Reinke Faces Life

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/18/D8K7F8580.html

Report: N.J. Senator Had No-Work Job
Sep 18 3:31 PM US/Eastern
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A powerful southern New Jersey politician was paid for a no-work job at a scandal-ridden state university while helping the school garner millions of dollars in new state funding, according to a report released Monday.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey paid state Sen. Wayne Bryant, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, $35,000 a year “to lobby himself in his capacity of state senator,” according to the report of a federal monitor who had investigated the school’s finances.

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Ahh, only in the Peeple’s Repulik of Nu Jerzee, does a politican not get rebuked by the voters. But, it’s business as usual. His party doesn’t roast him like the sacrificial pig that he should be. And, the voters just reward all the incumbent by returning them to power. We condemn the Soviet Union for one party Communism. What’s the difference here? Hey, with McSleezzey hitting Oprah. Christie being nailed for lying about WTC air. It’s just a joke. On the voters and taxpayers. There’s just no hope here.

http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/39/5993/time.asp?wid=39&nid=5993

TIME FOR A LITTLE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Monday, September 18, 2006

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Wallace, Idaho – Perversely just in time for Silver Summit 2006, the United States Mint Thursday threw a wrench at Bernard von NotHaus’ Liberty Dollar program with secretion of a Sept. 14 press release, declaring: “Prosecutors with the Department of Justice have determined that the use of these gold and silver NORFED “Liberty Dollar” medallions as circulating money is a Federal crime.”

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Merchants participating in the Liberty Dollar program simply accept Liberty dollars in either coin (silver) or paper form in exchange for goods and services. The difference between Liberty paper dollars and the (now, apparently compulsory) fiat fednotes is that Liberty paper dollars are backed in full by physical silver, whereas fiat paper dollars are backed by, um, snicker, the full faith and credit of the United States government, which broke that same faith with its own subjects in 1964 when it took silver out of the money and later declined even to redeem its Silver Certificates in silver. Such was the lesson of our adolescence: This is a government that cannot be trusted or believed.

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And, I don’t like the idea of civil disobedience, because it implies that the gang in power has some right to demand obedience. They get obedience because they’ll kill you if you don’t obey. I’d prefer the phrase non-violent self-determination.
Interesting timing for the “illegal” declaration?

This story is note worthy in that its an economics and history lesson rolled up into one. I don’t know about you, but the “full faith and credit” guarantee isn’t worth a lot when you look at: (1) the Federal debt; (2) the Federal deficit; (3) the unfunded Social Security Insurance (which is NOT insurance; it’s a Ponzi scheme); (4) the unfunded Federal promises, guarantees, and “insurances”; and (5) the unfunded Federal pension obligations due to its retirees and to others thru the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. One has to wonder how much air can be blown into this balloon before it pops?

Perhaps, the NORFED folks are striking too close the root of this illusion. Who’s behind the curtain? The grim reaper called reality.

Now I think that NORFED should have not used the word “dollar”. You can’t take a word that is already owned by another in the mind.

I’d have made a new word — silver ounce => sil-nce — gold ounce => go-nce. Or, call a gold ounce, a Ludwid for Ludwig von Mises. A silver ounce, a Rothfarb.

Anything, but a dollar.

So, Americans should begin using Ludwigs and Rothfarbs in everyday commerce.

http://www.ybw.com/ibinews/newsdesk/20060814154923ibinews.html

US federal judge declares boating illegal in all US navigable waters
By IBI Magazine

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In a rather bizarre ruling that has marine industry officials worried, Judge Robert G. James of the United States District Court, Western Division of Louisiana, has said that it is criminal trespass for the American boating public to boat, fish, or hunt on the Mississippi River and other navigable waters in the US.

In the case of Normal Parm v. Sheriff Mark Shumate, James ruled that federal law grants exclusive and private control over the waters of the river, outside the main shipping channel, to riparian landowners. The shallows of the navigable waters are no longer open to the public. That, in effect, makes boating illegal across most of the country.

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File this under “Ya Gotta Be Kiddin”! Why do we tolerate this gang of armed thugs to tell us what to do? this is just more central big gubamint non-sense.

http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=press_release&ID=710

(So I wrote to an expert to sort it out!)

Lew, [of http://lewrockwell.com/ (anti-state, anti-war, pro-market), the Mises Institute, and famous Libertarian]

(1) Perhaps you’d care to comment about the nonsense spewing out of the gubamint about money. There’s no doubt that the NORFED has struck a nerve. NORFED ain’t fooling anyone, but it’s a good cover story. If the mint has exclusive, then why do we have the Federal Reserve in the process?

(2) Note that the gubamint has added the word “exclusive” in their rendition of the Constitution.

(3) Now that the Barbara Streisand is out of the way, here’s my tough ramble. Somebody’s Law (Say, Shea, or something with S) “bad money drives good out of circulation” would say that if I have a FRB and Liberty Dollar, that I’ll spend the FRBie as fast as I can because it’s intrinsically worthless. Is there ever a time when good money can drive bad out. If there is no case, then there is no way for NORFED’s money to push out the FRBie. Comment?

(4) My take on NORFED is NOT that they were fooling anyone, but that they were trying to retake the word dollar (i.e., thaller). And, charge a commission for it.

(Marketing 101 teaches you can’t take a word that someone already owns in the marketplace of the mind. It’s like Ford trying to take QUALITY from Mercedes, or SAFETY from Volvo. Ain’t gonna happen!)

Now everyone is entitled to earn the sweat of their brow, but the escalating value of their “dollar” was confusing at best. The NORFED MLM quality turned people off. Me too.

Wouldn’t we be better off with a new unit of currency. Let’s call it the dinar (that should get everyone’s shorts in a knot!). And define it as an ounce of gold. The golden dinar. Same thing for silver. The silver dinar is one ounce of silver. Maybe it should be in metric units?

OK, I’ll make it metric! The golden Ludwig will be 0.0283495 of a kilogram of gold. Similarly our Rothfarb will be 0.0283495 of a kilogram of silver.

Wouldn’t “we” be better served by using straight bullion coins as money? Makes the accounting easier in the sense that the hidden tax of inflation can’t bite us. Instead of financial reports in dollars, they be in Ludwigs or Rothfarbs.

Comment?

(5) Can you ever envision us getting out the fiat currency mess we are in? Short of a reichmark style inflation, an overthrow of the Federal Reserve System or some version of a French Revolution, how will could might it happen?

Just a dumb injineer that got two Ds in two college economics courses. And, was smart enough to keep my mouth shut in my post grad mba courses!
Fjohn

http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_13.18.html

E P I C  A l e r t — Volume 13.18 —  September 6, 2006
Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Washington, D.C.

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[4] EPIC Argues in Appeal of DNA Dragnet Case ========================================================================

On September 7, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana will hear arguments in an appeal challenging the use of DNA dragnets in finding suspects. EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief in the case, and Executive Director Marc Rotenberg will argue EPIC’s position before the court. In 2002, police investigating a series of rapes and murders near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, conducted a DNA dragnet, collecting DNA samples from more than 1,200 men in an attempt to match someone’s DNA with that found at the crime scenes. Shannon Kohler was one of the men approached by police. When he refused to provide one, he was served with a seizure warrant, forcing him to provide a sample. Kohler was later identified by police and news media as a suspect in the search for the serial killer. After Kohler was cleared of wrongdoing in the investigation, he filed a suit against the Baton Rouge police, claiming that they lacked probable cause to obtain the warrant and that his DNA sample should be destroyed. In February 2005, a federal district court ruled against him, saying that police had probable cause based on two anonymous tips and the fact that Mr. Kohler met “certain elements of an FBI profile,” which the court itself characterized as “so broad and vague that it cast a net of suspicion over thousands of citizens.”

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Our rights are consistently under attack. And, when you stand up for them you get smeared. Do you really trust the gubamint with your DNA? They are lazy, sloppy, and not above suspicion. The right to be secure in one’s effect certainly includes your DNA.

If you’ve never read the EPIC newsletter, the I recommend you sign up for their free email. It’ll give you a real education in Liberty.

You can’t listen to the roll call of the dead and not feel the pain of the people reading names. If I was the King, then I’d make the politicians listen to this often. Politically, this was a failure of epic proportions. And, what’s worse, I don’t think we’ve learned a thing from it. (a) They are spending us into poverty. (b) They’ve been failing to innovate new methods to protect the country. Does anyone think that shaking down air travelers for nail clippers is doing squat? (c) They have failed to make us energy independent. France gets between a third and half of its electricity from nuclear reactors, why don’t we? (d) Are we more free than we were before? So we are not safer (i.e., ship cargo screening) and we’re not free-er (i.e., warrent-less wire tapping), what are they doing?

A friend of ine sent me this:

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Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:02 PM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Keeping NY Medicaid Fraud under control

http://www.nypost.com/business/when_nerds_attack_business_richard_wilner.htm

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To which I said:

Nice … BUT …

As we know, I have a “cheaper solution”. User pays.

Why am I paying taxes (I’m being robbed) to pay other people’s medical bills. After several layers of government take a swipe at the pile? If everyone had to pay for their own medical bills, (a) taxes lower; (b) medical costs lower; and (c) everyone would be a lot freer.

So for example, if you were paying for your Dad’s Rxes for him, how likely would it be that a doc or pharmacy would get money from you after his passing?

Or even better example, the psych who visited FKW in the hospital for 7 months every day 3 questions and billed 220$ per DAY! Got 201 from Medicare, 18.50 from hbcbsnj, and had the {expletive deleted} to bill him (me) for the other 50 cents. (.5 * 7 * 30) or 105$. My answer was “sue me”!

Arghhhhh.

Great that they are trying.

Lousy that we have such a crapy system to start with.

Argh!

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/105

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 09/07/2006 – 5:15am. Alerts

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
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Though the Bush Administration’s official budget lists the national debt and deficit as being incredibly high, they are actually far worse than reported, according to Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN). But don’t just take his word for it, even if Cooper is a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law graduate. The following figures appear in the official U.S. Financial Report, released by the Treasury Department:

* The true national debt is $49 trillion, not the $8.3 trillion Bush reported
o That’s $156,000 for every citizen, or $375,000 for every working American
o This figure has more than doubled in the past five years
o We paid $327 billion last year on interest alone
* The true 2005 deficit was $760 billion, not the $318.5 billion Bush reported
o This is 6.2% of the GDP, not 2.6%
* It’s all getting worse

What accounts for the huge discrepancy? Unlike businesses, the government uses “cash” instead of “accrual” accounting. This means that the government does not report future spending promises like Medicare and Social Security, or even future spending guarantees like veterans’ benefits and federal employee pensions.

“Cash accounting tells you what’s in your bank account. Accrual accounting tells you what’s in your bank account and what’s on your credit card statement,” Cooper told BuzzFlash in an interview. “Whether you’re promising to buy a road or something at Target, you need to know what you promised to buy. That should be a binding obligation of the government. We’ve made a world of promises to folks that we need to keep.”

But wait, there’s more! The U.S. Financial Report does not mention that if Medicare and Social Security are factored into the equation (which the Treasury Department did not), the true deficit was actually a whopping $3.3 trillion last year, over ten times more than Bush claims. And when Social Security projections are adjusted to reflect current life expectancies instead of the old 75-year mark, Cooper said the true national debt is “probably closer to $65 trillion.”
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All I can see is Claude Reins in Casablanca being “shocked” to find gambling going on at Rick’s!

Here’s a Democrat “shocked” to find that the Republicans are using cash accounting as opposed to accrual accounting.

Err, Representative Jim, what did Bill, or any of the other Democratic Presidents, use?

While I think its a valid criticism, it’s a criticism of big gubamint in general.

And our posterity will get stuck with the bill.

Free Talk Live
http://www.freetalklive.com

They are energetic and smart. I download the podcast each week and listen to it while I drive. They challenge my thinking and at the same time are entertaining. I’ve listened to some really deadly podcasts and they were snoozers. The fact that ftl gives away their podcast and takes on all callers SHOULD set the standard for all the talk radio genre. RushL charges for his podcast and carefully filters his calls. FTL is brave enough to talk to anyone, and even encourages people who disagree with them to call. Their challenge to name a government program that works has NEVER been met. I think they are great.

Over the week end I ran off VWBBie a lot. (Don’t ask! Typical weekend horror story that I’ve been having lately.) And VWBBie was a little balky.  Dropped connects and windoze stupidity led to some reboots. It was just hard to get stuff done. When it would drop out completely and there was no free wifi available, I wonder what everyone, proclaiming “the writeable web is great”, does when there ain’t no connection to that web. Hmmm, don’t sell the island of computing theory short just yet.

This morning I ran a different speed test

2.6 megabits per second
Communications 2.6 megabits per second
Storage 311.4 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.3 seconds
Subjective rating Great
Explain results

Info
Date & time Tuesday, September 5, 9:32AM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Cable
Region New Jersey
Data size 1024KB
IP address 70.194.78.251