INTERESTING: A prodigy or just a capability that every child has?

Friday, October 21, 2016

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3854550/She-s-not-lost-words-Girl-4-speaks-SEVEN-languages-including-Chinese-Arabic-stunned-judges-reality-TV-show.html

She’s not lost for words! Girl, 4, speaks SEVEN languages including Chinese and Arabic in front of stunned judges on reality TV show

  • Bella Devyatkina, 4, from Russia, spoke seven languages to TV audience
  • She’s wowing the world in adorable video of her speaking and singing 
  • The talented youngster started learning different languages at the age of 2 
  • But like many little girls she dreams of growing into a beautiful mermaid

By JESSICA DUNCAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 03:46 EST, 20 October 2016 | UPDATED: 04:07 EST, 20 October 2016    

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I’ve often thought, believed without any real knowledge, that children are “earning machines”.

It’s got to be a survival mechanism. Like how they develop to look like their dad. They quickly learn to walk, talk, and do all sorts of things. So why can’t they all learn multiple languages. 

For me, it ties to how well homeschoolers do in the various national “bees” — spelling, geography, and there must be others!

Wish I could “prove” it because they for once and for all we could seek alternatives to the Gooferment Skrules!

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POLITICAL: Trump made a great point in last night’s “debate” … ..

Thursday, October 20, 2016

… … about HRC should have been arrested and indicted for the email.

Anyone else would be in jail without bail as a national security risk. Maybe they’d even be in Gitmo.

Argh!

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LIBERTARIAN: DWI should be penalized if it has a victim

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/10/16/texas-hands-heavy-sentences-multiple-dwi-convictions/

Texas Hands Down Heavy Sentences in Multiple DWI Convictions
by BOB PRICE
16 Oct 2016120

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Following the conviction of a Texas man on his eighth DWI, a Hays County prosecutor asked the jury to send the 64-year-old man to prison for 99 years so “we can all sleep at night.” Six hours later the jury did just that.

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As opposed to the Gooferment’s revenue generation scam DWI, a real DWI has a real victim. It could be as little as property damage. Then, society needs protection.

In the case above, eight strikes and that’s the one that puts him away. 

Absurd.

Read the article and a nine time loser kills people yet still has a valid license?

Gooferment ineptitude!!!

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POLITICAL: Will the sheeple do back to sleep after the election?

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/10/jack-kerwick/reckoning-time-regime/

The Regime’s Reckoning
By Jack Kerwick
October 17, 2016

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If the left and the neocon alt-left in Washington and the media think that a defeat at the polls for Trump is going to spell defeat for the movement that his candidacy brought to the fore, then they are even more delusional than we think.  Most Americans, regardless of party, distrust the media.  The tens of millions of Americans who found a voice in Trump despise it.  Whether Trump wins or loses on November 8, but especially if he loses, Trump’s impassioned base will hold the Regime’s court-appointed hacks accountable.  If he loses and Hillary Clinton proves to be the disastrous president that we know she will be, the contempt on the part of Trump supporters toward the faux journalists and commentators will only intensify.*** end quote

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Once awakened, the sheeple will NOT go quietly back to the sheep pen to be clipped or turned into lamb chops!

Hopefully?

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ECONOMICS: Anyone still naïve about politicians and who they serve

Monday, October 17, 2016

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/15/exclusive-american-worker-forced-train-foreign-replacement-reveals-how-hillary-clinton-betrayed-him/

EXCLUSIVE — American Worker Forced to Train Foreign Replacement Reveals How Hillary Clinton Betrayed Him
by JULIA HAHN
15 Oct 2016
Washington D.C.

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As Emmons watched Clinton’s office rebuff his “desperate” pleas for help–choosing, instead, to stand with a foreign corporation at the direct expense of the American workers she was elected to represent–that was the moment, “my naïveté was over,” Emmons said. “That was when I realized exactly what this was: I realized it’s the government against the people.”

“As naïve as I was then, I now know that politicians like Hillary are not out to do what’s right for the people of America; they’re out to do what’s right for the people who donate money to them,” Emmons said.

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The story of citizens like Mike Emmons and his colleagues has become an all-too-familiar one: American tech workers are gathered together for a meeting with their executives—in this case, by Siemens in Lake Mary, Florida, in 2002. The unsuspecting workers are then informed that, despite their stellar performance record and years of service to the company, they’re all being fired and replaced by predominantly foreign-born Indian workers. However, before they are to be officially let go, they’ll be forced to train their foreign replacements. If they refuse, the American workers will not receive their severance. Companies like Siemens, Disney, Southern California Edison, Xerox, Northeast Utilities, and countless others are able to do this through forming contracts with India-based outsourcing firms like Tata that import thousands of foreign workers into the country on L-1 and H-1B visas and use them to supplant American workers who had been working there previously.

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All of us in the Information Technology field have seen this type of competition.

The H-1B visa program is supposed to be for “critical skills” not available in the American marketplace.

What a joke.

The politicians have been paid off by corrupt Crony Capitalists.

And, it’s Joe and Jane Sixpack that get screwed.

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POLITICAL: Wikileaks should have destroyed any change that HRC becomes President

Sunday, October 16, 2016

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/14/wsj-nation-now-proof-hillary-scandals-leftist-media-devote-front-pages-trump-story/

WSJ: ‘Nation Now Has Proof’ of Hillary Scandals,
But Leftist Media ‘Devote Its Front Pages to the Trump Story’
14 Oct 2016

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Wall Street Journal’s Potomac Watch columnist Kimberley Strassel details the “devastating case against a Clinton presidency” that can be made by reviewing the WikiLeaks documents combined with what is already known in the public record. Strassel notes that although “the nation now has proof of pretty much everything [Hillary Clinton] has been accused of,” the media “has almost uniformly ignored the flurry of bombshells, preferring to devote its front pages” to the story that Donald Trump “made lewd remarks a decade ago and now stands accused of groping women.”

From Strassel in the Wall Street Journal

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I’m sorry but in “the prettiest horse in the glue factory coral” contest, I don’t understand how HRC is even in the race.

Read the Wikileaks documents and if you can’t find something to be enraged about then read some more.

Over and above the Iran physicist and the four brave souls lost in Benghazi, everything else is a national disgrace.

If that woman wins, then the American Republic is surely lost forever.

It’ll be the end of the “experiment”.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: HRC and her crew is anti-Catholic

Saturday, October 15, 2016
  • Hillary Clinton’s top campaign staff mocked and ridiculed Catholics for raising their kids in the Faith…
  • Hillary Clinton said “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed…”

  • Hillary’s campaign chairman John Pedestal admitted that he created Catholic front groups to sow division and conflict in the Church… 
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ECONOMICS: CFC — Gooferment ekkynomics that keeps on giving

Saturday, October 15, 2016

http://ericpetersautos.com/2016/10/08/buy-steel-not-gold/

Buy Steel (Not Gold)
By eric – October 8, 2016

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First, it decreased supply via the infamous “Cash For Clunkers” program (a “clunker” being defined not by mechanical condition, incidentally, but by the car’s gas mileage numbers). The government paid people inflated sums of other people’s money (an estimated $3 billion) to turn in perfectly roadworthy used cars in for unwarranted, early destruction … in order to “stimulate” demand for new cars.

This was like burning down every third house in a neighborhood to create a “need” for new housing.

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I like that “burn down every third house” as a short hand description.

Sorry, but how can these “RXes” possibly help the economy.

The USA would be so much better off if the Gooferment would take a long vacation!

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RANT: ‘Hottest Year Evah’?

Friday, October 14, 2016

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10/13/debunked-another-buzzfeed-hottest-year-evah-story/

Debunked: Another Buzzfeed ‘Hottest Year Evah’ Story

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Here’s his latest effort, titled “Here’s What’s Going On Behind Those “Hottest Day/Month/Year Headlines”

Does young Tom go on to write about the data-fudging, noble-cause corruption, groupthink, institutional malfeasance, pal review and scaremongering which have brought about all those “Hottest Day/Month/Year Headlines”?

Of course he doesn’t. Instead, he rings up three of the climate scientists currently growing fat on the climate science gravy train by promoting the accepted climate science narrative and listens uncritically while they explain to him how yes, global warming really is as bad as the scientists are saying, in fact it’s probably worse, much much worse…

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Last I looked, there were no records kept until late in the Twentieth Century!

Anyone remember why Greenland was called “green land”? Must have been warm then.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: HAs NBC accidentally made the HRC Parkinson issue argument

Thursday, October 13, 2016

2016-Oct-13

http://www.tv.com/shows/law-order-special-victims-unit/waste-198397/

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 4 Episode 8 Waste
Aired Wednesday 9:00 PM Nov 15, 2002 on NBC

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The investigation into the rape of a comatose woman leads to a doctor whose stem cell research is funded by a billionaire with Parkinson’s disease who is desperate for a cure.

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If HRC has Parkinson’s disease, then the USA needs to know!

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POLITICAL: Wikileaks is doing the USA a great service; where are the journalists?

Thursday, October 13, 2016

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3833741/She-s-bad-bad-person-Trump-digs-Hillary-recites-Wikileaks-bombshells-pledges-investigate-investigation-ended-classified-email-case.html

‘She’s a bad, bad person!’ Trump digs at Hillary as he recites Wikileaks bombshells and pledges to ‘investigate the investigation’ that ended her classified email case

  • Donald Trump rattled off a litany of Wikileaks revelations before a Florida crowd on Tuesday nights
  • He hit his Democratic opponent on her embarrassing ‘open trade and open borders’ speech and railed against her campaign’s criticism of Catholics
  • Teleprompter-aided speech said Clinton wants ‘to end forever the American independence that our founders gave to us’
  • Trump spent more than 20 minutes detailed embarrassing bombshells hacked from Clinton’s campaign chairman’s email account
  • He called them ‘the latest evidence of the hatred that the Clinton campaign has, really, for everyday Americans’

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLORIDA
PUBLISHED: 22:56 EST, 11 October 2016 | UPDATED: 23:38 EST, 11 October 2016

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Donald Trump took full advantage Tuesday night of the day’s document cascade released by Wikileaks, telling a Florida crowd that Hillary Clinton’s campaign is full of ‘so much corruption’ that his administration would be obligated to launch a new criminal probe of her actions during and after her tenure at the State Department.

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By the time a crowd estimated at 8,000 filed back to their cars, he had accused her of secretly plotting to eliminate America’s national borders in favor of a single global government with control over trade and immigration.

‘Speaking in secret to a foreign bank, again just revealed, Hillary said “My dream is a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders”,’ Trump said, quoting a digest of previously undisclosed transcripts of speeches she delivered on Wall Street for an average of $225,000 each.

‘Well, there goes the rest of your businesses. And there goes your country, folks,’ he fumed as a helicopter buzzed overhead flashing a ‘Make America Great Again’ message on its underbelly.’Behind closed doors when she thought no one was listening, she pledged to dissolve the borders of the United States of America. No borders!’

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Shocking that we are so in the dark about what a candidate for President truly plans.

If this doesn’t swing the election, then there is no hope for the Republic.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Jimmy Stewart’s agony

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3825552/Jimmy-Stewart-suffered-extreme-PTSD-lost-130-men-fighter-pilot-WW-II-acted-anguish-filming-s-Wonderful-Life.html

EXCLUSIVE: How Jimmy Stewart’s agony in It’s a Wonderful Life came from extreme PTSD he suffered after he lost 130 of his men as fighter pilot in WWII

  • Actor Jimmy Stewart was haunted by his memories from his time in the Air Force and suffered from PTSD when he returned from World War II
  • Stewart wrestled with the guilt of killing civilians in bomb raids over France and Germany and felt responsible for the death of his comrades
  • Stewart never talked about his struggles and bottled up his emotions
  • But they came out when acting parts he chose when he returned to Hollywood
  • He tapped into his emotional distress during filming of  It’s a Wonderful Life, where his character George Bailey unravels in front of his family
  • Stewart’s anguish is laid bare for the first time in Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the fight for Europe by author Robert Matzen

By DAN BATES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:18 EST, 6 October 2016 | UPDATED: 02:46 EST, 7 October 2016

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It’s hard to imagine a better kept secret. Maybe a better kept secret was that all the romantic leads in 50’s Hollywood were gay or sex creeps.

Argh!

Bombing civilians is crushing burden. We see something similar from today’s drone pilots. 

Argh!

What can we do? Stop killing civilians? Stop get involved in other people’s business? MYOB as a foreign policy. 

Maybe some day we will learn. 

Dona Nobis Pacem

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INTERESTING: What’s up with the NYC Saint Pat’s parade?

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

https://www.change.org/p/quinnipiac-university-quinnipiac-university-nbc-give-back-the-nyc-st-patrick-s-parade?recruiter=410407444&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY & NBC GIVE BACK THE NYC ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE
Concerned Members of the Affiliated Organizations of the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade

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We, the Affiliated Organizations of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the Irish American community, demand that Quinnipiac University, Dr. John Lahey, NBC and Frank Comerford cease and desist from their: 1) hostile takeover of the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade Corporation; 2) ongoing violations of the Parade Corporation’s bylaws; 3) attempts to brand and turn it into a commodity; and (4) to return the Parade back to the Irish-American community. 

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First time I’ve heard of other than “gay” trouble for the parade.

Anyone aware what’s going on?

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POLITICAL: Is everything that HRC does staged?

Monday, October 10, 2016

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/busted-hillary-caught-using-child-actor-at-pennsylvania-town-hall_102016

BUSTED! HILLARY CAUGHT USING CHILD ACTOR AT PENNSYLVANIA TOWN HALL
OCTOBER 6, 2016 | TYLER DURDEN | ZERO HEDGE | 3,210 VIEWS

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At a Hillary Clinton town hall yesterday in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a 15 year old girl was supposedly “chosen at random” to ask a question of the former Secretary of State. But, the well-scripted performance raised some suspicion with a YouTuber named Spanglevision who decided to dig a little deeper. And, wouldn’t you know it, the “random” participant was none other than child actor, Brennan Leach, whose father just happens to be Pennsylvania democratic State Senator Daylin Leach.  Oh, and in case it wasn’t obvious, Daylin supports Hillary for president…shocking.

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Why do we have to depend upon a random interested YouTuber to uncover the truth?

Didn’t any of the “mainstream (lame stream) media” follow up or were they in on the joke.

Only us rubes take things at face value.

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MONEY: And “We, The Sheeple” are the victims

Sunday, October 9, 2016

http://deviantinvestor.com/8262/inflation-is-theft/

Inflation – The Simple Explanation is Theft
Posted on October 7, 2016 by Gary Christenson

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Inflation is a form of theft. Keynes understood it nearly a century ago when he said, “By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”

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I’m so TIRED of the sheeple not recognizing it.

So, what to do?

Stop using Federal Reserve Notes.

Barter, trade, save your nickels, save in gold or silver.

And, don’t let ANY politician tell you that things are just great.

They are using the Federal Reserve System to silently rob EVERYONE who holds a Federal Reserve Note. 

The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.

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POLITICAL: We need immigrants; not welfare takers

Saturday, October 8, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/10/nick-giambruno/migrant-catastrophe/

Doug Casey on the Migrant Crisis
By Nick Giambruno
Doug Casey’s International Man
October 6, 2016

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Doug Casey: I’m all for immigration and completely open borders to enable opportunity seekers from anyplace to move anyplace else. With two big, critically important, caveats: 1) there can be no welfare or free government services, so everyone has to pay his own way, and no freeloaders are attracted 2) all property is privately owned, to minimize the possibility of squatter camps full of beggars.

In the absence of welfare benefits, immigrants are usually the best of people because you get mobile, aggressive, and opportunity-seeking people that want to leave a dead old culture for a vibrant new one. The millions of immigrants who came to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries had zero in the way of state support.

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I think this is essence of a little L libertarian’s look at “immigrants”.

The USA needs that “fresh blood” of all those coming here for the correct reasons.

And, we can use energizing all the “welfare farmers” by eliminating Gooferment welfare for citizens and immigrants!

Argh! 

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POLITICAL: Have to assume that HRC has Parkinson’s disease

Friday, October 7, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/10/no_author/hillary-parkinsons/

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More circumstantial evidence that HRC has Parkinson’s disease. How can this be ignored?

This is very troubling. (If true? But should be very straight forward to determine with an independent health exam. In the interest of fairness, both candidates should submit to one.)

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LIBERTARIAN: The Libertarian mistake

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/10/02/defense-gary-johnson/

In Defense of Gary Johnson… But Bill Weld is a different matter.
by Justin Raimondo, October 03, 2016 

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Gary Johnson, in spite of himself – and in spite of the sinister Weld – may wind up stopping Hillary Clinton from taking the White House. And that, my dear readers, is a lesson in the truism that one’s actions are likely to have all sorts of unintended consequences. If Weld thought he could throw the election to Hillary by joining the Libertarian ticket – over the objections of a great many horrified libertarians – he may be proved laughably wrong.

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Such a shame, because this could have been the election that put the Libertarian Party on the map. Instead it’s the laughing stock.

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RANT: Sam Colt makes the old equal to the young

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/09/no_author/home-invader-smashes-70-year-olds-head/

Resident with Cane Shoots Home Invader Dead
By Bob Irwin AmmoLand.com
September 30, 2016

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Deputies found that a 48-year-old intruder had broken into a home and attacked a 70-year-old male resident with a bamboo stick and a hockey stick. The victim suffered a severe head injury but was able to shoot the intruder in the chest with his .38 caliber handgun.

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Every household should be “suitably equipped”!

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SOFTWARE: New release of Portable Software/USB for Windoze

Monday, October 3, 2016

https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/editorial/?source=psp

Portable software for USB, portable, and cloud drives

Brought to you by: chriswombat, critternyc, markomlm

Editor’s ReviewRead User Reviews

PortableApps is an open source, application launcher that you install directly to your USB or cloud drive and use on any PC. You can download hundreds of portable applications from the PortableApps integrated directory, like Firefox, Skype, and more. This means you take your browser with your bookmarks and extensions, your office suite, your photo editor, your music collection, your games, your development tools, and more with you everywhere you go. And because everything stays on your drive, every PC becomes your PC. Additional features include integrated backup, interface themes, a search option, support for personal files, favorites and more. 

PortableApps.com at a Glance

It took a few minutes to install the PortableApps Platform, and several more to install six apps including ClamWin, Firefox, GIMP, KeePass, Skype, and Stellarium. To start, we launched the heavyweight GIMP without a hitch, while each additional app opened just as quickly. The idea of carrying apps around on a USB seems plausible but the idea of loading the PortableApps Platform to Dropbox, or the like, seems like an even better idea. So, without further adieu, consider trying the PortableApps Platform, especially if you’ve been thinking about the best way to take your apps for a joy ride. 

Product Details

Here is a detailed breakdown of PortableApps’ features: 

  • Take your apps everywhere—PortableApps lets you carry all your favorite apps on a portable device or cloud drive and use them on any PC.
  • Use a portable device, cloud directory, or local drive—The PortableApps Platform comes with a smart installer that easily installs your environment to a portable device, a cloud drive (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.), or a local PC, so you can safely back up data to the cloud.
  • Quickly find and install apps—PortableApps has a built-in app store that lists apps by category, title, or new and recently updated so you can install the apps you want with just a few clicks. And there’s no download limit.
  • Easily organize apps—Grow and organize your app collection with folders that group them automatically or as you see fit. Pick favorites and have the menu learn what to keep up front and center. Or use the search to find what you’re looking for.
  • Easily update apps—When a new security fix for your browser is released or a new feature in your favorite game is available, the PortableApps Updater automatically lets you know. Just click a button and the updates are downloaded and installed without messing up your settings and saved files.
  • Personalize your app menu—With a dozen bundled themes, each with a rainbow of color selections, the PortableApps Platform lets you pick a different look every day for months and never have the same menu twice.
  • Take your fonts along too—The PortableApps Platform supports the ability to carry fonts on your portable device and use them with your portable software without needing to install them on the local machine.
  • Advanced Features—The PortableApps Platform has the power and the options to work the way you want. And if there’s something we haven’t added that you’d like to see, just ask in the forums. We add new features every month!

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ECONOMICS: Four reasons for a dim employment forecast

Sunday, October 2, 2016

http://larrysummers.com/2016/09/26/men-without-work/

Men Without Work
09/26/2016
Over the weekend, the FT published my review of Nicholas Eberstadt’s important new book Men Without Work.  

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I think this is likely a substantial underestimate unless something is done for a number of reasons.  First everything we hear and see regarding technology suggests the rate of job destruction will pick up.  Think of the elimination of drivers, and of those who work behind cash registers.  Second, the gains in average education and health of the workforce over the last 50 years are unlikely to be repeated.  Third, to the extent that non-work is contagious, it is likely to grow exponentially rather than at a linear rate.  Fourth, declining marriage rates are likely to raise rates of labor force withdrawal given that non-work is much more common for unmarried than married men.

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This is a really dismal view of what’s in store for the men of the future.

As well as for the uneducated, or those who can not generate value.

Sad. 

Everyone better be teaching their children to be entrepreneurial.

Argh!

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INOVATION: Neat — a riding suitcase

Saturday, October 1, 2016

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/introducing-the-ridealong-suitcase-for-adults/

This could be very useful for getting around airports by seniors and the handicapped. I know that they have “mobility services” but they are few and far between. As well as not always available.

Funny the things that are invented just a little too late. I know someone who could have used such a decade ago.

Oh well, better late than never.

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GAMBLING: Who knew that Monty Hall had a problem?

Friday, September 30, 2016

https://youtu.be/4Lb-6rxZxx0

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I loved the quiz shows of my era. 

I’m still not sure that I agree with this person’s logic.

(Must be true. I’ve seen it on the INTERNET. And, they could put ANYTHING that wasn’t true on the internet.)

Was my original 1/3 choice bad?

Was it made worse because Monty reduced the odds?

Maybe I’m an old fool who thinks he’s just unlucky, I’d always switch.

If it was my sainted lucky wife, I’d never switch.

Wasn’t it really a 50/50 coin flip, disguised as a 1 in 3 choice?

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: The US Military is obsolete and just misdirected

Thursday, September 29, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/09/fred-reed/bombing-enemies-cant-fight-back/

An Obsolescent Military: Bombing Everything, Gaining Nothing
By Fred Reed
September 26, 2016  

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All of which is to say that while the US military looks formidable, it isn’t particularly useful, and aids China by bankrupting the US. Repeatedly it has demonstrated that it cannot defeat campesinos armed with those most formidable weapons, the AK, the RPG, and the IED. The US does not have the land forces to fight a major or semi-major enemy. It could bomb Iran, with unpredictable consequences, but couldn’t possibly conquer it.

The wars in the Mid-East illustrate the principle nicely. Iraq didn’t work. Libya didn’t work. Iran didn’t back down. ISIS and related curiosities? The Pentagon is again bombing an enemy that can’t fight back—its specialty—but that it seems unable to defeat.

The wrong military, wrong enemy, wrong war, wrong world.

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Wow, Fred Reed had really nailed this one.

Militaries are famous for fighting the LAST war.

The Civil War was fought as if the war didn’t have any accurate weapons. WW1 was fought with massed troops fed into machine guns. WW2 was fought similarly. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Argh!

When will we realize that the Gooferment is fat, slow, and stupid.

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INTERESTING: Tiny Homes — an idea who’s time has come

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/09/no_author/10-incredible-tiny-homes/

10 Tiny Homes With Icredibly Inspiring Design Concepts
By Alexa Erickson Collective Evolution
September 26, 2016

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I have an obsession with tiny homes. Despite not living in one myself, I feel overjoyed that there is a movement that celebrates simplicity, and goes against the grain of everything modern day culture pushes for. Rather than bigger being better, tiny homes exemplify the idea that less is more.

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I’m not obsessed, but, in my next life, I’d love to try it.

I like #3. Rustic Backyard Micro House (154 square feet!)

Rustic Backyard Micro House

I can imagine myself in my old age living comfortable here. (Where do I put the home health aide?)

I can forsee that youngsters will chose this over a giant mortgage and giant student debts.

I can see how developers would build the World War II tract home type subdivisions with huge numbers of these “lots”.

IMHO definitely an idea who’s time has come.

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RANT: Lester Holt — just like Candy Crowley — with a twist!

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

http://heatst.com/politics/lester-holt-the-third-debater/

Lester Holt: The Third Debater?
By Heat Street Staff | 11:01 pm, September 26, 2016  

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At tonight’s debate, Donald Trump faced off not just against Hillary Clinton, but against moderator Lester Holt.

  • Hillary’s emails
  • Benghazi
  • The Clinton Foundation

While ignoring these issues, Holt grilled Trump on

  • stop-and-frisk,
  • the birther story,
  • his comments about women,
  • his many bankruptcies,
  • why he hasn’t released his tax returns

— and a host of other issues the media sees as unfriendly to the Republican candidate.

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Disgraceful.

Trump was “Candy Crowley-ied”!

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/09/27/lester-holt-spins-debate-for-hillary-6-huge-ways-plays-gotcha-with-trump.html

1)      Jobs: Holt pressed Trump with two questions on how he was going to add jobs even though the first answer discussed renegotiating trade deals.

2)      Taxes: He portrayed the tax plans from the left – Clinton wanting to tax the rich and Trump “calling for tax cuts for the wealthy,” forcing Trump to correct him.

3)      Tax Returns: Trump got hit hard with tax return questions for “business conflicts” while Hillary got a slide on emails, her hidden speeches and Clinton Foundation business conflicts.

4)      Birthers: Holt asked a “birther” question that lasted longer than Clinton’s email answer. He then added three separate follow-ups to jam up Trump.

5)      Iraq: He hammered Trump for supporting the Iraq War, downplaying how Hillary had voted to do the same.

6)      Hillary’s Gaffe: When asked about biased policing, Clinton said, “I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police.” Holt ignored it, rather than challenge the idea everyone is bigoted.

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http://baltimoregazette.com/clinton-received-debate-questions-week-debate/

Argh!

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10 Things Clinton Was Not Asked During The Debate

(this is a note from the RNC)

#1: The 5 Aides Given Immunity By The FBI Or Her Reckless Secret Server

#2: The Multiple False Statements About How Her “Extremely Careless” Actions Endangered Our National Security

#3: Her “Basket Of Deplorables” Insult Toward Millions of Americans

#4: Clinton Foundation Pay To Play Accusations

#5: Her Failures And Lies On The Attacks In Benghazi

#6: Her Support For Obamacare

#7: Her Deep Support From And Ties To Wall Street

#8: Veterans Affairs Scandal She Arrogantly Called “Not Widespread”

#9: Her Comments About Wanting To Put The Coal Industry Out Of Work

#10: Her Deception And Lack Of Transparency On Her Health

Thoughts?

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Which of the following issues were discussed during last night’s Presidential Debate?

a) The sanctity of life
b) Religious freedom
c) Helping poor children attend a better school
d) Taxpayer-funded abortion

Answer: That’s right. None of the above.  

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