http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/nbc-universal-z.html
SNL on Sarah and Hillary
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Sigh, they are hitting youtube with take down notices. How obtuse are these NBC execs? Don’t they see that they are going to get a backlash. Their embed code didn’t work here. Youtube’s always works.
Way to go NBC. Clueless!
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/26292488-8360-11dd
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Shocked Lehman staff told to ‘move on’
By FT Reporters
Published: September 15 2008 21:42 | Last updated: September 15 2008 21:42
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“I’ve had people calling me from telephone boxes. In the old days you’d just pick up your Rolodex and you’d bugger off. Now everything in your life is with the company,” said a former employee.
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You gotta be kidding me. Anyone, who doesn’t prepare for the axe, can’t expect sympathy when it comes. Disaster Recovery means you should be able to operate “You, Inc.” from wherever you are. It’s very nice that you use the boss’ computer to do all your stuff.
But what happens when you are cutoff?
When you own it, they can’t “steal” it from you. You need your own computer!
When you keep a copy of all YOUR important data in the cloud, any inet café can become your base of operations.
So what’s your plan. Do you need a hurricane like Ike, or a meltdown like Lehman, to convice you to protect yourself?
Turkeys never learn!
{gobble, gobble!}
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http://zenhabits.net/2007/08/
five-great-ways-to-achieve-happiness-through-serving-others/
Five Great Ways to Achieve Happiness Through Serving Others
This guest post was written by Stephen Smith, editor and publisher at Business Development in Context.
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4. Keep your promises. You can create an atmosphere of service simply by doing the things that you say you will do. Dependability and punctuality are the hallmarks of the service-oriented individual. When people can trust you it creates happiness all around.
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Creating trust is a common failure I see in IT all the time. Just today, I was trying to explain why a team’s participation was need in a group effort. All I heard was that the subteam didn’t feel they were getting value out of the effort. No concern over the grou[‘s perception that they were “mia” and not part of the team. I’m not sure if I got thru the self-centered objection. Sigh!
I’m going to be better at D ‘n’ P.
p.s.: oops, almost said “try”!
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Irrelevance comes from always doing the things you know how to do in the way you’ve always done them.
– Tom Peters
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http://www.careerhubblog.com/main/2008/09/job-security–.html
Job Security – Six Types, and More . . .
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6. Continued Perception of Employment: To some, “perception is reality.” Employers will sometimes agree to give an employee the right to (a) keep their title, (b) use their office, (c) maintain email and phone answering, and the like, in order to maintain their appearance of being employed. This prevents the substantial diminution of “perception of value” in the employment marketplace that comes from coming to an interview “hat in hand,” and also precludes the interview question, “Why were you fired?”
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Tis probably should be an “ask” when you get the nuking that is coming. Eventually everyone gets the axe!
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“If I am sitting pretty and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it (the tax hikes) but she can’t, what’s the big deal for me to say I’m going to pay a little bit more. That is neighborliness.” Obama
No, I’d call that Socialism.
Car jockeys in Vegas make more than I do. It’s only fair that they be “neighborly” and send me some of their earnings?
And, guess who decides what is your “fair share”? The gooferment lead by the Socialist In Chief.
It’s one thing for me to decide voluntarily to support a charity like Homefront in Mercer County, that actually helps women and families on welfare to move off the gooferment dole and out on their own. It’s quite another for the gooferment in DC and Trenton to take money form me by force to put these people on welfare in the first place. From whence, they can’t escape. Modern day gooferment slavery! In the first case, I’m giving to charity; in the second, it’s armed robbery like the Mafia.
The big deal Candidate Obama is that you are supporting and expanding an immoral enterprise.
Amazing that folks don’t see these politicians for what they are. Mafia Dons!
Argh!
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http://kentmcmanigal.blogspot.com/2008/09/building-libertys-gallows.html
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Building Liberty’s Gallows
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Are you supplying rope, nails, assistance, or knowledge to those who are building the gallows they plan to hang you on?
If you support ANY government agency, program, branch, or function, you are.
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Bottom line: You can’t support any gooferment program. There’s NOTHING that they can do right. BECAUSE they start from the immorality of theft, continue on using force, and wind up giving you a benefit that isn’t something that is good for you. Everything is broken, underfunctional, or costs too much!
No, thanks, nothing from the gooferment for me.
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/
b4099087568542.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5
Fair Value September 4, 2008, 5:00PM EST
Why American Savers Have Drawn the Short Straw
There are painfully real reasons why America’s savers feel they’ve got the short end of the stick
by Roben Farzad
BW Magazine
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American savers, take a bow. This is your moment of vindication. Your hour of glory. And you earned it (in a manner of speaking).
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Good for you! Your reward: injurious savings yields, inflationary rot, and election-season neglect, all served up with a dollop of institutional insecurity.
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Indeed, a year ago, a six-month certificate of deposit earned, on average, 3.53%, according to Bankrate.com (RATE). Today, that’s down to 2.03%. A one-year CD that earned 3.75% at this point in 2007 was offered for as little as 1.92% in April, before inching up to its present 2.38%. It’s hardly a secret that banks are only able to pay out such pittances thanks to depositors’ knee-jerk desire for security: “Hey, I might be earning crumbs on my cash, but at least I’m not losing money.”
Sure you are. Wholesale inflation has soared 9.8% in the past 12 months, the highest clip since 1981. The more widely cited consumer price index jumped to 5.6%. In other words, while your saved buck was adding 2 cents or so on one end (and even less after taxes), three times as much was getting singed off the other end of that dollar bill. “Inflation is just deadly to savings,” says David Gitlitz, chief economist at TrendMacrolytics, an investment adviser. Gitlitz observes that, taking into account the hit from inflation, rates haven’t been this negative since the dreary 1970s. (That, in turn, gave way to an early ’80s that saw the worst inflation in U.S. history since the Civil War.) “It steals your purchasing power and sets less and less of an incentive to keep money in the bank.”
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So, what are the politicians saying about this PARTICULAR pig? Oh I’m sorry, they are only chatting about who put lipstick where!
Argh!
Only Ron Paul even had a glimmer of a plan.
“Savers” are fools. They have to be “Investors”. And, you laugh at my fascination with gold coins and other forms of commodity money.
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It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Ninety One – Second Vermont Republic Life
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-barr/federal-drug-war-rethough_b_125458.html
Federal Drug War Rethought
Bob Barr
Posted September 10, 2008 | 04:12 PM (EST)
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It is obvious that, like Prohibition’s effort to eradicate alcohol usage, drug prohibition has not succeeded. Despite enormous law enforcement efforts — including the dedicated service of many thousands of professional men and women — the government has not halted drug use. Indeed, the problem is worse today than in 1972, when Richard Nixon first coined the phrase “War on Drugs.”
Whether we like it or not, tens of millions of Americans have used and will continue to use drugs. Yet in 2005 we spent more than $12 billion on federal drug enforcement efforts. Another $30 billion went to incarcerate non-violent drug offenders.
These people must live forever with the scarlet letter P for prison. Only luck saved even presidents and candidates for president from bearing the same mark, which would have disqualified them from not only high political office, but also many more commonplace jobs.
The federal drug laws affect even those who have never smoked (or inhaled!) a marijuana cigarette. One of the lessons I learned while serving in Congress is how power tends to concentrate in Washington, and how that concentration of power begets more power and threatens individual liberty. The ever-expanding drug war is a perfect illustration of this principle.
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It saddens me to think of the cost of the gooferment’s quote war on drugs end quote.
I know some Manhattan College students who’s lives were ruined by it. Even back in the Sixties, I knew it was wrong. A killer. My best friend in high school, who flunked out of Manhattan Engineering, dropped out due to the Vietnam Era Draft, and fell into the druggie crowd. Because I my security clearance and the new “war on drugs”, I could not afford to be anywhere around the stuff. So, he and I parted ways. I never saw him again. He was killed on the Beltway in a traffic accident. A casualty of the gooferment’s war. Either the VietNam war or the War on Drugs.
When America get it’s head screwed on straight, we’ll as a nation realize that Prohibition doesn’t work! Period. What peopel put in their own body is their own business. MYOB. And, there ain’t a single thing you or I can do about the decisions that others make. Anything we think will prevent it, like laws, jails, and fines, merely inflict a terrible cost on the unfortunate user who happens to get caught and us. Us, as a society, where we lose our Fourth Amendment rights, where we can’t buy antihistamine wothut a hassle, and where we suffer the collateral damage in gang violence. Just like Al Cappone in the Twenties.
Want to end gang violence? Just have the gooferment walk away from regulation. Ever see a Coke versus Pepsi shoot out? How about Bud and Miller duking it out on the street? Sending vast amounts of money to drug gangs in Mexico, drug kingpins in Columbia, or the terrorists in Afghanistan! We can end that in a heartbeat.
Legalize, deregulate, and wipe out the age restrictions. End all restrictions. And, for good measure allow WalMart to run it.
Will children get drugs? Yes! Do you think that the current system prevents it? Dreamer!
It’s the Libertarian assertion that a free market in drugs will have much less collateral damage than the current insane ‘system’.
42B$ will pay for a lot of things. Drug treatment, education, and giant tax reduction.
Now, what will all the unemployed drug dealers do?
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