Reinke Faces Life

In the realm of Big Govenment, this means replicating the Federal Reserve Note by other than the Bureau of Prinint and Engraving. Did you everwish as a child that all monompoly money was real and that you could take it and spend it for your whims and wishes. That’s the power of the Big GOvernment priniting press.

Unfortunately, as child you soon realized that no one would exchange your monopoly money for the candy, comic books, and trinkets that your heart desired. When Roosevelt took gold as money out of circulation and Nixon completed the crime by clsong the gold window, these United States of America and its citizens embark on another experiment. Could a currency float without backing.

Foe many factors, not the least of which is the dumbing down of that citizenry by Big Government education, the citizen never realized the fraud being perpetrated on them. Big Government runs a deficit? Ah hah, just print some more paper money. Big Government wants to fund a war in coutry X, Y, or Z? Ah hah, just print more paper. Big Government wants to buy soem more voters with a big social program? Ah hah, just print more paper. You’re childhood monopoly money dream is ebign lived by Big Government.

Now Austrian Economics, and even Keynsian economics, recognizes that paper money only has value by having people willing toexchange goods and services for it. Austrian economics would assert that the boom and bust business cycle is due to the mistakes people make based on unreliable information. This paper machine is one reason for those bad decision.

College students, a terrible misnomer since they rarely study anything, “learn”, if they bother to take Econ101, that money is first and foremost supposed to be a store of value. The US Federal Reserve Note is some store of vlaue; it lost 97% of its value in 30 years.

Oh yes, the piper must be paid. Someone is the victim in this scheme. That someone is anyone who holds a dollar when the new ones are issued.

Read http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french8.html for more info!

What’s the big deal about that? Well, I wanted to get rid of these gift cards before I lose them. Argh. But what can people give a giant turkey nerd but a gift card for books. Hardware! But that’s a different rant. Anyway, I was writing my great American novel this moring on my handy dandy wiki when I used a phrase. I searched that phrase but could onl find it in Google’s Book search. It was very handy.

“the long sobs of the violins of autumn …”

http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0595006809&id=2xaKJiCVzN8C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22the+long+sobs+of+the+violins+of+autumn+…%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3D%2522the%2Blong%2Bsobs%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bviolins%2Bof%2Bautumn%2B…%2522%2B&sig=xIJjJQ6qMngBuzRvdOfSF9WhGic

So it gave me confirmation of the quote I wanted. (You wonder how I even remember that? I tell every one that I am a font of useless knowledge. Watch me play Jeopardy!)

So Google Books did make a sale for the publisher. They wouldn’t have gotten that sale without it.

Interesting?

i’m trying something new. when i first hit the deck, my ideas are fresh. i’m going to spend 15 minutes before going on to the day’s business to capture those thoughts. whatever they are. let’s see if that works bettr. hmmmm?

As usual, and since we couldn’t go, not that we’d ever go to CT again, I used this as an oppty to try something new. They assertedly offered streaming video for ten bucks. For ten buck, hey try it. It took my credit card and I was banging away at the setting to make it work. Called for help … no answer … no surprise there. I’m sure I went in at another place that didn’t say any such thing. I was able to catch a radio broadcast. One glitch there. Support called back and said you missed it! Call the number for a refund and hung up. I was going to say why did it take my payment for the show that couldn’t be delivered. Too lazy to block it? Argh. It could have made Frau’s night; instead another tech flub.

Hmmm, I did it and it worked. Probably time to flush the IE cache, cookies, and files and try again. This techonolgy stuff is not like using the telephone. Or, using the phone during the old Bell System days.

My accountant is stunned. He doesn’t understand. And, if he don’t what chance do I have. Argh! And people wonder why I am a Libertarian.

As with most people, I collect digital flotsum and jetsum. This week’s great idea is consigned to the data dust bin. It would be nice to divide files, no directories of files, into timeless and annual categories. I’m trying to do that after the fact. I have a 2006 directory. Now I’d like to organize all of last year under 2005. Maybe 2007 will be better?

Sunday 05 February 2006 @ 0900 EST

Dear “Cousin”,

RE: “Cousin” Doreen is a “diversity champion”

Found this snippet.  Always happy to read about our “cousins”. I always thought that “diversity” was just plain good business. I don’t know why others don’t see it. If you have a fellow human being who wants to help, let them. Ok, maybe it’s not the way you’d a done it and maybe it’s not as good as you could have done it and maybe it was done with the same style that you’d a done it with, but bottom line it got done and yoou didn’t have to do it. I never have a problem with anyone helping me — man, women, green with yellow stripes, space alient. Bottom line I can use all the help I can get. And, I can’t be to fussy about who gives it to me. As I say, “common sense”. But, it’s nice to see a “cousin” making a positive mark in the ledger.

Nothing particularly new. NJ weather is very mild. Maybe no snow this year? Frau’s doing a little worse. Reorg at work still threatens. Deadly quiet on that front.

I still need ten NEW readers by July First or one active participant to avoid “failure”. Can you help?

Have a good day, and a great week.

“Cousin” John in New Jersey

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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1219nebriefs1219.html

Scottsdale/Northeast Valley briefs.

Dec. 19, 2005 12:00 AM

Educator, executive to be honored

SCOTTSDALE – Community Celebrating Diversity will recognize Clif McKenzie and Doreen Reinke as “diversity champions” at the 12th-annual Scottsdale Community Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner Celebration. The event is at 6 p.m. on Jan. 9 in the Chaparral Suites ballroom, 5100 N. Scottsdale Road.

McKenzie and Reinke will be honored for their efforts to promote civil and human rights.

McKenzie, ombudsman and director of exceptional customer experiences for the Scottsdale Unified School District, is a longtime Scottsdale educator who has brought a sense of racial unity to each campus where he has been principal.

Reinke, vice president of operations at Scottsdale Insurance Co., continues to find new ways to unite employees in the pursuit of an environment where all people feel challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged.

For more information on the dinner and awards program, contact Scottsdale’s Office of Diversity and Dialogue at (480) 312-7738. Event reservations are $60 per person and can be made by calling (480) 312-3030.

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The Arizona Republic
Phoenix Headquarters
200 East Van Buren St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004

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Could it be possible but by the government assuming the role of “charity” that they have created a problem?

First, government has increased its size at the expense of individual charity, the family, the Churches, the fraternal organizations, and a civil society in general. Letting government grow is bad. Putting the “post office” in charge of helping human being with serious needs and problems is absurd.

Second, the Acton Institute hosts a page on “effective compassion” http://www.acton.org/publicat/books/transformwelfare/olasky.html “Effective Compassion: Seven Principles from a Century Ago” by Marvin Olasky where he convinced me that this type of government program is a disaster.

Third, the government takes by force of arms my taxes for all sorts of drivel. If that wasn’t wrong enough, in and of itself, it deprives me of the funds that I could use to fund what I judge to be effective compassion for the less fortunate. For more than a decade, I have made modest monthly contributions to HomeFrontNJ http://www.homefrontnj.org/ because I know the lady who runs it. This is one woman who is “thriftier” with a buck than Frau Reinke considering my annual technology budget. I know how she litterally battles the Trenton social establishment to free these poor souls. So if my taxes went down 10% then I could and probably would contribute more. My taxes keep going up!

AND, it displaces the organizations who could be helping. By making government bigger, it forces the Churches to the sidelines. It absorbs the money in tazes that people would have contributed to churches. It’s a viscious cycle. Remember that dollars into washington, trenton, newbrunswick, or southbrunswick seats of government come out the other side as pennies worth of “services”! My particular favorite is when we pay taxes to washington, washington gives grants to trenton, trenton gives grants to newbrunswick, newbrunswick gives grants to southbrunswick, and southbrunswick repaves my street! I’d have been better off burning my money in a bonfire on the lawn!

Now you knwo why I procrastinate. It deprives the tax collector or more to steal!

I know people who know me wouldn’t beleive it but I am a procrastinator at heart. I would rather waste away my time on this earth with mindless quadrant four activites than lift my heavy load. So, to attempt to overcome this character flaw, I’ll waste my time logging what I do. At least this time-wasting activity might inspire others to get a life. Or if they have one to get abck to it. Why are you reading my whining unless you have to.

Who decided what your primary carrier is?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north432.html

Dear Professor North,

I hope when I have matured like you, I can codify “wisdom” for others to use.

Born in 47, I grew up too late for the “free love” but not too late for the effects of Vietnam Republic Of. As a young republican, on my way to being a Libertarian, I think you may want to somehow capture the real impact of Vietnam on me and my peers. I think that it fundamentally altered the USA probably as much as the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and WW2. I’m not a philosopher, educator, or a historian. I’m an “injineer”. http://public.2idi.com/=reinkefj I basically earn my daily bread by fixing things. Information Technology and Business Processes. But, fixing things never the less.

So I may not be qualified to opine on this fracture in the late 60’s being the watershed event to “bend” the flow of the American history. But I feel, I sense, that this single thing did more to “break the spirit” of my generation than anything else. From that “breaking” several bad things followed.

Let me cite some evidence from my personal life. I was deferred while I was in College from 64-69. I was a five year engineer – the draft had some effect on keeping me diligently in school – as well as interested in that fifth year to add some credentials. My peers who failed at school were immediately drafted and gone. Several absconded to Canada and the underground. That was traumatic. We lost some of the best and brightest to the Army and the underground. Had we been at peace, there is no doubt in my mind that they would have been productive members of society, contributing, with families, and adding to the synergy. I know that some of them who went underground died in the Drug Culture. I know that all of us were scared for life by the experience. After graduation, I was drafted. Recruiters screwed everyone so why should I be different. My first lesson in government lies. While I didn’t go to Vietnam, I was taken out of AT&T where I missed FOUR YEARS of opportunities.

So we have an entire generation of us “taken out” and metaphorically wasted.

On a social civil society viewpoint, the War – yet another undeclared expansion of government power – launched a splitting of America – racially, between patriotic and unpatriotic, between socialist and conservative, between the old and the new, between the modest and the Hollywood prono, between the workers and the takers, between the workers and the welfare-ists, between those individualists and those that live off the government.

I don’t see a biography of the white irish-german catholics ripped asunder and never to recover in your history proposal. I am not sure that the Fifities were the ideal we see on old TV shows, but I know everything since has NOT been better.

That should be in your history lesson.

Hope this ramble helps define what history should be taught,

John

Dear State Regualtor: Cablevision is the cable tv provider for my shore house. Lest you think I’m rich, it’s a family bugalow. Before Cablevision, the cable company recognized that we were a mostly seasonal community. Now, Cablevision is “milking” us as if we were year round. Before we’d buy a seasonal subscription and there was never a hassel. It would magically go on April 1st and shut off on October 1st. And everyone was happy. Now nothing in the infrastructure has changed. But, Cablevision wants a us to pay $16 per month in the winter and ~$50 in the summer. If we don’t they’ll disconnect us in the fall and reconnect in the summer. BUT, we have to pay them a diconnect fee, a reconnect fee, be there when we reconnect, and go thru all these hassels. Not counting our time, guess what? The $16/month for the six months works out to just about the sames as the winter rate. So, I think we are being played for fools. If there was a cost effective alternative, then I’d tke it. So here we have a state sanctioned monopoly gouging the customers. Now may right now I can’t do anything. And, maybe right now you can do anything. But, Cablevision should have no doubt that there will come a day when the situation will change. Perhaps you can help them understand, then need a better business model. fjr