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Isn’t interesting to review the “accomplishments” of the NuJerzee Legislature this year:

* No property tax reform

* No state pension reform

* No state worker benefit reform

* No limitation on pensions for part-time politicians

* No education reform

but they did pass a civil union bill. Huh?

My agenda:

* Repeal the state sales tax hike; it was just for pork, wasn’t it?

* Reform state pensions into a 401k; if IBM can do, why can’t the state?

* Eliminate a state benefits; raise people’s pay to cover a benefit; why is it the taxpayer’s problem?

* No pensions for any politicians; how did that boondoggle get started?

* No salaries for any state official — legislator, elected official, or judge; they should be honored to serve. Give’em a dollar a year and charge them for parking! Salaries for civil service workers; all else get zip nada nothing!

* Eliminate federal, state, or local — any government at all — involvement in education; why when commies run “reeducation camps” is it bad, but, when our government does it, that’s good? People had those children, let them educate them!

* Eliminate the government involvement in marriage; it was just to prevent black men from marrying white women any way, so why continue?

And while it is never mentioned:

* Repeal all state gun laws; what part of “shall not be infringed” don’t all these lawyers understand?

Besides we’ll need those guns to finally clean up the various rats nest of thugs in DC, Trenton, and elsewhere.

Shine up Trenton’s “golden” dome! Even that’s a fake. An illusion. A fraud.

This time of year brings out my favorite gripe, rant, and kvetch. Parents should never EVER lie to their children. Not once! The tooth fairy, easter bunny, or Santa Claus don’t have to be lied about.

If’n I was a parent, and the Intelligent Designer had the good sense not to give a child to such a weirdo, I would not lie. Anytime, for any reason, under any circumstances.

Child: Is there a Santa Claus?

Parent: Well, I would never lie to you. I don’t know for sure. I’ve never seen him, but an awful lot people seem to think so. There are a lot of unexplained unseen things like the wind, electricity, and time. So what do you believe?

Never lie!

How can they trust you on the important stuff, if they can not trust you on the trivial stuff?

The TV assaulted us with the state workers demanding their “rights” to the taxpayer’s wallet yesterday. They kept chanting that they weren’t “the problem”. To a certain extent I agree.

But like the tale of the two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner, they may have over played their hand.

As a taxpayer, I can’t afford those state workers with their pensions and benefits.

Then, let’s look at the “teacher’s union”, trying — even though their particular ox wasn’t being gored — to demonstrate that they were the “he bull” of all the state unions. Certain of their members left their students high and dry. (Fire them!) But, they demonstrated that we taxpayers can’t afford them either.

So, let’s have a forty year plan to end state workers and state education.

State workers are easy. Convert their pension obligation to an insurance policy and end pension & benefits for all part-timers (How the politicians unjustly enrich themselves!) and all future workers. Oh, and throw in, that if you get a felony defrauding the state, you lose your pension. (Another favorite of the politicians!)

Education is harder. We can’t afford it. So we need a forty year exit strategy. First twenty years, privatize by vouchers to create a viable private market in education. The second twenty years, reduce the state’s funding to zero.

That’ll solve the state’s property tax problem!

http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/christie_iraq_vietnam.htm

http://tinyurl.com/yldxc9

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Throughout the 1990’s various commanding generals of U.S. Central Command ran a number of war games and determined that 400,000 troops were the baseline for any intervention into Iraq, with no guarantee of success. How this was to be accomplished by ground forces that had shrunk from 18 Army and 3 Marine divisions in 1991 to 10 Army and not quite 2 Marine divisions in 2003 was the crucial question.

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Amazing, if this is correct, then “we” figured out the right number, but “we” did something else! Wow, how stupid!

I actually didn’t have any time to write.

This weekend’s work project, the final one of the year, for which I have some unclear responsibility, and some key people have taken off on vacation, has left me stressed.

Some of their backups need some reintroduction to some basic concepts: “No, we like to test BEFORE production, so that we know it will work in production. While I personally appreciate your innovative solution to the time problems, I think we should have you explain it to leadership so they can give you the proper credit for the idea. As a matter of fact, I think we should do that right now so they can express their appreciation of you innovation. Oh, OK, you can complete the testing before the end of the day. Great. Now what about the meeting with leadership? Cancel it. Sure. Fine. Have a great day!”

I can’t believe some people. The schedule is “tight”. But, what would be the purpose of testing AFTER one does something? Gee, let me shoot you in the foot to see if it hurts. The gun may not fire! But, if it does, then we didn’t need a test in the first place.

DUH.

This fellow should move to Flori-DUH!

I wanted to listen to some music. Musicmatch Jukebox said it had to do an upgrade. Now it says it has to do a reboot. That’s not convenient. So why didn’t it say that BEFORE it asked to do the upgrade. I’d have said no and been able to use the software I paid for!! At least when the stuff is free you can’t ripe too much. But the free stuff is better behaved than the “professional crud”. Arghhhh!

They have to be kidding.

I can’t believe that the republicans, the administration, and all the congress critters could be so stupid.

It’ll make it a bigger blood bath than the last election.

Sigh. Maybe it Seasonally Affected Disorder. I can’t even get fired up about the stupid politicians. My plates, those things I’ve been spinning, are even starting to wobble. And, I can’t get excited about that. Sigh.

http://www.d-n-i.net/lind/lind_11_30_06.htm

On War #194
November 29, 2006

More Troops?
William S. Lind,
expressing his own personal opinion, is
Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism
for the Free Congress Foundation.

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The fact that Washington is seriously considering sending more American troops to Iraq illustrates a common phenomenon in war. As the certainty of defeat looms ever more clearly, the scrabbling about for a miracle cure, a deus ex machina, becomes ever more desperate – and more silly. Cavalry charges, Zeppelins, V-2 missiles, kamikazes, the list is endless. In the end, someone finally has to face facts and admit defeat. The sooner someone in Washington is willing to do that, the sooner the troops we already have in Iraq will come home – alive.

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How many good people will have their lives ended or ruined with this failed policy?

Iraqis, for better or worse, will have to figure it out for themselves.

I see the “Law of Gravity” as having more gravitas than the Federal, State, and Local “Laws”.

Never mind all the other rules, regulations, and diktats that gubamint issues. Let’s just focus on “Laws” for a moment.

I like the “Law of Gravity” and its many cousins like the “Law of Supply and Demand” or the “Law of the Conservation of Momentum”. They are universally fair and non-discriminatory. So, I don’t refer to what the criminal gangs do in their various dens of iniquity do as “making laws”.

We need to recapture the high ground.

When they neuter our language they give themselves more power. Imagine considering anything done by politicians as a “law”! Absurd! If you must refer to their “laws”, (I’m thinking of that Crocodile Dundee line “that’s not a knife. this is a knife” by crikey), then “we” should always preface it with “Federal Law”, “State Law”, or even “Weenie Law”. Add some diminutive to differentiate it from the big hairy natural LAWS. Their weak lame efforts to make laws should be called something like “law-lettes”, “wannabe laws”, or “pathetic attempts at law”.

P.S.: Remember when we get people laughing at them, their influence and power shrinks. Look how fast the cellphone tax disappeared. Almost overnight. When the media picked up that the people were calling it “The Spanish American War tax”. Like the Wizard of Oz, they can’t let themselves be be laughed at because then we will see how pathetic they are!

Best wishes from behind the lines
in the Pepuls Repulik of Nu Jerzee

… … another holiday that has lost its meaning?

Now call me “Ebenezer” (Stone of Help? Or, Charles Dickens’ character) but, with the illegitimacy rate climbing, single moms, marriage rates falling, the coarsening of society, and the general demise of the “nuclear family” … …

… … has this become another “Norman Rockwell” holiday?

That’s is where it looks better in a picture than it does in real life.

Nothing more than excuse to take some days off, kickoff some pathetic football games by overpaid “athletes” with “interesting antics”, and begin the over commercialized “holiday shopping season”?

This year, there was a deluge of propaganda about “airport security” and how people should prepare for what I call “unreasonable search and seizure” by the gubamint at the airports. And people just line up and take it. (No security expert with any kind of credentials that I have read or talked to thinks this in anything more than what one of them calls “security theater”!) So the media lackeys, (remember they are regulated by the FCC in violation of the First Amendment) obey their big guabmint masters, and put out the gang’s (oppressive) message “well keep you safe as long as you comply”. What “barabara striesand”! Personally, I won’t fly, unless my employer really really insists. When they discharge all these extra government hacks, then and only then will I consider it.

So, here we go into another holiday season, when all I can say is “tsk, tsk”.

Maybe I’m getting old but that’s how I see it.

Comments?

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 22 November at 0713 est on Route 295S Exit 47 … …

… … a white suv sg 24 301 … …

… down route 295 at a leisurely 80+ (Speed limit is 65 for commoners!)

… in lots of traffic

… tail gating the poor peon in his way

… never left the left lane! (as it disappeared into the distance!)

(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 the scene of most crimes against the people of NuJerzee (aka trenton) to protect and serve me.

Arghhh!

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4690294?source=rss

Discounts on gas add fuel to fools’ ire
By David Harsanyi
Denver Post Staff Columnist
Article Last Updated:11/19/2006 11:44:53 PM MST

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This month, King Soopers and City Market (both owned by Kroger) were forced by a federal jury decision to cut out a program called Buy Groceries/Get Gas — which offered consumers modest savings on gas purchases.

Two “independent” gasoline stations in Montrose brought the suit and were awarded $1.4 million in damages. The jury found the big stores had violated Colorado’s Unfair Practices Act, illegally selling gas below cost.

Yes, King Soopers was selling gasoline too cheap. It’s illegal.

So let’s quickly review an old economics adage: Charge too much and you’re price gouging. Charge too little and you’re predatory pricing. Charge the same as your competitor and you’re in collusion.

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You have to admit that the gubamint skools (aka: political reeducation camps) have done a superb job of making the new citizens of Amerika stupider than tree stumps! Without the collective brains of a box of rocks!

Minimum prices, minimum wages, price supports, price floors, … … …, and anything else of this ilk that you think of are just taxes in a transparent disguise.

You can’t sell something for below your cost?

Tell it to WalMart, and all the other discount store that use a loss leader!

How stupid were the people on this jury? How stupid were the prosecutors for filing this case in the first place? How stupid were the legislators who passed this absurdity?

How stupid are we for tolerating it?

Now I am as patient as the next person. Really I am. But even a really good server can’t read my mind. Too many “everything ok?” questions is annoying. More annoying is the “lost server”.

For example, last night, Frau and I went to the “good” Chinese restaurant, not the “closest” or the “closer”, but the “good” one. Their food is great; the service leaves much to be desired.

(I’m working on them. I’ll get up and go get them when I need them to do something. Frau’s a big tipper. So they “tolerate” me. I guess)

Now when you’re paying two bucks for a soda, I expect Frau’s glass never to be empty!

Not so.

So I want a little flag on the table that I can raise when I want something. (Can it be wired to the waiter’s cell phone?) Or a push button that illuminates like the flight attendant call button.

That’s enough!

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 08 Nov at 0654 est on Route 295 S at Mile 60 … …

… … a white truck td 0342 … …

… … was seen at leisurely 80 (Speed limit for serfs is 65)

… … in lots of traffic

… … tailgating the poor peon in his way

… but he was in the right lane (heading for the exit)!

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get to I assume trenton to protect and serve me.

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.

Took last night off from life. Due to Montezuma! Now I haven’t been anywhere near South America; nor, have I even thought of South America, so why is he exacting his revenge on me? Aghh.

Maybe I have given myself an ulcer with trying to keep too many “plates” twirling. Hmmm?

Oh well, today will be better.

Especially since the NuJerzee taxpayers have something to show for all the money they have pumped into the pigeon hole labeled “State U”.

(Every real state has to have one right? Don’t want our distinguished Congress critters to be looked down on as rubes by their fellow fascists. Do we?)

Anyway, the Rutgers semi-professionals beat the Louisville semi-professionals in an exciting football game last night. As befits an educated and cultural elite group (in their own minds), there was no violence in the streets “celebrating” “their” victory.

(Never understood how buying a ticket to watch some men, who have sweated their butts off, who have practiced “a lot”, and who  have sacrificed a lot, when those men win, how does your ticket, your tuition bill, or your tax bill, make that”your victory”?)

In the grand scale of things, I’d have rather they announced a cure for <insert your favorite disease: aids, breast cancer, montezuma’s revenge>. But I guess you have to take joy where you find it.

And, no, I’m not jealous because there’s no Jasper football. There is Jasper Rugby! Now that’s a real man’s game. No equipment. No “scholarships”. Nothing professional about it. Just played for the joy of sport.

Isn’t that what student athletics and amateur is  supposed to mean?

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Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:47 AM
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Why would you go to anything but http:// www. sears. com?

While I have a sears account, and they have my email address, it’s not one used for ANY other purpose. Also, that email account, is EXCLUSIVELY Sears! So if something, anything, comes purporting to be from Sears on ANY other email account, it is –prima facie (on its face) –res ipsa loquitur (it speaks for itself) — a FRAUD!

Even if you don’t want to go to the trouble of setting up different email accounts for different financial uses, you can do the same thing with gmail. Use the plus sign when you give out your gmail account to anyone. Regardless if you use or don’t rules or sort on it, it’s its own credential. After all how many spammers are going to guess that 6D4EAEBB87685D @ gmail.com will go thru with their spam fraud, but that the had to say 6D4EAEBB87685D + 57USHYW1 for me to really believe it was from the real Sears. (I know the address from writing them nasty letters.)

So maybe I create a code log. And, +58BD is Pennys, +BDFD is food town, +7BB3 is my bank, and +A6F1 is my credit union.

Go ahead try and fool me!

I can even carry a list in my wallet of the next forty strings. If I lose it NBD (no big deal). I can just make up another.

You don’t need to risk being fooled. You can take simple steps to protect yourself. I’ll help.

Here are some random plus codes for your to use:

5DC6E8 748A46 C9737A 4D5C6F
E5634C 3D4D42 222986 8C8F5A
CF9678 F349F3 776962 355D48
EEDD4D 53A768 C25D4F DA356E
698A7E 7768B3 C9F39B E244F8

Yell if you need more!

I just listened to the supposedly unbiased ABCTV NEWS. It sounded like they were democrat cheerleaders.

Common guys, at least pretend objectivity.

Now I don’t like the fascist from either flavor of big government “party”. But, you have to laugh at the pretensions of the “reporters”.

WOW! What a joke!

Referencing:

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/09/23/
money-wal-mart-to-offer-4-generic-prescription-drugs

I found one comment this morning which, of course, “spun up my ire”.

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From: Bill
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:50 AM
To:
Subject: [Reinke Faces Life] Comment: “MONEY: Wal-Mart to offer $4 generic prescription drugs”
New comment on your post #780 “MONEY: Wal-Mart to offer $4 generic prescription drugs”
Author : Bill (IP: 24.48.51.63 , 24-48-51-63.ashbva.adelphia.net)

This is only for a thirty pill supply

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OK, that’s a fair enough comment.

So I shot back the following:

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Bill: You have to admit regardless if 30 pills or 30 days for some body’s four bucks, it’s a hell of a deal. Certainly better than for example the gubamint’s Medicare Drug Benefit with the crazy rules and the “doughnut hole”. Fjohn

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Nothing like starting off the morning with thinking about gubamint!

I have some other RANTs to pass out this morning in no particular order.

(1) I have some old folks that I poa for. Why do the docs insist on:

(a) prescribing expensive drugs in large batches that the old folks won’t take? Those old codgers are too polite to tell the good doc that. They yes the doc to death, go home, and do what they want. I know there are several hundred dollars in their various apartments sitting on the top of the counter that will never be taken. Wasting money, and these ain’t rich people.

(b) prescribing complicated dosing regimes to old folks, who while not doddering idiots, have a hard time remember stuff. Take this pill at 11am, that pill at 4pm, except on alternate Thursdays, unless the month begins with a vowel. Hey dummy doc do you realize that it has to be sesame street simple. Even for me, when I was taking lost of meds, it got confusing. And, I was a doddering idiot! DO they think that these people live in a nursing home with 24 hour nursing care? Heck, even hospitals make drug erros if it gets more than one a day!

(2) The Gubamint’s Medicare Benefit, with the stupid doughnut hole, is a joke. Despite having 4 old folks, on the gubamint plan, taking lots of stuff, I have yet to have one qualify for something. When I talk to the various druggists involved, they universally and uniformly describe it as a “scam to fool the old voters”! That’s their words, not mine. They also tell me that the BIG WINNERS in this were CORPORATIONS. Huh, yup, you got it, they were allowed to dump their retiree drug plans cause the government let them. Argh!

(3) Those corporations that drop their retirees either thru bankruptcy or shenanigans. A special curse on you! May your balance sheets get Cloroxed to the “holy land”, and may your bedsheets get starched! And, you better hope you don’t need me to buy something from you.

(Ahh that feels much better!)

(4) The Gubamint for getting the WW2 wage and price controls that allowed businesses to get into the “benefit business” in order to avoid those controls. This hid the true cost of stuff, got people used to getting free stuff, and tied people to their jobs to keep their benefits. Can we ever roll it back? From my consulting business I still carry my own benefits. It’s not that much, about 4k / year. But, I am not an indentured servant to any corporation, beholding to them for protection from outrageous medical expenses.

(5) How dumb are we, the American people, for allowing this to go on? Welcome to the new fascist Amerika, home of the stupid, land of the handout, and cesspool of corrupt politics.

How’s that for a morning rant?!

P.S.: Bill left a fake email address. I wonder why? A drive by commenting?

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 03 November at 0715 est on Route 295 milepost 43 … …

… … a white DOT truck TD 4754 … …

… down 295 at a leisurely 85 (Your serf speed limit is 55)

… 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!?)

Almost didn’t get the plate he whizzed by so quick.

Remember I wanted all the getaway cars in the state painted a hideous florescent color.

(Well what to YOU call the cars that criminals drive away from the scene of the crime? The laugher here is that they rob the taxpayer and we GIVE them a getaway car!)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away from, I assume, the scene of the crime, trenton, to somewhere more important, of course, to protect and serve me.

Arghhh!

At least next Tuesday, there’ll be ZERO state workers on the road. They’ll all be hung over from celebrating their ethnic holiday INCUMBENT REELECTION DAY, aka CINCO THE TAXPAYER BY THE HUEVEOSEZ, aka SAINT TAMMNEY HALL DAY patron of crooks, (did I miss any religions).

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.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9649

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Men who use mobile phones for more than four hours a day produce fewer and poorer quality

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Is this the way the human race ends?

Not with government genocide? Not with the intergenerational war over social security benefits? Not with depopulation by sex selection?

No, we talk ourselves into sterility by cell phone!

http://tinyurl.com/y7wk22

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/10/
now-boys-i-guess-this-is-what.html#comments

Monday, October 23, 2006
Now, boys ….
(I guess this is what happens when legislators discuss ethics)

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I sometimes think the folks who do the people’s business in Trenton are really nothing more than 8-year-old boys (and girls). Evidence the absurd behavior of the members of an allegedly bipartisan special ethics committee that met this morning. First, the committee breaks down along partisan lines in unnecessary bickering over who will chair it, and then it fails to agree on whether it should consider the plight of state Sen. Wayne Bryant, the former budget committee chairman and powerful South Jersey Democrat.

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Ah, they are pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes. Everyone that buys into the myth that there is any difference between the two “major” parties. It’s political theater at it’s best. They are two sides of the same coin. Tweedily dumb and dumber. And year after year, we fall for it. It’s as illusionary as the Yankees battling against the Red Sox, as if it mattered. Only in this case, it’s the taxpayers of Nu Jerzee that fund it. Someday everyone will wake up and find out that the joke has been on us all along.

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What happened to blueberries this year?

They are usually cheap and plentiful here in Jersey. Especially in the fall. This year they were scrawny and expensive and often unavailable.

Aside from the fact that I like them, they are reputed to have special unique anti-cancer anti-aging anti-everything benefits.

Whaaa, I want cheap blueberries!

NAMESDATABASE DOT COM

I didn’t give you the link because I don’t want you to go there.

I WILL put it in later in the blog, so the search engines will index it. But don’t click it!

Now the rest of the story.

Hey, I try everything. Like the Coal Miner’s Canary, when some inet thing kills me, you’ll know to avoid it. That’s me the a big fat yellow turkey that thinks he’s a canary, and has the illusion that he’s making his contribution to society. Don’t mess with my preconceived notions. And silly delusions. It’s like trying to put the lipstick on The Pig. It doesn’t make it prettier. And, it annoys the pig. (Wonder if there’s a picture on the inet of that?)

Any way.

I went to a now defunct high school. Me and my fellow alums are looking for the more than 66% who are “missing”. So, me, being in the inet maven I think I am, have been looking.

Back in January, I happened upon this site. SO I signed up, (part of finding is allowing oneself to be found), and gave it no further thought. Ran few search found nothing, or on the common names was buried in data. Oh well, on to other “stuff”.

Today, I get an email saying that they have 61 of my fellow Prepsters. (Catchy name huh?) Hey great. So I zoom over there ready to exploit.

Perusing the list, I notice right at the top they have some old guys who’s names I don’t recognize. (Hey NBD, I don’t know much.) But as I go down the list of alleged “prepsters”, there’s obvious girlz there. Huh!?! We was all boys. And then I notice that they have graduates in ’05 and ’06. It defuncted in ’71.

So, this site is worse than useless. It’s got garbage spewing forth. And, it is just adding to the noise

So avoid http://namesdatabase.com at all costs they just want to steal a subscription fee for trash.

http://wow.locker gnome.co/nexus/it/2006/10/13/dells-direct connect-strangers-with-candy/

Dell’s direct connect, Strangers With Candy!

by Matt Harley on October 13, 2006 at 10:20 am
Categorized by gnome report

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Personally, I am very apprehensive about the very idea of allowing Dell raps to move around my PC via some unknown remote agent. It’s a nice idea for those who are comfortable in allowing a company with what I feel to be a disgusting record in the realm of tech support, rummaging around their PC.

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Dell can blow sunshine up my backside with knee jerk offers of “cool new products” and other frivolous carp all it likes.

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:-)

but, how do you really feel?

I agree. I’ve been holding off buying a new notebook and will take your advice. I’ll go local and to Linux.