It’s sad to say but when do you draw the line?
… when it’s beyond your reach?
… when it’s beyond your care?
… or, when it is beyond your keen?
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sometimes you just have to cut your losses?
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It’s sad to say but when do you draw the line?
… when it’s beyond your reach?
… when it’s beyond your care?
… or, when it is beyond your keen?
…
sometimes you just have to cut your losses?
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My life is over,
Day is done.
You can say more,
but you can not give me “extra innings”.
Nor would I want them.
When the game is irretrievable,
extending the game is insanity!
Best be done,
and move on to the next one.
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with apologies to McCarra-Fitzpatrick MaryAnn (MC1989)
fat old white guy injineers should not veture into Arts and Science!
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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
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But, BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), you can NOT know yourself.
At different points in time, you are a different person.
At different levels (i.e, id, ego and superego), you are a different person.
And, depending upon how you define yourself visa vi dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom), you are different person.
So, with all deference to Señor Aristotle, and he must have been a high IQ guy, “knowing yourself” is unknowable.
imho!
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Japan’s Radiation Disaster Toll: None Dead, None Sick
by Soulskill
An anonymous reader writes “This article discusses a recently-released U.N. Scientific Committee report which examined the health effects of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Their conclusion: ‘Radiation exposure following the nuclear accident at Fukushima-Daiichi did not cause any immediate health effects. It is unlikely to be able to attribute any health effects in the future among the general public and the vast majority of workers. … No radiation-related deaths or acute effects have been observed among nearly 25,000 workers involved at the accident site. Given the small number of highly exposed workers, it is unlikely that excess cases of thyroid cancer due to radiation exposure would be detectable.’ The article even sums up the exposure levels for the workers who were closest to the reactor: ‘Of 167 exposed to more than the industry’s recommended five-year limit of 100 mSv (a CT scan exposes patients to up to 10 mSv), 23 recorded 150-200 mSv, three 200-250 mSv and six up to 678 mSv, still short of the 1000 mSv single dosage that causes radiation sickness, or the accumulated exposure estimated to cause a fatal cancer years later in 5 per cent of people.’ The report also highlights the minute effect it’s had on the environment: ‘The exposures on both marine and terrestrial non-human biota were too low for observable acute effects.'”
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I hope this correct and not “biased” by Gooferment.
If it is, then despite a huge blunder nuke energy makes sense.
Only if we trust the dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) we are receiving, then we should be pushing nuke versus carbon as our civilization’s savior.
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There’s something wistful about a basement. I only remember two or three. In NYC apartment, they were disgusting. In my Grand Aunt’s country home, there was a store room of canned and jarred food. In my Air Force days, the Mom of the girl one of my friend’s was dating, was pantry store house of all array of things — neat, clean, and uber organized. Maybe I’ll have one when I eventually move to NH?
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WSJ/NBC News Poll: Scandals Prompt Doubts About Honesty
Recent controversies surrounding the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies have sown doubts about the honesty of the Obama administration, but most people don’t hold the president personally responsible for the agency actions, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
A majority of poll respondents, some 55%, said IRS scrutiny of conservative groups raised some level of doubt about the administration’s “overall honesty and integrity.”
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Seriously?
Why is it so low?
I’d have bet it would have been in the high 70’s.
Oh yeah, “low information voters”.
Argh!
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http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams171.html
Understanding Liberals and Progressives
by Walter E. Williams
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In order to understand the liberal and progressive agenda, one must know something about their world vision and values. Let’s examine some of the evidence.
Why the 1970s struggle to ban DDT? Alexander King, founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome, wrote in a 1990 biographical essay: “My own doubts came when DDT was introduced for civilian use. In Guyana, within two years, it had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time the birth rate had doubled. So my chief quarrel with DDT, in hindsight, is that it has greatly added to the population problem.”
Dr. Charles Wurster, former chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, was once asked whether he thought a ban on DDT would result in the use of more dangerous chemicals and more malaria cases in Sri Lanka. He replied: “Probably. So what? People are the cause of all the problems. We have too many of them. We need to get rid of some of them, and (malaria) is as good a way as any.”
According to Earthbound, a collection of essays on environmental ethics, William Aiken said: “Massive human diebacks would be good. It is our duty to cause them. It is our species’ duty, relative to the whole, to eliminate 90 percent of our numbers.”
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Sorry but that is sad!
DO they think so little of human beings that they can discard them so thoughtlessly?
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An awful lot of good men died in this invasion.
I remember!
Does anyone else?
I knew a Canuk (that how he described himself) who landed with the Canadians in D-day and one night after a few “adult refreshment”, he said: “It is something you can not describe. The death of friends and the futility of it all.”
Every D-day, I remember him!
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http://lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w327.html
The FBI: An American Cheka
by William Norman Grigg
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From its inception, the Soviet secret police agency was engaged in what we now call “Homeland Security Theater.” The same could be said of the FBI, which actually had a nine-year head start on its Soviet counterpart. J. Edgar Hoover’s two chief priorities were the collection of what the Soviets would call kompromat on significant public figures – politicians, policy-makers, celebrities – and the management of his secret police agency’s public image. With the advent of COINTELPRO in the 1950s, the FBI became fully engaged in a campaign of surveillance, harassment, disruption, and assassination (if only by proxy) targeting political dissidents. Since that time, the FBI has been a fully realized political police organization, in every evil sense of that expression.
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I remember the FBI story with Jimmy Stewart.
If I’d been paying attention I’d have seen the flaws.
Right at the beginning, a “federal agency” to handle interstate crime.
How could I have been so stupid?
The Goofermentcreates the problem with Prohibition and Banking laws, then of course they need an agency to combat what they create.
Stupid!
Well, 60 years later, I’ve wised up.
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Anyone going to remember the blood shed on a French beach many decades ago?
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Government Creates a New Criminal Class
by Jeffrey Tucker.
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Woo-hoo! It is a wonderful thing when the good guys win one for a change. Well, it wasn’t a total win, but it gives hope.
In a case brought by the Wisconsin state government — with full cooperation from the federal government — a jury refused to convict Amish farmer Vernon Hershberger on all counts for distributing milk, cheese, and meat without a license. He did he end up with one conviction, for which he faces a year in jail, but that’s nothing compared with what might have happened.
Now, there are still many people who would read the above and say: Wait just a minute here. You mean to tell me that a farmer was hounded by bureaucrats for selling his own food to others who wanted to buy it?
Indeed. His farm was raided in 2010, and much of his milk and cheese was destroyed by the police. The conviction was based on Vernon’s desire to fulfill his commitments and distribute what remained.
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A willing buyer from a willing seller?
Why is that the Gooferment’s business to interfere?
Argh!
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http://lewrockwell.com/orig14/merkel1.1.1.html
AR-15 Rifle – the King of Home Defense
by Paul Merkel
AmmoLand
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When considering the defense of your home against intruders there are a few question you must ask yourself and realities you must face.
Before we delve into the hardware aspect, we need to engage in a very simple question and answer exercise. That is, what is our legitimately anticipated problem and what is the most practical and effective solution.
Tough Questions: What is the Threat?
First and foremost, when you consider protecting your home, what is the anticipated threat? Naturally, we are concerned with the stereotypical burglar, the lone criminal. Professional criminals will generally “burgle” your home when you are out. The most dangerous threat is what we’ll call the “home invasion”.
One, two, three or more armed vermin force their way into an occupied home intent on robbery, rape, and potentially murder. While rare, the threat is real enough to send chills down the spine of any home owner.
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My paternal grandmother had a rifle hung over her fireplace until she went into a nursing home in the late 60’s. When I asked her if it was loaded, she replied: “Weren’t no good if it weren’t!” I knew from other family members that she’d used it when she traveled the Oregon Trail.
So do we need such an attitude today.
Sad to say I think so.
The Liberalism and “Secular Progressive” society of post-WW2 has create a parasite class that has no fear. Caught and sent to prison, they come out with new criminal skills, physically stronger, and with a worse attitude than they went in with.
Every good man and woman should have access to Sam Colt’s equalizer!
Like the bumpersticker says: “When seconds count, the police are minutes away” and “You are your own First Responder”!
I have mine. I hope you have yours. Mostly I hope it’s like insurance and we all never need it.
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Release Date: 05/06/2013
Company:
$40.0 Billion, Healthcare payer, NYC Metro
Salary:
Open
Remarks:
As a leading healthcare payer organization, this company is in the midst of an exciting phase of large scale and comprehensive transformation of its business model which offers an abundance of opportunities for those leaders at the top of their game to create and implement high-profile, impactful solutions.
A major healthcare services organization located in the New York Metro area has engaged us to identify a Divisional Portfolio Director [DPD]. This is a newly created position and will report to the Senior Director of Enterprise PMO as well as, dotted line, to divisional Senior Vice Presidents.
Main responsibilities:
• The DPD will assume responsibility for providing leadership and direction to a portfolio of IT and business projects and programs in support of a selected number of key divisional business strategies. Annual portfolio size will be approximately $50 MM, with a total cost range of between $100M – $200M.
• Will be primary point of contact for portfolio status, conducting monthly portfolio reviews with SVPs and core portfolio management team
• Will provide oversight and management direction of divisional projects/programs, facilitate project/program reviews of key enterprise activities, ensure tools and processes are operating effectively and efficiently, and ensure all EPMO deliverables meet quality standards
• The DPD will also manage internal and external systems/application development projects from inception to successful implementation
• The DPD will recruit, develop and supervise staffs of up to 50 professionals
Background and skills required:
• 10 – 15 years of experience with progressively larger scale, broad-based project/program management
• Experience managing multi-year programs/portfolios with budgets of at least $25MM
• Your background will demonstrate the ability to lead, develop and motivate professional staffs of 25+ in size to perform at their best
• Your background will also demonstrate a strong track record as a change agent helping drive business model transformations
• The core skill sets of this position are demonstrated talent for conceptualizing, documenting, presenting and selling creative solutions to senior IT and business management
• A background in Healthcare or Pharmaceuticals is highly preferred
• Degrees: BA/BS required; MS in Computer Science, Business Administration or Engineering strongly preferred. An MBA with extensive project management experience is highly preferred
• PMP certification is required or must be acquired within one year of hire
• Candidates located in the New York Metro area are preferred
This is an exceptional opportunity for a strategic thinking IT professional to play a key and highly visible role in the transformation of a major healthcare industry organization.
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
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Sad to say, did I ever anticipate to be where I am today?
Never in a grazillion years.
Am I sad? Yes!
Am I sad about the choices I’ve made?
That strikes me of Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! thinking.
Argh!
Life is not a VCR. Neither is it a deterministic world.
If you presented with a choice of X and Y, then until you get to the Final Judgment will you know that if you had chosen the alternative that you’d have stopped off the curb and gotten hit with a mack truck.
Thankfully, as boy I read the “Lensmen” series, … by Edward Elmer “Doc” Smith …, that postulated a Universe that was deterministic. (The Arisians could foresee the alternatives of the future and how things worked out.) The lesson was that humans weren’t Arisians and we had to guess!
I took that to heart with my meme “less than a year, might be a mistake; more tun a year is a lesson!”
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Back to Adams.
Since each intention was a decision, I’ve ended exactly where I planned to be.
Once happy; now sad. Running out the clock!
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Parents of dying 10-year-old girl challenge organ donor rule blocking her from lung transplant
Published May 27, 2013
FoxNews.com
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Politicians and bureaucrats make diktats.
It’s why we should have a marketplace.
May sound ghoulish, but it’s the only fair way to do things.
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BUSINESS
‘STUNNINGLY, BREATHTAKINGLY NAIVE’: NEWT GINGRICH REALLY DIDN’T LIKE OBAMA’S TERROR POLICY SPEECH
May. 26, 2013 3:22pm
Becket Adams
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Gingrich went on to criticize the Obama administration for ignoring the threat that radical Islam poses to civilized society.
“No one wants to talk honestly about the fact that there is a radical Islamism on offense,” Gingrich said. “It is on offense across the planet…We will never be at peace in the pre-1941 sense that we are not threatened and that we don’t have to actively take measures all the time.”
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If we don’t recognize the enemy and our contribution to the problem, how can we ever have peace?
The R’s and the D’s both support the warfare / welfare / crony phony corporatism.
You expect them to change?
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CRIME
PARKING TICKETS ISSUED TO CARS DESTROYED IN VIOLENT SWEDEN RIOTS — CONSERVATIVE SITE POSTS PROOF
May. 27, 2013 7:45am Sharona Schwartz
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For the past week, immigrant youths rioted in Sweden. Riots that included the breaking of windows, rock-throwing at police, destruction of property and burning of cars. Swedish police tell the Associated Press that some 220 crimes were reported to them during the violent rampage.
But instead of cracking down on the perpetrators, authorities were busy issuing parking tickets on cars that were burned by the rioters. The conservative Swedish news site Fria Tider reports that owners of some cars destroyed in the riots were fined for parking illegally, while the Swedish police force described a low-key approach to the rioters themselves. Its reporter caught a parking enforcer in the act of issuing a ticket, and shot a photo, published above the headline “Parking Tickets Issued on Wrecks While Stockholm Burns.”
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You just have to laugh!
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Get your car destroyed by lawless thugs and a parking ticket too!
Wonder when it ail happen here?
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http://www.inspiremetoday.com/archiveDisp.php?type=0&ref=1868
Inspiration Archives: B. Lynn Goodwin
Lynn is a freelance writer, editor, teacher, former caregiver, and the author of You Want Me To Do What? – Journaling for Caregivers.
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If I could share 500 words to inspire, this is the important wisdom I’d want to pass along to others…
It’s easy to tell others to take risks. It’s harder to live by that rule, especially if you’re wise enough to consider the consequences. Have faith. Take a leap and trust that someone will catch you.
Weigh your choices.
Don’t hesitate to give to a stranger but don’t give everything away.
Be who you are. Everybody else is taken
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I’m not sure that you can “weigh” choices?
I used to think that way. Even had software, later spreadsheets, later mind maps, all to define the “choosing process”.
Some decisions turned out well; others poorly. It really had little to do with anything.
Like watching poker on TV. The best decision can work out poorly based on luck.
So, like the poker pro, you try to play the odds as best you can and roll with the punches.
A lot of the results depend upon “luck”.
There are really no “wrong” decisions.
Argh! Life is hard and then you die.
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Interesting the “war movies” on TCM and ACM …
… maybe when I was a yute this propaganda would work.
Now I’m much more of a skeptic!
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On today, one has to wonder what the Clovers and Sheeple really think.
When we have “Wounded Warriors” on TV begging for 19 bucks a month for aid to the returning WIA … …
When we have a confused unwinnable mission … …
When we have a citizenry uninvolved in the mission … …
When we have not fulfilled the conditions for a “Just War” … …
When we have girls and boys in Harm’s way and it’s ignored … …
… then you have to question just how “grateful” the Nation is!
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http://lewrockwell.com/orig14/blannelberry11.1.html
Evidence for Confiscation: 5 Examples That Show the Threat Is Real
by S.H. Blannelberry
Guns.com
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Gun control activists do not want to confiscate our guns. Really. Just trust them about it. They don’t. Instead, they just want to pass simple, common sense and reasonable gun laws that have nothing to do with confiscating lawfully owned property. Trust them. They really, really don’t want to take our guns. Really.
As President Barack Obama said on the campaign trail in 2008, “I believe in the Second Amendment. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away … But I am not going to take your guns away. So if you want to find an excuse not to vote for me, don’t use that one because it just ain’t true. It ain’t true.”
See, it just ain’t true, like the President said. No lawmaker or politician will propose legislation that will confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens. Really. In fact, every gun control supporter is a huge fan of the right to keep and bear arms. Really.
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1. Dianne Feinstein: “Dry up the supply”
2. NY SAFE Act
3. California’s Confiscation Task Force
4. New Jersey Lawmakers: “Confiscation, Confiscation, Confiscation”
5. Missouri/Minnesota Bill
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It’s all about “control” of the Clovers and Sheeple.
JPFO has a few great articles about the Genocide / Shoah came after “gun control” to make everyone safe. And, the racist origins of “gun control” in the South; the KKK didn’t want anyone who could shoot back!
Argh!
How stupid are we?
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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/18/oops-5-greatest-scientific-blunders/
Oops! The 5 greatest scientific blunders
By Clara Moskowitz
Published May 18, 2013
LiveScience
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Overconfidence, under confidence, and blind spots.
All human failings.
Not sure if “blunders” is the right word.
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Speaking of gun control, here is the end result of disarming honest men and women: Blood on his hands, hatred in his eyes: 2.30 pm on a suburban high street, Islamic fanatics wielding meat cleavers butcher a British soldier… As we say here in the States: “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” In this case, it was 14 minutes after the first 999 call. A lot can happen in 14 minutes. There is no substitute for an armed citizenry.)
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/19/WH-spokesman-Obama-Benghazi-irrelevant
WH: ‘IRRELEVANT’ WHERE OBAMA WAS DURING BENGHAZI ATTACKS
by BEN SHAPIRO 19 May 2013, 7:29 AM PDT 283
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On Fox News Sunday this morning, White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer was asked by Chris Wallace where in the White House President Obama was during the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans. “Question,” asked Wallace. “What did the President do the rest of that night to pursue Benghazi?” Pfeiffer answered, “Look, the President was kept up to date on this as it was happening the entire night, from the moment it started until the very end …. I recognize that there’s a series of conspiracy theories Republicans have been spinning about it since the time it happened.” He then added, “The question here is not what happened that night.”
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So where was he?
We have pics of him in the room when the raid on OBL was happening.
What was more important?
Remember the Hillary commercial about the red phone ringing unanswered at night.
I think they nailed it!
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