Reinke Faces Life

Hey, I r an injineer!

If you don’t care for my innovative spelling techniques, or {gasp} if you think I have made a  mistake, or {gasp}{gasp} that I might be wrong, you might consider leaving a comment!

I’ll figure out how to fix it in such a way so as not to detract from you overall high opinion of my blog.

(Although, I do wonder why you are reading my blog as opposed to the many great ones out there.)

Arghhh, have to try to “spel more bettr”!

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/
sns-ap-new-jersey-budget,0,7260047.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

New Jersey Budget Deal Reached
By TOM HESTER JR.
Associated Press Writer
July 6, 2006, 2:55 PM EDT
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TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey leaders agreed on a state budget Thursday following a six-day government shutdown that shuttered casinos and threw more than 80,000 people out of work, a high-ranking Statehouse official said.
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The deal includes a sales tax increase that would raise $1.1 billion a year, a different high-ranking Statehouse official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Half of the new money would be used to lower property taxes this year, and all of it would go for that purpose next year, the official said.

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Ahh, yes, more money to pump down the rat hole in Trenton!

Did I mention that I have joined the Boston Tea Party?

OK sheep,

Here is today’s lesson in how greedy government is.

Bear in mind that for the most part “parking meters” are not a tax. If you can avoid it, then it’s a “fee” not a “tax”.

For the normally healthy adult visiting Seaside Heights, there is plenty of free parking a few blocks from the boardwalk.

And up until July 1st, there was some free handicapped parking close to the boardwalk. But the local politicians seeing a source of revenue has now made them metered spaces. You still have to have the handicapped placard but you know have to pay.

Since it is not “reasonable” to expect a handicapped person to park down in the free area and hike the four blocks to and from the boardwalk, this is now in my mind a tax on the handicapped.

Intelligent designer forbid that the local pigs not get ever cent possible to waste.

As soon as the NJ governemnt shutdown ends (another farce), I will inquire of the various levels of kings and petty lords, how this is possible?

24.01
STRATEGY AND THE FAT SMOKER
by David Maister

Noted professional service firm advisor, David Maister, offers advice on how to fight strategic flab and make change happen within your organization.

THE LINK: http://changethis.com/24.StrategyFatSmoker
THE PDF: http://changethis.com/pdf/24.01.StrategyFatSmoker

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It’s about Leadership. Get with it. Or, get out of the way.

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Ahh, get the right people on and off the bus. When you have the same people “reorganized”, you are merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic with the same impact.

It’s also as good as paying a lot of money for consulting studies that tell you what you want to hear.

Amid yesterday’s activities, one sorrowful, one depressing, and one “fun”, we hare being visited by one of our favorite socialists. So clearly, this will provide a lot of material for this blog over the next few days. We intellectually crossed swords last night about education. After all the gubamint skools do an excellent job of leveling the playing field and homogenizing the sheep. The best statement of the evening is that “it’s not fair for wealthy parents to have advantages over poor parents in providing education for their children”.

You could pay someone to lob you softballs like this.

Oh yes, the current system does such a great job of indoctrinating “the chillren” now. By the gubamints own stats, the do a crappy job now.

Oh yes, eddykation is too valuable to be left to the parents. That didn’t work well in the past. It didn’t enable us to get into the folly we have now.

Oh yes, don’t leave people free to solve their own problems and supply their own needs.

Oh yes, don’t recognize the fact that poor people were educated in the past by mechanisms that they didn’t pay for. The assertion was that poor parents, working for minimum wage to support their families, (as if there are any of those), couldn’t afford to educate their children! Guess their were no free Catholic schools prior to the gubamint takeover of eddycation in the 50s. Poor people had nowhere else to go but Mommy Government and Father State.

Sigh, it is amazing that he can’t see that freedom works. Poor people, left to their own devices, and without the gubamint siezing their assets by force, will amaze us. Yup, poor people are robbed by the gubamint. Sales tax, Ponzi (social security insurance) tax, and the Employment Tax (the hidden employer’s portion of ssi tax) are  just a few on the income side. The poor person’s costs are raised when real estate taxes are high, the supply of rental units is restricted by “zoning”, and the landlords are harassed by the petty clucks who enforce all manner of stuff. AND, just in case the poor person gets a buck a head, inflation silently seizes 95% of it over 30 years.

My now departed father in law used to have a folded up fifty dollar bill in his wallet. He had carried it their since he was a young man, so that he’d “never be broke”. He was blue collar working guy. Salt of the either. Raised his family, paid his bills, and did the best he could. He was poor! BUT, he never realized, (I didn’t tell him cause he wouldn’t have believed me! I was just a child in his eyes.) that HIS beloved DEMOCRATIC (not that the R’s are any different), silently stole his “fifty in sunken city”. Yup, when he put that Fifty in his wallet if could buy lots of stuff: A hundred gallons of gasoline. Feed his family for a week. Ffity cartons of his beloved Lucky Strikes. Pay an entire hospital bill for an accident. It had value 60 years ago. After 60 years of inflation, I didn’t have the heart to tell him that his beloved Fifty was really was worth about 13 cents. Sad isn’t it.

The gubamint is an addict hooked on the twin drugs of power and money! We have to take the rampaging 800 pound gorrilla, put it in a straight jacket of limited powers, put it on a fiscal diet, and return it back to its role as servant, not master.

Should be a fun week for gathering material.

There HAS to be a better way. Visiting with relatives isn’t bad. And, now that my asthma, or whatever it was, is cured, the flowers don’t send me into spasm. It’s just the deceased. And, no one ever looks “good”. Argh.

I'm out of the office in New Brunswick. Up on VWBBie, and I ran the speakeasy speedtest:

Download Speed: 148 kbps (18.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1217 kbps (152.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

I didn't like the results and ran it again. 

Download Speed: 190 kbps (23.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2983 kbps (372.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Strange.

The other thing interesting was that I couldn't get a Nextel signal but could get a Verzon one for my morning call.

Hmm. 

Here is the reference work for why the Eurasians just got so much stuff, can work together, and have progressed so far. By sleeping with their herds, the Eurasians developed immunity to diseases like smallpox, measles, and plague. Their morality, formed by their religion, saved them for the most part from decimation by syphilis and such. Finally, the defensible rivers of Europe, more so than Asia, forced them to trade along those rivers. Fording a river under fire to attack an enemy is not conducive to good health. So trading became the preferred way of getting the other fellow’s stuff because you couldn’t kill him and take it.

So it’s not that we’re smarter than our fellow humans in Africa or, for example, Papua New Guinea, where people eke out a life on subsistence agriculture. It is that we had natural advantages. We had natural conditions that were conducive to learn cooperation. And, everything is a result of that. God’s joke? Maybe. Or a tremendous opportunity to help ourselves and others.

We have our own self-inflicted wounds! Slavery, that we “learned” in Africa and imported here, turned into racism. Socialism, that we learned in Europe, has displaced the self-reliant rugged-individualist “we do big things” American ethic. AND, we haven’t learned from history, we allowed politicians to lure us into doing things we KNEW were bad. Private armies like the FBI, CIA, BATF, IRS, etc etc. are unconstitutional. The income tax was stupidly allowed to come into existence (It’s legality is debatable). Fiat currency allows the gubamint to “tax” us by inflation. Gubamint skools have dumbed down the future citizens so they can have the wool pulled over their eyes. AND, we now have an entrenched government bureaucratic elite and all the related people suckling off the gubamint.

And after all this when the politicians stick it to us, they expect us to “honor their service”.

Arghh!

http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=166&Itemid=36

 The Separation of Education and State
Thursday, 08 June 2006
by Jacob G. Hornberger
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Why has public schooling been riddled with so many problems? The answer is that public schooling is an absolutely perfect model of socialism and central planning. The entire system is based on the same top-down, command-and-control system on which the military is based, with political and bureaucratic committees planning the educational decisions of multitudes of children under their jurisdiction. Participation is mandated, with criminal penalties imposed on recalcitrant parents. Funding is also based on coercion, with taxes taken from everyone – even those who don’t have children – to fund the schooling of those who are sent into the system. Nearly everyone knows that socialism produces shoddy products and services. So why should anyone be surprised that public schooling does so as well? 

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I guess we should be surprise when anything comes out of it! 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13378156/

Navy thinks it’s found long-lost WWII sub
Wreck found at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand may be USS Lagarto
Updated: 7:50 a.m. ET June 17, 2006

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HONOLULU – For 60 years, Nancy Kenney wondered what happened to her father.

The submarine that William T. Mabin was in disappeared while he and his crewmates were on a mission to attack a Japanese convoy in the last months of World War II.
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We always forget the costs of war. I STILL think that every street, gubamint building, or project should be named for a vet. I'f start with the MIAs, then do the KIAs. If we need more, then let's use the names of the disabled and wounded from the past wars. Maybe, just maybe, we would communicate to the children that vote us into these messes that they cost us more than money. One has to wonder what contributions William T. Mabin would have made had he returned from the war. Maybe he would cure cancer, be elected to office keeping us out of wars, or just be the greatest crossing guard in Michigan history.  Like the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" postulates, " … all those men on that ship died, because Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry."  We have no idea of the permutations and combinations possible!

But, we know one thing for sure, William T. Mabin would have known his daughter. And she would have known her father. For better or worse. But we can assume we know that war caused Mabin's death, Kenney's sorrow, and all of us are poorer for it.