I put my skype number into grandcentral and it doesn’t work. I pick up the skype call but grand central doesn’t recognize it. :-)
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LIBERTY: School trains children to be employees and consumers
Friday, October 5, 2007http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/09/29/education_do_we_really_need.htm
September 29, 2007
Education: Do We Really Need Schools Or Do We Need To Better Understand What Education Should Really Be?
Robin Good
Be Smart, Be Independent, Be Good?
Edited by: Luigi Canali De Rossi
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How do we educate our children to be active, critical thinkers and not dumb passive consumers serving someone else interests? For however strange this may sound to you, it may have been “marketing” itself to bring us the terrible education system most civilized countries have adopted in the last century or so.
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School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers. School trains children to obey reflexively; teach your own to think critically and independently.
Well-schooled kids have a low threshold for boredom; help your own to develop an inner life so that they’ll never be bored.
Urge them to take on the serious material, the grown-up material, in history, literature, philosophy, music, art, economics, theology – all the stuff schoolteachers know well enough to avoid.
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Robin discovers that education makes big children. I’ve been reading Gatto for a while and that’s why I think we have to end gooferment “public” eddycation by running skoolz!
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LIBERTY: Zimbabwe in hyper-inflation
Friday, October 5, 2007http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/658
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The price of jam (and what’s not for sale)
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Store shelves in hyper-inflation.
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MONEY: Why exceed FDIC limit?
Friday, October 5, 2007http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2007/pr07083.html
FDIC Approves the Assumption of the Insured Deposits of Miami Valley Bank, Lakeview, Ohio
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2007
Media Contact:
David Barr (202) 898-6992
cell: (703) 622-4790
e-mail: dbarr@fdic.gov
The Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today approved the assumption of the insured deposits of Miami Valley Bank, Lakeview, Ohio, by The Citizens Banking Company, Sandusky, Ohio.
Miami Valley, with $86.7 million in total assets and $76 million in total deposits as of October 1, 2007, was closed today by Ohio’s Superintendent of Financial Institutions, and the FDIC was named receiver.
The failed bank’s two offices will reopen tomorrow as branches of The Citizens Banking Company. Depositors of Miami Valley will automatically become depositors of the assuming bank.
The Citizens Banking Company has agreed to assume $62 million of the failed bank’s insured deposits for a two percent premium. At the time of closing, Miami Valley had approximately $14 million in 269 deposit accounts that exceeded the federal deposit insurance limit. While these customers will have access to their insured deposits, they will become creditors of the receivership for the amount of their uninsured funds. The FDIC will retain all of Miami Valley’s assets for later disposition.
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Why would anyone EVER have a balance in excess of the 100k$ FDIC limit?
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LIBERTY: gambling, self-medication and sex for hire
Friday, October 5, 2007http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/9812692.html
Sep. 16, 2007
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: New York Times parachutes into Vegas again to make stuff up
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… … the fruitlessness of laws that seek to ban consensual acts including gambling, self-medication and sex for hire?
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One really has to wonder about the people and their reps. Do they live in an alternative universe from the rest of us? In that alternative universe, maybe making gambling, drugs, and prostitution illegal stops real people from doing them, but not in the real world.
Making these illegal, ensure that the mob has a constant source of income. Make them legal, would put the mob in competition with a host of internet gambling sites, WalMart & many other “drug” stores, and bevy of “escort” services now legal.
Every time I hear of a person, usually a youngster, dying of a drug over dose or impurity in the stuff, I blame gooferment. If the stuff was legal, it would be USP certified and cheap. Then, we could focus on treatment. So, be ready, when you ask me if little kids should be able to buy “drugs”, my answer is that they do now. And, your stupid laws, that are attempting to legislate morality on other people by force of gooferment, are killing people.
Argh!
Join the real world, and let’s work on solutions that will really fix problems. If you’re going to stay in that alternative universe, then please keep your ideas from leaking in over here.
Double Argh!
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STATE MA: TX REVOLT in Taxachusetts!
Thursday, October 4, 2007*** begin quote ***
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LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS? YOU CAN SIGN THE PETITION RIGHT NOW TO END THE
MASSACHUSETTS INCOME TAX.
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Have you ever signed a petition for or against something?
Most petitions simply express your opinion. And the opinions of the
other signers.
Those petitions have NO force of law. NO direct legal power to change
anything. The signers are trying to influence or lobby those in power.
This Petition is different. It has the force of law. It is legally
certified by the Attorney General’s Office and is constitutionally and
legally authorized to put the Massachusetts Income Tax up for a
legally-binding vote.
Your signature – and that of another 106,999 voters – puts our
Initiative to END the Massachusetts Income Tax on the ballot.
Your signature costs you nothing. But it saves us $1.50 in petitioning
costs. 1,000 petition signers like you saves $1,500.
Your signature matters.
Please click the link below, follow the simple directions, help us
get this Initiative on the Ballot, and help us END the Massachusetts
Income Tax:
http://www.smallgovernmentact.org/sign_petition.html
Thank you!
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Carla just missed last time she tried it. (I think it was defeated 53-47! with a lot of the liberal press “dirty tricks”.)
If it every succeeds, it’ll be the death knell of socialism here?
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RANT: Air travel in the US really sucks
Thursday, October 4, 2007I bought a ticket for a plane ride at 11. Before I left the hotel this moring, everything was aok. I arrive at the airport and I have a gate delay of 2 hours. Argh!!
And, the security theater of the tsa is laughable. I watched a toddler being sheparded thru the process. Business people, old folks, and just plain folks submitting meekly to a very unreasonable search and seizureby 8$/hour thugs. Sigh, where is american backbone. what “barbara streisand”.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Ron Paul’s Tax Free Tips Act
Thursday, October 4, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul412.html
Statement on the Tax Free Tips Act
by Ron Paul
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Madame Speaker, I rise to help millions of working Americans by introducing the Tax Free Tips Act. As the title suggests, this legislation makes tips exempt from federal income and payroll taxes. Tips often compose a substantial portion of the earnings of waiters, waitresses, and other service-sector employees. However, unlike regular wages, a service-sector employee usually has no guarantee of, or legal right to, a tip. Instead, the amount of a tip usually depends on how well an employee satisfies a client. Since the amount of taxes one pays increases along with the size of tip, taxing tips punishes workers for doing a superior job!
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End the Income Tax period! It’s theft.
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MONEY: the car dealer cannot print more cars
Thursday, October 4, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/raskin/raskin26.html
Run for Your Money
by Max Raskin
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Fractional reserve banking rests on the delusion that if the banks can fool enough people into thinking that they can withdraw their money at any given time, then they can expand credit and make all sorts of unwise investments. The minute the public gets wind of the bank’s insolvency, as with the latest crisis, they rush to demand their money. On the free market, fractional reserve banking is no more of a problem than fractional reserve car dealerships. If a car dealer sells two deeds to the same car it is clearly fraud. Yet somehow the banks are not burdened with the inconvenient job of repaying their depositors. Unlike the central bank, the car dealer cannot print more cars.
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And, they can’t print any more beach front property. Or, gold bullion coins. Or, any such commodity.
When one is in a “fiat money system” (money is unbacked by gold), then you are best advised to convert your paper into something. A house, a business, or anything that ain’t gooferment paper.
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RANT: Force is never acceptable
Wednesday, October 3, 2007http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070928/ts_afp/irelandsmokingpubsmusicoffbeat_070928145420
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Interesting…they should try it in Vegas!
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Vegas has the smoking Nazis already.
It’s not complete, but it’s getting there.
It is the INITIATION OF FORCE. They are using gooferment to inflict their values on us. It’s OK because you agree with this one. What if it is one of your vices? Like golf? It very wasteful of time, energy, and attention citizen. Further, people get hurt at golf and miss work and can’t maximize their tax payments to the state. And, think of the ecology. What about all the poor animals displaced for your “golf course”. That money and land could have been given to the “poor”.
How does that fit for size? Little tight.
If some one can use gooferment to force YOU or ME or ANYONE to do ONE thing, then we are slaves and they can makes us do anything. Citizen, it unhealthy for you to go to Church, wear clothes, eat at mickeyd’s.
Look it from a freedom side. Does anyone FORCE those musicians to take their equipment to the smoke filled pubs? No, they can say “I only play at smoke free venues”. But, then they have to bear the COSTS of that action. And, who owns the pubs. Obviously, the gooferment since they call the shots. Is anyone forced to patronize the pubs? Yes, the gooferment “regulates” them.
Without the gooferment, there’s be MORE CHOICES. The marketplace would create smoke free Irish pubs.
See in a free market, no one is compelled to do squat. Everyone would get to make choices. When you spend your certificates of appreciation give by your fellow workers for something you’ve done that they like, then it’s like having a mini election. AND, everyone is allowed to decide. Sort of like democracy without the force of mob rule.
See no one can be “wealthy” without serving their fellow man. The free market is essentially a coordination mechanism that allows us to cooperate. Socialism is enforced slavery; free markets are a very complex calculus that allows everyone to be satisfied with what’s available to the maximum extent possible.
Socialism’s mantra “from each, according to ability; to each, according to need. The Free Markets mantra is “serve your fellow man and be rewarded to the extent of your contribution”.
See first, you have to dig the well, and then you get to drink. Catch 10 fish and the market can equate that to 2 loaves of bread. If you catch 10 fish and I catch 5, you get two loaves and I get a lesson in motivation and ability.
It’s a complex mechanism, since if fishing is bad and you only catch 5 and I get 1, then the price of fish will rise. If the baker doesn’t lower his price of bread, he winds up with stale bread. So magically, there will be fish for the baker and bread for us.
It’s when force aka gets involved that the mechanism breaks down.
Argh!
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