http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/unfortunate-truths-about-child-pornography-and-the-internet-feature/
WOW! Certainly should be required reading for anyone BEFORE they allow their children to have ANY access to a computer or cell phone.
Argh!
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RANT: Required pre-Christmas gift giving
Thursday, December 20, 2012
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MEMORIES: 42 years ago
Wednesday, December 19, 2012a beautiful young lady said “i do”
changed me forever
she was called away two years ago
changed me forever
just waiting
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RANT: Taylor is not the marketing maven I thought she was
Tuesday, December 18, 2012Personally, I was astonished!
She is supposedly a “marketing maven”.
BUT!
She missed the boat — or someone did — with the Walgreen’s deal.
FIRST, She should have has a “display clause”. “Her” display was messy! Needed to be “straightened”.
SECOND, she should have INSISTED on a higher quality notebook.
(a) the paper used in her notebook was of flimsy quality; (not that I think it has to be great, but it was like tissue paper)
(b) it has no red margin line line normal loose leaf filler; (how much did that add to the bottom line!) AND
(c) I was expecting some “personalization”. (Since her audience is tweens, preteens, and at least one fat old white injineer I would suggest that the “notebooks” should have taken the opportunity to communicate something inspirational to all the young girls who hang on her every word and one fat old white guy injineer who wishes he was 50 years younger.)
If I was a “pop star”, then I hope I would try to “communicate” with my young girl fans?
Do I tell them to: (a) study hard? (b) close your knees and bring about world peace; or (c) figure out what you want to be when you grow up like I did and don’t let anyone distract you from your goal.
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A marketing whore?
That’s a little “hard”.
Is that like a man is assertive and a woman is bitchy?
You have to admire that her net worth reportedly jump about 165M$ in the last year. And, that’s what they know about. Her merchandise sales and tie ins fly under the radar.
She’s really the successor to Reba who succeeded Dolly.
The only question is can she sustain it.
The stuff that I read says that there are 2 year transitions early in the “star career” early between 14 and 21. Then they begin to lengthen until they finally become decades. Cites of successful transitions are Betty White, Liz Taylor, Jodi Foster, and Madona. Cites of unsuccessful are Jenna Elfman, Lindsey, Pink, Barbara Striesand, Jane Fonda, and on and on.
It’s a tough business and the public is fickle.
I’d cite Lady Kazan, who technically had a better voice than her contemporary Babs, but lost out. Judy Collins succeeded over Jody Mitchell but couldn’t make the transition form Folk music to the Beetles.
I feel bad for people with a gift who’s gift for whatever reason can not make the leap. “Starving artist” is a cliche.
At the very least, someone like these people must “make hay while the sunshines” because at any minute the music can stop and they are left without a chair.
I think the thing that I admire most about a Taylor Swift is that she “knew” what she wanted to do so early in life and had the huevos to go for it. She sounded “sad” when she said she wanted to go to college but made a decision to forego it to pursue her career. Her “stones” came out when she passed on the record deal from RCA. (Wonder who, if anyone, got fired for that?) And, she had the chutzpah to sign with a start up record label as their Number One artist.
Amazing.
Shows me the nerve of a cat burglar. The savvy of a NYC three card mote dealer. And the Noblise Oblige of some one who’s living their dream.
Argh!
Sometime beauty makes to weep for what you are not.
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ADMINISTRIVIA: Asserting ownership
Monday, December 17, 2012
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INTERESTING: Is this the “gay gene” that everyone was seeking?uote
Monday, December 17, 2012
Scientists May Have Finally Unlocked Puzzle of Why People Are Gay
Lesbians get it from fathers, gay men from mothers?
By JASON KOEBLER
December 11, 2012
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Long thought to have some sort of hereditary link, a group of scientists suggested Tuesday that homosexuality is linked to epi-marks — extra layers of information that control how certain genes are expressed. These epi-marks are usually, but not always, “erased” between generations. In homosexuals, these epi-marks aren’t erased — they’re passed from father-to-daughter or mother-to-son, explains William Rice, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California Santa Barbara and lead author of the study.
“There is compelling evidence that epi-marks contribute to both the similarity and dissimilarity of family members, and can therefore feasibly contribute to the observed familial inheritance of homosexuality and its low concordance between [identical] twins,” Rice notes.
Rice and his team created a mathematical model that explains why homosexuality is passed through epi-marks, not genetics. Evolutionarily speaking, if homosexuality was solely a genetic trait, scientists would expect the trait to eventually disappear because homosexuals wouldn’t be expected to reproduce. But because these epi-marks provide an evolutionary advantage for the parents of homosexuals: They protect fathers of homosexuals from underexposure to testosterone and mothers of homosexuals from overexposure to testosterone while they are in gestation.
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Is this the big breakthrough that allows the human race to move forward?
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INTERESTING: What’s the “jedi religion”?
Sunday, December 16, 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9737886/Jedi-religion-most-popular-alternative-faith.html
‘Jedi’ religion most popular alternative faith
Today’s Census figures show that 176,632 people in England and Wales identify themselves as Jedi Knights, making it the most popular faith in the “Other Religions” category on the Census and the seventh most popular faith overall.
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You have to be kidding me!
I could understand a lot of the possible answers, but … this one stuns me!
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MONEY: Save all nickels
Saturday, December 15, 2012http://lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff190.html
Ditching Before the Fiscal Cliff
by Peter Schiff
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Turn on the TV and this is what you’ll hear: The US budget is heading for a fiscal cliff. If a deal isn’t reaching in Congress by the end of this year, a combination of automatic tax hikes and budget cuts will sink America into economic depression. There is no escape.
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Those buying into physical gold and silver see this inevitability and are getting prepared. We believe there is no sense playing Russian roulette with our savings. Every time Washington raises that debt ceiling or announces another stimulus, it’s like one more click of the trigger.
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OK, I get it. Everyone thinks I have a tin foil hat.
Talk to anyone who lived through the German pre-WW2 hyperinflation or the Great Depression. Or even the Carter inflation of the 70’s.
I get it. Buying Gold and / or Silver bullion is way out there on the lunatic fringe.
OK, how about accumulating “poor man’s gold”. Nickels?
If you won’t ask for a roll every time you go to your bank, then just don’t spend them when you receive them in change.
I have a couple of boxes on both my nightstands. If during the day, I get nickels in change I put them in my back pocket. When I get home, they go into the box and the “junk” goes into the “recycling bag”. (I take my change often anytime I go to the bank.)
Argh!
So here’s the gist of this money rant: (1) save all nickels; (2) consider buying bullion; but (3) don’t buy what you see advertised on TV. (Someone has to pay for the ads. Guess who? U!)
See you on the other side.
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GUNS: Guns are NOT the problem; the lack of them is!
Friday, December 14, 2012As a pro-life little Libertarian, I can NOT imagine what these people are going through. And, it’s at times like this that there is an over-reaction to “fix” the problem by restricting law-abiding people’s rights.
Tragic. But that is what happens when you create a “gun free zone”. In the military, it’s called a target rich environment. Every adult in that school was disarmed and unable to defend themselves or the children.
The Israelis had the same problem with Kibbutz schools being attacked until they started letting armed grandparents volunteer as school security. The killings stopped immediately. Turns out cranky old grandparent are perfect “school security officers”.
Someday we will wise up.
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Dear Members of our Sandy Hook Family,
Our district will be implementing a security system in all elementary schools as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure student safety. As usual, exterior doors will be locked during the day. Every visitor will be required to ring the doorbell at the front entrance and the office staff will use a visual monitoring system to allow entry. Visitors will still be required to report directly to the office and sign in. If our office staff does not recognize you, you will be required to show identification with a picture id. Please understand that with nearly 700 students and over 1000 parents representing 500 SHS families, most parents will be asked to show identification.
Doors will be locked at approximately 9:30 a.m. Any student arriving after that time must be walked into the building and signed in at the office. Before that time our regular drop-off procedures will be in place. I encourage all parents to have their children come to school and return home on the bus and to remain in school for the entire school day. The beginning and ending of our school day are also important instructional times and therefore we want all our students to reap the benefits of full participation in our program.
We need your help and cooperation for our system to work effectively. Our office staff is handling multiple tasks. Though they will work diligently to help you into the building as quickly as possible, there may be a short delay until someone can view you on the handset and allow you to come in electronically. There are times during the day when office personnel are on the telephone, addressing student concerns, or in the copy room; there are other times when only one person is in the front office. Please help our staff by identifying yourself and provide your child’s name.
Keep in mind we will be following our district guidelines which may need revision once we test the system.
Please know your involvement continues to be critical to our school’s effectiveness and your child’s success. We continue to encourage and value your presence in our classrooms and are counting on your cooperation with the implementation of this safety initiative.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Hochsprung
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Guess the “new security regime” didn’t work so well. But, I am sure it did give the parents a false sense of security.
Argh!
Gooferment is rarely the answer and is often the source of the problem.
In most of these shootings, the teachers and staff are unarmed. The maintenance people are unarmed. The cafeteria people are unarmed.
(Never mind that the children are unarmed. In Israeli, mature children are packing heat. I’d trust youngsters to protect themselves. Too bad there wasn’t a drug gang in this school; they could have protected the children. Argh!)
The bad guy, or guys, always seems to have a equipment malfunction, stop to reload, or turn in a different direction. We all saw that video in Florida of the old coot when the robber turned away, pulled out a pop gun (small caliber pocket pistol) and started blazing away. Did convince the thug to head for the hills.
We allow the school maintenance person to walk around the school with knives, saws, and power tools. What’s wrong with one more tool? “Hey, Mike or Michelle, bring your Colt 45 to work and if you see any two legged varmints shoot at kids, take them out. We’ll reimburse you for the bullets.” Argh!!!
We saw the one teacher pulling a kid into her class room. I’d trust her with a tool. She could put all the children in a corner and she covers the door. Anything coming through that looks like a threat; empty. Reload and repeat. Mother Bears defend their cubs better than we as a species do!
Why do we have Gofferment Skrules again?
These training grounds just teach everyone to be sheep. SOOOooo let’s sprinkle a few sheepdogs in the herd. Make it exciting to be a criminal. Wonder how they’ll react to some return fire. Bet they’ll move on to easier targets. Like police stations. We all know that cops are terrible shots.
OH, and by the way, we have to indemnify all these volunteers against lawsuits by criminals. Stupid system, criminal breaks the law and can sue the victim for resisting. Where’s Judge Judy applying the “clean hands” doctrine?
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POLITICAL: The Lincoln Movie
Friday, December 14, 2012http://lewrockwell.com/thornton/thornton53.1.html
The Lincoln Movie
by Mark Thornton
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Steven Spielberg’s epic movie Lincoln is truly a masterpiece. As an historical drama it portrays Lincoln in the final months of his life and the final months of the Civil War. More than anything, it shows Lincoln attempting – against all odds – to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery.
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With Lincoln, of course Abraham Lincoln was president during the American Civil War, Mary Todd Lincoln was the first lady, they had sons, etc. All the supporting cast did exist including all the politicians, cabinet members, generals, etc. The 13th amendment to the Constitution banning slavery did pass, Lincoln was assassinated, and the Union did defeat the Confederacy.
It is also true that Lincoln did work to promote the passage of the 13th amendment. However, as Thomas DiLorenzo has shown, Lincoln worked for the passage of the 13th amendment in 1861 That 13th amendment would have banned the federal government from interfering with states that permitted slavery if it has been ratified. Furthermore, he shows that there is no hard evidence that Lincoln worked for the passage of the 13th amendment in 1865 which prohibited slavery in all states.
As you can see, the real version of events would not have made for a good movie. In fact, the real Lincoln would not make for any kind of pleasant movie. He was a loser politician married to a crazy woman, who unexpectedly found success because the nation splintered into four political parties, handing him the election.
Lincoln was famous for telling people what they wanted to hear. He would often claim to support one position on an issue to one group of people and claim to support the opposite position to another group of people. He was the classic flip-flopper often supporting numerous positions on an issue over his political career. No good material for a movie here.
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Wow, who would have thought a politician is a flip flopper telling people what they want to hear?
Lincoln is far and away on the top of my worst President list. No one in the second tier is even close.
He was the ultimate crony capitalist as a “railroad lawyer”.
I find it bemusing that the Black Community reveres him.
Not that I’m a proponent of slavery, Jim Crow, or racism, but he was the opposite of their image.
Toss in on top that the rest of the world was able to eliminate slavery without a war. Slavery was uneconomic and, ten more so, when the mechanization of America. Human labor is too valuable to waste in slavery. (Ever try and get a human to do something that they don’t want to do? As children, we learn at an early age that no one can make us do ANYTHING ever. Even poop!)
Argh!
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RANT: Celebrities are not, and shouldn’t be, targets
Thursday, December 13, 2012http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2012/12/11/taylor-swift-stalker-problem-is-worse-than-ever/
Taylor Swift: ‘Stalker problem is worse than ever’
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She adds, “There are a lot of them (stalkers). I just try to be safe and be conscious of people around me… It’s something you just have to deal with. It’s the price you pay for getting to do what you love. You can let it take over your life and make you fearful all the time, or you can live your life in spite of it.”
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Not because she’s “my girl”. (LOL, like she wants a fat old white guy injineer.)
But one of the few LEGITIMATE functions of GOOFERMENT is to protect its citizens.
It would seem, given that Hollywood loves politicians, that there should be some protection.
As a little L libertarian, like my battered spouse suggestion, I’d say if there’s a restraining order and the star’s, or the detail, can see you, they can shoot you. Open season on stalkers.
No debate. No arrests.
But they are responsible for their collateral damage.
Think of it as a line of work for out of work military snipers.
LOL! Only partially!
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MONEY: It’s “too big to fail” is “to big to exist”?
Wednesday, December 12, 2012The Coming Derivatives Panic That Will Destroy Global Financial Markets
December 4th, 2012
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It would have been really nice if we had not allowed these banks to get so large and if we had not allowed them to make trillions of dollars of reckless bets. But we stood aside and let it happen. Now these banks are so important to our economic system that their destruction would also destroy the U.S. economy. It is kind of like when cancer becomes so advanced that killing the cancer would also kill the patient. That is essentially the situation that we are facing with these banks.
It would be hard to overstate the recklessness of these banks. The numbers that you are about to see are absolutely jaw-dropping. According to the Comptroller of the Currency, four of the largest U.S. banks are walking a tightrope of risk,
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The bottom line is that Big Gooferment likes Big Anything.
More contributions.
More crony faux capitalism. Get money by playing the game; NOT satisfying customers.
Simple solution. Artificially constrain the size by limiting balance sheets. Require excess to be spun back to the owners.
Ever hear of “anti-trust” or “restraint of trade”?
Not going to happen, because they are all in bed with one another.
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RANT: Have we been euphemized?
Tuesday, December 11, 2012http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e271.html
Their Proper Name
by Eric Peters
EricPetersAutos.com
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To undo it, there must be a rebirth of what they called in cowboy flicks, straight-talking. Calls things by their proper name – and challenge those who don’t or won’t. Make them say what they mean – openly. If you fail to do so, you’ve accepted their terms.
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Most people are innocent victims of verbal (and written) rights-rape. For example, public schools. Well, no – they’re not. Yes, they are “open” to the public – in the sense that the public is forced at gunpoint to send its children to them. Which gives us a clue as to the proper name that ought to be used in every instance of discussion: Government schools. It is what they are, in plain, direct – and thus, honest – language. Nothing less. Which of course is why honest language is not generally used to describe them. Because that might get people thinking along certain lines. “Public” sounds so much… friendlier. Free, almost – a vicious irony if ever there was. You’re not free to decline to pay for them (even if you don’t use them). And most kids are certainly not free to not attend them. Very much what you’d expect of a government school. Because the essential attribute of government is coercion – force. The thing that must never be openly stated – but always euphemized.
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So don’t let it happen to you.
Insist on clear definitions and meaningful labels.
A rose doesn’t smell as sweet if you call it a “thorny bush”!
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SERVICE: Has Google’s GMAIL broken
Monday, December 10, 2012For the first time in a long time, I see GMAIL choking. Timeouts. The IPAD client barfing. Unable to sync and all sorts of strange errors.
Has Google jumped the shark?
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RANT: Gas is going up and staying up?
Monday, December 10, 2012http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-chart-implies-something-very-troubling-about-the-price-of-gas/
THIS CHART IMPLIES SOMETHING VERY TROUBLING ABOUT THE PRICE OF GAS
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 12:50pm by Becket Adams
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See that? Although the price of crude has fallen in recent months, as the above chart clearly indicates, the price of gasoline remains at a record high.
“Anecdotally, it feels like when oil prices rise, gas prices at the pump rise; but when turmoil pauses in global geo-politics – or some entity decides that high oil prices just will not do for the world’s economy – gas prices at the pump seem not to drop so quickly,” writers are Zero Hedge note.
“Yes there are pipeline, inventory (and even tax) issues but the following chart suggests ‘gouging’ on a national level,” they add.
It’s also worth noting that what we’re seeing today with the price of gasoline and crude is eerily similar to what we saw right before the economic collapse of 2008.
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I think there maybe a big overhang on the markets due to increased costs (i.e., Obamacare) and increased taxes (i.e., the fiscal cliff).
Given the “gouging rules” passed after Sandy. Or used during Sandy. I wouldn’t lower my price un my competition forces me to.
Hmmm?
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POLITICAL: Maximo Guillermo “Max” Manus
Sunday, December 9, 2012Notes from JWR:
by Jim Rawles
December 9th, 2012 would have been the 98th birthday of Maximo Guillermo “Max” Manus. He was was one of the few Norwegians who had the testicular fortitude to put his life on the line, fighting the Nazi occupiers. (There surely would have been many more active resistance fighters in Norway, but fearing widespread reprisal executions by the Germans, King H7 urged the civilian populace to stand down.) Manus passed away in 1996. His exploits are fairly accurately shown in the movie Max Manus: Man of War
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MONEY: What have we allowed to be done?
Sunday, December 9, 2012http://www.cmi-gold-silver.com/blog/government-money/
Book Review: What Has Government Done to Our Money?
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In the United States we currently have a stated policy by the Federal Reserve to create higher levels of inflation while artificially lowering interest rates. This is a policy devastating to savers and those attempting to live off of the proceeds of their capital. How did we arrive at the point where a government created agency can arbitrarily opt to destroy the value of people’s savings?
Murray Rothbard’s What Has Government Done to Our Money? lays out the step by step process by which the commodity based monies of the free market are slowly and deliberately usurped by governments and their central banks. The end result of this control is the ability of government to take purchasing power from the savings of its citizens through inflation.
Understanding money and its creation are essential to understanding how inflation originates. Rothbard assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and begins with first principles to derive what money is and how it is used in a free market. He then covers the manipulations used by government to wrestle control of money away from the free market. Finally he finishes with a two hundred year history of money and currencies in the Western world. It is through this history he demonstrates how government abuse has resulted in a series of breakdowns of the dollar with respect to gold that have inevitably led to our current global monetary crisis.
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We have allowed the politicians and bureaucrats to inflate the paper currency and silently steal from everyone — rich and poor alike — their wealth. For the poor, it’s the value of their labor. For the rich, it’s the value of their savings.
argh!
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FUN: Hat, scarf, and gloves as heart attack prevention
Saturday, December 8, 2012http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/bennett-l4.1.1.html
Woolly Hats and Heart Attacks
by Lizzie Bennett
Medically Speaking
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Each winter there is a myriad of articles published warning us about the dangers of hypothermia, how to spot it and what to do about it. There are articles warning about cold injuries such as frostbite, warnings to the elderly about the dangers of not keeping at least one room warm. Warnings to get the boiler serviced in case carbon monoxide builds up if its faulty. We are warned that we may need extra vitamins, warned to drive carefully, warned to take care if using candles and warned not to leave the lights on the Christmas tree switched on overnight. Not once, anywhere in this plethora of warnings have I heard the one that warns you that you are more likely to suffer a heart attack if you don’t wear a warm hat in cold weather.
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Makes a believer out of me.
Interesting that my work location is always cold. Even in summer time.
The women are always saying it. And, recently, I couple of ties I felt it. Power of Suggestion? Anyone who knows me that I like it at “Meat Locker” temps. Wife used have a blanket when we took car trips. (Although I always thought she was being sarcastic.)
Maybe there is something to the article.
Maybe if I wear a hat, gloves, and a scarf in the office they think I’ve gone around the bend and pay men off?
Then, it’ll off to New Hampshire to get warm.
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RANT: Any one remember Pearl Harbor day?
Friday, December 7, 2012… and remember who caused that disaster?
No, not the Japanese. FDR!
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GUNS: Bringing a gun to a knife fight
Friday, December 7, 2012KNIFE-WIELDING HOME INTRUDER BREAKS INTO WRONG HOME, GREETED BY .40 CAL HANDGUN
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:52pm by Jason Howerton
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A homeowner in Grand Prairie, Texas shot a knife-wielding home intruder after the suspect shattered a side window to gain entry into the home, KXAS-TV reports.
The homeowner, who has not been identified, was reportedly on the phone with 911 operators when he shot 21-year-old Gilberto Banderas. The shooting occurred at around 2:30 p.m. after the sound of breaking glass prompted the homeowner to get his .40 caliber handgun.
The suspect, Banderas, was shot in the stomach. As it turns out, police discovered he lives just blocks away from the home he attempted to break into. In other words, he apparently tried, and failed, to rob his neighbor.
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“During the conversation with him, we could hear him yelling, ‘You came at me with a knife,’” Grand Prairie detective Lyle Gensler said. “We responded within about a minute and 30 seconds.”
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Note for the unarmed, dial 911 and die.
Critique of the shooting: The suspect was still alive.
The military taught me to keep pulling the trigger until nothing moved.
I’ve heard that advice often repeated.
Even if the bullets are going into the floor and ceiling, no one in their right mind wants to be down range of a loon with a gun and is using it.
Critique of the shooting: Good dhot to the center of mass — the belly.
Hope I never have to do it. Hope no one ever has to do it.
But the best way to stop crime is get rid of few of the criminals.
Make getting caught by the police an unlikely outcome.
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RANT: Schools are prison training centers
Thursday, December 6, 2012http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/127265.html
November 28, 2012
End the Pretense that Government Schools and Prisons Are Different
Posted by William Grigg on November 28, 2012 03:13 PM
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It’s for your own good, kids: The “Isolation Box” at Longview, Washingon’s Mint Valley Elementary School
Warrantless “drug sweeps” in government-run schools have become routine in recent years. So have “lock-down” drills in which SWAT teams conduct training exercises involving hostage or terrorism scenarios. In some lock-down drills, students inmates have been kept in the dark about the fact that the incident is a training exercise, rather than a genuine crisis.
Vista Grande High School in Casa Grande, Arizona, held a lock-down drug sweep on October 31. Students Inmates were confined to their classrooms, then led in small groups to another room where they were forced to line up against a wall and be searched with the help of drug-sniffing dogs. This exercise introduced a new element: Among the four law enforcement agencies involved in the search was a group of prison guards employed by the Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest for-profit prison contractor.
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We need the home schooling movement to break out.
I suggested a 40 year plan to end gooferment skrules during the tax revolts in Nu Jerzee. First 20 years was to get them out of the operations; the second 20 years was to end the funding.
Argh!
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MONEY: Thinking about employer 401Ks and IRAs versus retirement savings
Tuesday, December 4, 2012http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/11/26/401k-with-no-match-should-contribute/
An interesting article. My gripe with 401ks has always been the investment options and fees are “unacceptable”. Especially when you consider the real inflation rate.
I know I am a gold bug. But with the FED printing money and the subterfuge of them buying their own bonds, I think we are at risk of an even higher inflation. I remember the Cater inflation. And, I am not buying that the interest rate is zero.
I think an interesting facet is that the price of gas, which goes into every product indirectly, has actually decline in price since 1968. (Ron Paul said it best: “Three silver dimes bought a gallon of gas in the Sixties; today, those same three silver dimes equate to a gallon and half.”)
As a poor retiree, inflation is my concern. (If it evokes more sympathy, I’m also an orphan.) I realize that I probably personally have a lot to worry about. It’s really just me. But for posterity, this stinks. Hence my obsession on commodity bullion.
And, it is a way of avoiding the estate taxes.
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SERVICE: LASTPASS’ security check
Monday, December 3, 2012https://lastpass.com/index.php?securitychallenge=1
The security check ignore how I use LASTPASS.
I keep my old passwords in LASTPASS as well as all non-critical new ones. (No one gets the passwords to my financial accounts. Those I have memorized. If I ever get alzs, I’m in trouble.) So what the security check calls dupes are either iteration of the same account. Not every url is a simple single entry point.
Additionally, there is a need to keep old passwords for restored systems,
Another topic, I have problem is those secondary authentication questions for lost passwords. I NEVER give the correct answers. In fact, I use last pass’ tool generate to create the answers. And they are unique by site. So my favorite book might be “4zm7#ut47” on one site and “ut47#vj4a” on another. I use special notes for those. But it would be nice if last pass helped me with them.
so I don’t agree with my score.
fjohn
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TINFOILHAT: The “killing” of OBL
Sunday, December 2, 2012http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts377.html
The Osama bin Laden Myth
by Paul Craig Roberts
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Although only a few Americans are aware of the September 28, 2001 interview in which bin Laden states his non-involvement with the 9/11 attacks, many Americans have seen post-2001 videos in which a person alleged to be bin Laden takes credit for the attacks. There are two problems with these videos. Experts have examined them and found them to be fakes, and all of the videos appeared after bin Laden was reported by the Pakistan Observer, the Egyptian press, and Fox News to have died in mid-December, 2001, from lung disease. See also.
Bin Laden also suffered from kidney disease. According to a CBS news report on January 28, 2002, Osama bin Laden was hospitalized for dialysis treatment in the Pakistani military hospital in Rawalpindi on September 10, 2001, the day before 9/11.
Obviously, a man suffering from terminal lung and kidney disease did not survive for another decade to be murdered by a US Navy SEAL team in Abbottabad. A Pakistani TV interview with the neighbor of the alleged “bin Laden compound” exposed the assassination hoax. This sensational interview also went unreported by america’s “free press.” I had the interview translated, and it is available here. See also.
Shortly after the alleged assassination 30 members of the SEAL unit died in a mysterious helicopter crash in Afghanistan, and now we learn that not a single one of the thousands of sailors on the aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, witnessed bin Laden’s alleged burial at sea from that ship. The press reports with a straight face that for unexplained reasons it was kept secret from the ship’s sailors. This is supposed to be the explanation of the sailors’ emails reporting to family and friends that they witnessed no burial at sea. Some speculate that the SEALs were bumped off before their questions to one another, “Were you on that raid?,” reached outside the unit. Apparently, it doesn’t strike the media or the public as strange that the US government captured and killed the terror mastermind without interrogating him and without keeping any evidence or presenting any witnesses to support the assassination claim.
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Here’s a more logical explanation of why there was no interrogation of this valuable intelligence asset.
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RANT: You always have the right to secede
Saturday, December 1, 2012http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams147.html
Parting Company
by Walter E. Williams
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For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to control the lives of others and those who wish to be left alone. Which is the more peaceful solution: Americans using the brute force of government to beat liberty-minded people into submission or simply parting company? In a marriage, where vows are ignored and broken, divorce is the most peaceful solution. Similarly, our constitutional and human rights have been increasingly violated by a government instituted to protect them. Americans who support constitutional abrogation have no intention of mending their ways.
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I like that Professor Williams always goes to the crux of the matter.
Do we have the RIGHT from Nature’s God to peaceful leave the Union?
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TINFOILHAT: Voter fraud in 2012 election?
Friday, November 30, 2012Media
Maker of Unskewed Polls Creates ‘Obama Voter Fraud’ Map — See Which States He Thinks Should’ve Been Romney’s Posted on November 23, 2012 at 9:15pm by Mytheos Holt
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Evidence of vote fraud is very much like that. Those who engage in it are slick and do all they can to hide it, so the evidence is often quite circumstantial. In fact, often the circumstantial evidence is all the evidence we have, such was finding tens of thousands of bogus votes in the ballot box, we didn’t see someone actually put them there, but they are found, they are there, and they are clearly evidence of vote fraud. Such is true of the voting divisions where Obama gets 100 percent of the votes cast. As if anyone REALLY believes that is legitimate.
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It’s the old joke by Stalin about who counts the vote. And, Daley who would ask: “How many do we need?”
I have ZERO confidence in the USA’s voting process until there is: (1) an irrefutable paper based process (I’m a computer geek and I know how fragile they are) and (2) an irrefutable voter identification requirement.
Then maybe we’ll get an honest count.
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Media
Maker of Unskewed Polls Creates ‘Obama Voter Fraud’ Map — See Which States He Thinks Should’ve Been Romney’s
- Posted on November 23, 2012 at 9:15pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Reinke Faces Life 
INTERESTING: Bitterly disappointed
Wednesday, December 5, 2012http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9686219/I-am-bitterly-bitterly-disappointed-retired-naval-officers-email-to-children-in-full.html
‘I am bitterly, bitterly disappointed’: retired naval officer’s email to children in full
This is the full email that retired Royal Navy officer Nick Crews sent to his son and two daughters in February expressing his and his wife’s disappointment in them.
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When I read this, I saw a boomerang.
Were you such a bad parent that you weren’t able to steer the children correctly?
My parents made a lot mistakes. But, I would never fault them for the choices they made. I’ve made a lot of my own bad choices.
This 0 for 3 tends to make me blame the “builder”.
imho.
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