http://www.bodoglife.com/casino/free-pai-gow-poker.jsp
Getting warmed up for my next session at the ATM. (Isn’t that what every one calls Atlantic City?)
Interesting game.
At 20$/hand and 5$ for the bonus bet, it is gambling!
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RANT: “Michael Clayton” is a muddle imho
Sunday, October 14, 2007http://www.miamiherald.com/tropical_life/story/259803.html
Re: George Clooney’s adult legal drama Michael Clayton.
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Clooney plays the titular character, a ”fixer” for a big-league corporate law firm who is called in to clean up messes that can’t be resolved satisfactorily inside a courtroom. After one of the firm’s star attorneys, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), melts down during a deposition — he strips naked and runs after the plaintiff — Clayton is assigned to nurse Arthur back to fighting shape before the case goes to trial.
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NOT RECOMMENDED!
While watching this I wondered in ADM was going to sue for defamation.
It had imho all the leftist clichés — evil lawyers, evil corporation, evil assassins, the good family farmers, the Irish cop, the Mafia loan shark, … … just to name a few off the top of my head.
Think Brocobitch without the boobs. Well come to think of it there were a lot of boobs in the audience like me who paid two sawbucks to see this muddle.
The fellow who melted down in the movie wasn’t the only one having psychotic breaks. Start at the middle, jump forward, jump back, turn around, jump to a conclusion, and destroy the evil doers.
Think Travolta in Civil Action. Think cookie cutter.
It wasn’t unpleasant to watch — but I didn’t get the connection to the kid’s book.
I don’t understand why he would stop and get out of the car. And, most horses I have known wouldn’t stand dead still side-by-side as something dressed in black approached them.
I don’t understand assassins, who were first portrayed as meticulous in the first murder, just be content to remotely detonate and call it a day. And, why switch modes of killing? I’m sure it’s an area of specialization. Plus don’t tasars leave marks. That’s what the other crime shows claim. (I get all my science from Law’n’Order.)
So it left a lot to be answered and hence a lot to be desired.
Verdict: Wasted $.
p.s., and the ice cream hadn’t been stored right and the bottom was melted. Sigh! Ahh for the movies of the Fifties, where the heroes wore white hats and the popcorn was fresh with real butter.
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NEWJERSEY: Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians!
Sunday, October 14, 2007http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=8106&z=2
Republican Lawmaker Calls on Corzine to Release Monetization Documents
Thursday, October 04, 2007 – Millennium Radio
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State Senator Tom Kean, Jr. (R) on Wednesday sent a letter to Governor Jon S. Corzine demanding that he authorize the IRS to release documents relating to the governor’s still-in-the-works secret plan to possibly lease or sell New Jersey’s toll roads to generate revenues, the so-called asset monetization plan. Kean accused the Corzine administration and Trenton Democrats of intentionally withholding details of the plan until after the November election.
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This is one of those typical giant Nu Jerzee jokes.
Like why are school bond votes taken in the spring of a year?
To put them as far away from the election as possible.
Why are property tax rebates send out just before the election?
To make the voters think that politicians care!
So here’s the next one.
The Guv has a “secret plan” to take the State’s assets to the proverbial Wall Street pawnshop. It’s so secret that every knows that it’s going to happen right after the election. Then all the politicians, komisars, and bureaucrats can spend till it’s all gone. It’s like taking a second mortgage to go on a seven day drunk. Why would anyone in their right mind think this way?
Normal people don’t.
Politicians are NOT normal!
So, they just want to coast thru this election and the voters will have two years to forget. I bet the vote to hock the Turnpike will be done by year end.
The Guv’s telling everyone the plan isn’t ready for the public. Sure. You figure it out and he may have a Florio style tax revolt on his hands.
The Republicans are not even making a very BIG deal about it. Remember these “two parties” are really just two sides of the same coin. And, they’ll get their share for keeping quiet.
It’s FRAUD. A sham pulled on the sheep of NJ.
How do you stop it?
Easy.
Jim Gearhart http://www.nj1015.com/personalities/jim-gearhart.shtm has coined the term — GRIP! Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians!
As he says: “Hold your nose and vote against anyone who is in office now.”
Of course, they are no better than the person that you are voting out. But next election, you can do it again. Revolving door? Sure. But the current voting pattern isn’t doing us any good. Time to shake things up.
Turn out the gang in trenton. A new gang could NOT possibly be any worse than what we have. If you don’t, then be prepared for more borrowing, more spending, tool hikes, and tax hikes. It’s a done deal as if it was coming down from the mount on stone tablets. Our only chance is to scare the “barbara streisand” out of them. Voting our every incumbent in the assembly and those up for reelection in the Senate would surly scare them.
Get mad! Get a GRIP!
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RANT: End the Income Tax in Taxachusetts
Saturday, October 13, 2007http://www.smallgovernmentact.org
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How You Benefit From Getting Involved
You may not live in Massachusetts. Many of our best supporters don’t.
If you live outside Massachusetts, you won’t get the direct benefit of not having to pay the state income tax.
Why should you get involved? Why should you donate money so that Massachusetts workers can end their Income Tax?
So you can make history. So you can be a vital part of “the Tax Revolution Heard ‘Round the World.”
It’s more than bragging rights. More than pride. It’s your chance to be part of the new American Revolution For Small Government.
There’s more.
California’s Proposition 13 inspired copycat Tax Limitation Ballot Initiatives in over a dozen states. From 1978 through the mid-1980’s, tax limitation fever swept the United States.
Term Limits Ballot Initiatives caught fire in the mid-1980’s. They burned bright for a half—dozen years.
Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiatives exploded into public attention in the mid-1990’s. Only the active resistance of the DEA and the Federal Government has kept a lid on them.
Ballot Initiatives against Eminent Domain swept America in 2006. More are on the way.
Imagine that our Massachusetts Ballot Initiative to End the Income Tax wins in 2008. Partly because you helped make it possible. Imagine inspiring and instigating copycat Ballot Initiatives to Repeal the Income Tax in 4 or 8 or 12 more states in 2010 and 2012.
You can help set this in motion.
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Crazy Carla is on her high horse again tilting at the Income Tax windmill. If she could nuke it in Taxachusetts, then it could be the end of the income tax in America. What a strike at the root.
I sent a contribution; you should too if you hate the income tax as much as I do.
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MONEY: Nuke inflation; not the Republic of Where-The-Heck-Is-That-is-tan!
Saturday, October 13, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north574.html
Wall Street vs. the Middle Class
by Gary North
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There is a price for this upward access to greater wealth: the possibility of a fall into poverty. This is a greater threat to the rich than to the middle class. The rich are at the far right edge of the bell-shaped curve. There are few of them. Their position is insecure, for good reason. The free market rewards those sellers who serve consumers efficiently, wasting few scarce resources. Consumers are a fickle bunch. They keep asking sellers, “What have you done for us lately?” There are always many competitors trying to get rich. They are ready to replace today’s rich people. Today’s rich people know this. They are therefore ready and willing to pull up the ladder that enabled them to replace yesterday’s rich.
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I love his metaphors. It sounds like the poor swap places with the rich. (Yeah, I know it doesn’t work like that, but it looks that way.)
The inflation hurts the middle and the bottom disproportionately. That’s why you would think that sound money (i.e., Ron Paul wanting to nuke the Fed; not Iraq, Iran, North Korea, or the Republic of Where-The-Heck-Is-That-is-tan!) would be a winning economic policy. I don’t understand the sheep.
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TECH WEBSITE: Found three SPLOGS. What to do?
Saturday, October 13, 2007FROM MY LOGS THAT ARE IDED AS SPAM
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MONEY: Estate planning email
Posted in lawyer by on the October 12th, 2007
I read an interesting post today on MONEY: Estate planning email
Here’s a quick excerpt…
(The estate lawyer may ask for a custodian for all the children en masse, and a guardian for each individual child. Have some extra names in your pocket. See each child has a unique fiduciary interest.) …
Read the rest of this great post here
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Nosing around I find that all posts are essentially the same. Direct takes of snips of content. The other two “blogs” are essentially the same. Trivial design with snips of other people’s blogs.
It’s a very “polite” theft since there is a link to the original post.
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So what does one do with that knowledge?
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POLITICAL: Morris points out Hillary’s heel
Saturday, October 13, 2007A PLAN TO TAKE DOWN HILLARY
By Dick Morris Reports <dickmorrisreports@dickmorris.com>
HER REAL STAND ON IRAQ AND HOW IT HELPS OBAMA
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the New York Post on October 7, 2007.
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But Obama has an opening for a very effective challenge to Hillary over the war if he uses the half-hour interview she gave The New York Times in her Senate office on March 14th of this year. In that on-the-record session, Hillary let slip her real colors on Iraq, revealing her essentially hawkish approach to the issue.
She said that she foresees a “remaining military, as well as political, mission” in Iraq. She said she “would keep a reduced but significant military force there to fight al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military.”
While noting that in public Sen. Clinton backs the goal of “bringing the troops home,” the newspaper said that she took a “more nuanced position” in the interview and spoke of the “remaining vital national security interests in Iraq” that would require an ongoing deployment of troops.
That interview, a major mistake by Clinton, provides enough of an opening to drive a truck through and gives Obama a perfect way to position himself vis-à-vis her.
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Nothing like a POed advisor to be able to show the world your flaws!
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PRODUCTIVITY: baseball players as a proxy for the real world
Friday, October 12, 2007http://sports.myway.com/news/10092007/v2657.html
Alex Rodriguez’s Agent Hints A-Rod Likely to Opt Out of Contract and Become Free Agent
Oct 9, 10:03 PM (ET)
By RONALD BLUM
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NEW YORK (AP) -Alex Rodriguez is ready to cash in. Again.
Agent Scott Boras hinted Tuesday that A-Rod will opt out of the final three seasons of his contract with the New York Yankees and seek a new deal in the free-agent market that will lock him up through his pursuit of Barry Bonds’ home-run record.
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And, I’d say “good riddance”. He was an empty uniform in the post season.
As a proxy for the real world, one must always seek to keep one’s options open while locking down “sweetness”.
For example, when I am “in” and the hunter comes calling, I want a contract, or at least double what I have. If I am “out”, then I’m not so choosey because a double of zero is zero.
Take Posada for example. He’s in his option year and did well. He’s old. He’s a catcher. And, he keeps his mouth shut. I’m sure he will do quite well. If I were him, I’d want “long” at the expense of “big”. He might not be physically able to do as well as he did this year. So, if the Yankees have 20M$ budgeted for a first string catcher, then they might off a one year contract at 20M$. He, otoh, say wants a ten year deal (10*20M$=200m$). So let’s say the Yankees offer him either 1 year @ 20M$, 3 years @ 15m$, or 5 years @ 10M$, what does he pick? Sigh, I should have such problem.
From a productivity pov, we are all working for the benjamins. How do you get max? How do you even know what is possible? Hopefully, you’ve thought out what you need to make you happy. Or, at least satisfied.
Now where is my bat and glove.
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LIBERTY: Big Brother gets a step closer.
Friday, October 12, 2007Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:05:41 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein
Subject: Stalling Cars Via OnStar: A Hacker’s Dream Come True?
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000313.html
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Ready to turn over the keys of your vehicle to the cops, or that clever hacker in the next lane? How about that creepy guy following you on a lonely country road?
GM apparently plans to perhaps make this all possible. It’s been announced that they’ll be equipping nearly two million of their 2009 model vehicles (that have OnStar installed), with the capability to be remotely shut down to idle via OnStar commands at the request of law enforcement (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Autos/story?id=3706113).
The claim is that owners will have to give permission first for this capability to be enabled. Bull. I don’t care what OnStar’s privacy policy says, if the technical capability for this function is present, OnStar will have no practical choice but to comply when faced with a law enforcement demand or court order, whether or not owner “permission” was ever granted.
This new capability will also create an irresistible challenge to the hacker community — and perhaps criminal organizations — to try find ways into the OnStar system for triggering this fun — one way or another. It’s impossible to hack OnStar? Would you bet your life on that?
Unfortunately, this is yet another laudable idea that’s being “driven” into the marketplace before all of the negative ramifications have been thought through or fully understood. And how long will it be before such systems are mandated, one might wonder?
OnStar has long been the subject of various privacy concerns. This new capability appears to be the most serious privacy-related issue for OnStar
to date.
Lauren Weinstein
Lauren’s Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
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Guess it will be a tough decision to buy another GM product?
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MONEY: Estate planning email
Friday, October 12, 2007ADVISING A RELATIVE ABOUT ESTATES
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The estate attorney probably will get paid by the hour so it pays to have your thinking done before the meter starts ticking off hundred dollar bills.
You each {Husband and Wife} need: a will, durable a power of attorney, a health care proxy, and advanced directive — or whatever the local equivalent in your jurisdiction. It’s typical — but not required to kriss kross as husband and wife.
(When it comes to pulling the plug on you sometimes it’s a duty best delegated to friend rather than a spouse.)
What you need to worry about is common disaster and incapacity. (I’m real good at worrying about stuff that can’t happen.)
You need a primary and an alternative guardian for the children.
You need a primary and an alternative executor for the estate.
They probably should be FOUR different people. (The children and the estate may have different fiduciary interests.
(The estate lawyer may ask for a custodian for all the children en masse, and a guardian for each individual child. Have some extra names in your pocket. See each child has a unique fiduciary interest.)
Common disaster means what happens if you both go down in the plane together. What happens!
Incapacity means that one of you can’t speak for yourself and the other can’t either or has died.
(Pushing camels through needles, imagining pink elephants, and envisioning zebras that have swapped black and white stripes is required in estate and insurance planning. Like at real estate closing they define for insurance purposes at exactly what TIME the transfer takes effect. That’s so when the building burns down there’s no squabbling whose building it was when it burned.)
Now for the hard stuff!!
You need to create a binder of all your assets. Even stuff that doesn’t look like an asset.
All deeds, policies, and account information. Anyone discharged form the military needs their dd214s and such docs.
Past five years of tax returns.
You should also create a family tree identifying all relatives / in laws, with name – addresses – phone numbers – email – birthdate (Date of Death if applicable) (Date of Marriage if applicable) (Date of Divorce if applicable).
Remember if he has to stop and ask a question, you’re paying for it. Since we know his staff will do all the work filling in forms, try to have everything done in advance and indexed.
The last thing to decide is who gets your estate (i.e., the children) and when they can get it.
P.S.: Don’t forget a large bequest for me!
p. p. s.: In Estate Planning, try never to leave large amounts of money to people who are the same age or older. It just gives the tax man a double bite. (i.e., I leave money to my Mom. The tax guy gets a bit when I die and when she dies.) You can leave a “lifetime interest in trust” for the older persons benefit if they need it with the remains to a younger person and avoid the double bite.
Hope this helps. Don’t hesitate to ask questions. I can tell you the mistakes I made and I seen made. :-)
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