ECONOMICS: 15$ minimum wage

Friday, September 19, 2014

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/08/did-the-fast-food-minimum-wage-strike-just-backfire/

 

Did the Fast Food Minimum Wage Strike Just Backfire?
September 8, 2014
By Matthew Burke

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TPNN radio host Tim Constantine of The Capitol Hill Show reports that the fast-food strikers have just shot themselves in the foot…big time.

“This company called Momentum Machines, has built a robot that could change the fast food industry forever,” announced Constantine. “The robot can slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places that slice onto your burger, so you get the freshest burger possible.” he reported following the Astroturf strikes organized by big labor unions and not necessarily even the workers of businesses like Burger King and McDonald’s.

“The robot is more consistent, more sanitary, and complains less, than your average worker,” Constantine explained.

“Here’s the kicker,” revealed Constantine: “The robot can produce 360 hamburgers per hour,” which equates to approximately one burger every ten seconds, much faster and efficiently than any human could.

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From an economic point of view, it’s a no brainer. 

Robot Burgger Makers are cheaper than “Human Resources”.

I’ve told the tale of AT&T and the Elevator Operators. http://wp.me/pg9z-2Eb

Those ladies were casualties of the Federal Minimum Wage diktat. I know one who never had the skills to get another job. Wonder who else that happened to?

Cui Bono?

So let’s look behind the scene as to why this ASTROTURF group is campaigning.

Clearly, the minimum wage burger flippers will be out of a job faster than you can say: “You want fries with that?”

Big Labor knows that a rise in the minimum wage will directly escalate the Union wage scale. And bureaucrats know that the Gooferment pay scales will all rise to “compete”. Big Unions knows bigger paychecks means bigger Union dues.

So once again, we find the roots of the “minimum wage problem”.

Now dare I say this is a racial or “Social Justice” issue. Not for it, but against it. What is the Black Youth Unemployment rate? Will increasing the minimum wage decrease that? Not likely! And, how is it justice to put people on the dole. 

Talk about “moral hazard”? It’s not even close. 

Argh!

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JLINKEDIN: Regan, Kelly (MC2009) Clearing Client Services Goldman Sachs

Thursday, September 18, 2014

2014-Sep-18

http://http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kelly-regan/13/1b7/470

Regan, Kelly (MC2009) 
Clearing Client Services
Goldman Sachs
Greater New York City Area
Financial Services

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SOFTWARE: recommending CHROME REMOTE DESKTOP

Thursday, September 18, 2014

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp/related?hl=en

Chrome Remote Desktop

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Access other computers or allow another user to access your computer securely over the Internet.
Chrome Remote Desktop allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. Computers can be made available on an short-term basis for scenarios such as ad hoc remote support, or on a more long-term basis for remote access to your applications and files. All connections are fully secured.

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As always, “TPIR” (http://www.priceisright.com/), and YMMV!

But I like it.

I’m recommending it.

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MEMORIES: Ev’s last aunt passes

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Just got the word tonight that Our Girl’s Aunt Kay has passed away.

Sad!

What can I say.

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RANT: AT&T IPHONE6+ order mid November delivery

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Preorder Processing
Expected Ship Date: 10/31/2014 To 11/11/2014

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I don’t think so!

Cancel.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Zero the corporate tax rate

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

https://secure.downsizedc.org/blog/your-penny-toward-a-whopper

September 11, 2014
Your Penny Toward a Whopper
By James Wilson

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I’m angered that Burger King has fled to Canada as a tax shelter. But I’m not angered at Burger King, which has only done what it thinks is best for its shareholders. I am, rather, angered at YOU. It isn’t Burger King that created the HIGHEST CORPORATE INCOME TAX in the world. YOU did that. And I DO NOT CONSENT!

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“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

Essentially, taxing corporations hides the tax load on individuals. That’s one of the purposes of Big Gooferment is conceal how much tax we individuals are really paying. IF we knew, then the tax revolts would really start.

Add to that, the OTHER taxes that corporations pay (e.g., gas; utility; FICA for employees; “real estate”) also get passed along in their products. So when I go to the supermarket and buy a can of beans, I can’t tell how much of the price is cost of the beans, the cost to put the beans in the can, the cost of getting the can on the shelf, and the taxes paid along the way. It’s incalculable. And you politicians just love it that way.

Also, there is a another hidden layer of taxes buried in that can of beans, all of the costs of capital investment have taxes hidden in. Campbells buys a new machine to put beans in the can; how much in taxes is buried in that cost? Don’t forget the gas tax for the truck that delivered it. All buried.

Even worse is that the result of corporate taxes fall on the poor because they have spend to survive, those on fixed income who should be getting a break, families who have to spend, and the illegals who don’t get the full benefit of the taxes they are paying.

Bottom line: Only “real people” pay taxes.

My bottom line: I believe folks would be in revolt if they really knew how much in taxes they are paying.

Zero the corporate taxes. Cut the size of government.

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TINFOILHAT: Forensic Mysteries / Robin Williams

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/09/jack-d-douglas/concealed-homicide/

The Forensic Mysteries of Robin Williams’s Death
By Jack D. Douglas
September 4, 2014

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He had decades of alcohol and drug problems, severe anxiety and depression for decades [like many great comedians], many family problems, recent open  heart surgery, early Parkinson’s, depression over those, drugs and professionals for such problems, and was an obvious suicide threat, as all family probably knew to keep them watching for any serious problems he might have.

He supposedly did not take any of the drugs he could have  used for a peaceful exit, he slept alone, he supposedly was left alone in his room in a wing of the house where no one could hear his body thrashing around and falling to the floor upon his hanging death, no one checked on him for about sixteen hours, his wife left home without checking on  him, late in the morning his business manager [?] called, got no answer and went over to check on him and found his body.

Is this negligent suicide? Forgetfulness suicide? Concealed homicide? Or simply suicide by a man so despairing and angry at himself that he chose a very painful way to kill himself rather than take a mere bodkin close at hand?

I don’t know the answers and certainly do not impugn anyone’s public statements, but I know that any serious forensic investigation would ask about all of that and far more.

How alone can a world famous comedian be when he is in grave peril in many ways?

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Another possibility? Euthanasia.

I think the author brings up a very good question. Why was he SO alone?

Having had my spouse die on me, I know that I came up with a long list of stuff I’d done differently. That may not have made any difference at all.

One factor that the author overlooks is “money trouble” or “his perception of money trouble”. That could be a factor.

I knew one fellow who suicided because he was feeling technology obsolesce. He was a great guy to work for and his value to the organization wasn’t his understanding of some type of technology. Argh!

Guess we will never know.

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TINFOILHAT: Bush 41’S WWII Escape From Death

Monday, September 15, 2014

http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/09/02/an-enduring-mystery-about-bush-41s-wwii-escape-from-death/

An Enduring Mystery About Bush 41’S WWII Escape From Death
Print This Post Print This Post By Russ Baker on Sep 2, 2014

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The enveloping fog extends even to Poppy Bush’s most sterling political symbol: his record as a war hero. On September 2, 1944, the plane he was piloting was hit by Japanese fire during a bombing run over Chichi Jima, a small island in the Pacific. Bush successfully parachuted to the ocean surface, where he was rescued. His two crew members perished.

A documentary film about the rescue was aired as part of a 1984 Republican Convention tribute to Vice President Bush. And on September 2, 1984, forty years to the day of his doomed bombing mission, a ceremony was held at the Norfolk Naval Station, complete with a Navy band and an encomium from Navy Secretary John Lehman. Bush’s war service, Lehman declared, was the beginning of a career “which went on to mark some of the most remarkable achievements in the annals of American politics.”

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I’d heard this many moons ago.

It’s interesting that the “truth” always emerges.

Over time, one expects that “reports” will change. The human memory is very fallible.

I’ve read about experiments that demonstrate humans don’t remember squat. Throw in stress and they are worth even less.

That’s why video is so dispositive.

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INTERESTING: Football helmet

Sunday, September 14, 2014

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/helmet-could-change-football

The Helmet That Could Change Football
It’s flexible, but it can really take a beating.
By David Cassilo Posted 09.04.2014 at 1:30 pm

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Data Collection

Sensors in the helmet collect data on impact force, linear or rotational acceleration, and location. If the hit put the player at risk of a concussion, the information is sent to a handheld device that alerts the trainer on the sidelines.

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Sounds like “we” are getting serious about solving this problem.

The computer should be smart enough to rule a player “ineligible” in any level game.

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RANT: On hold — updated

Saturday, September 13, 2014

I just spent an hour on hold with AT&T.

Reminds me of an quote from The Big Bang Theory. #TBBT

Sheldon said something like: “I once spent an hour on hold with Customer Support at Hewitt Packard just to complain about their Customer Service.”

Argh!

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Conclusion: 4 hours and 3 minutes.

I must be <synonym for the act of procreation in real time> nuts!!!!

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POLITICAL: No R should mention the word “impeachment”

Saturday, September 13, 2014

http://brooklyngopradio.blogspot.com/2014/09/has-brooklyns-anti-obama-graffiti.html

Has Brooklyn’s Anti-Obama Graffiti Writer Gone Too Far?

So today during work, I get a call from my family about – of all things – how more Anti-Obama / Anti-Dem graffiti keeps popping up all over our Sheepshead Bay neighborhood. You may have seen my prior posts here and here about…

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Unfortunately, someone doesn’t realize the political realities of life.

Impeachment is the tool of the MINORITY party to remove a President that will hurt the party in the mid-term elections. Example, Nixon’s resignation.

No R should mention the word “impeachment” unless there is an R in the White House. (IMHO)

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RANT: Did he get special access or photoshop?

Friday, September 12, 2014

Screenshot 2014 09 12 14 52 11

I was there and no one was allowed anywhere near the darn rocks!
 
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RANT: Try to correct an AT&T iphone6 order error. I dare you.

Friday, September 12, 2014

Try to correct an AT&T iphone6 order error. I dare you. They have sucky system and no way to get to a human being!

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RANT: Public Access to Court Electronic Record — making stuff unaccessible

Friday, September 12, 2014

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/right-know-pacer-mess-and-how-clean-it

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 | BY VERA EIDELMAN AND AMUL KALIA
Right to Know: The PACER Mess And How to Clean It

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PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is the government-run online system used by lawyers, the press, and the public to access public federal court records in the United States. The administrators of that system recently announced that a huge number of documents from five federal courts have been permanently removed from its database and are no longer publicly viewable. For one circuit court, only documents filed within the last 2.5 years are now available; for two other circuit courts, documents now go back only 4 years. 

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In response to the current PACER mess, several organizations, including the Free Law Project and Public.Resource.Org, have sent letters to the Chief Judge of each affected court, requesting the removed records so they can make them available once again to journalists, researchers, lawyers, and the general public.

These organizations are giving the courts the opportunity not only to make the records available online again but, even better, to make them available online for free. The courts have nothing to lose and much to gain by fulfilling this request: the records are already digitized, and simply need to be hosted somewhere. The Free Law Project and Public.Resource.Org are offering to do just that, and at absolutely no cost to the courts, litigants, academics, or the public. We urge the courts to take these organizations up on their offer.

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Argh!

So let me understand this, the documents that used to be freely available, were removed so that they could then be made available for a fee?

And this helps us how?

Gooferment in action!

Any wonder why I’m an EFF member and donor!

https://supporters.eff.org/donate

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TINFOILHAT: 9/11 Was Foreseeable

Thursday, September 11, 2014

2014-Sep-11

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/04/911-was-foreseeable.html

9/11 Was Foreseeable
Posted on April 26, 2008 by WashingtonsBlog

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The administration claims that terrorists crashing planes into buildings was not foreseeable. Is that accurate?

How foreseeable was 9/11?

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This old blog post certainly has a long list of “interesting coincidences”.

Just week ago, 9/11 was a topic of discussion at the local American Legion.

No one believes the “official story”.

It’s almost a “Jumbo Shrimp” type of oxymoron to believe ANY official story.

Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: Secret evidence in 9/11 attacks?

Thursday, September 11, 2014

2014-Sep-11

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/08/28/did-certain-foreign-governments-facilitate-the-911-attacks/

Did Certain Foreign Governments Facilitate the 9/11 Attacks?
– and why is the US government keeping the evidence a secret?
by Justin Raimondo, August 29, 2014

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“Through its investigation, the Joint Inquiry developed information suggesting specific sources of foreign support for some of the September 11 hijackers while they were in the United States. The Joint Inquiry’s review confirmed that the Intelligence Community also has information, much of which has yet to be independently verified, concerning these potential sources of support. In their testimony, neither CIA nor FBI officials were able to address definitively the extent of such support for the hijackers globally or within the United States or the extent to which such support, if it exists, is knowing or inadvertent in nature.”

The alleged Saudi connection to the 9/11 attacks has had a lot of play: it is widely believed that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 special permission was given to fly members of the Saudi royal family out of the country when the whole nation was in lockdown. This raised suspicions, along with the incontrovertible fact that the majority of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens.

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What is this “secret evidence” “barbara streisand”?!!!

I have dead fellow alums, dead Americans, and a lot of blood, treasure, and liberty has been lost because of this.

‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: [screaming at the top of his lungs] “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” — the character Howard Beale played by Peter Finch in the movie Network (1976) 

I know a lot of folks think I have a tin foil hat. And, maybe I do, but it seems every time we “turn over a rock” a creepy crawler factoid slips out.

Where is the investigative press? Yeah, in bed with the Gooferment, Crony Capitalists, politicians, and bureaucrats!

Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: Sinking of the Lusitania

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/09/patrick-j-buchanan/wilson-lied-us-into-wwi/

Behind the Sinking of the Lusitania
By Patrick J. Buchanan
September 3, 2014

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On May 1, 1915, Lusitania set sail from New York. As Windchy writes, the ship “secretly carried munitions and Canadian troops in civilian clothes, which legally made it fair game for (German) U-boats.

“After the war, Churchill … admitted that the Lusitania carried a ‘small consignment of rifle ammunition and shrapnel shells weighing 173 tons.’ New York Customs Collector Dudley Malone told President Wilson that ‘practically all her cargo was contraband of various kinds.’”

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I’m sure that the Gooferment “history books” don’t report this particular “war crime”.

Argh!

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RANT: Google Apps for Business to Google Apps for Work?

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Today, we announced that we’re changing our name from Google Apps for Business to Google Apps for Work.

Over the years, the size of our team, the breadth of our offerings and our commitment to business customers have all increased substantially. Organizations of all shapes and sizes, from one-person start-ups to corporations with over 200,000 people, are using Google for work. To reflect this change, we’ve renamed our products.

To be clear, only our name is changing. The product experience remains the same, as does our commitment to bringing you the best tools to run your business.

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R U shitting me?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The only winning move is not to play

Monday, September 8, 2014

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/09/eric-margolis/hands-off-isis/

LewRockwell.com
anti-state•anti-war•pro-market

Mr President, the Less you do the Better
By Eric Margolis
September 6, 2014

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Washington DC – “We’ve got to stop ISIS… al-Qaida… Syria’sAssad… Hamas… Hezbollah… Taliban…

Shebab…the wicked Ruskis in Ukraine…those Yemeni Houthis…Iran…Sudan…Islamists in Libya and Mali…Boko Haram in Nigeria… the Red Chinese in Asia. Oh yes, and defend Latvia and fight the Lord’s Army in Uganda.

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To quote Frederick the Great, “he who defends everything, defends nothing.” To which we may add, he who spends on wars everywhere, ends up broke. And he who ignores domestic needs for the sake of imperial glory abroad is cruising for a bruising.

The American Imperium can no longer enforce the international status quo that had given it immense power and wealth since 1945. The Hapsburg Emperor Charles V and poor Louis XVI faced the same problem.

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As they say at the Betty Ford Clinic for drug and alcohol addicts, “just say no.” Or, if Americans really want more jolly little wars around the globe, then raise taxes to pay for them instead of hiding their cost in the national debt.

Americans now face two conflicts in places they can’t even find on the map.

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From the movie WarGames (1983):  “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?”

Maybe BHO44 was displaying a flash of unexpected brilliance when he blurted out “ … we don’t have a strategy …”?

At some point, “We, The Sheeple” must wake up and take charge of our Gooferment!

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JOBSEARCH: “What do you do?” UVP & USP

Monday, September 8, 2014

http://lifehacker.com/answer-what-do-you-do-by-explaining-how-you-solve-pr-1629208879

Answer “What Do You Do?” by Explaining How You Solve Problems

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When you are meeting someone new, at some point, they’ll probably ask, “So what do you do?” If you want to make a good first impression, answer by discussing how you solve problems.

The Art of Manliness style expert Antonio Centeno says you need to force the person to think by asking a question about a problem they can relate to, and present yourself as the answer:

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I usually relate it to my Unique Value Equation and my Unique Sales Equation.

So if you ask me that question, then I answer: “I help Business and IT agree on solutions. Know anyone with that type of problem?”

I like any answer I get back as opposed to the blank stare from my old job description: “I unkink large scale IT infrastructures.” 

Laugh!

Of course, you should have many UVPs and USPs. I have only five now, because I’m “sunsetting”.

fat VERY old white guy injineer!

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POLITICAL: IRS Had “Secret Research Project”

Sunday, September 7, 2014

FROM JUDICIAL WATCH

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IRS Had “Secret Research Project” For Conservative Donor Lists

Judicial Watch continues to blow the lid off of the Obama administration’s increasingly feeble attempts to cover up its deliberate targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election. And the latest batch of emails JW has obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit portrays an agency potentially willing to go to any lengths to bring down the president’s political opponents – including misusing the private, confidential information of those who dared contribute to the groups the IRS had targeted.

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You may recall that then-IRS Commissioner Miller initially testified to Congress on May 17, 2013, that “instructions had been given to destroy any donor lists.” But donor lists were actually produced to the House Ways and Means Committee four months later.

In addition to using them for some “secret research project,” did the Obama IRS otherwise misuse the donor list names the agency knew it had no business having? Well, we have some clues. The Ways and Means Committee announced at May 7, 2014, hearing that, after scores of conservative groups provided donor information “to the IRS, nearly one in ten donors were subject to audit.” In 2011, as many as five donors to one conservative (c)(4) organization were audited, according to the Wall Street Journal. And this past June, the IRS admitted wrongdoing in releasing the conservative National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) confidential tax return and donor list, which were published in March 2012 by the Human Rights Campaign. The Human Rights Campaign is the chief political rival to NOM; its outgoing president had been named a national co-chair of the Obama Reelection Campaign. The IRS reportedly agreed to pay NOM $50,000 to settle the lawsuit.

To this very day, Democrats in Congress who pressured the IRS to go after their enemies pretend that “progressive” groups were targeted in large numbers, as well – despite their being not a scintilla of evidence that conservative groups were the focus. The IRS confirms this again in these new emails, which also include a July 18, 2012, email to Lerner from Judith Kindell, senior technical adviser to Lois Lerner, showing that 75% of the nearly 200 non-profit 501 (c)(4) political activist groups targeted by the IRS were conservative, and only 5% were liberal:

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Judicial Watch lawyers are preparing now to ask the court for relief in light of the Obama administration’s continuing efforts to thwart Judge Sullivan’s orders.

It is not surprising that it took a Judicial Watch lawsuit and a federal court order to force the Obama administration to produce these shocking emails from the IRS. And now we have learned the stunning news that Obama’s IRS had a “secret research program” that used the illicitly-obtained confidential donor lists of conservative and Tea Party organizations that opposed President Obama’s agenda or reelection. With all this IRS abuse, it is no wonder Lois Lerner said that questions by Congress and others were “dangerous.”

It is well past time that President Obama should be held to account about his repeated and recent falsehoods about his IRS scandal.

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I urge everyone to support Judicial Watch.

They’re doing what the liberal media would do if this was an R administration and not a D!

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POLITICAL: Secret Courts and our present Grand Jury system

Sunday, September 7, 2014

http://www.crimefilenews.com/2014/08/american-justice-and-star-chamber.html

Saturday, August 30, 2014
American Justice and Star Chamber Proceedings. It’s Time to Reform or Scrap The Grand Jury System!

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If you’re accused in an indictment of a crime of course you may still be acquitted at trial. The problem is by the time you are tried in the one to three years later you will be bankrupted, fired from your job, divorced and homeless.

Except in Florida there is no government compensation for your legal fees or bail.

The cure? Eliminate the Grand Jury and use Preliminary Hearings as a sort of a mini-trial. Allow the defense attorneys to subpoena documents an hear the actual witnesses testify under oath.
If we are to retain the Grand Jury system, defense lawyers must be allowed to participate as an equal to the prosecutor.

Secret Courts and our present Grand Jury system are un-American and just plain wrong.

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The older I get, the more skeptical I am of political institution in the USA.

The Jewel case, the Innocent Project, the Duke lacrosse case, US Bishops Protecting Pedophile Priests, Healthcare frauds, Political lies, Crony Capitalism … … and on and on.

I don’t see how “The Sheeple” ever get their Liberty. I was tempted to say back, but I’m not sure that anyone has ever been truly free.

Maybe in the Garden of Eden?

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Facial recognition software report — not ready for prime time

Saturday, September 6, 2014

2014-Sep-06

http://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/have-you-seen-her-police-looking-woman-involved-nj-fraud-scheme#.VAsQu2RdXrM

Have You Seen Her? Police Looking for Woman Involved in NJ Fraud Scheme

NOTJJ 2014 09 06

Suspect allegedly stole license plates from cars in East Brunswick, cashed forged checks at various banks around New Jersey, police report.

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Guess facial recognition software is NOT that good yet!

In one respect, that’s good for privacy.

In another, that’s bad for putting an end to this petty crime spree before others get hurt,

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INTERESTING: Slow down the schedule

Saturday, September 6, 2014

http://blog.drbrownstein.com/toxic-vaccines-and-autism-part-2/

Aug. 29
Toxic Vaccines and Autism, Part 2.

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Dr. Wakefield felt that the vaccine could be causing inflammation of the colon in autistic children.  He never stated that MMR vaccine caused autism.  In fact, he stated at that meeting that we should spread out the vaccines and not give children too many vaccines when their immune system is not fully developed.  For that crime, he was persecuted and prosecuted by the media and the medical profession.  This recent study may or may not validate Dr. Wakefield’s research.  However, if it is found to be true, heads should roll.  CDC heads.

Has the MMR vaccine been studied properly? No. None of the childhood vaccines have been properly studied.  I am not anti-vaccine.  But, there needs to be better research about vaccines, especially in our children.  

To vaccinate our children (or anyone) with mercury, aluminum or formaldehyde (which are commonly found in many vaccines) is ludicrous. Autism rates are skyrocketing.  I have no doubt that it is the overall toxicity load that is causing this epidemic increase.  If you choose to vaccinate, I suggest to slow down the schedule and use vaccines that are single dosed and do not contain toxic agents.

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I’m not a doctor; nor do I play one on TV.

I’m not a lawyer; nor do I play one on TV.

I’m not a parent; nor do I play one on TV.

(And, I can go on and on about what I am not!)

So please don’t take me or my ramblings as the authoritative source of medical, legal, or parenting advice.

I know a few parents who have been given the challenge of raising autistic children.

It seems that this doctor has very reasonable advice: slow the schedule and be careful.

I’m not a vax-er or an anti-vaxer. I’m not a D; nor an R. 

I have seen a relative die of the complications of polio after being reduced to a helpless human. And, it’s impact on our family. So, I’m for the benefits and against the side effects. Like choices can be made that way.

I don’t trust the Gooferment, politicians, and bureaucrats. Nor Big Pharma, Big Medicine, or Big Anything.

I pray for all the parents who have to make hard choices and live with the results of those choices.

A very difficult situation for all involved.

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RANT: Geno & a secondary rules violation

Friday, September 5, 2014

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2014/09/05/uconn-coach-call-to-congratulate-little-league-star-broke-rule-ncaa-says/?intcmp=HPBucket

UConn coach’s call to congratulate Little League star broke rule, NCAA says
Published September 05, 2014
Associated Press

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STORRS, Conn. – The NCAA has determined that UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma committed a secondary rules violation when he made a phone call congratulating Little League pitching star Mo’ne Davis last month, the school announced Thursday.

Athletic Director Warde Manuel said the school accepts the decision but does not agree with it.

Auriemma told reporters Wednesday that he talked to the 13-year-old Philadelphia girl at Little League headquarters during the Little League World Series after a friend of his in the Philadelphia 76ers organization suggested it.

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Wow, talk about Pharisees.

I think this “rule” needs to be reexamined.

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HISTORICAL: Find A Grave and exercise

Friday, September 5, 2014

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/the-volunteers-of-findagravecom/379254/

The Volunteers of FindaGrave.com
Cemetery-loving hobbyists have uploaded millions of photographs of headstones from all over the United States.
ROSE EVELETHAUG 28 2014, 10:15 AM ET

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The volunteers at Find A Grave seem to be largely people like Kenney—retired and looking for a hobby. Paul R has uploaded 289,847 photos since joining the site in 2010. “I am retired so I have time to walk through the cemeteries and take pictures,” he writes in his bio. Other people seem to be fascinated by cemeteries themselves. 

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My kind of hobby.

Now to apply drone technology.

Laff!

Eliminate all the fresh air and exercise!

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