RANT: WIC Killing children

Monday, May 21, 2007

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/05/21/wic-killing-children-with-kindness/

http://tinyurl.com/2zwqmu

WIC: Killing children with kindness
By Michael Hampton
Posted: May 21, 2007 3:20 am

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The United States Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly known as WIC, distributes vouchers for food for low-income families. Among the food distributed is about half the infant formula in the entire U.S. According to a study from the University of Hawai’i, WIC’s distribution of infant formula not only distorts the market for infant formula, it puts these infants at risk of illness and death.

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Unfortunately, like many federal aid programs administered by the states, WIC has a vigorous lobby group — National WIC — made up of the thousands of state and local government officials that run the program.

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Isn’t that the usual standard for a gooferment program?

It doesn’t work. It actually harms those it seeks supposedly to help. Turns out to be a welfare program to some business or another, maybe even a industry. And, is protected by a huge lobby of gooferment bureaucrats that it supports.

And, you — the reader; yes, you, on the otherside of the glass! — defend this gang of thugs that is killing poor children in your name. with your money?

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Clarifying update at 2007.05.22 0730 edst

The original wording made it seem that the author Michael Hampton was the “you” in the phrase “you defend”. That’s one way for reading it; certianly not how I meant it. Considering he wrote the expose, it doesn’t make sense to take it that way. But once again, I have demonstrated the principle that two people can read the same text and often come away with many different meanings.

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RANT:Leadership’s ignorance

Friday, May 18, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?
UrlTitle=presumptions_of_the_left&ns=ThomasSowell&
dt=05/16/2007

http://tinyurl.com/yqgakj

Presumptions Of The Left
By Thomas Sowell
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

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If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

If no one has even one percent of the knowledge currently available, not counting the vast amounts of knowledge yet to be discovered, the imposition from the top of the notions favored by elites convinced of their own superior knowledge and virtue is a formula for disaster.

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Yet what the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

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The ignorance of people with Ph.D.s is still ignorance, the prejudices of educated elites are still prejudices, and for those with one percent of a society’s knowledge to be dictating to those with the other 99 percent is still an absurdity.

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Yup, dumb is dumb.

NO matter how many degrees or years that person has. The central command can’t possibly be as in control as the person on the front line.

That’s why the free market does so well. Many distributed agents all evaluating options and making choices. Important decisions with skin in the game. The consumer has all the information, the scarce resource allocation unit aka money, and the needs to be satisfied. What better person to be in charge of making decisions.

The free marketplace is at the same time the arbiter of all these conflicting demands for scarce resources and the judge that makes sure everyone’s needs are satisfied to the extent. Think of it as a giant calculating agent that totals up the score.

That’s why the socialist, fascist, and statist will always fail. There is no way for them to make that instantaneous calculation.

I learned that in injineering skool. Using a slide rule, you could very quickly get answers to a few significant digits. Or, you could use the computers to get a very “precise” answer with lots of meaningless digits that you’d throw away anyway because of “insignificance”. More meaningless digits didn’t make the answer better than the fast one from the analog slide rule. Most injineers in my day preferred the slide rule because it was fast and it made you think about significant digits. I saw the change as computer became more available and those injineers would write down long strings of meaningless digits as the answer. In civil engineering we learned to compute the answer and multiply be ten or a hundred as a safety factor. (That’s why buildings don’t fall down.)

So how does a leader avoid his ignorance?

He puts systems in place that put the decisions as close to the action as possible. Think Nordstroms. Think IBM sales person. Think the small individual business owner.

Fast decisions, close to the action, with complete accountability.

You won’t see that in stogy big companies or the gooferment.

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RANT: Michigan Republican Party wants to bar Ron Paul from debates

Thursday, May 17, 2007

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/
base/news-44/117935695635230.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

http://tinyurl.com/2fou7e

Michigan GOP leader wants Paul barred from future debates
5/16/2007, 7:07 p.m. EDT
By JIM DAVENPORT The Associated Press

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said Wednesday that he will try to bar Ron Paul from future GOP presidential debates because of remarks the Texas congressman made that suggested the Sept. 11 attacks were the fault of U.S. foreign policy.

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Sure, because he differentiated himself from the other 9 clowns.

Does the chairman think that by bombing Iraq we have won friends over there?

Every killing, casualty, or “collateral damage” drafts more people into the “hate america” movement.

The dead old white guys didn’t want an aggressive foreign policy. That’s why the Constitution only permits an army for TWO YEARS. Drag out you Constitution if you have one and take a gander at it.

We should be like Switzerland. A porcupine; not an ass. MYOB. Respect the rights of others.

Heck, we don’t even respect the rights of our fellow americans!

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RANT: Jury Duty

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

AS EXPECTED

I’m going to have a lot to say about Jury Duty, but a quick note. Zenger! They keep repeating that the jury members have to apply the law as the judges give it to you. But, the Fully Informed Jury Association says differently. Jurys judge the law as well. Freedom of the press was established by the Zenger trial. Prohibition was effectively ended years before the Repeal by jurys refusing to convict violators. No mention of that. And, those who attend the gooferment skoolz probably never heard of it.

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RANT: Off to jury duty

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The gooferment has enslaved me. I am commanded by force to serve it. It’s not enough that it makes me a partial slave by stealing my money via inflation, taxes, fees, and economic friction. It steals the most precious think I have … my time and attention. Argh!

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RANT: Staples website only works with IE

Monday, May 14, 2007

Lost me as a customer. I don’t do IE.

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RANT: LGENVY has a “feature”

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Just got a new phone. LGENVY. Found my first flaw. (That’s me flaw finder par excellence!)

I have my morning, lunch, and quitting time alarms set on it. This morning while recharging it, the morning alarm goes off. No big deal. I go to “dismiss” it and I can’t unlock the keyboard while it is charging. Disconnect the charger, and you can unlock and dismiss.

Does any one test this stuff? Or, is it just me that tries to use it.

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RANT: Mail rates going up

Thursday, May 10, 2007

http://pe.usps.com/RateCase2007/DMM300_HTML/pub268.htm

Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service
Domestic Mail Manual Introduction
January 8, 2006

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Rates and Fees

Effective
May 14, 2007

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Can you figure how many penny stamps I have to add to my old stamps?

Argh! I don’t want a manual. Show me pictures. I’m an injineer.

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RANT: USATODAY top 25 meltdowns

Thursday, May 10, 2007

http://www.usatoday.com/news/top25-meltdowns.htm

They did what, said what?

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VOTE FOR YOUR TOP CHOICE

Moments of unscripted behavior — good and bad, but mostly bad — capture our attention and become bookmarks of our times. Here are 25 memorable public meltdowns that had us talking and laughing or cringing over the past quarter-century. If you have different nominees, let us know at usatoday.com. We’ll post your picks.

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#10 Defining moment

President Clinton parsed a single word in an Aug. 17, 1998, grand jury testimony. Asked whether he was having sexual relations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Clinton said, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” The videotaped testimony was made public, and in December the House of Representatives approved four articles of impeachment; the Senate acquitted him.

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This is my personal top. But you can only pick among the top 5. Argh!

I have never heard a cogent explanation of what “is” means. I don’t understand his adamant refusal to repudiate a lie. If it wasn’t for the inept Republican … …

(If it was inept?For a smart guy, he certainly seemed dumb. With all the obvious flaws and scandals around Clinton — not that the Republicans are much better, he pick on the trivial nonsense. You have to wonder if it was all kabuki.)

… … the country might have been better off with a good enema.

Now, it’s no secret that I don’t care for politicians of either ilk. It’s like dumb and dumber. I’m not sure that they all are lying when their lips move. Or if they really believe the “barbara streisand” that they are saying. Either way we are the worse for wear and tear on it.

I just know that, in the Oval Office of Thomas Jefferson, we have allow some pretty sorry people to sit down and “lead” us.

Maybe we’d be better off with no gooferment. Anarchy couldn’t be worse. Could it?

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RANT: Gooferment loses a disk drive?

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131603-c,privacy/article.html

TSA Hard Drive Missing
PC World – 21 hours ago

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The airport security agency acknowledges it can’t find an external drive storing personnel records. The US agency responsible for securing the nation’s airports says it can’t find an external hard drive packed with the personal records of about 100000 …

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Ahh, yes, your gooferment at work. And, you want to give these bozos your “real id”?

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