GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Who listens to the Gooferment about anything?

Saturday, October 10, 2015

http://www.cato.org/blog/government-nutrition-often-wrong-seldom-doubt

OCTOBER 7, 2015 9:38AM
Government on Nutrition: Often Wrong, Seldom in Doubt
By WALTER OLSON

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Readers of this space will be familiar with the pattern. Previous advice from Washington about the supposed hazards of eggs and other cholesterol-laden foods, the advantages of replacing butter and other animal fats with trans fats, and the gains to be made from switching from regular to diet soda, have all had to be re-evaluated and sometimes reversed in later years. And yet some in the public health establishment — including a few who are quoted in today’s Post article— still aspire to use the power of government to coerce changes in citizens’ diet. They seem to imagine that with people like themselves in charge, next time will be different.

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I can’t imagine any more UNRELIABLE source of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) than the Gooferment.

Even when they are not deliberately LYING to us, they are often just wrong.

Look at any research and find out who’s paying or who’s profiting (i.e., Cui Bono) and that will determine the results.

That, and now days, unless there’s a profit or patent or copyright or some other angle, you’ll never hear about it.

There’s an internet meme about Salk not patenting the polio vaccine because he want to cure it globally.

Today, everyone would be laughing at him.

The whole definition of “non-profit” is a joke. The Salvation Army is a non-profit; the NFL is not.

Time to make the doughnuts and take back our country.

Secession.

Take the money away from them and see what happens.

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Readers of this space will be familiar with the pattern. Previous advice from Washington about the supposed hazards of eggs and other cholesterol-laden foods, the advantages of replacing butter and other animal fats with trans fats, and the gains to be made from switching from regular to diet soda, have all had to be re-evaluated and sometimes reversed in later years. And yet some in the public health establishment — including a few who are quoted in today’s Post article— still aspire to use the power of government to coerce changes in citizens’ diet. They seem to imagine that with people like themselves in charge, next time will be different.

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POLITICAL: Jindal’s plan eliminates the corporate tax

Friday, October 9, 2015

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/07/bobby-jindal-unveils-tax-plan-eliminate-corporate-tax/

BOBBY JINDAL UNVEILS TAX PLAN, WOULD ELIMINATE CORPORATE TAX
by ALEX SWOYER
7 Oct 2015
Washington, DC

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GOP presidential candidate Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal aims to eliminate the corporate tax, an issue he addressed as he unveiled his tax plan Wednesday afternoon on a call with reporters where Jindal argued his plan simplifies tax code.

Jindal’s tax plan only has three tax brackets – two percent, 10 percent and 25 percent.

“Most Americans will be in the 10 percent bracket,” he told reporters. He went on to explain that a couple making $150,000 is now in the 25 percent tax bracket, but under his plan would drop to the 10 percent bracket.

According to Jindal’s plan, individuals making less than $10,000 will be in the two percent bracket, those making more than $10,000 but less than $90,000 will be in the 10 percent bracket, and everyone else will be in the 25 percent bracket.

Those who are married have a slight shift in their brackets: Couples making under $20,000 a year will be in the two percent bracket, where as couples making between $20,001 and $180,000 will be in the 10 percent bracket. Lastly, couples making more than $180,000 will pay 25 percent in taxes.

Jindal said his plan “eliminates the estate tax – death tax, the marriage penalty and the gift tax, and the alternative minimum tax.”

“I think my plan is best,” he touted, referencing that other GOP candidates have revealed their tax plans.

He said his plan has three key differences from fellow Republican candidates.

“Most Republican plans brag about the fact that they allow as many as half of all Americans pay zero federal taxes. Jeb and Trump both have said that. I think that’s a mistake,” Jindal said. “I think everybody should pay at least something.”

“We’ve got to this point where too many Americans believe money just grows on trees in Washington,” he said.

We’re only asking two percent from the bottom bracket. I think that may be the most important two percent in the whole plan. It reestablishes the idea that in America everybody is expected to help row the boat. Some people may have a bigger ore, some may have a smaller ore, but you keep your ore in the water along with everybody else.

The second way Jindal’s plan differs from other Republicans is that it eliminates the corporate tax in America.

The U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate than any other developed countries. Jindal says this move will create jobs and end wealth incentives for companies investing outside this country.

“We need to be willing to be bold,” he said of eliminating the corporate tax rate.

We’ve done various analyses. We show that for example in a 10 year period the GDP would grow 14.4 percent on top of the current base growth projection rate with just my tax changes. We show that nearly six million jobs would be added to the economy, wages would grow by 8. 7 percent – just as an example of the positive outcomes from changing our taxes.

Jindal also says his plan is different because it “reduces the amount of money the federal government is going to be able to spend.”

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Finally someone nails the corporate tax.

It’s stupid.

The product of Liberal Left non-economic thinking is just dumb.

“Corporations are merely tax collectors; not taxpayers. They merely pass their costs along.” Lawrence Alan “Larry” Kudlow is an American economist, television personality, and newspaper columnist. August 26, 2014 0830 on WMAL Mornings on the Mall Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

It’s one of the ways the Gooferment hides the true costs.

A business has only two choices — pass along its costs of which taxes is a big one OR go out of business.

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GUNS: Liberalism kills

Thursday, October 8, 2015

https://www.survivalmonkey.com/threads/guns-dont-kill-people-liberalism-does.53292/

October 7, 2015
Guns Don’t Kill People, Liberalism Does
By Trevor Thomas

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President Obama wants us to politicize gun deaths in America. I decided to take him up on his invitation.

I hope that no one is surprised that Obama took this opportunity again to attack guns, the gun industry, and those of us who are fans of the Second Amendment. This is what a community organizing career politician does. For liberals like Obama, virtually everything is political, or must be made so. Because political problems require political solutions, and thus, when something is politicized, those in favor of empowering and growing government get to do what they do best: give speeches, call for legislation, and attempt to stir up the electorate in their favor.

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What have you done to stop BHO from eroding your rights?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” reminds me of Prohibition

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/10/04/nearly-75-people-reportedly-overdose-on-laced-heroin-in-3-day-span-chicago/?intcmp=hplnws

HEALTH
Nearly 75 people reportedly overdose on laced heroin in 3-day span in Chicago
Published October 04, 2015FoxNews.com

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Nearly 75 people reportedly overdosed on dangerous narcotics, possibly heroin laced with painkiller fentanyl, in Chicago over a three-day span, according to city health and fire officials.

The Chicago Tribune, citing hospital officials, reported by Friday afternoon at least 14 people were rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago to be treated for possible heroin overdoses, and some patients still had needles in their arms.

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”We suspect what is happening is the same thing that happened in 2006 when people were getting heroin that was cut with fentanyl, which is a very strong narcotic,” she told the newspaper. “That’s what we think is happening.”

The Drug Enforcement Administration and Chicago police are teaming up to try and find the source of the batches.

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The last major outbreak of fentanyl-related deaths took place between 2005 and 2007. The outbreak killed more than 1,000 people across the country and dozens specifically in Chicago.

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Doesn’t anyone remember their history lessons?

OK, anyone remember Robert Stack playing Elliott Ness in the Untouchables? Where during Prohibition, he had to track down a moonshiner who was making contaminated bathtub gin. That gin was causing folks to die or go blind!

Can’t you see the similarity here?

Argh!

Now imagine an American where drugs were “legal”. Let’s have a mental experiment.  The addiction rate would be at a historical norm — since back in the days when that Chinese emporer study the problem and couldn’t fix it then by killing addicts — of 10%. Walmart, Walgreens, RiteAid, and every drugstore would be selling “drugs”. Clean, pure, of know quantity and quality. And, of course, they would offer treatment alternatives. 

Also, since it would no longer be illegal or “dangerous”, children would find some other alternative to rebel. Dye their hair, pierce their bodies, and listing to bad music — oh wait they’ve done that through the decades already. (But it doesn’t kill them!)

Of course, currently “illegal” drugs would be cheap, so one could have a “habit” and hold down a job — which was common in late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

Now let’s consider the poor Drug Lords, Cartels, and drug dealing gangs. Guess they’ll have to find other employment since Walmart can drive the profit out of anything.

And, all the money that the USA spends on prisons, courts, cops, DEA, FDA, BATF, etc. etc. can be redirected to treatment.

Wow, what different country this would be.

How many people would still be alive?

How many people would be better off?

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — attributed to Einstein

Time to end the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”!

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RANT: Anyone care to tell me how the economy is getting better?

Monday, October 5, 2015

From Drudge

Record 94,610,000 Americans Not in Labor Force… 
Participation Rate Lowest Since 1977… 
Record 56,647,000 Women Not Working… 
‘Payrolls Disaster’…
‘Fed never going to raise rates’…
IT’S UGLY!FLASHBACK: IT’S GOING TO BE GREAT…
Markets at ‘panic levels’… 

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Anyone care to tell me how the economy is getting better?

Any wonder that Trump is leading in the polls.

Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: Benedict XVI was blackmailed?

Sunday, October 4, 2015

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09/no_author/did-the-us-blackmail-benedict-xvi/

“There was a Blackmail Come From Who Knows Where, Through SWIFT, Exercised on Benedict XVI.”
Anglocath.blogspot
September 30, 2015

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“This explains and justifies the unprecedented resignation of Ratzinger, that many of us have been able to exchange for an act of cowardice; the Church was treated as a state ‘terrorist’, but worse — because note that the dozen banks falling into the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ‘are not excluded from SWIFT’ and continue to be able to make international transactions — and the Vatican finances could no longer pay the nunciature, to convey transport missions — in fact, the same ATM of Vatican City had been blocked.

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Wow, that would explain an UNPRECEDENTED action.

Any other explanation?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Can’t predict the storm a few days in advance

Saturday, October 3, 2015

http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/11L_tracks_latest.png

JOAQUIN BECOMES HURRICANE…
TRACK…
COMPUTER MODELS…

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And, yet they can’t predict the storm a few days in advance, but they can predict climate decades from now?

You have to be kidding me!

And, of course, the answer is more taxes and Gooferment power!

Argh!!!

“Fool me twice, shame on me.”

Come back when you have a better lie.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: 1% copays would end fraud

Friday, October 2, 2015

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150929/us–mystery_ambulance_rides-2f39c3677a.html

Medicare’s $30M ambulance-ride mystery
Sep 29, 3:46 AM (ET)
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare paid $30 million for ambulance rides for which no record exists that patients got medical care at their destination, the place where they were picked up or other critical information.

The mystery ambulance rides are part of a bigger problem with Medicare payments for transporting patients, according to a federal audit being released Tuesday.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general’s office also found that some urban ambulance services got paid for an average distance of more than 100 miles per ride. That contrasts with a national average of just 10 miles for urban ambulance rides.

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How many times do I have to say: “The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient”?

Simple fix here — copays.

Make it near trivial. Say 1%. Medicare doesn’t pay until the patient pays 1%. So if the bill is $100, then they pay a dollar. 

And, most of the seniors I know scrutinize their bills.

End of phantom billing.

You could even cap the copay at $100. 

Or include the patient in the audit team and the patient gets half of any mistake. Like treasure hunt.

I know from patients that I advocated for that the bills were always wrong and in one case bordered on fraud.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Once again, justice denied

Thursday, October 1, 2015

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09/sibel-edmonds/graymail-and-blackmail/

Two Delays & Tight-Lipped Negotiations Point to Graymail & Blackmail Tactics by Hastert’s Legal Team
By Sibel Edmonds
Boiling Frost Post
September 26, 2015

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Graymail is the threatened revelation of state secrets in order to manipulate legal proceedings. It is used as a defense tactic, forcing the government to drop a case to avoid revealing national secrets. Graymail can occur in two ways:

* To straight forwardly blackmail the government, forcing it to drop the case using the threat that if the trial moves forward the defendant will reveal classified information he or she already knows.

* To request the use of classified material as evidence in the trial, with an expectation that the government will be unwilling to make the material fully available to the case, and that this will raise the possibility, in the eyes of the judge or jury, that the unreleased material might clear the defendant, making it difficult to prove guilt.

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Once again, justice denied.

Wonder what the full real story is.

“Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home, you looky-loos.” Officer Barbrady’s Catch Phrase South Park

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SURVIVAL: Water, water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink when you need it

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

http://www.offthegridnews.com/extreme-survival/8-life-saving-emergency-items-that-should-be-in-your-car-right-now/

8 Life-Saving Emergency Items That Should Be In Your Car Right Now
Written by: Zach Dunn

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4. Water purification and storage. Don’t get caught without some water with you and a means to purify more. A simple pot can do for boiling, and water purification filters can make river and lake water drinkable. I suggest you have a few bottles and at least one method to purify more H20.

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You have to have water. No doubt about that!

If you’re going to be stupid, then the wilderness will kill you.

And, you have to rotate your bottled water. It can evaporate in the sealed bottle cause the container to fail. Water in your trunk is a disaster weather is flood or a case of water that you store there.

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RANT: GSA’s 10% occupancy rate?

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

http://www.jasonstapleton.com/epa-spends-92-million-on-office-furniture/

EPA Spends $92 Million on Office Furniture
Jason Stapleton –  Sep 25, 2015

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If you’re thinking, “That must be some nice furniture!” you’re absolutely right. The EPA ended up spending an average of $6,000 per employee buying some of the most expensive furniture in America.

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More shocking was the assertion that the inventory of Government Services Administration (GSA) leases shows that there is a 10% occupancy rate.

The podcast states that the GSA has an inventory of 8,000 buildings. With a 10% rate, that means that they only need 800?

Argh!

Any place I ever worked that occupancy rate was between 80 and 120%. 

With teleworking, even less space is needed.

Argh!

The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. And this is an example of it.

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RANT: All is not well with the “refugee” influx

Monday, September 28, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3249667/Germany-state-SIEGE-Merkel-cheered-opened-floodgates-migrants-gangs-men-roaming-streets-young-German-women-told-cover-mood-s-changing.html

Germany in a state of SIEGE: Merkel was cheered when she opened the floodgates to migrants. Now, with gangs of men roaming the streets and young German women being told to cover up, the mood’s changing 

  • Thousands of economic migrants are posing as refugees to reach Europe
  • David Cameron said this week that Europe must said failed asylum claimants back to their countries
  • Demands for Germany’s ‘open doors and windows’ policy to be scrapped
  • Women said rape and child abuse were rife in Giessen’s refugee camp

By SUE REID IN GIESSEN, GERMANY
PUBLISHED: 18:27 EST, 25 September 2015 | UPDATED: 19:29 EST, 25 September 2015

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Meanwhile, the migrants keep arriving. Many have deliberately thrown away their passports on their journey through Europe, so they can pretend to be Syrian refugees rather than economic migrants.

The authorities, now being urged by both the EU and Germany’s leaders to return those who aren’t genuine, are completely overwhelmed.

At Freilassing, on the border with Austria, I see hundreds of migrants waiting in teeming rain to reach Mrs Merkel’s promised land. Wrapped in see-through charity macs, they queue excitedly for soup. Most have travelled for weeks, from Turkey by boat to Greece, then via Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia to Austria.

‘We are nearly there,’ says Arun Ari, 27, grinning. He comes from the Syrian town of Kobane, where Kurdish fighters have been battling Islamic State for two years.
He seems a deserving refugee among so many who are not, yet won’t show me his identity papers.

Deserving or not, he faces a tough future. Arun will be processed in one of the camps set up all over Germany in former military bases, school gymnasiums, sports halls, even a former monastery. Yet, just like him, almost every male migrant I meet is optimistic.

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And, if this is happening in Germany, then it must be happening here.

These communities show no signs of “assimilation”.

Wonder where it all ends.

Strife and mayhem?

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GUNS: San Fran preempts the RKBA

Sunday, September 27, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/24/surrender-san-fran-iconic-last-gun-shop-to-close-over-new-regulations/?intcmp=hplnws

SECOND AMENDMENT
Surrender: San Fran’s iconic, last gun shop to close over new regulations
By Hollie McKay
Published September 24, 2015
FoxNews.com

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The proposed new city regulations, which could only be aimed at High Bridge Arms, would have required the shop to take and preserve video of all transactions and turn customers’ personal data over to police on a weekly basis. General Manager Steven Alcairo said the shop’s owners finally threw in the towel after years of what they consider being unfairly targeted with burdensome rules and regulations. Past regulations have required the shop to bar ads and displays from its windows and install cameras and barriers around its exterior. The shop has 17 cameras as it is, and turns video over to police on request, he said.

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Isn’t this a de facto obliteration of the Second Amendment?

And if the gang of Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats, calling themselves the “City of San Francisco”  gets away with it, then why not all of California!

Argh!

Wake up “We, The Sheeple”!

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TINFOILHAT: “Conspiracy” allows the elite to dismiss legitimate questions

Saturday, September 26, 2015

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/10-disturbing-facts-most-americans-are-too-fearful-to-face_092015

10 Disturbing Facts Most Americans Are Too Fearful to Face
Humans Are Free 
September 23rd, 2015

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7. “Conspiracy” doesn’t mean what you think it does

Throughout the history of humanity people do things by planning it out, this simple act or organizing is considered bizarre, unlikely and improbable by a generation of brainwashed people controlled by one hypnotic word: “conspiracy“!

That’s right. You may be reading this and thinking this refers to you. The simple phrase “conspiracy” or “conspiracy theory” has singlehandedly mind-controlled millions of Americans like no other word or phrase has. Unfortunately there is no way around it.

“Conspiracy” is a substitute word for an otherwise ordinary act of planning or coordinating. Something all people do especially groups like corporations and governments. You MUST plan, organize, or “conspire” to do things. That’s how things get done!

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I think that where “Conspiracy Theorists” go wrong is that they speculate on the answers.

It’s sufficient to present facts and ask questions. We, since I put me and my tin foil hat in the same camp, don’t have to provide answers. 

As a “Conspiracy Questioner”, I would prefer to layout things in this format: facts and questions. Period.

For one example:

  • JFK was assassinated.
  • If you believe the Warren Report, then how was Oswald able to be the lone gun man with an inferior weapon.

For another example:

  • 9/11 happened.
  • How did the BBC report WTC7’s collapse before it happened?

And, the just stack the questions, line by line.

I think this is a much more powerful way to raise doubts.  Better than saying LBJ did it or the CIA led cabal blew up WTC7.

imho

“Question authority”? What a joke. “We, The Sheeple” have lost their ability to think critically and I blame it on Gooferment Skrules.

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GUNS: Let’s protect the children EFFECTIVELY

Friday, September 25, 2015

http://bearingarms.com/protecting-americas-children/

Protecting America’s Children
Posted by Jenn Jacques on September 21, 2015 at 5:28 pm

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In 2013 more than 80 bills were introduced in at least 33 states related to arming teachers or school staff, but only Alabama, Kansas, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas enacted laws affecting public schools, according to a report by the Council of State Governments. In the state of Wisconsin, concealed carry permit holders can request permission to carry from the principal of their local school, and a new law just went into effect this year allowing both off duty and retired LEO’s to carry in schools as well.  The Outdoor Channel’s in-depth documentary Safe Haven hosted by Katie Pavlich was an eye-opening look into just how ineffective gun-free zones really are.

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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein

So, we have demonstrated evidence that “gun free” zones do NOT work.

Can we try something different?

Argh!

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HISTORICAL: RIP Yogi

Thursday, September 24, 2015

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/09/23/really-didnt-say-everything-said-very-best-yogisms/?intcmp=hplnws

NEW YORK –  Some of the more widely quoted philosophy of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher who died Tuesday at age 90:
On his approach to at-bats: “You can’t think and hit at the same time.”
On selecting a restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
On economics: “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
On the 1973 Mets: “We were overwhelming underdogs.”
On how events sometimes seem to repeat themselves “It’s deja vu all over again!”
On baseball attendance: “If people don’t come to the ballpark, how are you gonna stop them?”
On a slipping batting average: “Slump? I ain’t in no slump. … I just ain’t hitting.”
On travel directions: “When you come to a fork in the road take it.”
On pregame rest: “I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
On battling the shadows in left field at Yankee Stadium: “It gets late early out there.”
On fan mail: “Never answer an anonymous letter.”
On being told he looked cool: “You don’t look so hot yourself.”
On being asked what time it was: “You mean now?”
On being given a day in his honor: “Thank you for making this day necessary.”
On a spring training drill: “Pair off in threes.”
On his approach to playing baseball: “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
On death: “Always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise they won’t go to yours.”
On learning: “You can observe a lot by watching.”
On his team’s diminishing pennant chances: “It ain’t over `till it’s over.”
On the fractured syntax attributed to him: “I really didn’t say everything I said.”

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Requiescat In Pacem, Yogi. 

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GOLDBUG: Gold preserves value

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09/alasdair-macleod/is-gold-still-money/

Gold Remains Money
By Alasdair Macleod GoldMoney
September 19, 2015

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Government currencies come and go while human values endure. The adaptability of the human race will allow it to continue to use whatever is most convenient for day-to-day transactions. But the days of ordinary people in the welfare states blindly accepting fiat currencies as valid for storing the product of their labour, however temporary, are probably drawing to a close. The impossibility of our debt obligations, including the net present value of future welfare commitments, is catching up with us, and the requirement to debase these obligations is becoming paramount.

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There is NO way to preserve value but in gold.

Argh!

The FED is the essence of the King debasing the currency and stealing for the people.

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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HEALTH: Let plants be thy medicine?

Monday, September 21, 2015

http://nutritionfacts.org/2015/09/17/how-much-longer-do-fruit-and-vegetable-eaters-live

How Much Longer Do Fruit and Vegetable Eaters Live?
Written by: Michael Greger M.D. on September 17th, 2015

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In a study out of Taiwan, researchers concluded that spending just 50 cents a day on fruits or vegetables could buy people about a 10% drop in mortality. That’s quite a bargain. Imagine if there was a drug that—without side-effects—could lower our risk of death 10%. How much do you think drug companies would charge? Probably more than 50 cents.

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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ― Hippocrates

Guess the old guy should have been more specific.

“Let plants be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ― an updated Hippocrates

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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The Gooferment doesn’t reign in the credit reporting agencies

Sunday, September 20, 2015

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9340511/perstin-experian-bank-death-credit-reporting

This man’s bank keeps telling him he’s dead
With agencies relying on automated bank reports, coming back from the dead is just as hard as it sounds
By Russell Brandom  on September 16, 2015 04:09 pm

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Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, consumers can dispute any fact in their credit report, giving agencies 30 days to confirm it or back down — but that measure was little help to Jokinen. He reported the mistake to Experian and the two other major agencies, but they simply confirmed that Chase had marked him as dead and moved on. He reported the issue to Chase, but the bank was slow to react, and as soon as one agency made the fix, another report of his death would echo back through a different channel. Ultimately, he had to appeal directly to the Social Security Agency for a “living letter,” but even that wasn’t enough to restore his credit. “I have been spending an average of seven hours each week, just keeping these mounting credit errors under control,” Jokinen told the Senate Banking Committee. “I am a living case example of how our current fair credit reporting laws still don’t work as intended.”

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Argh!

How about the Congresscritters say “treble damages”?

Bet that fixes things in a heartbeat!

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MONEY: Silver coins — gone but not forgotten

Saturday, September 19, 2015

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-libertarian-angle-what-ever-happened-to-silver-coins/

HAPPENED TO SILVER COINS?
by Future of Freedom Foundation
September 15, 2015

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Good question!

What happened?

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LIBERTY: POW / MIA day

Friday, September 18, 2015

 

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And it’s a disgrace that we left men behind and forgot about them.

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RANT: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Friday, September 18, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/sports/football/untangling-pileup-of-miscues-in-giants-loss.html?_r=0

PRO FOOTBALL
Untangling Pileup of Miscues in Giants’ Loss
SEPT. 14, 2015

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Sometimes football can seem so simple: Throw the ball, catch the ball, kick the ball.

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Sorry, it’s Eli’s and Couglin’s loss.

Either could have locked up the win.

Argh!

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LIBERTY: The Separation of Education and State

Thursday, September 17, 2015

http://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/poll-results-when-should-schools-open

Poll Results: When Should Schools Open?
Because Labor Day was a bit late this year, some schools, including South Brunswick, opted to open before the holiday.
By MICHELLE SAHN (Patch Staff)
September 13, 2015 

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Frankly, the Government should not be involved in education at all. Hence the discussion of the terms and conditions of schools and “education” would not be a matter of public concern; it would be between the privately run school and the parents or guardians. 

“We, The Sheeple” have accepted the Progressives contention that “school is too important to be left to parents”. Remember that the Prussian model of education that was brought to the US from Germany had three goals: cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite. Note that today’s elite NEVER send their children to public schools. With Jimmy Carter as the notable exception.

It will admittedly take decades to unravel this immoral, ineffective, and inefficient system that has developed over the last 70 years or so. But that doesn’t mean we should shirk away from the hard task of rescuing the children from the slavery of Gooferment propaganda and the tyranny of low expectations.

I’ll have to find or recreate my 40 year proposal that I created for the Hands Across New Jersey tax revolt group in the 80’s. If I could have “sold” that plan then, we’d be five years from a truly free market in education.

Argh!

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Poll Results: When Should Schools Open?

Because Labor Day was a bit late this year, some schools, including South Brunswick, opted to open before the holiday.

By MICHELLE SAHN (Patch Staff) September 13, 2015 

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HARDWARE: In praise of Chromebooks and Chromeboxes

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

From FACEBOOK

{Privacy Invoked} #1 · Seaside Heights, NJ · 

Ok Facebook world. My laptop died but it is IMPERATIVE that I have a computer, I’m in Grad school. Is a Chromebook good enough for writing papers, printing out papers coupons and the like and surging the web? I’ll b using a flash drive or google docs too. Help!?!

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FJohn Reinke

I have several. I use them for most computing chores. Bought one for {Privacy Invoked} as a gift to replace her old windoze box. She loves it.

  • As long as you use the cloud and the inet, it’s perfect for light weight computing use.
     
  • Cheap. I’ve seen them as low as 199. 
     
  • By using the cloud, you’re forced to keep your data backed up.
     
  • Should you lose it, destroy it, or have it stolen, it’s trivial to get a new one and not miss a beat.
     
  • Also no malware can infect you.

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{Privacy Invoked} #2

We have chrome books, Windows desktop and MacBooks. All are good. But, you can only save to the cloud on a chromebook. So, if internet access is interrupted, you can’t get to your files. Also, it’s difficult to print from the chromebooks. I would suggest a Windows or Apple machine.

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FJohn Reinke

You can add local storage via usbdrive or and sd card.

Also, many of the “apps” have an offline capability. 

I use google cloud printing capability even on my mac and windoze machines for universal printing (i.e., from anywhere to Virginia, Kendall Park, or Staples). 

Should not be a problem. Sign up for my “platinum support” plan and I can help you. The “gold” plan you get {Privacy Invoked}; “silver” {Privacy Invoked}; “bronze” {Privacy Invoked}; or “lead” {Privacy Invoked}. Laugh! 

Seriously, chromebooks are the way to go for lightweight computing. And, most smartphones allow you to tether them for universal inet access. 

I have Optimum at 51F and that gives me access to Optimum wifi. Most inet service providers have that capability. McDonalds, Starbucks, and Panera have free wifi too. 

I like chromebooks for their utility and no required complete refreshes / reinstalls every so often as windoze and mac get “crud build up”.

Lot positive to be said for the Chromebook / Chromebox. I usually leave one in 51F for {Privacy Invoked} to use when we’re there.

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So let’s sum it up: cheap; simple; and worry free.

I laughed when some clowns hijacked a truck of about 1,200 MacBook Airs destined for a school worth more than a million bucks. 

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/09/03/4-men-accused-stealing-nearly-1200-student-laptops/

This revealed the waste at Gooferment Skrules that the taxpayers are paying for.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Case against Temple physics professor after making evidence error

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3231656/America-drops-sale-secrets-China-case-against-physics-professor-embarrassing-crucial-evidence-error.html

America drops sale-of-secrets-to-China case against Temple physics professor after making embarrassing – and crucial – evidence error

  • Dr Xi Xiaoxing had been accused of sharing sensitive American-made technology with China
  • The FBI said he had sent details of a secret sophisticated device known as a ‘pocket heater’ to Chinese scientists
  • The federal agents claimed they had the blueprints for the heater that Dr Xi had passed on as a ‘spy’
  • It now turns out the blueprints weren’t for the pocket heater at all
  • All charges against Dr Xi have been dropped –  four months after he was led away in handcuffs, his career on the brink of ruin   
  • On Friday he lashed out at the FBI for putting his family through hell for no reason whatsoever, saying: This is not a joke. This is not a game’ 

By ASSOCIATED PRESSPUBLISHED: 23:54 EST, 11 September 2015 | UPDATED: 05:31 EST, 12 September 2015 

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An American scientist who was accused of being a spy for China has had all the charges against him dropped after the FBI admitted it had made a massive mistake in arresting him in the first place.

Federal agents had claimed they had evidence that Dr Xi Xiaoxing sent the secret blueprints for a sophisticated U.S. device called a ‘pocket heater’ to Chinese scientists.

But months after the physics professor was led away in handcuffs from Temple University, where he works, the FBI admitted the blueprints they found were not for the heater at all – but for a totally innocuous gadget.

On Friday night, Dr Xi, 57, said in a phone interview reported in the New York Times: ‘I don’t expect them to understand everything I do. But the fact that they don’t consult with experts and then charge me? Put my family through all this? Damage my reputation? They shouldn’t do this. This is not a joke. This is not a game.’ 

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Maybe the agents have been listening to the Donald and his anti-Chinese rhetoric?

In actuality, the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. And here’s an example.

Black Eye for the FBI.

Guess they have to go back to setting up fools for charges.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Florida Cops Arrest of DUI Lawyer

Monday, September 14, 2015

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/09/florida-cops-unable-to-turn-off-new-360-degree-pinac-cam-during-arrest-of-fair-dui-lawyer/

Florida Cops Unable to Turn Off New 360 Degree PINAC Cam During Arrest of Fair DUI Lawyer
Carlos Miller  

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Ever since PINAC’s Jeff Gray rode through a DUI checkpoint earlier this year with his drivers license hanging out the window in a Ziploc bag – along with a Fair DUI flyer from South Florida attorney Warren Redlich – the flyers have generated tons of media coverage as well as threats of arrests from tough-talking sheriffs.
But it was only until last month that the flyer got him arrested.

And we were there to capture that arrest with several cameras, including a new 360 degree camera we are now selling that was attached to the dashboard of my car, the PINACmobile, which he was driving.

Police tried their best to turn the camera off, but were unable to do so as you can see in the video below.

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They’re not going to react well to having their “criminal activities” disrupted.

“Inventory” the car, my <synonym for donkey>; that was a warrantless search.

And, how many “deputies” were deployed at the DUI checkpoint and who’s paying for their time.

Argh!

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