Reinke Faces Life

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon32.html

Freedom Under Siege
by David Gordon

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If we had a sound monetary system, aggressive wars of this sort would be rendered difficult, if not outright impossible, to undertake. If the government wanted to launch an aggressive war, it would have to obtain the money to do so through tax increases or borrowing. It could not disguise the immense costs by the use of inflation, as it does now.

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And quoting Laurel and Hardy, “this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into”!

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071229/D8TQTQ000.html

Hannah Montana Essay Winner a Fake
Dec 29, 12:34 AM (ET)

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GARLAND, Texas (AP) – An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”

While gripping, it wasn’t true – and now the girl may lose her tickets after her mom acknowledged to contest organizers it was all a lie.

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Wow, where does one start with this one?

The girl should lose more than the tickets.

I’d suggest that she be made to meet the families of the more than 3k boys and girls who have died in combat. After that the families of those maimed in combat.

Mom deserves an extras measure of sackcloth ‘n’ ashes.

She committed fraud.

Didn’t the congress critters pass some lame feel good legislation that you couldn’t claim such?

Not that I am a fan of “laws”. Other than the Law of Gravity. Now that’s a LAW!

I guess we’ll see her show up on Doctor Phil, Jerry Springer, or Judge Judy for their fifteen minutes.

But, this was disgusting.

What is that Mom teaching her child?

Lie, cheat, and steal. Yes, a career in politics.

Shaking my head on this one!

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Abraham Lincoln Was a Saint !

Very powerful indictment of Lincoln. Ron Paul was ridiculed for his assertions about how slavery ended peacefully everywhere but here in the USA. Maybe there IS a revolution going on!

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http://www.charmaineyoest.com/2007/12/mike_huckabee_on_immigration_p.php

Mike Huckabee On Immigration: A Policy That Will Work
December 27, 2007 | By Jack Yoest

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The Huckabee Immigration plan is simple:

* Build the fence.

* Modernize the application.

* Everyone waits their fair turn in line.

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Wow, you and I differ two days in row. Wanna go for three?

>Build the fence

When the commies did it in Germany, we were horrified. It didn’t work there either. The gooferment can’t keep drugs out of its prisons, but it can keep bad things out of here. Right!

>Modernize the Process of Legal Immigration

When you put out food for strays, surprise you get more strays. When you have a dole, you get undesirables. We need all the “tired, hungry, yearning to be free” immigrants that want to come. We don’t “need no stinkin process”. No dole; no need for process. Remember that the “rules” were to discriminate. This is another example of closing the “golden door” after we got here.

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So all the socialists can just put a trash bag over the Statue of Liberty! But remember fences to keep people out, can keep people in. But that can never happen in the good old usa.

Can it?

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FROM MY FAVORITE LUDDITE’S COMMENT ABOUT THE FAIR TAX

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119863013677849835.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

COMMENTARY
FairTax Facts
By LEO LINBECK
December 26, 2007; Page A10

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Much has been written lately about the FairTax, the proposal to replace the current federal income tax with a national retail sales tax. Unfortunately, much of it is wrong.

This country needs a spirited and wide-ranging debate about fundamental tax reform. But that debate is not advanced by misimpressions and distortions of the FairTax.

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Let’s take on a few points.

>What emerged from this research is that a national retail sales tax
> is a preferred method of taxation
> among most Americans surveyed.

Sorry, but no one asked me! This ASSUMES that there is a moral basis for FORCING people to pay a “tax”. It’s theft. Pure and simple.

>Another is that the tax would have significant benefits for the nation’s economy.

It’s just a different way of robbing people.

>Why? Because it eliminates income taxes and payroll taxes (for Social Security and Medicare)

Does it “eliminate” them?

Assume for a minute that we overlook the moral argument about theft!

Unless the repeal of the Sixteenth precedes the implantation of the “Fair Tax”, you can rest assured that we will have every manner of taxation available.

>the FairTax would eliminate the distorting effect that
>income and payroll taxes have on the economy.

It would create it’s own set of unintended consequences.

For example, I have already been “taxed” and “inflated” on my “savings and investments”. Now, I get taxed again when I spend this money. What happens when I die? I get taxed again. :-)

>Research on the price of consumer goods reveals that up to 20% of all
>prices today represent hidden income
>taxes and payroll taxes. Once these taxes are repealed and replaced
> with the FairTax, it is likely that market
>pressure would force retail prices to fall.

All this does is rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

>Eliminating embedded taxes will also do something else —
> it will remove significant price disadvantages

In your dreams.

>Another benefit of the FairTax is that, unlike other sales taxes, it would not hit the poorest Americans the
>hardest. The FairTax proposal calls for sending every American a “prebate” check to offset the cost of the

So like Social Security, we will now put EVERY American on the dole.

>The FairTax rate is 23% on retail sales when calculated “inclusively,” as are income tax rates.

The tax is buried in the price of the goods being sold. Let’s at least have the stones to have it printed on the grocery receipt.

>It will, in a fairer, more transparent and less-expensive way, raise the same amount of money the federal >government now collects through the income and payroll taxes.

But, the biggest tax is inflation and it doesn’t do anything about that.

>Significantly, the FairTax eliminates all loopholes, gimmicks, exemptions and deductions from the federal tax

Yeah, right, how long will that last?

>Politically, the FairTax will only become law once enough citizens demand that it be enacted

Since when does it matter what the citizens demand. The gang in Washington is in power, regardless of which of the duopoly is the titular head, based on the voting minority. It’s a waste of time to “demand” anything.

>It is debatable whether a modern, citizen-led tax revolution is possible.

Carla Howell is leading a Income tax repeal referendum in Taxzachussetts.

>But the growing popularity (even among presidential candidates) of the FairTax suggests that

They see that they can keep the scam going and get more people to buy into the delusion that it does anything at all to CUT SPENDING!

>another Boston Tea Party may be at hand.

One can only hope.

The American Experiment ended with the War of Northern Aggression in the 1860’s. That started as a tax fight. And, the USA has been in a downward spiral ever since. Like plane heading to the ground nose first, it may well be too late to pull out. (I hope not.)

The problem I have with the whole Fair Tax movement is that it distracts us from the real problems:

0. Honest money (i.e., the banking cartel’s “federal reserve” is inflating us into poverty);

1. The dole (The non-productive people are voting themselves benefits paid for by the productive people!);

2. The gooferment public education system is brainwashing all the future voters into the gooferments paradigms (when the nazis and the communists did it we were horrified; when our own gooferment does it, that’s fine.)

3. The gooferment is imprisoning us (i.e., the “war” on drugs – poverty – smoking) and killing those who resist (Ruby Ridge – Waco);

4. We can’t afford to be the “world’s policeman” (i.e.,Repatriate the troops home);

5. We can’t afford ANY and ALL gooferments with their unintended consequences.

It’ll be the biggest crash in the history of mankind.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/12/the_big_dig_is_done.html

December 26, 2007
“The Big Dig” is Done
Rick Moran

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Officially launched in 1987 with an estimated budget of $2.8 billion, the project’s costs ballooned over the years, reaching a depressing $14.6 billion by the time it was complete. Wikpedia details some of the problems over the years with the project:

The Big Dig has been the most expensive highway project in the U.S.[6] Although the project was estimated at $2.8 billion in 1985 (in 1982 dollars), over $14.6 billion had been spent in federal and state tax dollars as of 2006.[7] The project has incurred criminal arrests[8][9], escalating costs, death, leaks, and charges of poor execution and use of substandard materials. The Massachusetts Attorney General is demanding contractors refund taxpayers $108 million for “shoddy work.” [10]

Just last year, a motorist died when some concrete panels collapsed. Inspections revealed substandard construction – a charge that plagued the project almost from the beginning.

The federal contribution to the project? $8.55 billion. Your tax dollars at work.

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What can one say?

No surprise. No one — politician or bureaucrat — gets any adverse impact. No one pays for it but the taxpayer.

Poor stupid taxpayer!

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http://www.charmaineyoest.com/2007/12/end_the_irs_get_the_fairtax_an.php

End the IRS: Get the FairTax and Get Your Whole Paycheck
December 24, 2007 | By Jack Yoest

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Mike Huckabee, “is the change agent the nation most needs.” From The Dallas Morning News endorsement from delegate rich Texas.

FairTax An example of this change Huckabee advocates is ending, eliminating, closing down a government agency: the Internal Revenue Service. The beloved IRS.

Kyle Hamilton is blogging on the FairTax on mymanmitt, founded by my good friend Justin Hart. They are skeptical of real tax change. Our competitors supporting Romney do not believe that real change is possible, or maybe not necessary.

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Sorry, but you’ve been duped. The Fair Tax ain’t fair. In a short comment it’s not possible to go into all the rationale for this statement, but lets just hit two points.

(1) Unless the Sixteenth Amendment is repealed prior to the implementation of the Fair Tax [and not the wimpy Congress passed law that promises to repeal it], you can be assured that we will have both the National Sales Tax / Fair Tax AND the income tax. We’ve been fooled many times — income tax only for the rich, social security will never taxable, IRAs never had RMDs at first, and many other “camels” that have stuck their nose in — why would you trust the politicians now?

(2) Taxation in any form is THEFT. By what moral authority does the majority impose this “theft”? If a tax isn’t truly voluntary, then it is coerced. This is supposed to be the “land of the free”. What a joke!

No, sorry, we are on the “road to serfdom”. The sheep are being enslaved by degrees. Our revolutionary “fore fathers” would be ashamed at what we have let happen to the American Experiment.

Sorry, but only Ron Paul is pointing the way out of this mess. You can nuke the IRS by cutting spending back to Clinton era numbers.

Without a fundamental revolution, the Fair Tax does NOTHING for the largest tax we pay — the Inflation Tax.

The Fair Tax is at best a flawed distraction — lipstick on one ugly pig — to take our eye off the ball.

Sorry, but I respectfully disagree.

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Ahh, the Socialists are in full bloom. Trying to steal Ron Paul’s thunder — end the IRS — while maintaining the status quo.

The empty suits of both parties are just that “empty suits” who want to keep the current system going along.

If you don’t solve the problem of “honest money”, nothing else matters. If you don’t solve the problem of “Congressional spending”, nothing else matters. If you don’t solve the problem of “unfunded entitlements”, nothing else matters.

If Ron Paul doesn’t get the nod, then we are in the run away elevator to the bottom. Right next to the Roman Empire. And, all the broken dreams of freedom.

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Small Government News*
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

“The Massachusetts State Teachers Union Has Launched a Boiler Room,
Telemarketing Operation to Disqualify Our Ballot Initiative to END the
Income Tax In Massachusetts”

Publisher: Carla Howell
Editor: Michael Cloud

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You haven’t seen anything yet! You don’t think that all those that suck off the public teat are going to just give up and get a “real job”? Politicians, bureaucrats, and their “sicko-pants” have too much “invested” in the current system.

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From:
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:11 AM
To: John Reinke
Subject: For Consideration

John, a thought regarding our discussion about the U.S. involvement overseas:

“ALL THAT IS NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF
EVIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING.”
– EDMUND BURKE

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I guess Burke was advocating “making men good” (i.e., behave as we think they should) by killing and occupying them. Killing and maiming will make sure they get the point. Installing our puppets like <pick you favorite tyrant> and, when he get too big for his britches by alluding to pricing oil in other than dollars, over turn him.

Our interventionist policies are what get us into trouble. We allow our gooferment to stick our collective hands in the car door. When it gets slammed on — by others or sometimes by our own gooferment people or their operatives, we are fooled when they “ride into rescue” us. And, as always, the cure is worse than the disease.

Finally, I would assert that Swiss have the porcupine model down pat. The Canadians usually are smart enough to stay out of other people’s business as well. Trading with people, talking to people, free travel between countries these are not “isolationist”. We voted in the Kerry / Bush election for a “smaller gooferment” and a “humble foreign policy” with “no nation building” — i remember hearing those things. MYOB, free trade, free travel, ending the dole, bringing the troops home, sound money, getting the gooferment out of education. These are NOT “doing nothing”.

I’d sum up the argument by quoting Madeline Albright about sanctions killing children.

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Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084
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Unless they were your children, then you might hold a grudge.

Republican Presidents have a history before Bush of cleaning up messes. I hope Ron Paul gets a chance to before it’s too late. Frankly, electing one of the other stuffed suits virtually guarantees the End of the American Experiment. And, maybe it’s even too big for him to clean up.

“Dona Nobis Pacem”

:-(
fjohn

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EMAIL TO MY FAVORITE SOCIALIST ABOUT TEA PARTY!

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I’m doing it for the children!

Do you want them to grow up “socialists”? Or, as the Dead Old White Guys intended strong, free, and brave?

We are spending them into oblivion.

Think after the fall of the various empires throughout history. Pax Americana is ending. Ugly, hard, and in an ocean of debt!

When your sitting your rocking chair (I sure hope you can afford one.) I want you to be able to tell all the grandkids about this loon of a uncle who saved them from poverty by a few hundred dollars to the Great President Ron Paul, who made America a great nation again.

The alternative is Zimbabwe like inflation, internal strife like the Tutsi (we’re all members of some minority or another), or an oppressive regime like Cuba or North Korea. Like turning a great ocean liner, it takes that steering rudder which turns the main rudder causing the whole ship to turn.

This is truly a watershed election.

You’ve got a choice in this election. It’s stark — one Texas obgyn who painted as a loon or any one of 19 stuffed shirts all saying basically the same thing “socialism”. My crystal ball is cloudy. But, I know, from the history of the Plymouth colony — Russia — North Korea — Cuba, that socialism doesn’t work and it eventually devolves into gooferment killing citizens. It even happens here.

Gooferment impoverishes the people when it debases the currency. And, no amount of lipstick on this pig is going to make it look any better.

Adjusting my tin foil hat, checking the beans ‘n’ beer supply, and cleaning my “urban yutes discouragement devices”,
fjohn

p.s., Imagine how short the Nazi genocide would have been if every minority family had a gun? I can hear the conversation now “No, Herr Himler, I think it’s your turn to go first!”. :-)

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The Second Amendment ensure that you have all the others!

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http://tinyurl.com/2mtk5v

Pettitte Admits Using HGH During 2002
Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:17 PM EST

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NEW YORK — Andy Pettitte used human growth hormone to recover from an elbow injury in 2002, the New York Yankees pitcher admitted two days after he was cited in the Mitchell Report.

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Who cares what other people put in their body? Only the “drug police”, who think that they can somehow stop it. Didn’t work in Prohibition; won’t work now.

You’ve got millionaires playing for billionaires and I’m supposed to care about it in some way? Like any “sports team” creates a granfalloon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon that I am supposed to align with. It’s entertainment. And, when they cease to be entertaining, we’ll find something else. They are men playing a game. Not “superstars”. Unless they use their status for something “good”, we don’t know them.

That’s why imho the whole story has been greeted with a giant yawn. We the people have more important things to do. Like making a living. Like getting through the daily grind. Like being authentic. There’s no “drug” that helps with that.

Frankly Scarlet, I don’t give a damn!

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/14526

Boston Tea Party Speech 12/16/07
Posted December 17th, 2007 by Jane Aitken

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Jim Forsythe PhD, Aerospace Engineer and former tanker pilot who flew missions to Bosnia and Kosovo gave this speech at the Boston Tea Party celebration for Ron Paul at Faneuil Hall, Boston today. Long live the “Second American Revolution” of 2008.

Enjoy!

– Jane

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I especially like the lines:

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For a strong defense, what we need is to protect our borders, not attempt to remake borders overseas. We need to pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy, with free trade and travel to engender the good will of the world. And when we are attacked we need to go after those that have attacked us, and only those that attacked us. What we need, is Ron Paul. In his ten terms he has consistently fought to protect our borders. He has consistently advocated a non-interventionist foreign policy and free trade. And he advocated directly targeting the terrorists, by voting to pursue them in Afghanistan. He also sponsored a bill to target the terrorist directly through constitutional means, but was ignored.

It has become abundantly clear to me that the revolution sparked by the Boston Tea Party was gradually abandoned over the last two centuries. Our non-interventionist foreign policy was abandoned by Wilson, who said we should “make the world safe for democracy,” leading to WW1. But the withering torch of freedom has once again been re-ignited. The revolution began at Lexington and Concord 10 miles west of this cradle of liberty. And the beginning of the second American Revolution will also take place in Concord. But it will be Concord, New Hampshire, headquarters of the New Hampshire Ron Paul for President Campaign.

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Note: I’d quibble about the “Second” American Revolution. I’d count the War of Northern Aggression as second. Ron Paul might be the “third”?

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8THD8A80&show_article=1

Huckabee Pushes National Sales Tax in NH
Dec 14 02:03 PM US/Eastern
By LIBBY QUAID
Associated Press Writer

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BOSCAWEN, N.H. (AP) – Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said eliminating federal income taxes in favor of a national sales tax would help save Social Security—an odd pitch in a state where residents pay no state income or sales taxes.

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What do your expect from a “socialist”?

Aside from the fact that a “national sales tax” will just gives us BOTH an income tax and a sales tax, (I will trust me — the income tax was passed as a tax on rich people — the gang in gooferment have a vampire’s lust for money instead of blood) it’s theft.

Just continue to ask, “by what authority do you force people to pay?”

They have the guns and the willingness to use them.

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Sure, I can’t be in Vegas and go 14-0 on a teaser card. Wish it was skill! I think the pay tables only go to 14. http://www.sportsbook.com/info/comparative-odds.php#teaser I’d be getting 150-1. So my 10$ bet would be 1500. And, all my lesser ones would have won as well. I usually played 100$ with 4,6,8,10,12! More on the lower ones and less on the higher. Argh! And, I’m still behind Frenchy.

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I usually bet 50 on four, 40 on six, 30 on eight, 20 on ten, and 10 on twelve!

That would have returned 150+240+450+1000+500=2340

Argh!

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You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 13 Dec 07 @ 0715 Route 295 South milepost 42.3 … …

… white suv td11116 … …

… at leisurely 75 or 80 (It was nearby for very long.) (Your serf speed limit is 65)

… tailgating the poor peon in his way

… never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away from I assume trenton after protecting and serving me.

Arghhhhhhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071211175557.p3d3kaah&show_article=1

Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab, her friends say
Dec 11 12:56 PM US/Eastern

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Friends and classmates of a 16-year-old girl who police say was murdered by her devout Muslim father in a Toronto suburb told local media Tuesday she was killed for not wearing a hijab.

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Here we have a conflict of religion and liberty.

Didn’t the girl have a “right to life”?

So much for the protection of the “state”. It’s fictional; an illusion.

You have only the rights you are willing to defend.

Sad.

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You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 06 Dec 07 @ 0703 est …

Route 295 Exit 57A South …

NJ SYA8K NJ TRANSIT POLICE …

(Why no SG plate?)

a white suv with bubble gum rack (lights off) …

with a full “police” type paint job …

over 75 (Your serf speed limit is 65) …

never left the left lane!

(Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Arghhh!

Arghhhhhhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

You don’t want to hear it? TOO BAD!

Last night, I was a the RU women’s game too. And, I too had to leave the game. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the police escort. Apparently that lets you drive up the wrong side of the road, passing me and all the rest of the serfs patiently waiting for their turn. I saw your escort bully people waiting for the traffic light and in “your majesty’s” way. (Guess it was too much trouble for the storm trooper operating the light to change it to give everyone the green going your way. And, I observed how carefully your team observed the speed limit as they raced off into the night. Seven SUV for one guy. That’s real green on you. And, how many people did your caravan endangers. It was icy out, but you could tell it, as your troupe raced off into the night.

Sorry, but even apolitical Frau Reinke was disgusted with the obvious show of the Imperial Powers.

You best be concerned with your image for when the revolution comes. As it will. Remember the patron saint of all the “better class” of people, Marie “Let Them Eat Cake” Antoinette. Remember what happened to the French Aristocracy when they missed the memo about “all men are created equal”.

Arghhhhhhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8T5RPP01&show_article=1

Anthem Skipped Before Monday Night Game
Nov 27 02:42 AM US/Eastern

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Roethlisberger Relieved to Get Win in Mud Bowl

PITTSBURGH (AP) – Sports in America start with the national anthem. The Dolphins- Steelers game was an exception.

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Except if it conflicts with the needs of television.

Now I’m not a fan of the faux patriotism of the NFL, MBA, and all the other sports. They are no more “patriotic” than the vending machine. If the rubes want to be fooled, then they are more than happy to put it in the “show”. It has nothing to do with “sports” or anything other than turning a buck.

Let’s not kid ourselves.

The Mouse’s only interest is in the “cheese”.

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You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 26 November 07 @ 0730 est …

… on Route 295 Southbound Mile Post 42 ….

… a white East Brunswick police SUV MG69758…

… in excess of 75 (Your serf’s speed limit is 65) …

… in lots of traffic …

… tailgating the poor peon in his way …

… never left the left lane!

Did I mention it was raining and, despite the popular notion to the contrary, even in NJ, bodies in motion tend to remain in motion.

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get somewhere to protect and serve me. (Isn’t that the “party” line?)

Arghhh!

For some reason, I just didn’t feel very safe with him on MY road. Yes, mine! You’ve stolen enough from me in gas, property, registration, and income tax. What section of road is MINE?

Arghhhhhhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

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My maiden aunt, who’s in her mid-70s and in a nursing home, had some medical problems. Throwing up blood was reported. The home sent her to the hospital. Initially, the ER didn’t believe, but her problem was made obvious, when she did it for them. So a “stomach scope” test was scheduled. As her proxy, I consented under the gun.

So, here’s my rant. None of these caring professionals gives a damn outside of their little specialty.

We arrive to “check up” on her and we found her back in her room. Getting a nurse to talk to me was a chore. Nurse seemed like it was a bother. I asked about getting her something to eat now that there was “no trouble found”. No doc orders. Dig up doc for orders. Order food; no one in the food prep to deliver food. Food arrives (and it was nice), but no silverware. Find silverware, but the aide had time to take a personal cell phone call in her room while we all waited. I feed the aunt by cutting up the food and cajoling her.

There is a silent disrespect to the patient and the family.

It’s hard to put your finger on. Maybe they are overworked. Maybe they feel they are underpaid. Maybe it’s because we don’t pay the bill directly and they don’t see us as the consumer. Maybe, maybe, maybe. As I said it’s hard to put your finger on it. But it’s there. It palpable.

If this is an example of medicine of the future, then we are in big trouble.

Sigh!

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Are the new countdown “don’t walk” signs for pedestrians the new yellow light?

I’ve been noticing that one intersections where you can see them from the road, drivers are using them. Traffic speeds up as the count down triggers. It’ll cause a nice accident some day if someone tries to stop.

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My aunt had to go to the ER. Since her symptoms reported by the nursing home were not believed, (surprising since they have a doc and nurses), they were just watching. I got to watch the workings of a part of the ER and found it to be organized chaos. Luckily, she threw up for them and then they were convinced! Good thing. So, they had no idea what was causing it, and they were going to keep her. At that point she had been in the ER from 11PM to 5AM, the doc said she was “fast pathed” to a room and that it would take a few hours. So we went home to get some sleep and returned about 10AM. Surprise, she was still in the ER. Argh! She got to the room about 5PM. Wall clock time in the ER was 17 hours. How is that efficient? It certainly was exhausting.

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You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 16 November at 0700 est on 295 South Exit 59 … …

… a white suv td 11 161 … …

… at a between zero and leisurely 70 (Your serf speed limit is 65)

… in lots of traffic

… tailgating the poor peon in his way

… never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away from I assume trenton to protect and serve me and not escape the scene of the crime.

Arghhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=493357&in_page_id=1770

‘Green’ BA flying empty ‘ghost planes’ across the Atlantic
By EMILY ANDREWS – More by this author » Last updated at 09:22am on 14th November 2007

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British Airways is flying dozens of empty planes across the Atlantic because it has no cabin crew to staff them.

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See something stupid? Look for the gooferment. BA doesn’t want to “lose” their slots at the airport.

I OTOH just shake my head.

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You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 15 November 07 ~0700 est on Route 1 thru Pton and again on Route 295 South… …

… a white East Brunswick police suv MG 69758 … …

… went down route 1 cutting in and out at a between zero and leisurely 70 …

… in lots of traffic …

… tailgating, cutting off, and generally harassing the poor peons in his way!!!.

Never turned on the bubble gum lights.

Arghhh!

It was particularly amusing since the same car speed past me again (It was deja vu all over again); left lane of course; on Rt295 south around exit 65;

(I attribute that to his insistence of sticking in the left lane. All the real drivers know that the right lane thru Pton moves faster than the left. It’s all those gooferment workers bound for Trenton in their Intelligent Designer given left lane.)

[For those not familiar with the NJ roads. State “workers” proceed straight down route 1 to the golden dome of corruption. If you come later in the morning, then it’s not unusual to see “lots” of state cards commuting to the state jobs by the state ’employees”. It particularly ticks me off to know that I am paying for the road, the traffic jam, and the bad driving of my “servants”. Arghhh! That’s one reason I like to commute early; I can’t afford to have a stroke because I couldn’t afford the death taxes.]

Arghhhhhhh!

Perhaps, if your State Police are not too busy collecting extra “road taxes” for ordinary citizens, they might pay a call on this East Brunswick cop and give him a geography lesson. “East Brunswick here”!

After all speeding thru other parts of the state, what does he think he is … … A State Policeman … A state Policitican … a Federal Overlord!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

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