RANT: Tokens — another broken promise

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

http://thomsinger.blogspot.com/2009/12/whats-next.html

Monday, December 14, 2009
What’s Next?
  This decade is coming to an end.

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It came in with all the attention on Y2K and is going out with our world forever changed. Many things, big and small, have morphed our society: The terrorist attacks on 9-11, the mass adoption of cell phones, and the changes in communication due to social media are just a few things that have impacted the ways we live.

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Polaroid Photo – Don’t count Polaroid out just yet, they are looking at releasing some new products.

Bank Deposit Slips – Ummmm I still use these.

Subway Token – I live in Austin, this city has avoided any real mass transit for decades, so I have no idea.

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Tokens were replaced with Metro Cards in NYC. It allows the MTA to steal back all the unused rides by tourists, lost cards, and such. Tokens used to mean something.

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Akin to removing the country from the Gold Standard, which allowed the explosive growth of Gooferment, replacing the token with the metrocard allows the MTA to sell promises that it has no intent to deliver on.

And, close the token booths which provide some measure of persona security to the traveller.

Maybe I do need a tin foil hat?

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RANT: “Climate Change” sounds like “barbara streisand” to me!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/12/11/a-few-notes-on-climate-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Cato-at-liberty+%28Cato+at+Liberty%29

A Few Notes on Climate Change

Posted by Andrei Illarionov

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20. The impact of all anthropogenic factors (not only CO2) on climate is unclear when compared with factors of nature. Therefore, the most effective strategy for humanity in responding to different types of climate change is adaptation. That approach is exactly the way that humans have reacted to the larger-scale climatic changes in the past, even though they were less prepared then for such changes. Now mankind has greater resources to adapt to lesser climate fluctuations and it is better equipped for them scientifically, technically and psychologically. The adaptation of humanity to climate changes is incomparably less costly than other options being proposed and imposed by climate alarmists. Human society has already adopted to climate change and will continue to do so as long as economy and society are vibrant and free.

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“Climate Change” sounds like “barbara streisand” to me!

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RANT: Do we remember Pearl Harbor?

Monday, December 7, 2009

Tommorrow, December 7th, Americans MIGHT remember the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On a Sunday morning, 68 years ago, the US Navy were the recipients of a well-planned and poorly executed raid.

Twenty Five Hundred deaths that day; uncountable more in the resulting war.

Generations disrupted as they were in WW1.

And, the “cure” to the “Great Depression”. Would this be the beginning of the Leviathan Gooferment State?

Donning my tin foil hat, I call your attention to the role of FDR in provoking, if not orchestrating, the war he needed to restart the economy.

Our entry into WW1, by the “peace candidate” Wilson, allowed the seeds of WW2 to be sown. Our entry into WW2, by the instigator FDR, allowed the creation of a permanent “warfare” state.

This day is a reminder that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

… … not for the military invasion or aggression, but against the politicians who would enslave us in debt, welfare, and the never ending “war”.

Argh!

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RANT: Guess the “war” isn’t over

Sunday, December 6, 2009

http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-happened-on-flight-297.html

Friday, December 04, 2009
What Happened on Flight 297

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If you were really paying attention, you might have heard about AirTran Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston, which was delayed on 18 November. According to the “official” version, (reported by Houston’s KHOU-TV, Fox News and other outlets), a male passenger refused to end his cell phone call, forcing the crew to return to the gate.

Since then, a far different version of events has emerged. Based on reports from other passengers, that “phone call” looks more like a terrorist dry run.

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Interesting. Too bad we don’t have a “free press” in the USA any more. Getting some facts would be nice!

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RANT: THe gooferment creating jobs? Yeah, right!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2009/12/04/how-to-create-real-jobs-mr-president/comment-page-1/#comment-119216

How To Create Real Jobs, Mr. President
Posted in December 4th, 2009

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I hear some of the folks in Washington were talking about creating jobs and it just made me cringe. Obviously, out here in the private sector one does not “create” a job. We create businesses that solve problems. Some of those businesses require people to run them, service accounts, and build stuff. While there are businesses that don’t require many workers, that’s still OK, because the person who figured out how to do more with fewer employees goes out and buys a new flat screen TV, new garage doors, and upgrades the furnace. Since I wasn’t invited to the White House jobs summit, I thought I would mail in a few of my suggestions:

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Dear WWDS:

Don’t quit your day job. :-) Not that ANY politician would follow anyone’s advice. But it can only be hoped they might accidently listen.

Cut the spending. Cut the size of gooferment. Cut the people free to create.

Note: Since the gooferment has several ways to tax people (i.e., direct unavoidable taxes like sales taxes, indirect yet avoidable taxes like income taxes, inflation to steal value from your wallet, debt which binds the current and future taxpayers, regulation that has fees, and direct theft by seizure.

On “corporate taxation”, I have yet to see ANY corporation “pay” taxes. By tax, I mean ANY collection from the company to the government regardless of label. They are just pass-along fictions to move along hidden taxation onto the backs of the people. And those sheeple are too stupid to realize.

Note: Impose a tax on a corporation and it passes it along. If the marketplace won’t pay the increase, corporation folds. So a “corporate tax” is just a hidden tax on real people. Only real people pay taxes.

If we truly want to “create jobs”, we must starve the pig that the gooferment has become.

A limit must be placed on the sources the gooferment uses to fund itself. Borrowing is the place to start. Don’t let them raise the debt ceiling. In fact, we should keep dropping the debt ceiling.

Then, we should eliminate the corporate “taxes”.

Yes, I said eliminate the corporate “taxes”!

Note: How fast would the corporate headquarters be coming back here?

Don’t forget, A corporate tax is any money that the government taxes from a company. So “fees” would be zero.

Repeal the income tax. Repeal.

Then and only then, will we truly be free.

All taxes, and other sources of funding, for the gooferment would be OBVIOUS!

ONLY REAL PEOPLE PAY TAXES.

Of course, the political class isn’t going to do this because then it would be OBVIOUS that the sheeple were being shorn.

Baahhh! Baahhh! Baahhh!

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RANT: The paranoia in all of us

Sunday, November 29, 2009

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2009/09/paranoia-strikes-deep/

Paranoia Strikes Deep
published September 2009
Why people believe in conspiracies
Michael Shermer

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Conspiracies do happen, of course. Abraham Lincoln was the victim of an assassination conspiracy, as was Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand, gunned down by the Serbian secret society called Black Hand. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a Japanese conspiracy (although some conspiracists think Franklin Roosevelt was in on it). Watergate was a conspiracy (that Richard Nixon was in on). How can we tell the difference between information and disinformation? As Kurt Cobain, the rocker star of Nirvana, once growled in his grunge lyrics shortly before his death from a self-inflicted (or was it?) gunshot to the head, “Just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not after you.”

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Argh! “THEY” are out to get us. Violent people want to seize the power of the gooferment to exercise over us. If you don’t think you are “being controlled”, just try doing something the establishment (left or right) doesn’t like!

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RANT: Climate-gate is a fraud

Friday, November 27, 2009

http://www.mrc.org/bozellcolumns/columns/2009/20091125064520.aspx

When the Press Favors Secrecy
The New York Times has no trouble reproducing damaging documents not meant for the public eye when the subject is national security — but not when the documents embarrass the “scientific experts” used to scare people about global warming.
By: L. Brent Bozell
November 24, 2009 10:39 ET

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The e-mails prove just how dishonest this left-wing global warming agenda truly is. And now suddenly, the New York Times has found religion, and won’t publish these private e-mails. Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, who’s more global warming lobbyist than reporter, quoted – sparsely – from the e-mails, but declared he would not post these texts on his “Dot Earth” blog on the Times website: “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.” That rule didn’t apply to things like the disclosure of the SWIFT global bank monitoring program against terrorists.

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Climate-gate proves that the issue is a fraud and the “scientists” can be trusted.

DIsgraceful! Guess they’l get a Nobel Prize for Science now.

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RANT: Lost my camera

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Argh!

My own fault. I had it in my left pant’s pocket and it slipped out when I was sitting in a cab.

Argh!

The driver might not even see it. Then when he does, how would he know who’s it was.

I should have remembered the cab number.

I should have taken a receipt.

I should have …

Argh!

I call a few cab companies. Nice people. But good luck.

I was told call the licensing authority; no phone number.

Argh!

Oh well.

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RANT: Yet Another Tin Foil Hat Question

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=376

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Initial reports said there were multiple shooters. If that was the case, the scenario is much more plausible. If multiple shooters had opened fire from various vantage points–especially if they had rifles–it would have made unarmed resistance extremely difficult. That scenario would make sense. The “one shooter with two handguns” explanation makes no sense.

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OK, gang, don your tin-foil hats for a moment and consider the question: “Do you really believe the Gooferment’s story? It’s another hard to swallow tale imho.

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RANT: The gooferment IS the problem

Sunday, November 22, 2009

“Advocates of government control [of health care and insurance] want you to believe that the serious shortcomings of our medical and insurance system are failures of the free market. But that’s John Stosselimpossible because our market is not free. Each state operates a cozy medical and insurance cartel that restricts competition through licensing and keeps prices higher than they would be in a genuine free market. But the planners won’t talk about that. After all, if government is the problem in the first place, how can they justify a government takeover?”

— libertarian journalist John Stossel

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RANT: Health Care Vote bribe

Saturday, November 21, 2009

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-100-million-health-care-vote.html

The $100 Million Health Care Vote?

November 19, 2009 3:03 PM

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Karl 2 ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports:

What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Here’s a case study.

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”

I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.

In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)

Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.

How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.

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Argh!

Disgusting. Is anyone going to stop this?

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RANT: “We” can’t afford the USPS

Thursday, November 19, 2009

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/OMyfED4MxVw/

Government Mail Loses $3.8 Billion

from Cato @ Liberty by Tad DeHaven

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The U.S. Postal Service reported that it lost $3.8 billion last fiscal year and that it expects to lose $7.8 billion this year. The loss occurred despite cost-cutting measures and legislation that allowed the USPS to forgo $4 billion in required payments to pre-fund retiree health benefits.

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SO the USPS “lost” 11.8B$?

So how do we “kill” the USPS?

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RANT: KSM theater for what purpose?

Thursday, November 19, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116268

Is America at war, or not?
Posted: November 16, 2009
6:50 pm Eastern

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Are we at war – or not?

For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S. citizen?

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And does anyone believe that the AG made this decision without consulting the President? If that’s the case, then he should be fired for overstepping. If it’s not the case, then he should be fired for lying and deceiving the People.

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RANT: Blow up the Senate (not literally)

Monday, November 16, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/11/grassroots-blow-up-senate-not-literally.html

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Grassroots: Blow up the Senate (not literally)

Grassroots — on the undemocratic nature of the U.S. Senate — is on The Progressive Populist Web site.

Posted by Hank Kalet at 10:18 PM  

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It’s time to dismantle the United States Senate and replace it with a more democratic institution.

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Democracy is mob rule and the anathema to the concept of the republic.

The change from the States selecting Senators allowed the Federal Gooferment to create all sorts of unfunded mandates. We need the tempering of the passions of the day.

You may just get your wish of a more “democratic” state. When secession makes all the states go in their own direction, then you can run your state anyway you want. But, you won’t have the big federal gooferment to loot the productive class for your schemes. You won’t even have the rich to loot in your own state as even more producers vote with their feet.

Freedom and liberty is man’s natural state, because that’s the Plan. No one can drive a man harder than he can himself.

You’ll be like the aristocrats of France that can’t see the revolution coming.

The Dead Old White Guys were pretty smart, but they knew the problems of “democracy”. Too bad we can’t see as well.

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RANT: Remember the Blue Hippo?

Saturday, November 14, 2009

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/14/0035257/BlueHippo-Scam-Collected-15M-Only-Shipped-One-PC?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashdot%2FeqWf+%28Slashdot%3A+Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

BlueHippo Scam Collected $15M, Only Shipped One PC

from Slashdot by Soulskill

An anonymous reader writes “Turns out that those BlueHippo commercials advertising financing for computers and other electronics for anybody, regardless of credit, were way more sleazy than you thought. The FTC is bringing this fraud down, but not too soon. ‘According to the FTC, the company’s brazen business model continued without interruption after the 2008 settlement. “In fact, in the year following entry of this Court’s Stipulated Final Judgment and Order for a Permanent Injunction, BlueHippo financed — at most — a single computer to the over 35,000 consumers who placed orders for computers that could be financed during the period,’ the FTC told a court (PDF) yesterday. In the meantime, the company took in a cool $15 million in payments from consumers, who don’t appear to have received anything in return.'”

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Why am I not surprised? And, how long did it take to get this fraud shutdown by the “regulators”? And who’s going to jail for the 15M$ stolen from poor people? After all, who has “regardless of credit”. And, the hardware they pictured looked obsolete to me.

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RANT: Using the wrong tactics

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed167.html

Surprised by Disaster
by Fred Reed

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America’s problem is not that its generals prepare for the last war, but that they don’t prepare for it, and then fight it again the same way.

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Too true!

I happened to watch “Gods and Generals” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_and_Generals_%28film%29 And, like “The Patriot”, it demonstrates the stupidity of the leadership. The strategy and tactics developed for war in Europe made for needless casualties in the American Revolution and the Second War of Independence aka the War of Northern Aggression aka the “Civil War”.

How many casualties are we taking in Iraq and AfPak?

Argh!

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RANT: Just like our depression!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114878

What really caused the Great Depression
Posted: November 04, 2009
Walter E. Williams

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Professor Hanke says that the lesson to be drawn from business cycle history is that, if left to run their natural course, severe downturns are followed by rapid snapbacks. The 1921 recession is a good example where wholesale prices, industrial production and manufacturing employment fell by 30 percent or more and reached their low in mid-1921. There was little government intervention, at least by today’s standards, and the economy recovered naturally; and by early 1922, it had fully recovered and the nation was off to the Roaring Twenties.

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So what are the bozos in DC doing?

Yeah, raising taxes, spending us into debt, and making “rules”.

Argh!

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RANT: The UN

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114194

Imagine a world without America
Barry Farber

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America took the lead and founded the United Nations, fully allowing for America to be out-voted as that great “Parliament of Man” became a VIP lounge for dictators, aggressors, oppressors, thugs, thieves, sexual predators and other varieties of truly awful people.

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No good deed goes unpunished.

Time to send that packing! We should get out now.

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RANT: The Obama don’t get the flu shot?

Sunday, November 1, 2009

“President Obama just declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency. First the swine flu’s a big threat, then it’s not, then it is. Make up your mind. This thing’s like the Brett Favre of infectious diseases.”

— Jimmy Fallon

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Note that not only do the Obama children NOT go to public skrool. They don’t get the flu shot either.

Do as I say; not as I do?

And, by the way, did anyone notice that the gooferment, which wants to run “health care”, didn’t get the vaccines done in time for the season. If you did that at one of the evil drug companies, what would be your title? Yeah, unemployed!

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RANT: Dial 911 and die!

Friday, October 30, 2009

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/arrest_is_made_in_killing_of_p.html

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The pastor, Edward Hinds, had called police from his cell phone around 5 p.m. Thursday, authorities told CNN, but the phone went dead. A 911 operator called back, and the janitor, Jose Feliciano, allegedly picked up the phone, saying there was no need to send an officer, then hung up. Police could not trace the call, and no officer was sent.

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Yes, I guess it was too much trouble for the doughnut eaters to go “protect and serve”. Wonder if the mayor, police commissioner, or one of the other komisars would get that response? Nah, I’m sure they have armed security details. Paid for by the taxpayers, of course.

Argh!

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RANT: Roach ruins a photo op for the gooferment skool!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2009/10/27/2009-10-27_kids_buggin_out_for_rays_tacos.html

Sixth-graders give dining diva Rachael Ray’s lunch menu passing marks
BY Mark Morales and Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Tuesday, October 27th 2009, 4:00 AM

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Dining diva Rachael Ray unveiled her healthy new lunch for students at Public School 89 in Tribeca on Monday before a gaggle of reporters – and one brazen cockroach.

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Speechless.

OK, not really.

The roach will survive a nuclear war. But, the liberals think that they don’t exist.

Why should the State be “educating” (aka indoctrinating) children?

Parents should be in charge; not overpaid bureaucrats.

Bet home schoolers don’t have this problem.

Finally, it’s sad when we allow the gooferment to run our lives.

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RANT: Why wait for a flawed concept?

Thursday, October 22, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113483

Where’s the health-care bill?
Posted: October 21, 2009
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND

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After all, who can object to a bill that hasn’t yet been written? When someone objects to provisions of the legislation, you can always say, “That’s not in the bill.” And, of course, you would be right. Nothing’s in the bill. The bill doesn’t exist. It will be written after approval.

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It’s all well and good to say “wait till we see something”, but by then it will be too late. And, I think this may be the watershed event, like during the Vietnam war, that brings the Fat Old White People, (as opposed to the Dead Old White Guys), out to the streets in revolt. The gooferment has steadily eroded our rights, like the DOWG’s feared, and may have actually stepped over the Rubicon. Add to their criminal actions with subprime, GM / Chrysler, takeover the banks, and one and on. Maybe The People will rise up and smite them. Maybe I’m a “tin foil hat”, but I think it’s going to get messy. Perhaps, even worse. That’s why I don’t think we can wait to see the bill. The bill really doesn’t matter. It’s the whole concept that is flawed.

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RANT: People will be more cynical; too bad!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/18/colorado.balloon.investigation/index.html

Authorities: ‘Balloon boy’ incident was a hoax

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I guess like everyone else, they fooled me.

It was very wrong to fool all the good people.

But fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you.

Everyone will be just a little more cynical.

Argh!

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RANT: Teach them a lesson, Rush. Please!

Monday, October 19, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/letter_to_rush_limbaugh.html

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October 16, 2009

Letter to Rush Limbaugh

Lloyd Marcus

Dear Rush,

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Dear Rush,

Sue the bastards.

Drag everyone of them into court. Take there last nickel. (This is Obama’s Amerika. They’ll get a bail out or hand out. Or gooferment pensions.)

It’s the principle of the thing. ( Sean Connery as James Malone (The Untouchables): “You wanna get Capone? Here’s how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way. And that’s how you get Capone!”)

They can criticize what you DO say, but they can’t just make it up.

You have to “assist the Universe” and teach them the lesson they need to learn. Else the Universe will keep sending you “teaching moments” until you do.

imho

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RANT: Can’t be a player and umpire at the same time

Friday, October 16, 2009

http://jasonalba.com/2009/10/13/health-insurance-tracks-cost-of-medical-care-bs/comment-page-1/#comment-46036

Affordable Outplacement
Health Insurance Tracks Cost Of Medical Care. BS.
Jason Alba

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That was what I thought the lie was. Based on my summer, with a birth and a surgery, I could not believe the overhead and price inflation caused by insurance companies. You can read about it on my JibberJobber blog, but understand that the hospital bills for the birth of my kid were about 60% discounted because we were self-pay, and we paid up front.

In other words, because we bypassed the health insurance system we were able to avoid 60% of the cost. Unbelievable.

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My observation on the upcoming “Obama-care” where the gooferment will become — in quick order — my “insurance company”. (Yeah, I know what they say. But, I think it’s going to be “Medicare for everyone”. To paraphrase Judge Judy, “I wouldn’t believe you …” (i.e. a congress critter; any politician) “… if your tongue came notarized!”

If my insurance company screws me, I can go to the gooferment for relief. If the gooferment aka my insurance company screws me, to whom do I go to for relief? To the gooferment’s courts?

Just take my screwing and shut up!

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RANT: Killing our troops in a failed policy

Thursday, October 15, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski237.html

Is McChrystal Reading LewRockwell.com?
by Karen Kwiatkowski

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Not likely.

But I was heartened to see that when we abandoned the military outpost in Kamdesh, Afghanistan, we destroyed the base, lighting afterburners, the smoldering waste of one more failed experiment in colonialism in our rear-view mirrors.

We departed this small base days after one of the deadliest Taliban strikes against our occupation forces there. Officially, our departure had been planned for months. Any bets that the leadership will take a hit for that bit of poor planning?

Not likely.

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The People have to end this nonsense.

Afghanistan has been the deathbed of empires for eons.

We can safely withdraw if we do two things: (1) pull back all our troops from around the globe; and (2) end the war on drugs. Then the Afghan farmers can grow all the opium they want. AND, all the countries, who’ve been living under our protection, can pay for their own defense.

Not likely!

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