LIBERTY: The Sexualization of Little Girls

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

http://www.embracingmomminess.com/2007/01/the_sexualizati.html

http://tinyurl.com/yeux8v

January 02, 2007
The Sexualization of Little Girls

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Here’s another argument for homeschooling. This is by Lawrence Downes, from of all places, the New York Times. In his article, Mr. Downes refers to this frightening trend as the eroticism of adolescence, but it’s really the eroticism of little girls for the rest of society’s sick enjoyment:

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Yup, I can’t see any reason for keeping the current system of “education” where the government aka the gubamint aka the gofferment takes custody of children and reeducates them to love the state more than anything else. It’s a religion!

And, I has I often rant — it’s immoral, ineffective, and inefficient!


XPfails – luggable – Outlook Lookout fails – Reminder left hanging

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Outlook gives me a reminder. Good. I click dismiss. Outlook transforms into LookOut and leaves a zero reminder hanging out. Eventually the performance degrades to unacceptable. Reboot. Argh!


WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished first pass edit

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Was ugly.

Lessons Learned: Best done in small bites. Monthly?

Lesson Learned: Quotes should have the spell check attribute turned off.

Lesson Learned: Jargon should have spell check turned off.

Lesson Learned: probably shouldn’t have tried this.


Four Steps To Restoring the Culture – And Avoiding Catastrophe

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Welfare, Family, Money, and Education! He’s hit my top 3 and thrown in “family” for good measure. I agree and he writes it up much better than I ever could.

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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Finished December!!! Yeahhhh!!!

Monday, January 8, 2007

December went pretty quickly. Spell check and edit by Tuesday. Editorial annotations on Wednesday. Publish soon after that. I have the cover already. Kinda exciting!


RANT: NJ should cut out some idiots. But they’re in government!

Monday, January 8, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/08/
newjersey.idiot.reut/index.html

http://tinyurl.com/y972je

New Jersey may cut ‘idiot’ from constitution
POSTED: 3:59 p.m. EST, January 8, 2007

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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) — New Jersey is to consider cutting the word ‘idiot’ from its constitution so that people with some mental disabilities won’t be barred from voting. State Senate President Richard Codey introduced a bill Monday that would remove language from the New Jersey constitution that was designed more than 150 years ago to prevent people suffering from mental illness or handicap from casting their vote in national, state or local elections.

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With all the pressing issues of the day, it’s nice to see that the “idiots” in office have time to handle this pressing issue. As opposed to handling one of the non-pressing issues, like out-of-control property taxes, a dishonest politicians taking “part time” jobs to pad their pensions, and rampant corruption by both parties.

Arghh!


RANT: A spammer almost slips thru, but I know my blog’s true worth. Not much!

Monday, January 8, 2007

A spam comment, at least I think it is spam, almost got me:

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sureshg | sg_bangalore@hotmail.com | suershg.wordpress.com | IP: 216.66.12.180

I am always intrigued and thrilled by the passion of Bloggers. WordPress never ceases to amaze me as I constantly bump into new blogs which really takes me by surprise for sheer energy and passion in maintaining a Blog. Good work and nice blog, I really enjoyed visiitng your place.

Jan 8, 4:25 AM — [ Edit | Delete | View Post ] — Bulk action: Approve Spam Delete Defer until later

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So I contacted WordPress’s global command hq, (OK,I left some feedback to wordpress via their owner’s feedback mechanism.

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I’m not so vain as to think any one is impressed by my blog. Heck, I’m not even impressed with it. But, it’s MY ugly baby. Anyway, when I clicked on the blog link it says “new”. So from that I conclude it’s spam. I don’t understand the motivation for spamming blogs, but you may want to put out an APB lest someone of weaker moral character and a less objective sense of their own blog’s worth, might be tripped up. fwiw, fjohn

 

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The ip address says it’s from California.

I haven’t deleted it because I want to think SOMEONE appreciates my blog. ;-)


LIBERTY: Is the gubamint skool a disaster of epic proportions? Yes!

Sunday, January 7, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz57.html

http://tinyurl.com/yzthjw

The Gummint Skools
by Vin Suprynowicz

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Gatto urges us to consider the possibility that “School may be a brilliantly conceived social engine that works exactly as it was designed to work and produces exactly the human products it was designed to produce” – fragmented adults who can’t imagine how to survive without the state.

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There’s no question that “public education”, which is neither public, nor education, has some social objectives. Unfortunately those objectives were hidden from the public. Like most bait ‘n’ switch operations, we are now stuck with the results — the dumbing down of the American youth, out of control costs, and dividing the American public into conflicting groups — that are truly disastrous. The tsunami was ONLY a natural disaster that killed people and destroyed property. This unnatural disaster robs us in many dimensions. Killing would be kinder. And, it may very well, kill the American republic. It’s immoral to rob people of their children, their and their children’s dreams, and literally pillage the American taxpayer’s pocketbook.


LIBERTY: Was the AMT deliberate? Let’s watch the “repeal” kabuki!

Sunday, January 7, 2007

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/04/pf/taxes/
amt_legislation_introduced/index.htm?
postversion=2007010418

http://tinyurl.com/yf8pdm

Baucus, Grassley introduce bill to repeal AMT

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The AMT hits more and more taxpayers every year.

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There are many things that the government does that have unintended consequences. This was a bad form of theft to start with and the government policy of inflation makes me wonder if the consequence was unintended!


RANT: And, yesterday, I tried to get Chase to correct a mistake

Sunday, January 7, 2007

AND, I ran into a Branch Manager who was definitely incompetent. Figure I have this estate stuff down cold now having done it twice. She really just wanted to get rid of me.

I go in bright and chipper having just done some banking at Wachovia on another matter in zip time. I was going to be done and get back in time for coffee.

I go in and explain my tale. She first wants to give me cash from the estate account. I politely explained she can’t do that and I certainly can’t accept it. All I want her to do is complete my previous September transaction (i.e., convert regular individual account into an estate account). Chase supposedly did it and transferred it to an Estate Account at Wachovia. No problems. But evidently someone made a mistake cause one account wasn’t closed and money was left behind. I spent ninety minutes trying to complete this simple task. And, she basically told me that she didn’t know what was done, but she could not help me. Every time she spoke to “branch support”, she described it as if I wanted a “distribution”. So their response was to ask for a “tax waiver”! I didn’t want a “distribution”, I merely wanted it “rolled over” to an Estate Account. Arghhh! I explained it two her at least FOUR times and she just didn’t or wouldn’t get it.

If I had an account at chase, then it wouldn’t be there very long. Argh!!!

It put me on tilt the whole day!

Arghhhhhh!