own internal compass would have tilted at the suggestion, with a reading off the scale, pinned to the end of the dial with the legend “Are you out of your mind!”.

I too just shake my head in bemusement.

… but it makes great blogging fodder!

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/11/07/academic_cesspools_ii

Academic Cesspools II
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

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It’s a safe bet the university did not highlight this kind of learning experience to parents and students in its recruitment efforts. Nor were generous donors and alumni informed that they are racists by birth. I’d also guess that this kind of “education” was kept under wraps from the state legislators who use taxpayer money to fund the university.

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That’s why we need to get the gooferment out of ALL education. At all levels. And, let institutions succeed or fail based on merit. Not subsidies of the taxpayer extracted at gunpoint.

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http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_14.22.html

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[2] Groups Urge Zero Funding for REAL ID System
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A number of organizations have joined to urge Congress against funding
the REAL ID national identification system. Congress passed REAL ID
without a hearing even though legislators in both parties urged debate.
Sen. Daniel Akaka and Sen. John Sununu have both said that they believe
REAL ID “places an unrealistic and unfunded burden on state governments
and erodes Americans’ civil liberties and privacy rights.”

In a letter, the groups said, “$50 million for REAL ID was appropriated
in the House. In the Senate, however, an amendment offered by Sen.
Alexander to add an additional $300 million was defeated by a bipartisan
majority. Earlier efforts to expand REAL ID as part of the Comprehensive
Immigration Reform bill were also rejected. We strongly urge the
Conference Committee to accept the Senate’s approach not to fund REAL
ID.” The groups also explained, “Furthermore, of the $40 million that
has been appropriated for REAL ID implementation so far, $34 million
remains unspent. [. . .] This year, New Hampshire returned its grant and
passed a law barring REAL ID participation by the state. If an
additional $50 million is appropriated, it is similarly likely to
languish in Washington rather than going to states that need it to
implement other desirable programs.”

There has been widespread public opposition to REAL ID. Seventeen states
have passed legislation rejecting the national identification system. In
May, 54 organizations representing trans-partisan, nonpartisan, privacy,
consumer, civil liberty, civil rights, and immigrant organizations
joined to launch a national campaign to solicit public comments to stop
REAL ID. The Department of Homeland Security received more than 12,000
comments on its draft implementation regulations for the REAL ID Act,
even though the comment process was marked with problems.

EPIC and 24 other privacy and technology experts jointly submitted
comments in May warning the federal agency not to go forward with the
REAL ID proposal. The group urged DHS to recommend to Congress that REAL
ID is unworkable and must be repealed. “The REAL ID Act creates an
illegal de facto national identification system filled with threats to
privacy, security and civil liberties that cannot be solved, no matter
what the implementation plan set out by the regulations,” the group
said.

Information on the Group Letter to Congress:

http://realnightmare.org/

Text of the REAL ID Act (pdf):

http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/real_id_act.pdf

Comments of EPIC and 24 Experts in Privacy and Technology (pdf):

http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/epic_realid_comments.pdf

Stop REAL ID Campaign site:

http://www.privacycoalition.org/stoprealid

EPIC’s Page on National ID Cards and REAL ID Act:

http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/

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When I look through my pocket Constitution, I fail to find anywhere where the Federal gooferment is authorized to do this. Hence, I suggest that we all tell them “no”.

Sigh!

Remember Fascist Germany, Communist Russia, and all the dictatorships where “papers are required”.

It’s another step on the road to the camps. Think it can’t happen here? What about the Japanese Internment? What about all the “experiments” on unwitting victims? What about out present state of “airports”? America has no magic “immunity” token like on Survivor that prevents the gooferment from doing bad things to us.

You are already a partial slave. (taxes, fees, and inflation) This just moves along to finishing the job!

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Can’t say if it’s “fun”. I think imho you are playing for the bonus. You’d have to be incredibly lucky to beat the house at this game. I’m focusing on how to exploit a “positive lucky streak” and stop an “unlucky streak”. We know from probability that there can be streaks. We’re not going to hang around for a long time and get ground up by the house edge. So we need to sense the streak, exploit, and exit.

(I watched carefully the big winner at the 60$ table. He was pushing in more when he was winning and less when he lost. I should have charted his play; not mine!)

At a twenty dollar table, can you play 30$? Assume not! But if you can, that might be a way to play more after a win. So, at a twenty dollar table, I’d suggest that you want to play $40! And 5$ for the bonus. Ignore for the moment pushes.

Start with two basic stakes — one for the game and one for the bonus. Let’s say 300$. Five losing hands?

So we start by setting up five “soldiers” at 40$ each and five for the bonus (45*5=225). The last soldier is a “double” of $80 and ten for the bonus ($90). And a stack of fives ($100) for the bonus replacement’s on pushes. ($415 total) That’s the exit indicator, soldiers gone, we leave.

So here’s how it operates:

Area#1 is for the “soldiers” playing the game. Area#2 is for the bonus play stack. Area#3 is the “bank” — once money moves in there, it’s going home.

Bonus wins, restack the 20 chip bonus stack; excess to the bank.

Bonus stack depleted? A soldier is sent to reinforce. (We’re playing for the big hit.)

Game wins:

If you win, you get $38 (if.eat., 40 minus the two commission). You should add 20, going to 60. Put 18 in your kitty.
If you lose, you’re out -40.

If you win the 60, you get 57. And add 20 going to 80. From the 37, put back a 25$ soldier and the rest back in your kitty.
If you lose, you’re out -40+18=-22.

If you win the 80, you get 76. Add 20 going to 100. From the 56, put back two 25$ soldiers and the rest back in your kitty.
If you lose, you’re out -40+18+37=+15

If you win the 100, you get 95. Add 20 got to 120. From the 75, put back three 25$ soldiers and the rest back in your kitty.
If you lose, you’re out -40+18+37+56=+81

If you win the 125$, call and quit your job cause the world is going to end.

And hope you catch a streak or a big bonus.

Now that’s gambling.

Do you agree with my numerology?

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I heard from an old military buddy from a long time ago. (He found me.) But it points out how bad the inet is for establishing identities and finding people. Any suggestions? I ran into the same problem with old high school chums. Unless they are looking for you, it’s nearly impossible to look for them. So where are you — David Robles, Robert Bob Wotring, and Bill Chrin? Also in the class was Army Captain Profitt, the “old” Army Major, and the “young” Marine Major, and the CID guy. teaches me how stupid i was not to keep better notes, pictures, and such. Sigh!

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http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=650&Itemid=36

The Government Hoax Print
Monday, 29 October 2007
Written by Marc Stevens
Tuesday, 21 November 2006

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The government hoax is probably the oldest, most pervasive and stubborn of hoaxes. It’s the belief in non-existent “states” and “nations” and that “government” is both legitimate and necessary. In the geographic area of the North American continent commonly referred to as the “United States,” it’s claimed only “government” can provide the service of protecting “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” This is nonsense if only for the reason “government” has no duty to protect anyone and their property.

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One has to question the doubt of a meme that is not questioned by anyone else?

Or, at least no one that matters.

It’s not as if our questioning is going to give any of the politicians, bureaucrat, or sheeple a reason to lose any sleep. But for our own sanity, let’s just admit that it’s a fiction. A fiction that can kill all that oppose it. Think of that lone protester Tiananmen Square.

That guy had stones!

Do you?

Gooferment may not exist, but those tanks do!

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http://freelaurencanario.com/

TRYING TO HELP A NH PROTESTER

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29 October 2007

Mark Kappelhoff
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Criminal Section, PHB
Washington, D.C. 20530
By fax (202) 616-0372 –

Re: Lauren Canario #42103
Hillsborough Co. Corrections
445 Willow Street
Manchester, NH 03103

Dear Mr. Kappelhoff:

As I understand your responsibilities, you handle:
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Official Misconduct (18 U.S.C.§ § 241, 242) — Intentional acts by law enforcement officials who misuse their positions to unlawfully deprive individuals of constitutional rights, such as the right to be free from unwarranted assaults, illegal arrests and searches, and theft of property.
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May I call your attention to what I believe is a Federal civil rights violation. As usual, a protestor has fallen afoul of some judge’s sense of “the law”. As a citizen, may I ask you to inquire as to the circumstances of Lauren Canario being imprisoned? To speed your inquiry, you might want to address the question directly to: Judge Martha Crocker c/o MCrocker@Courts.State.NH.US.

An injustice to one citizen is an injustice to all. After all we have the warning of Pastor Martin Niemöller which I take very seriously. I regard myself as a member of the “new media”. Blogs are the newspapers of the Twenty First Century. So I am looking forward to your response, which I can post on my blog.

Thanks.

Ferdinand J. Reinke
3 Tyne Court
Kendall Park, NJ 08824
Webform that creates an urgent email => http://2idi.com/contact/=reinkefj
Web page => http://www.reinke.cc/
My blog => http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/
LinkedIn url => http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj

c.c.:

Frank Lautenberg
United States Senate
324 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-3003
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/contact/

Robert Menendez
United States Senate
317 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-3002
http://menendez.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

Rush Holt
United States House of Representatives
1019 Longworth House Office Building
Washington DC 20515-3012
http://holt.house.gov/contact.shtml

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Let’s see if this accomplishes anything.

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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_us_attitudes_about_intern_1.php

Poll: US Attitudes About Internet Are Insane
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 25, 2007 / 22 comments

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Zogby International and 463 Communications released the results last night of an interesting and well executed poll about the attitudes US adults have about the internet.

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Tracking chips, brain implants, and the whole inet in one’s head.

I agree some folks have taken leave of their common sense.

Imagine the porn industry then?

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