TECH SERVICE: new search tool for internet radio

Sunday, October 7, 2007

>http://www.iheard.com/stations/folk/acoustic/liveireland

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<a href=”http://www.iheard.com/stations/folk/acoustic/liveireland/”><img src=”http://www.iheard.com/images/iheard_badge.gif” alt=”LiveIreland 1 radio – iheard.com” style=”border:0;”></a>

LiveIreland 1

Irish Folk, Traditional And Celtic Music From Dublin, Ireland. Liveireland Is One Of The Worlds Most Listened To Irish Internet Radio Stations.
Station Rating:
Country: Ireland
Language: English

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In my never-ending search to recapture the glory days of skool and the Red Garter in Greenwich Village of the Sixties, I like: irish, folk, or Gay Nineties banjo quartet music.

Here’s a new search tool for internet radio.

Don’t you just love the net!

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GUNS: Malaysia write rants about crime

Sunday, October 7, 2007

FROM A JEFFERY YONG EMAIL

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Violent crimes are rising faster than the Share Market. Malaysians used to watch TV and comment about how bad the crime rate is in USA while quietly thankful that “our Malaysia” is relatively peaceful. No longer! In my neighborhood alone, there is a snatch theft case every single week! If you’re lucky, you lose your money. Or else, you may be slashed mercilessly. The only saving grace is that “gun crimes” are still not as rampant as in the US. But for how long?

I’m not going to go into an emotional account of how the whole nation was in uproar and how even the “imam” (Muslim priest) who conducted the funeral cried openly. I’m also not going to go into a seething rant on how the police and government should be DOING MORE to prevent such crimes. These, you can read in the various blogs all over the net just by searching for “Nurin Jazlin”

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Well, aside from the snide reference to gun crime, it would appear that people can’t defend themselves. John Lott has done numerous studies that show when the good folks are armed, crime plummets.

I’d opine that there are a few reasons for it: (1) Criminals are cowards for good reason. Messing with an armed citizen, or in the vicinity of one, can get you killed. (2) Someone who his armed has assumed the mantle of John Wayne “What are you doing, pilgrim?”. And, is more likely to become the “police” when a neighbor cries out for help. It’s down right dumb to interfere unarmed. (3) Women, the elderly, and children are no longer “weak” and can’t assert their own rights.

As regular readers here know, I like the “sprinkle a few sheepdogs in among the flock and let the wolves guess” strategy.

The police are little more than sanitation men. They come along long after the fact, put up some tape, take pics to memorialize the event, write reports, and then go for doughnuts. Only an armed citizen has a chance to defend themselves and their neighbors from crime.

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RANT: One day short; the gooferment saves money

Sunday, October 7, 2007

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=71741

National Guard Troops Denied Benefits After Longest Deployment Of Iraq War
Rhonda Erskine, Online Content Producer
Created: 10/3/2007 2:39:29 PM
Updated: 10/3/2007 5:32:02 PM

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN (NBC) — When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part of President Bush’s surge.

1st Lt. Jon Anderson said he never expected to come home to this: A government refusing to pay education benefits he says he should have earned under the GI bill.

“It’s pretty much a slap in the face,” Anderson said. “I think it was a scheme to save money, personally. I think it was a leadership failure by the senior Washington leadership… once again failing the soldiers.”

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Well when you deal in force, why are you surprised at anything?

You didn’t think that anyone cared about you, did you?

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GUNS: so little effort to stop him

Sunday, October 7, 2007

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/next_time_scream_librescu.html

October 02, 2007
Next Time, Scream ‘LIBRESCU!’
By William R. Hartman

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Ever since hearing of the tragic deaths at Virginia Tech last April, I have been deeply troubled by the number of people killed by a lone gunman wielding two hand guns in the midst of dozens of people.

Why was Seing-Hui Cho able to methodically move from classroom to classroom – four in total – killing 29 people and wounding at least 26 more, with so little effort to stop or to disarm him?

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Absolutely correct. Don’t sit back and take it. Rush the shooter. (Your only other option would be to zig zag away.) Most of these bozos can’t hit from a distance. So, like the recent cases on airplanes, don’t sit back acceptingly. Charge!

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JOBSEARCH: Parsing the employed into segments

Sunday, October 7, 2007

NETWORK WORLD 24 Sept 07 Page 41

NetworkWorld parses the “in’s” into: Seekers on the prowl; Explorers keeping the eyes open; Approachable who are not looking but would respond to a personal inquiry; and Loyalists who are committed to their current employer.

Where do you sit?

I guess I am somewhere between “explorer” and “approachable”!

:-)

The question who would hire a FOWG or a BFT?

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JOBSEARCH: age discrimination peeks out

Saturday, October 6, 2007

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071005/D8S3BO500.html

Ex-Google Manager Can Sue for Age Bias
Oct 5, 6:32 PM (ET)

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) – A 54-year-old former Google Inc. (GOOG) manager who claimed he was fired after a supervisor told him his opinions were “too old to matter” had his age discrimination lawsuit reinstated.

Reversing a Santa Clara County trial judge, the state’s Sixth District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that Brian Reid deserves to have a jury hear the evidence he amassed that he says shows Google routinely gave older managers lower evaluations and smaller bonuses than younger managers.

“Reid produced sufficient evidence that Google’s (stated) reasons for terminating him were untrue or pretextual, and that Google acted with discriminatory motive such that a fact-finder would conclude Google engaged in age discrimination,” Presiding Justice Conrad L. Rushing wrote.

The Mountain View-based search engine company has denied Reid’s allegations but also refused to say why he was fired. In court documents, the company said Reid was fired when the program he managed was canceled.

Reid, a former associate electrical engineering professor at Stanford University, sued Google in July 2004, five months after he lost his job as its director of operations.

He alleged in his suit that his supervisors did not initially tell him why he was being fired. Director of Engineering Wayne Rosing, 55, eventually said he was not a good “cultural fit” at Google, where some colleagues referred to him as an “old guy” and “fuddy-duddy,” Reid said.

Another supervisor, Urs Hoelzle allegedly said Reid, who is a diabetic, was too sluggish and “too old to matter” and his ideas were obsolete.

Reid is seeking back pay and punitive damages. He made $200,000 a year and lost stock options valued at millions of dollars when he lost his job.

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Now we all know that age discrimination is rampant.

But it’s rarely so blatant. Clearly FOWGs need to keep very good notes and paperwork. No one should want to go to court. That’s not only a crap shoot, but you’ll be stigmatized.

My advice is to use what you have to extract a better settlement.

You need to document both your contributions and the reactions to them on a contemporaneous holograph non-tamperable basis. Think about the old Bell Labs policy of keeping notes in bound books with numbered pages. Emails should be archived and indexed. With cheap online and offline storage with usb disk drives. At the very least, sending a bcc to a special email account is cheap and easy.

Better be prepared for treachery. We entering a brave new world of employment. If you don’t have a contract, then you are at risk. If one’s not offered, ask yourself why?

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LIBERTY: When does the average joe or jane

Saturday, October 6, 2007

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=11803

Bra check upsets court visitor
Taryn Hecker Staff writer
October 4, 2007

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A Bonners Ferry woman says she was humiliated when security guards at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene told her she’d have to remove her underwire bra to get inside.

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Well at least they didn’t tell her she had to take a shower before being admitted to the “work camp”.

When does the average joe or jane tell them to take their security and stuff it?

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RANT: empire in their final stages

Saturday, October 6, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese399.html

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We are like all empires in their final stages. We have grown soft. We like our comforts. We don’t wish to be inconvenienced. We like poor Mexicans to do our stoop work and poor Americans to do our fighting, provided they do it far away so we won’t be disturbed by explosions and screams. We enjoy our decadence, and there are always people in the media who can rationalize anything, no matter how sick and revolting it is.

As for trying to understand the world, we are just too busy being amused and following the adventures of Britney Spears and other celebrities. We like to let the TV and the politicians do our thinking for us. It saves energy. They tell us whom to hate.

The only way to avoid a bad end is to find some realists and put them in public office. We need a brave Congress, not a pack of cowards. We desperately need a president with a brain. We need to retire the warmongers in the foreign-policy establishment. Otherwise, we will join the other third-rate countries, once empires, on history’s discard pile.

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Tank driver hits the nail on the head. If we don’t elect Ron Paul, it is obvious where it all ends up.

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LIBERTY: Marshals Arrest N.H. Tax Resistors

Saturday, October 6, 2007

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8S363QO0&show_article=1

Marshals Arrest N.H. Tax Evaders
Oct 5 12:08 PM US/Eastern
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Writer

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – U.S. marshals posing as supporters arrested convicted tax-evaders Ed and Elaine Brown at their rural, fortress-like home, the head marshal said Friday.

“They invited us in, and we escorted them out,” U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said, releasing the first details of Thursday night’s arrests.

A small team of marshals pulled off the ruse, arresting the Browns without incident on the front porch of their Plainfield home in west- central New Hampshire, Monier said.

The arrests ended a months-long standoff that began in January, when Brown, 65, a retired exterminator, and his dentist wife, 67, walked out of their federal trial in Concord. She returned to the trial but soon joined her husband at home, where they vowed to resist violently if authorities tried to arrest them.

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Imagine the gaul of these two people — a 67 year old dentist and a 65 year old retired exterminator — having the hubris to resist the Washington gang from stealing their earnings! Hope those “law enforcement” people are proud of themselves. Ask for hospitality and then enslave them. Nice guests! But that’s gooferment for you: force and fraud! It defines them.

Just step back for a second and ask yourself, how is it MORAL for the mob to use force on the individual. Where does that gang get the right to steal from the Browns. You could not walk into their house and take from them. I could not. SO how does it work that it is moral for the GOOFERMENT to do it in our place?

If I don’t agree to something, then you have no MORAL right to force me to obey your diktat!

How was the obligation for them to pay taxes created?

Now, I don’t think that it’s smart to go head to head with any gang. Regardless if it the Mafia, a street gang, the one in Washington, the one in Trenton, or the one down the road locally. But, that doesn’t make what they do moral. I may not be able to take them on directly but that doesn’t make me any less aware that we are their slaves. Their sheep! That they can sheer anyway the fell like. And, they can {expletive deleted; related to the reproductive act} anytime they want.

I remember the 1957 Hungry Rebellion. There will come a time when the American people will awake from their slumber and set the house back in order. I’ll be on the barricades. As the Soviet Communists realized you can only hold the people down for so long. And, just as the French Resistance went house to house executing the collaborators in certain parts of France after the Germans withdrew, so to their will come a day of retribution for the thugs, the bureaucrats, and the politicians.

A bloody day. It will be a sad day for them and a joyous day for liberty when the people rediscover their heritage.

One has to just bide one’s time.

“I know not course others will take … …”

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RANT: DELL email really grates!

Saturday, October 6, 2007

http://dhs.p.delivery.net/m/p/del/pre/preview.asp?cID=17136217872&pid=681792&mid=1807951855

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WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!

Ferdinand,
Thank you for signing up to receive Dell email updates. As a valued
subscriber, you can expect email delivered to your Inbox that will include:

• Exclusive Dell offers and promotions
• The latest Dell product and service news
• Smart and simple online shopping

To show our appreciation, we are sending you a special coupon¹ offer:

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… … they gotta be joshing me. That company is on autopilot.

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