Reinke Faces Life

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

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

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

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

Arghh!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

… and thought it was very political — leftist statist —in someof the choices. imho!

Vin points out the Washington shell game. And these are the people that are deciding how to regualte the internet, what technologoies win lose, copyright patent laws, regulatory agencies, the courts, and all manner of such stuff. We have outsourcing and the cubicle nation because of tax laws. And people say that politics ain’t tech!

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You don't? TOO BAD!

This morning 12 June 06 at 0656 edst on Route 1 thru South Brrunswick … …

… … a car td464 … …

… down route 1 at a leisurely 70 (Your serf speed limit is 55)

… tailgating the poor peon in his way

… never left the left lane

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.

You don't? TOO BAD!

This morning 08 June 06 at 0750 edst on Route 1 thru Princeton … …

… … a car sg17898 … …

… down route 1 at a leisurely 65 (Your serf speed limit is 55)

… tailgating the poor peon in her way (it was a her)

She did eventually pull over to the right lane, using the signals that I am paying for, and slow down. I assume that she had to stop for donuts. Or maybe she could find her cell phone. OR, I know, she did want to arrive to early at work (Serfs never have that luxury.)

Any way I am sure that she 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.

http://www.scottrade.com

Tried to move the Frau's IRA into Scott Trade. Tried to do it online. It didn't take. It says go to an office. Went to the office but you have to prove your socsecnum. Nothing mentioned that little gem. So I dragged Frau to the local office, filled out the forms, and then they asked for her driver's license and another form of id with her ssn. Argghh! Scratch them off the list. And the staff guy and branch manager did really seem to care. Double Argh!!

It probably was the watershed event in WWII. It represented the beginning of the end for some very dangerous and sick people. It was the turning point for the extermination of millions. And, it was very expensive for the men that landed there. One has to wonder how the world would have been different if we had some more of those men back to lead us. They always talk about the best being left on the battlefield. I think that is true of every war. Just last weekend, I had the honor of talking to an 84 year old DDay vet. Crippled by a wound received that day, who lamented how the local township was going to enforce the meter outside his house despite the handicap plate he has. Honor American veterans? Please, don't make me laugh. But, I remember them and will pray that all of us take their sacrifice to heart and make America that shining city on the hill. It's the least we can do. And we won't have to die to do it.

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

Where dod they get them? If I was there I'd probably blurt out WTF or worse!

TOO BAD

01 June 2006 Route 295 South Milepost 63 at ~7am

Florence Township Fire Department MG59276

Another class of privileged individuals who don't have to obey speed limits (and I'm not being picky, posted at 65, I only gripe when it's hard to read the tag when they whizz by) and who's set of wheels is provided by the taxpayer.

Might it not be reasonable to insist that Florence Township keep its toys in their own township?

Might it not be reasonable to hold my employees (i.e., people sucking the taxpayer dry) to the laws that they seek to impose on others.

Might it not be reasonable that government has gotten to out of control.

Maybe the serfs should do something about it?

May 31th, 2006

TOO BAD!
Today 31 May 06 at 0730 edst a truck sg 21287 zipping down route 1 never leaving the left lane tailgating the poor serf who happened to not get out of the imerium's centurion with what I assume is one state worker commuting to work in a truck I am paying for. (Ain't I generous?) Anyway, speeding at I guess 75, when the tailgater serfs would get out of the way, hurrying to get to I assume trenton to protect and serve me.

You might want to inquire from the feds why a fed in G10-25357 on Route 295 south milepost 55 at 707am felt the need to slow from >75 and force into the center lane when she spied a state revenue collection agent (i.e., NJ State Police car) entering the roadway. She, yes it was a she, was right next to me for the time it took for the agent to take the next exit. Guess there was doughnuts there. Any way, the fed promptly cut left, cutting in on some serfs, and whizzed off ne'er to be seen again. Evidently she was off the day they taught about the fact that Soldiers of the Empire (i.e., Federal government "employees") have no duty to obey the laws of the state that they are in. States are a fiction of some deluded individuals who think we're back in the Revolutionary War. After all this is Amerika, and the Federal Government and its minions run it!

Arghhh! 

In my way of thinking, you manage things (e.g., budgets; computers; networks; projects) but you have to lead people (i.e., people are more like a mules with a mind of its own).

Things lend themselves well to being "managed". There are no hard feelings when you cut a budget. You can be totally analytical and blunt with "things".

People need to be lead. My first exposure to "leadership" was the mythical telephone lineman litho that was "required" in every Bell lobby anywhere. He was joined by the equally mythical board operator running her station as the flood waters rose. They  were inspiring. You were part of something that was huge and that made a difference in people's lives.  I learned that if you motivate someone, in their own mind, they will drive themselves harder than you ever can with a club. By the same token, you can have all the whip and clubs you want over people and you can't make them do squat if they don't want to. That mule is just a metaphor. If you want to have something really screwed up, just order people to do something. In a perverse sense of humor, they will do EXACTLY what you instruct and may the Intelligent Designer help you when they do. 

Just a pet peeve. I want to be "lead" not "managed". 

http://newsbusters.org/node/5533

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Steve Capus, president of NBC News, said, "In this age when any fool with a laptop can call themselves a journalist, I believe it is important to demonstrate to Americans what it means to be a true journalist."
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Gee, he forgot to mention the liberal bias that is required in order to be a "true journalist".

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B5CF8F14F%2D1E24%2D4BD1%2D9272%2D7C42AE101C24%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=nwhpf

VITAL SIGNS
Hospital autopsies a dying science
Private firms pick up slack as boomers seek answers; $3,500 postmortems
By Kristen Gerencher, MarketWatch
Last Update: 10:09 PM ET May 24, 2006
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The limited kind is less expensive, starting at $700 at PathServe, he said. Lung-tissue samples can be outsourced to pulmonologists to test for asbestos while brain work-ups go to neuropathology experts who look for diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, he said."The next of kin are quite interested in if it's Alzheimer's or not and what kind of Alzheimer's," Karp said.

The Alzheimer's Association in Chicago doesn't take a position on autopsies, said Dr. Maria Carrillo, director of medical and scientific relations.
Diagnosis of the early-onset form of Alzheimer's disease is fairly clear-cut, and family members can have genetic tests to see if they have a particular mutation, she said.
But the sporadic form that typically occurs after 65 is often more mysterious, Carrillo said. In that case, would she want an autopsy if it were someone in her family? "If I could afford the expense I would be interested in a definitive diagnosis because sometimes you can gain some additional information in the slight chance it was misdiagnosed."
What's more, Alzheimer's patients who participate in clinical trials often can get beneficial treatment while they're living and an exam for the family after they die, she said. "Many studies will offer an autopsy upon death because they would like to know definitively what the person's diagnosis was." 
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Interesting. Just recently, I heard about a freind's wife being diagnoses with the Big A. Seems like to save a few bucks we are collectively getting dumb.

Sigh.  

… …. TOO BAD!

I really appreciate TWO state police cars, one behind the other, ten feet apart, yesterday whizzing by on I295 yesterday around 4PM. They went by sooo fast in the outside lane I couldn't even read their tags. I'm sure they were hustling to "protect and serve" someone. One of these days they are going to "surprise" some one into an accident. The fellow I saw "passed" almost dropped his cell phone!

AND then this moring that big state police suv, spa175a @ milepost 65 on i295 at 0706 edst, was "only" going by at about 80. Guess he was conserving gas for us serfs! 

So if you want to get the state budget under control, then why not ask your state police to slow down. After all if the lights aren't on, then why are they "speeding". Oh yeah, that's right. There are different rules for the slaves and the masters.

FEEDBACK FILED TO THE WORDPRESS GODS 

Let me start by saying. Great job. In using this, an idea comes to mind that would make it more useful to me. That's doesn't mean that it deserves great consideration, but you asked for ideas. I tend to blog on the same topic. My personal hot button is "state cars". For some reason, a commuting state employee in a car that I am paying for just drives my bp up to stroke level. Any way, how about having a "persistent draft". Basically a form, that the blogger can write into and publish to their blog. So for example, in Outlook, I have form emails. Basically I made a draft email and then copy and pasted it a bunch of times. So when I want to communicate in a constant style I can. So to when I blog about state cars, it would be easy to open up my "state car" draft, filling in the details, and press the BLOG button (publish). Instead of, as now, that draft being "gone", if I designated it a "persistent draft", the next blank for would be there, available for my next rant. FWIW, reinkefj facing life