TINFOILHAT: OBL raid official story differ

Monday, August 15, 2011

http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts320.html

Pakistan TV Report Contradicts US Claim of Bin Laden’s Death
by Paul Craig Roberts

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In Bashair’s account, every member of the landing party and anyone brought from the house died when the helicopter exploded on lift-off. I wrote that a qualified person could easily provide a translation of the interview, but that no American print or TV news organization had investigated Bashir’s account.

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Here’s the first story in the OBL raid.

The whole story was suspect imho. Why tell anyone anything? Why kill him? Why dump the body?

Interesting?

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INTERESTING: Corporations are just people in disguise

Sunday, August 14, 2011

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ROMNEY_2012?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-11-12-34-40

Aug 11, 8:50 PM EDT
Romney: ‘Corporations are people, my friend’
By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, clearly irritated by a handful of hecklers amid supporters at the Iowa State Fair, insisted Thursday that “corporations are people,” a comment Democrats gleefully predicted would be a defining moment of his campaign.

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I’ve tried to convince folks that the correct rate of corporate tax is zero.

(I think I could make a case for a 1% tax on gross receipts so the Gooferment could collect some un-fudge-able statistics. And, since “corporations” are a creation of the Gooferment, then any Gooferment intervention is just a fee fro their existence.)

Just last night, I was in a heated discussion about Exon Mobil. Taxes paid by them is merely wealth redirected from real people via pension funds to the Gooferment.

Sigh!

There is some validity to the argument that executive compensation is out of control. And corporations engaging in crony capitalism are bribing politicians and bureaucrats to insulate them from competition and secure “franchises”.

Socialists always want to control everything. This is no different. Hitler, Stalin, Mai. They all need control.

We have to be clear in our paradigms and memes.

Corporations are merely a useful fiction for a bunch of people.

Argh!

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INITIALISMS: STEEP

Sunday, August 14, 2011

http://www.competitivefutures.com/methodology/steep-analysis

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At the basis of our competitive analysis is the application of a tool called STEEP Analysis. Used by futurists, this mnemonic device reminds us to consider a wide variety of trends outside of our own industry, specifically:

Social trends: aging populations, urbanization, mixed families, increased prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, and kidney failure

Technology trends: increased distribution of GPS, IPv6 networking, decreasing price and increase application of robotics in the home, genomic medicine, electric automobiles, nanotechnology

Economic trends: Real estate occupancy rates, unemployment rates, sovereign debt, household debt, corporate debt, government intervention in markets, corporate merger and acquisition activity, energy factors, raw material availability

Ecological trends: Water availability, biodiversity, soil health, wetlands integrity, climate change

Political trends: Legislation, regulation, political parties, authoritarianism versus liberal democracy

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POLITICAL: Empty flights?

Saturday, August 13, 2011

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AVIATION_SHUTDOWN_RURAL_SUBSIDIES

Gov’t pays for empty flights to rural airports
By KEVIN BEGOS and ADRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press

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On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it.

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Typical Gooferment!

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QUOTE: Reduce …

Saturday, August 13, 2011

“Reduce everything you want to do, to an action you can do right now.” —Jason Randal #99conf

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RANT: Bike Lanes = ~1m$ jobs

Friday, August 12, 2011

http://brownlovesgreen.com/2011/08/10/hopeful-green-job-facts-to-lift-your-spirits/

Hopeful Green Job Facts to Lift Your Spirits

AUGUST 10, 2011

by Lindsay E. Brown

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Bike Lanes Create Jobs. You did indeed, read that correctly. A recent study from the University of Massachusetts found that bike infrastructure projects create more jobs than road infrastructure. Their latest study showed that bike and pedestrian projects generate 46 percent more employment than roads. Researchers looked at 58 projects in 11 states, and found that cycle-oriented infrastructure created 11.6 jobs for every $1 million spent, versus 7.8 for road-only projects. There you have it! Building the U.S.’ bike infrastructure to solve the job crisis. Voila!

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Argh! Typical muddy thinking. Divide 11 into a million = 900K PER JOB!!!! For an infrastructure that no one in their right mind would build at those costs.

That’s what’s wrong with thinking that the Gooferment can do anything. The oft said maxim is that the Gooferment can’t do ANYTHING right. This just demonstrates it.

The Tea Party is right. Cut the Gooferment’s spending. Go Ron Paul!

Did anyone study economics in a business class?

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TECHNOLOGY: Toy Truck; not so toy

Friday, August 12, 2011

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/remote-controlled-truck-soldier-afghanistan-saves-soldiers-lives/story?id=14225434

Afghanistan War: Hobbyists’ Toy Truck Saves 6 Soldiers’ Lives
By NED POTTER (@NedPotterABC)
Aug. 4, 2011

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Staff Sgt. Christopher Fessenden is on duty in Afghanistan now after tours with the Army in Iraq. He has traveled with standard-issue equipment — weapons, helmet, uniform, boots and so forth — plus a radio-controlled model truck his brother Ernie sent.

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Like the body armor!

(When a young man I know went to the sandbox, I volunteered to buy him a dragon. The Army was woefully unprepared; I wasn’t. I studied ballistic armor. Six months later, towns were having fund raising to properly equip their children. Argh!)

Like the Civil War, the Generals fought using tactics developed in the English and French wars a century before. With bloody consequences.

We need to be like Switzerland. Defend our borders and MYOB!

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HARDWARE: Human Factors and training have to compensate for hardware failure

Thursday, August 11, 2011

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Final-words-of-Air-France-crash-pilot-I-cant-control-the-plane-127332423.html

Final words of Air France crash pilot ‘I can’t control the plane’
Black box reveals secrets of crash the killed 228 passengers including three Irish doctors
By KATE HICKEY, IrishCentral.com Editor

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Posted by colkelley on Aug 10, 2011, 10:08 AM EDT

This is a great example of why you do not want to fly with commercial pilots who do not have military aviation experience. Here we have an entire flight crew that could not recognize that they had stalled the aircraft and just kept cutting power and pulling the nose higher and higher – never realizing that their airspeed indicator was wrong because of icing. When I was a Navy Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer we practiced aircraft emergencies and responses at least once on every flight. In my last three years flying jets in the Navy I had three fires in flight, seven emergency field-arrested (cable) landings, and 13 other declared airborne emergencies – and one of them was EXACTLY the same problem with icing and incorrect airspeed. I survived them all because we PRACTICED emergencies incessantly. Air France has a fatal flaw with both hiring pilots and training them…and 228 people died as a result of their failure.

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How do we know that hardware has failed?

And, what do we do to recognize it.

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TECHNOLOGY: Outsourcing maybe coming “home”?

Thursday, August 11, 2011

http://www.economist.com/node/21524822

Schumpeter
The trouble with outsourcing
Outsourcing is sometimes more hassle than it is worth
Jul 30th 2011

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Companies are rethinking outsourcing, rather than jettisoning it. They are dumping huge long-term deals in favour of smaller, less rigid ones. The annualised value of “mega-relationships” worth $100m or more a year fell by 62% this year compared with last. Companies are forming relationships with several outsourcers, rather than putting all their eggs in few baskets. They are signing shorter contracts, too. But still, they need to think harder about what is their core business, and what is peripheral. And above all, newspaper editors need to say no to the temptation to outsource business columns to cheaper, hungrier writers.

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Having seen some of the disasters from bad outsourcing deals, it’s not always a winner for everyone.

Clearly, to be competitive, USA industry and “We, The Sheeple” have to be razor sharp.

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GUNS: Riots and Flash Mobs are “cured” by the RKBA

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92801.html

“Concealed Carry” Will End The British Riots Overnight
Posted by Christopher Manion on August 9, 2011 08:06 PM

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Lew, a few years after Virginia adopted its “shall issue” concealed carry law, I remember a long story in the Washington Post wondering why crime rates had risen in recent years much more in Maryland, which had no such law, than in Virginia. Well, duh!

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We need more “sheepdogs” sprinkled in the flock of “We, The Sheeple”.

Remember the Rodney King riots in LA? And, the Korean Grocery Store Owners with their rifles.

It was like an oasis in chaos.

We need Constitutional Carry in the USA.

Then the Yobs can riot all they like. And, the “wildings” of the past can be dealt with by a few sheepdogs.

Wanna bet the disadvantaged urban yutes find other less lethal pastimes. Think of it as cleaning the gene pool and reducign the welfare rolls.

Now, about that minimum wage law!

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INTERESTING: Titanic’s rivets

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

From NATGEOTV

Titanic: How it really sank (2009)

Iron rivets failed.

“The side opens like a zipper.”

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POLITICAL: Thinking about our girls and boys in harm’s way; for what?

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

http://bigpeace.com/jbernard/2011/08/09/did-our-counterinsurgency-strategy-lead-to-the-death-of-our-navy-seals/

Did Our Counterinsurgency Strategy Lead To The Death Of Those Navy SEALs?
Posted by John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.)
Aug 9th 2011 at 9:03 am

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Why aren’t American deaths on the battlefield today, as repugnant to our current leadership as they were back then? Why don’t the leaders of this country, today, expect the Afghan’s to share the devastation of broken families, untimely death of children and other ravages of warfare to secure their own futures?

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You can’t Monday morning qback the loss.

We can Monday morning qback the strategy that puts the girls in boys downrange on a live fire range!

If we were more like the Swiss, we’d MYOB!

Then those folks wouldn’t be in harm’s way without a good reason.

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MONEY: The FED screws us up

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

http://www.nationalreview.com/kudlows-money-politics/274153/bernanke-rescue

Bernanke to the Rescue
August 9, 2011 5:28 P.M.
By Larry Kudlow

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Damn the torpedoes! Up periscope! Full speed ahead! Ben Bernanke and the Fed to the rescue!

In a startling move Tuesday, the FOMC announced that its zero-interest-rate target would be extended for two more years through the middle of 2013, marking the first time the target rate has ever been pegged to a date certain.

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Absurd!

The FED is the problem.

Let the market operate and reset the prices to value. Will folks take a hair cut? Yup. But remember Japan’s lost decade. How’s that working out for them? Want that here? Just let the Gooferment muck about with no plan!

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Lost manual control

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_bfd1cc1c-089b-5682-9465-955bcab1fbea.html

Home / News / Local / Metro
Officials say mummified Jennings woman thought dead for years was receiving benefits
BY MARLON A. WALKER • mwalker@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8104 | Posted: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 12:07 am |

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JENNINGS • A woman whose mummified remains were found earlier this year in the Jennings home she had shared with her daughter had been receiving Social Security benefits, the agency confirmed Monday.

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Remember when some genius eliminated mailing Social Security checks saving a lot of administrative expense?

Well, here’s the collateral damage.

Making old folks show up at the bank with their check at least ensured that they were alive and hence being properly paid.

It may be a good trade off but there should be a compensating control.

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TINFOILHAT: JFK – LBJ connection

Monday, August 8, 2011

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Jackie-Kennedy-blamed-Lyndon-B-Johnson-for-JFK-Murder-127220093.html

Jackie Kennedy believed LBJ had her husband killed new tape shows
Interview also reveals her affair with actor William Holden
By CATHAL DERVAN, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Monday, August 8, 2011, 6:48 AM
Updated Monday, August 8, 2011, 9:51 AM

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Jackie Kennedy believed Lyndon B Johnson was behind the 1963 assassination of her husband John F Kennedy.

Sensational tapes recorded by the First Lady months after the President’s death are to be released ahead of schedule by her daughter Caroline.

In the tapes, to be broadcast by ABC, Kennedy reveals her belief that Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons orchestrated the murder of her husband by gunman Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Still think that there’s nothing to be found?

Smoke and fire.

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POLITICAL: Every opportunity to shrink Gooferment is missed

Monday, August 8, 2011

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=328713

Red ink as far as I can see
Posted: August 01, 2011
Joseph Farah

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Before I get into the details of the “bipartisan” scandal that is the debt deal shaping up this week, let me explain the historic opportunity that was blown by the Republican House majority. They could have crippled Barack Obama’s administration for the remaining 18 months of his term. They could have forced the deepest cuts in federal spending in the history of the republic. They could have forced the budget to be balanced immediately. They could have forced deep cuts and possibly even the elimination of worthless and unconstitutional agencies and departments like Education, Agriculture, Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency and Homeland Security. They could have forced defunding of Planned Parenthood, NPR, PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts and countless foreign wealth transfers. They could have postponed any implementation of Obamacare until it could be dealt with in finality in 2013.

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Every time there’s a line in the sand for smaller Gooferment, someone blinks.

This time was no different.

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TECHNOLOGY: Edge Walk

Sunday, August 7, 2011

http://picocool.com/travel/edge-walk–cn-tower-toronto-1

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Edge Walk | Cn Tower Toronto

EdgeWalk at the CN Tower, has become Toronto’s most extreme attraction. Thrill lovers will walk on the edge of one of the world’s tallest buildings, 356m/1168ft (116 storeys) above the ground. Visitors will walk in groups of six, while attached to an overhead safety rail via a trolley and harness system.

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This is one of those pictures that will make you wonder if they have lost their minds.

It’s one of those that makes me sick!

I’d need more than a safety harness.

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TECHNOLOGY: TED is interesting thinking

Sunday, August 7, 2011

http://blog.ted.com/2011/08/02/ted-books-hit-apples-ibookstore

TED Books hit Apple’s iBookstore

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Great news: TED Books are now available on Apple’s iBookstore. It’s an exciting time for publishing, and we’re glad to work with Apple to make TED Books available to as many readers as possible. TED Books, which launched earlier this year, are an imprint of short nonfiction works designed for digital distribution. Shorter than traditional books, TED Books run fewer than 20,000 words each–long enough to explain a powerful idea, but short enough to be read in a single sitting. They are $2.99.

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The Happiness Manifesto: How Nations and People Can Nurture Well-Being by Nic Marks; Weekday Vegetarian: Finally, a Palatable Solution by Graham Hill with Alex Estes; Media Makeover: Improving the News One Click at a Time by Alisa Miller; Beware Dangerism! Why We Worry About the Wrong Things and What It’s Doing to Our Kids by Gever Tulley; Make Love Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior by Cindy Gallop; Homo Evolutis: Please Meet the Next Human Species by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans; and Aftercrimes, Geoslavery, and Thermogeddon: Thought-Provoking Words from a Lexicographer’s Notebook by Erin McKean.

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TED is interesting thinking about technology.

Three bucks is cheap!

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MONEY: 10 reasons not to use credit cards

Saturday, August 6, 2011

http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/family-money/10-reasons-im-cancelling-my-credit-cards-1310065287880

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10. Cash helps people I want to help. The money goes to the merchant and his suppliers. When I go into my local credit union to cash a check, I’m keeping a couple of local tellers in work. Credit cards? I’m helping finance bank executives, marketing teams and call centers in India. I am sure they are all fine people, and I wish them well. But if I had to choose, and I do, I would rather help my local merchants and credit union staff.

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Interesting take on the value of using cash.

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FUN: Immortality wish

Saturday, August 6, 2011

FROM MY OLDER FRIEND’S DAUGHTER

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I met a fairy today who said she would grant me one wish.

“I want to live forever,” I said.

“Sorry,” said the fairy, “I’m not allowed to grant wishes like that!”

“Fine,” I said, “then I want to die after Congress gets their heads out of their asses!”

“You crafty bastard,” said the fairy.

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ROFL!

(She knows my warped sense of humor. As if Congress could actually accomplish anything, like getting their head place anywhere, in the first place.)

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FLASH: 31 Americans killed in crash

Saturday, August 6, 2011

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Aug 6, 8:33 AM EDT

Afghan president: 31 Americans killed in crash

By SOLOMON MOORE

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A military helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan commandos, the country’s president said Saturday. An American official said it was apparently shot down, in the deadliest single incident for American forces in the decade-long war.

The Taliban claimed they downed the helicopter with rocket fire while it was taking part in a raid on a house where insurgents were gathered in the province of Wardak late Friday. It said wreckage of the craft was strewn at the scene.

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Sadly. It’s time to come home. Even before this. This just is another avoidable tragedy.

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QUOTE: “… simply because it is right.”

Saturday, August 6, 2011

“Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular – but one must take it simply because it is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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JOBFINDING: Texas trainer

Friday, August 5, 2011

We have another new opportunity in the Dallas area for a very large Fortune, global manufacturing company.

They are looking for a Technical Trainer to develop, train, and do continuous improvement for 4000-6000 employees world wide,

The focus will be on Business Objects(BOBJ) Oracle Data Bases, and Data Warehousing.

This is an exciting new job with a dynamic international company.

Please let me know if this is something for you or if you could recommend someone that we could present.

Thank you.

Dan

Dan Spencer, CPC

Senior Partner

ProFound International Search

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POLITICAL: Who is a libertarian?

Friday, August 5, 2011

http://ncc-1776.org/whoislib.html

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Who is a libertarian?

Zero Aggression Principle (“Zap”)

“Zero Aggression Principle”:

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else.

Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.

— L. Neil Smith

Formerly called the “Non-Aggression Principle”, or “NAP”

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INTERESTING: Is there a baseball rule for this situation?

Thursday, August 4, 2011

FROM LUDDITE

http://www.shoonsports.com/switch-hitter-vs-switch-pitcher-pat-venditte/

So what is the rule?

Wish Frau Reinke was here; she’d probably know!

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QUOTE: “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Tiny Wisdom: When Good Times Come to an End

Jul 29, 2011 02:50 am | Lori Deschene

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss

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Maybe the Universe is sending me advice?

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