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SURVIVAL: Fiction with some interesting lessons
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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USA: Ron Paul’s secret weapon
Wednesday, September 5, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski85.html
Ron Paul and the Four Horsemen
by James Ostrowski
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Finally, Ron Paul’s secret weapon, Hillary Clinton, has all but wrapped up the nomination. Obama has run out of steam and Edwards is going nowhere. The prospect of another President Clinton will focus the minds of Republican primary voters. They need to realize that only a Republican who represents a sharp break from the Gingrich-Bush-era legacy of sleaze, corruption, bloated spending and belligerence can beat Hillary in November 2008.
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Hillary’s enough to scare me.
She certainly would test theory that the President has a much power as the figurehead on a Viking ship to steer it.
Made she could actually out do her hubbie and get herself impeached and removed from office. She lost me a commodity trades back in AK. Now there is a felony she got away with. Just a tigers and leopards, she’ll run true to form.
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NATIONAL: Gooferment healthcare taken to its logical conclusion
Wednesday, September 5, 2007‘NHS should not treat those with unhealthy lifestyles’ say Tories
04.09.07
David Cameron will decide which of the Tories’ proposals to make policy
• Patients who improve their health to be given ‘Health Miles’ cards to claim free fruit and veg
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Patients who refuse to change their unhealthy lifestyles should not be treated by the NHS, the Conservatives said today.
In a bid to ease spiralling levels of obesity and other health concerns, a Tory panel said certain treatments should be denied to patients who refuse to co-operate with health professionals and live healthier lifestyles.
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“It is inconsistent with the concept of the responsible citizen to imagine that it is realistic for citizens, having paid their taxes, to expect that the state will underwrite the health implications of any lifestyle decision they choose to make,” the report states.
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Other health measures outlined include incentives to encourage GPs to “re-engage” in responsibility for the out-of-hours care provided to their patients, without imposing “undesirable working patterns” on doctors.
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The group also warns that public support for the NHS is under threat because of the “failure” to engage citizens in the drive to improve the service and to boost productivity despite the billions being poured into it.
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Now that they have taken the tax money under the guise of “national health care”, they want to change the “insurance terms”. If a private insurance company did ti, then the executive would all be in jail.
Aren’t people better off managing their own “health care”?
If you have certain risks, then you can mitigate them or insure them or take the consequences. You don’t need a bloated gooferment bureacracy to “help” you. Argh!
Sorry, count me out.
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TECH SERVICE: FACEBOOK suggestion
Tuesday, September 4, 2007One of the charities associated with my alma mater has annual golf tourney for scholarships. I have no affiliation with it. BUT, it might be nice to allow the folks that run it to set up an “identity” for that charity? Is such possible? Considering that you allow fakey politicians, why not a fakey charity?
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RANT: Congress is Destroying America’s Schools
Tuesday, September 4, 2007http://americandaily.com/article/20149
Congress is Destroying America’s Schools
By Alan Caruba (09/03/07)
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If you want to witness the most blatantly un-Constitutional and un-American laws at work than just take a walk through your local schools. They are currently under the control of the federal government.
Why any town or city bothers to hold an election for members of the local board of education is a mystery to me. Between the U.S. Department of Education and a union, the National Education Association—masquerading as just a group of concerned teachers—local boards have no real power to reverse the subjugation and destruction of the nation’s education system.
Since the Constitution does not even mention education, it is a continuing mystery why the federal government has a department devoted to it. Well, it’s less of a mystery if you consider that its purpose is to indoctrinate the children passing through it to accept a whole range of values and ideas that lots of Americans think are wrong.
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Gooferment skoolz making illiterate cannon fodder that can flip burgers too!
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MONEY: regulators issued special guidance
Tuesday, September 4, 2007http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8REP5LG3&show_article=1
Fed Urges Loan Holders to Avoid Defaults
Sep 4 01:14 PM US/Eastern
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators issued special guidance Tuesday urging loan service companies to work with borrowers in danger of defaulting on their home mortgages.
The new guidelines are not mandatory, but the regulators expressed the hope that companies that collect payments on mortgages would heed the advice.
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And what happens if they don’t want to take advice from these unelected minions of the rich and powerful?
Taxpayer pays?
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LIBERTY: all now concede he didn’t commit
Tuesday, September 4, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/015045.html
September 03, 2007
Do the wrongfully imprisoned get compensation?
Posted by Stephen Carson at September 3, 2007 10:44 PM
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Dedge served 22 years of a life sentence for a rape all now concede he didn’t commit.
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Prosecutors continued to oppose Dedge’s motions on sundry procedural grounds for three years, and, according to the Innocence Project site, went so far as to admit in court that they would oppose Dedge’s release “even if they knew that he was absolutely innocent.” Nice group of people.
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Ahh, the gooferment at its best!
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VISTA: Sounds like it has a time out
Tuesday, September 4, 2007Frau was playing a game and listening to a CD. (The only two applications I’ve qualified her for. ROFL!) She say that everything went dark. Tech Support (me) was closed for the night! So she just gave up. I asked her if she did anything. (Press the any key? Waste of time to ask users anything. They forget, They lie, They misreport.) Scheduling an on-site visit by tech support (Me!) tonight. Argh! Have to explain that “personal” part in “personal computing”. :-) Technically, it sounds like a keyboard timeout to save the monitor?
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USA: Why Liberals Should Support Ron Paul
Monday, September 3, 2007http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_karsten__070901_why_liberals_should_.htm
September 2, 2007 at 05:04:21
Why Liberals Should Support Ron Paul
by Karsten Nicholson
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This is a response to: Peace, Injustice and Ron Paul by David Swanson.
“If Ron Paul had been president for the past 6 years, a million more Iraqis would be alive, and another 4 million would not be refugees. The world would be a safer place, and Americans would have lost fewer freedoms.” — David Swanson
This is very true. Many liberals have recognized and praised Ron Paul’s courageous stance on foreign policy and civil liberties. This is a man who is not afraid to go into a Republican debate, with 9 neo-cons, in South Carolina, on Fox News, and stand up to thugs like Rudy Giuliani. In the second Republican debate to which I am referring to, Ron Paul correctly pointed out that our foreign policy is a major contributing factor to the underlying cause of 9/11. “They don’t hate us because we’re rich or we’re free, they hate us because we’ve been over there, we’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years.” Ron Paul stood his ground, and said that with a non-interventionist foreign policy, we’d be less likely to incite hatred, and therefore more safe and more free.
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The writer goes into an awe inspiring litany of why Ron should be the next President.
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VISTA: FIrst impressions
Monday, September 3, 2007New machine for Frau. (Multiple motives)
* Out of the box, Vista found the home network. Second reboot, never found it after that.
* Killed the embedded wireless card. Used a Linksys WUSB54GC device. Needed new Vista drivers. But it’s working.
* Frau’s favorite game doesn’t do Vista. Argh!
Not for the faint of heart.
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