ALSO IN:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north511.html
Reflecting on 35 Years of Marriage
by Gary North
*** begin quote ***
If you have learned any other lessons, send them to me (at gary north –at– gary north dot com).
*** end quote ***
Why that was one of my future publications! :-)
Leave a Comment » | 
INTERESTING | 
Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
http://groups.google.com/group/DiggFreedom/browse_thread/
thread/736a75a194bd120c?hl=en
“because all the major candidates are deeply flawed. “
***Begin Quote***
The one candidate who has always talked about the real issues. This is great news. It will take a lot of effort by his supporters to give him a chance–he is not a friend of big corporations. When he was elected to Congress well over 90% of his support came from individuals. Anyone who is serious about seeing Ron Paul as President needs to be proactive.
***End Quote***
I can NOT imagine what a Ron Paul administration would be like.
But, I’d like to see it!
Leave a Comment » | LIBERTY | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/
sports-0/1172209964102120.xml&coll=1
New game code delays bear hunt
Friday, February 23, 2007
BY FRED J. AUN
For the Star-Ledger
***Begin Quote***
In the proposed new state game code you’ll find this sentence: “There is a closed season for black bear until the commissioner approves a comprehensive policy for the protection and propagation of black bear.”
***End Quote***
And, if and when a bear hurts or kills a person or pet, what will happen to the commissioner?
Can you say “nothing”?
Leave a Comment » | GUNS | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/
022607cooltools.html?page=1
Dragon voice recognition system
Cool Tools By Keith Shaw, Network World, 02/22/07
***Begin Quote***
This version seemed to work only with Windows 2000 and XP; we couldn’t try this on a new Windows Vista system, and it looked like Version 9 wouldn’t be available for Vista.
***End Quote***
I LOST NO TIME TELLING THEM HOW MUCH I THINK THEIR SUPPORT SUCKS!
Just don’t expect any support for your problems from Nuance Software. If you go for it and it happens to work on your windoze box, you’ve won the lottery. I have tried both Dragon and Via Voice, both “supported” by Nuance, and have had mixed results. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn’t. Just because you get it running, don’t think you’re home free. And, if you have problems, even if you pay their “per incident” support fee, don’t expect to get anything resembling an answer. If you have deduced that I think the “suck”, you’re right.
Leave a Comment » | Technology | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
http://www.nichegeek.com/
10_unconventional_but_successful_online_homebusiness_ideas
Interesting idea, but fraught with ne’er do wells.
Leave a Comment » | INTERESTING | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
For some reason, after several months of use, now when I start GPS35, it doesn’t appear to “do” anything. It doesn’t splash. It takes memory. (I can see it in XP’s process list.) But, it just doesn’t do anything anymore. I’ve uniunstalled and reinstalled. Help?
Leave a Comment » | LUGGABLE | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
When discussing bloggers, why don’t people cite an OPML as opposed to a list?
Leave a Comment » | Technology | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/George%20Washington
George Washington
***Begin Quote***
Washington warns against foreign influence in domestic affairs and American meddling in European affairs. He warns against bitter partisanship in domestic politics and called for men to move beyond partisanship and serve the common good. He called for an America wholly free of foreign attachments, as the United States must concentrate only on American interests. He counseled friendship and commerce with all nations, but warned against involvement in European wars and entering into long-term alliances. The address quickly set American values regarding religion and foreign affairs, and his advice was often repeated in political discourse well into the twentieth century; not until the 1949 formation of NATO would the United States again sign a treaty of alliance with a foreign nation. Washington strictures against political parties were ignored at the time and ever since.
***End Quote***
Truly the greatest President.
Like the movie Lord of the Rings, he declined to take the “one ring that controls them all” and voluntarily relinquished power in the American Experiment when all wanted him to take it.
I think we have done him a vast disservice when we merged the tyrant Lincoln into shallow President’s Day.
I’d suggest that we restore February 22nd as Washington’s Birthday, delist Lincoln, and make it not a federal holiday, but a day when his writings are READ to every federal “employee”.
Arghhh!
Leave a Comment » | LIBERTY | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
1015 reported this morning that the NJ MVC was going to not fail cars for minor windshield cracks (gotten while on their crappy roads?), watery headlights, and other such items.
Argh!
Why is the State gooferment inspecting cars?
Well they have DO something to justify the money they waste. Can NOT tell you home many cars I see that are rolling with smoke coming out or been followed by out of alignment headlights. And the trucks.
Clearly, they have been failing cars for these “trivial reasons” up to now. What changed?
And, they will warn you that you can be stopped and ticketed for these violations. Could it be revenue raising?
Or, what?
Clearly, the condition of your vehicle is between you and your insurance company.
The state has no role in it. And, even if they did, they are the Gooferment.
Leave a Comment » | Ranting | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
1015 news this morning reported that the Guv was pitching a 7½% increase in the state budget with “no tax increase”.
Now I may be an “injineer”, but I know a tax increase when I hear one. Where to people think that money is going to come from?
There was also the whine about state workers having to pay 1½% towards their benefits.
And, the news mentions the 2B$ budget short fall next year.
Here’s a clue! Stop spending NOW.
It’s simple, Stop.
I bet when the Guv was on wall street, he had zero based budgeting exercises. A famous wall street strategy is “just say no”. Not no to drugs. No to any spending at all. Those drills were famous and epidemic. If Merrill did it today, you were assured that Goldman would do it tomorrow.
So, here’s a little list of some “modest steps” for the guv to take:
(1) No increase in spending by anyone. No cuts in taxpayer services allowed. you want to be a honcho with the state figure it out.
(2) No pensions for anyone. 401ks for all. Recognition bonds for obligation we have incurred. But zero going forward.
(3) Half pay for all state executives and legislators when the budget and the budget forecast isn’t in balance. (Betcha that gets fixed faster than a Jersey pothole!)
(4) End the dole. No one collects from the state. Wean everyone off the “welfare”. That includes corporate and charitable and “insurance”.
(5) End the propagandizing of the youth. No more gooferment skools. Privatize now. Put a transition plan in place for the state to get out of the education and education financing business.
How’s that for a start, guv?
Leave a Comment » | LIBERTY | Permalink
Posted by reinkefj
-
-
FJohn Reinke
Consultant at Technology Legacies LLC
Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
JJ Positraction JJ Endnotes Downsize DC
Philosophy of Liberty
I have NOT received any gagged governmental information requests
You must be logged in to post a comment.