http://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-spendthrift-capital-eyes-the-wealthy-suburbs-1481930850
Bankruptcy is good. “Haircuts” for everyone!
Connecticut’s Spendthrift Capital Eyes the Wealthy Suburbs
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Connecticut’s Spendthrift Capital Eyes the Wealthy Suburbs
Sunday, December 18, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-spendthrift-capital-eyes-the-wealthy-suburbs-1481930850
Bankruptcy is good. “Haircuts” for everyone!
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LIBERTARIAN: “Who will build the roads?” — an OBVIOUS answer!
Sunday, December 18, 2016Ep. 802 Way Beyond the Roads: Libertarian Solutions for Other Parts of the Built Environment
13th December 2016 Tom Woods
The hosts of the Anarchitecture podcast join me to discuss the differences between libertarian and conventional statist solutions to everything from roads to city planning and garbage collection.
Guests’ Podcast: Anarchitecture Podcast
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I took away from it an EXCELLENT
“Who will build the roads?”
“Who should build the roads?”
“Next time that person is sitting in traffic, instead of him thinking ‘why don’t they build more public transport, maybe they will think ‘why hasn’t supply met demand on this strip of expensive capital infrastructure that I can use for free?’— DUH as Tom observed “the question answers itself”!
Argh!
Great answer.
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SECURITY: Don’t reuse the same password at ANY site
Saturday, December 17, 2016http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/yahoo-hack.html
TECHNOLOGY
Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked
By VINDU GOEL and NICOLE PERLROTHD
EC. 14, 2016
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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo, already reeling from its September disclosure that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, disclosed Wednesday that a different attack in 2013 compromised more than 1 billion accounts.
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There are too many good password utilities that make this unnecessary.
I have over three hundred sites where I have accounts and no site has the same password.
AND, my passwords are as long as the site allows and with whatever mix of character types they allow.
My financial sites (i.e., the banks and brokerage) have their passwords written down off line.
(Yeah, that a small PIA but I sleep better.)
Ask me if you need information security advice.
Otherwise, you’re just a target waiting for the random hacker or script kiddie.
Argh!
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FUN: Road rage
Friday, December 16, 2016AN OLD ONE, BUT STILL FUNNY imho.
Busted!
A woman pulled up to a red light behind another car. The driver of the car in front of her was talking on his cell phone, and shuffling through some papers on the seat beside him.
The light turned green, but the man didn’t notice. The woman began pounding on her steering wheel and yelling at the man to move. The man still didn’t move.
The woman went ballistic inside her car, ranting and raving at the man, pounding on her steering wheel and dashboard.
The light turned yellow. The woman blew the car’s horn repeatedly, as she yelled and screamed curses at the man.
The man finally noticed the commotion. He looked up, saw the yellow light, and accelerated through the intersection just as the light turned red.
The woman was beside herself, screaming in frustration as she missed her chance to get through the intersection. As she was still in mid-rant she heard a tap on her window and looked into the face of a very serious looking policeman.
The policeman told her to shut off her engine and step out of the car. The red-faced woman obeyed, speechless at what was happening.
The policeman then arrested the woman and took her to the police station where she was booked and placed in a cell.
After a couple of hours the woman was escorted back to the booking desk where the original officer was waiting with her personal effects.
The policeman handed her the bag containing her things, and said, “I’m really sorry for this mistake. But you see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn and screaming and cursing. Then I noticed the *Choose Life* license plate holder, the *Follow Me to Sunday School* bumper sticker, and the chrome plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk. Naturally I assumed that you had stolen the car. Have a blessed day!”
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Aleppo Evacuations Suspended
Friday, December 16, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/aleppo-evacuations-suspended-syrian-state-tv-reports-1481882660
Surely, the world can save these people. It’s not a natural disaster like an earthquake or flood.
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NOTRECOMMENDED: QuikCheck sub
Friday, December 16, 2016Last night, for dinner, because I’d stopped at Quik Chek #quickchek http://quickchek.com/StoreHome/89 for some Half & Half, I bought a ham sandwich with lettuce and russian dressing. It was almost inedible. In comparison to the sandwich I usually get at Wawa (#wawa Wawa #912), there was no comparison. Wawa allows you to get just the bread toasted. Quick Chek toasts something but I couldn’t figure out what; it was cold. The meat on the Quik Chek sandwich was just plopped on it as a mass; Wawa places individual slices. In fairness, Quik Chek does offer russian dressing; I don’t think Wawa does. I know Quik Chek charged me more than Wawa does, but I don’t have the receipts from each. Sigh! So FWIW, I won’t be buying subs from Quik Chek again. YMMV!
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How Parents Can Help Children Repay Student Loans
Thursday, December 15, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-parents-can-help-their-children-pay-off-student-loans-1481512442
Don’t let them go to college in the first place. I’ve never seen a “poor” plumber.
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Daniel Henninger: Steal This Election
Thursday, December 15, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/steal-this-election-1481759796
Not that the R’s are the paragons of virtue but the Left Liberal Socialists are stupid about and dangerous to the American experiment with self-government. It’s not a democracy (I.e., mob rule). Argh!
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Aleppo Evacuation of Rebels, Civilians Sputters
Thursday, December 15, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/evacuation-of-rebels-civilians-from-aleppo-nears-1481798979
More bad news for these poor people.
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China Halts Trading in Key Bond Futures
Thursday, December 15, 2016Any gooferment intervention in any market just makes the participants panic more. Have to let the losers take their lumps.
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VETERANS: NYPD officer Susan Porcello’s big heart
Thursday, December 15, 2016http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/days-marine-true-finest-hours-article-1.356353
Last days for Marine were true Finest hours
- NYPD officer Susan Porcello’s big heart gave elderly Marine Gaspar Musso friends and care in his final days.
Denis Hamill Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 6:49 PM
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Sometimes when old Marines die they do fade away into unmarked graves in Potter’s Field.
Such might have been the case for Gaspar Musso, USMC 925050, who fought in the Battle of Tinian in the Marianas Islands in 1944 and who died Nov. 15 at age 84 in a Brooklyn nursing home.
Enter Police Officer Susan Porcello, a PBA delegate at the 68th Precinct in Bay Ridge and one of those big-hearted New Yorkers who still make this the best city on Earth.
“No way was I going to let this brave old Marine who fought for his country in WWII get buried in Potter’s Field,” she says.
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When you read this story, see if the same things come to mind?
- For all the “bad cop” stories, this one will convince you that they are not ALL bad.
- How many of “our” vets are just “lost” here at home?
- What can “we” do to ensure that they are all treated this humanely?
- There was no link to defer the funeral expenses. Maybe no help was needed.
- Could that hospital administrator be any more callous?
- Kudos to the officers of the 68 Precinct for their support.
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Aleppo Fighting Resumes Hours After Cease-Fire Deal
Wednesday, December 14, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/evacuation-of-aleppo-delayed-1481707378
Sounds like war crimes on both sides?
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U.S. Regulators Sanction Wells Fargo, Declaring ‘Living Will’ Deficiencies
Tuesday, December 13, 2016Absurd. Need to limit the size of all “too big to fail” entities. Maybe higher taxes on bigger balance sheets?
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Facing Reprisals, Aleppo Civilians Plea for International Help
Tuesday, December 13, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/aleppo-civilians-have-nowhere-safe-to-run-red-cross-says-1481628920
Here’s a humanitarian disaster. Pray for peace and calm.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Another group like the White Rose; where would today’s youths be?
Tuesday, December 13, 2016http://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/dispatches/1216.html#article4
The German Teens Who Rebelled Against Hitler
These adolescents, aged between 12 and 17, hang around late in the evening with musical instruments and young females. Since this riff raff is in large part outside the Hitler Youth and adopts a hostile attitude towards the organization, they represent a danger to other young people. – Nazi Party Report, Dusseldorf, Germany, July 1943
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The Pirates and the groups affiliated with them were labeled criminals by the courts of the era. In 2005, German officials officially relabeled them as resistance fighters and honored the surviving five members still in Cologne. The Edelweiss Pirates had fulfilled Hitler’s desire for German youths to be fearless and unwavering in the face of adversity. He just hadn’t anticipated it would be pointed in his direction.
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I suspect retreating to their “safe spaces”.
We have lost so much of our “national character” by soft living. I think of what my paternal grandmother did and I doubt that I could do it. I’m sure that 99% of today’s youth surely couldn’t. She was married at 12 on the docks in Germany, traveled the Oregon trail to a better life, fighting off indians and outlaws along the way, bore 13 children—many of who didn’t survive, and had her young husband die in his late twenties leaving her penniless when she was pregnant with my father. That was a courageous woman.
I’m hard pressed to see that spirit anywhere around today.
The Hollywood, Sports, and Rap “stars” play at being a bad ass. They are just cheap imitations of the real American spirit.
Sadly.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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Living Off the Fat of Washington
Monday, December 12, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/living-off-the-fat-of-washington-1481491337
Here’s The Donald’s first big test!!!
Inside India’s Unprecedented Assault on Cash
Monday, December 12, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-indias-unprecedented-assault-on-cash-1481538604
Stupid politicians. Wonder if transactions will be in gold now?
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CLOUD: Google’s New Trusted Contacts Shares Your Location with Loved Ones In Real Time
Sunday, December 11, 2016Google’s New Trusted Contacts Shares Your Location with Loved Ones In Real Time
http://lifehacker.com/googles-new-trusted-contacts-shares-your-location-with-1789666993
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Ever since “a certain young lady” has me watching the crime shows (i.e., L&O of all genres and Investigation Discovery), I’ve realized how important it is for me to have “trusted contacts” in case she “sacks” me. (Never knew how many women killers there were IRL!)
Laugh!
You might want to avail yourself of it.
Android only! (Boo, on Google!)
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FUN: Actress Susan Dey is 64!!!!!!!!
Saturday, December 10, 20162016-Dec-10
Today’s Birthdays: Former Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter (YEYE’-tur) is 86. Actor Tommy Kirk is 75. Actress Fionnula Flanagan is 75. Pop singer Chad Stuart (Chad and Jeremy) is 75. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ralph Tavares is 75. Actress-singer Gloria Loring is 70. Pop-funk musician Walter “Clyde” Orange (The Commodores) is 70. Country singer Johnny Rodriguez is 65. Actress Susan Dey is 64. Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is 60. Jazz musician Paul Hardcastle is 59. Actor-director Kenneth Branagh (BRAH’-nah) is 56. Actress Nia Peeples is 55. TV chef Bobby Flay is 52. Rock singer-musician J Mascis is 51. Rock musician Scot (cq) Alexander (Dishwalla) is 45. Actress-comedian Arden Myrin is 43. Rock musician Meg White (The White Stripes) is 42. Actress Emmanuelle Chriqui is 41. Rapper Kuniva (D12) is 41. Actor Gavin Houston is 39. Violinist Sarah Chang is 36. Rock musician Noah Harmon (Airborne Toxic Event) is 35. Actor Patrick John Flueger is 33. Actress Raven-Symone is 31.
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Today’s Birthdays: Former Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter (YEYE’-tur) is 86. Actor Tommy Kirk is 75. Actress Fionnula Flanagan is 75. Pop singer Chad Stuart (Chad and Jeremy) is 75. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ralph Tavares is 75. Actress-singer Gloria Loring is 70. Pop-funk musician Walter “Clyde” Orange (The Commodores) is 70. Country singer Johnny Rodriguez is 65. Actress Susan Dey is 64. Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is 60. Jazz musician Paul Hardcastle is 59. Actor-director Kenneth Branagh (BRAH’-nah) is 56. Actress Nia Peeples is 55. TV chef Bobby Flay is 52. Rock singer-musician J Mascis is 51. Rock musician Scot (cq) Alexander (Dishwalla) is 45. Actress-comedian Arden Myrin is 43. Rock musician Meg White (The White Stripes) is 42. Actress Emmanuelle Chriqui is 41. Rapper Kuniva (D12) is 41. Actor Gavin Houston is 39. Violinist Sarah Chang is 36. Rock musician Noah Harmon (Airborne Toxic Event) is 35. Actor Patrick John Flueger is 33. Actress Raven-Symone is 31.
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The Spoils of the Republican State Conquest
Saturday, December 10, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-spoils-of-the-republican-state-conquest-1481326770
Interesting last paragraph about the minority’s need to restrain the majority. Funny when the shoe is on the other foot.
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The Senate’s Shutdown Follies
Saturday, December 10, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-senates-shutdown-follies-1481327165
Harry Reid is evil for what he did to Romney. He should have been excoriated for that alone! Shame on him.
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INTERESTING: Why “we” might have become “risk adverse”?
Saturday, December 10, 2016*** begin quote ***
The Innovation Paradox
By all appearances, we’re in a golden age of innovation. Every month sees new advances in artificial intelligence, gene therapy, robotics and software apps. Research and development as a share of gross domestic product is near an all-time high. But none of this has translated into meaningful advances in Americans’ standard of living. Our “Innovation Paradox” series explores the forces at play, from increased regulatory hurdles to greater risk-aversion. We examine why Silicon Valley giants often stumble in the world beyond software and how Big Pharma has had to re-engineer how it finds treatments. We also report that businesses and governments alike are turning the search for innovative ideas into prize-worthy puzzles. Beijing, meanwhile, is spending billions on moonshot projects. View the complete series and our interviews with pioneers in science, medicine and technology here.
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IF “we” have become “risk adverse”, THEN I believe it’s due to Gooferment Skrules, the Gooferment, “Secular Progressives”, and the “Everyone gets a trophy” meme.
Why swing for the stars if your accused of hateful behavior? I read and hear stories of smart Americans, who happen to be black, and who achieve, are accused of “betraying their race”, “acting white”, or being an “oreo”. Nerds, other than on “The Big Bang Theory” #TBBT, are ridiculed.
On a personal note, as a Catholic school boy, the Good Nuns and Brothers always DEMANDED nothing less than our best. Sometimes with regrettable physical consequences. (I felt that was a way too much. Guess because I was “encouraged” to often for my tastes.
In my book, “CHURCH 10●19●62”, I wrote: “Catholic school taught them that it was their obligation, and could even be a mortal sin, if you didn’t use all your talents to the greater glory of God.” — “Chapter Fifty — Samaritans going to Jericho / Monday November 5, 1962 – Church Day + 17 (continues)” CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 296
Laugh!
So, that might why “we” might be a little tired and unimmaginative?
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RANT: Fixing air travel
Friday, December 9, 2016From WSJ 10 points 2016-Dec-08:
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Into Thin Air Stop focusing on legroom. It’s the headroom that is shrinking on flights, and making us feel really uncomfortable. Seat density has increased significantly the last couple of years. One passenger’s nose may be 3 inches closer to the back of the head in front of her. The skinny seats installed recently largely preserve knee and legroom, but in rows that are compressed, while installing skinny bathrooms and minimizing galleys have let airlines pack more rows in, too. Psychologists say the eye-level squeeze is a big reason travelers are feeling more anxious on densely packed planes. And it’s only going to get tighter in there.
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My answer to this and the TSA is to stop flying. (I did it three times in the last decade because “I had too”. Argh! And I didn’t like it.)
I more folks do it: (a) the airlines will change; and (b) the airlines being the Crony Capitalists they are, will change the Gooferment policies.
Come on folks vote with your wallet.
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SOFTWARE: How useless is the IOS Wallet App?
Thursday, December 8, 2016Apple Wallet (referred to as simply Wallet) is an application in Apple’s iOS (previously known as Passbook in iOS 6 to iOS 8) that allows users to store coupons, boarding passes, event tickets, store cards and, starting with iOS 8.1, credit cards, loyalty cards, and debit cards via Apple Pay.
Wallet (application) – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallet_(application)
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As far as I can determine, it only supports SOME cards.
It does Walgreens, but not CVS.
Argh!
Am I missing something?
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AND TDBANK locks up your phone until you verify the use.
Argh!
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Lafayette CSC was easiest.
USAA was easier.
But I couldn’t store my keene library card.
Argh!
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Trump Chooses Defense Chief With Professional Success, Divergent Views
Wednesday, December 7, 2016Great pick. Glad they disagree. When they butt heads, we will benefit. And the weenies college professors will have to make a good argument before we send the girls and boys in harm’s way on a silly adventure!
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