“You never know another man’s burden until he puts it down and you feel the ground shake.”
— Robin Wiiliams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)
Requiescat In Pacem
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QUOTE: The late Robin Williams
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
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RANT: “Dollar Dominance” is important
Tuesday, August 12, 2014http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-06/russia-sanctions-accelerate-risk-to-dollar-dominance.html
Russia Sanctions Accelerate Risk to Dollar Dominance
By Rachel Evans Aug 6, 2014 11:51 AM ET
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While no one’s suggesting the dollar will lose its status as the main currency of business any time soon, its dominance is ebbing. The greenback’s share of global reserves has already shrunk to under 61 percent from more than 72 percent in 2001. The drumbeat has only gotten louder since the financial crisis in 2008, an event that began in the U.S. when subprime-mortgage loans soured, and the largest emerging-market nations including Russia have vowed to conduct more business in their currencies.
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The political powers that be don’t understand that this is reaching the tipping point. Once “we” lose “dollar dominance”, life will be much tougher. Think the Germans in the Wehrmar Republic. We know how that Republic fared. It’s all about a countries wealth and currency.
Argh!
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RANTING Robin Williams Requiescat In Pacem
Monday, August 11, 2014If you are feeling depressed, there is help out there. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255.
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Robin Williams
Requiescat In Pacem
He made me laugh so many times.
Stunning that a man could be so “funny” and yet so crazy. I’m praying for his soul and the family. Maybe someday, science will uncover a cure.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-williams-dies-suspected-suicide-724724
Williams’ publicist Mara Buxbaum told The Hollywood Reporter: “Robin Williams passed away this morning. He has been battling severe depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time.”
His wife, Susan Schneider, said: “This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of Robin’s family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on Robin’s death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions.”
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Wall Street Journal reports
Actor Robin Williams Dead, Authorities Say
Actor Robin Williams is believed to have died of suicide by asphyxiation, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said. He was found in his home in Tiburon, Calif., Monday and pronounced dead at 12:02 p.m. The Oscar-winning actor and comedian was known for “Dead Poets Society,” “Good Will Hunting,” “Mork & Mindy” and his stand-up career.
Mr. Williams was found dead in his home after a 911 call reported he was found unconscious and not breathing in his home. He was last seen alive at his home, where he lives with his wife, at 10 p.m. on Sunday, the sheriff’s department said.
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HARDWARE: Turn off the Caps Lock key
Monday, August 11, 2014http://www.cultofmac.com/246792/stop-yelling-turn-off-the-caps-lock-key-on-your-mac-os-x-tips/
Stop Yelling – Turn Off The Caps Lock Key On Your Mac [OS X Tips]
Rob LeFebvre (6:00 am PDT, Sep 23rd 2013)
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Gal Pal’s Mom, on a Windoze implementation, for the n-th time, had the caps lock on while typing her password for AOL.
(Yeah, I know, who knew AOL was still business.)
So, Gal Pal asked me how to permanently disable it.
Easy peasy.
Then I go to think of all the times I inadvertently did the same thing.
So I found out how to turn it off on the Mac OS X.
Easier!
Done.
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GUNS: WMAL Brian Wilson RKBA is the “war on women”
Sunday, August 10, 2014http://stationcaster.com/stations/wmal/?d=AM&cid=5541
Mornings on the Mall 08.08.14
Added: 8/8/14
Peter Morici, Rep. Frank Wolf & Bret Baier
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Brian Wilson got on a roll yesterday morning.
I don’t have an exact timestamp but it was in the 7:30 time frame.
He made the assertion that the true war on women was the right to defend themselves.
His example was:
“Taylor Woolrich, a junior, says Dartmouth administrators told her they won’t let her carry a gun on campus, even though she lives in fear of a man who has been stalking her since she was a high school student in San Diego.”
I have a “bumper sticker” quote that sums it up: “Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
Brian went on to argue that the R’s should adopt this issue in response to the D’s “war on women” spiel.
He also suggested that the NRA jump on this issue.
And, he expressed shock that this was in New Hampshire, the “Live Free or Die” state.
(I’m a signer on the Free State Project freestateproject.org to move 20,000 liberty lovers to NH and make it the “truly Free State”. Obviously a lot of work to be done yet.)
The Second Amendment is about self-defense. Both from the tyranny of the government and other predators both two legged and four legged.
Argh!
Seems so simple to me!
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POLITICAL: Nagasaki — an anti-Catholic national disgrace
Saturday, August 9, 2014http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/08/gary-g-kohls/unwelcome-truths/
Unwelcome Truths for Church and State Concerning the Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945
By Gary G. Kohls
August 6, 2014
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69 years ago an all-Christian bomber crew dropped “Fat Man”, a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan, instantly annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, a disproportionate number of them Japanese Christians, and permanently or mortally wounding uncountable numbers of others.
In 1945, the US was the most Christian nation in the world (that is, if you can label as Christian a nation whose churches overwhelmingly fail to sincerely teach or adhere to the ethics of Jesus as taught in the Sermon on the Mount).
Prior to the bomb exploding over St. Mary’s Urakami Cathedral on 11:02 AM, Nagasaki was the most Christian city in Japan. The Nagasaki cathedral was the largest Christian cathedral in the Orient.
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Never mind “just war”.
How about Christian charity?
In Little League, there’s the mercy rule.
In life, the golden rule.
This makes me sad.
Now that I am old, I can see sadly the result.
The Swiss have the right idea.
Argh!
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MEME: Confirmation Bias
Friday, August 8, 2014http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/08/a-simple-strategy-for-shaking-confirmation-bias/
A Simple Strategy for Shaking Confirmation Bias
[TIP ‘o’ the HAT to: The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz
A Simple Strategy for Shaking Confirmation Bias
Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D.
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One of the most insidious cognitive biases affecting investors and traders is confirmation bias. Once we hold a particular view, we tend to prefer processing information that fits with that view. What’s worse is that, because of our bias blind spots, we commonly recognize biased thinking in others, but not in ourselves. We know from research in psychology that fresh inputs and mental flexibility are essential to creativity of thought. When we become locked in confirmation bias, we cease to innovate.
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We are properly discerning about the food we put into our mouths, but not so much with the information we choose to process. Fresh inputs, chosen for their quality, provide a healthy intellectual diet and catalyze creative thinking. If we’re not regularly surprised by what we read and discuss, the odds are good that our brain’s diet has turned stale. And that’s a danger zone for confirmation bias.
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Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY and works as a performance coach for hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and investment banks. He is the author of the TraderFeed blog and several books on trading psychology.
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This is one of my (many) concerns.
I try and avoid it (and many other biases) by confirming external evidence.
Probably would be a good exercise t itemize all the biases. Mind map anyone?
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INTERESTING: Two questions about the “border crisis”
Thursday, August 7, 2014On Thursday, August 7, 2014, OLD FRIEND wrote:
Puzzle One:
Imagine you are a 3 to 8 year old child:
You are asked to walk from Houston, Texas to Minneapolis, Minnesota on your own with no food or belongings to sustain you.
Then you are asked to walk an additional 100 miles past Minnesota.
Could you do it?
How long would it take you as a 6 year old? That is the minimum distance these poor, helpless little ones have supposedly walked from Central America to the border of Texas, again, on their own. They didn’t get lost.
And they survived the journey without help (unless you buy in to the notion that a destitute out-of-work family run out of their homes by gangs and living in squalor somehow came up with $8,000 to $10,000 for EACH child to pay a Coyote to take them to the border.
Question: Do they really think we are that STUPID?
Answer: I guess so …… it’s Working thanks to the Socialist Propaganda Media we have forcing down our throats every minute of every Day!
Puzzle Two:
Now, on the map above, you must start somewhere in the green area. Let’s make it easy and start where green meets orange, so that you had the least mileage by not having to cover the whole green area. Just start where the green meets the orange. Blue, of course, is water.
Your task is to figure a route from the green area to the purple area without going into the blue area and while avoiding towns and cities in the orange area.
The black line is the distance from the nearest town to Mexico’s southern border that touches the green area to Laredo, Texas, one of the CLOSEST purple towns —1,220 miles across desert and mountains with no equipment or food or help.
If orange had stopped these innocents where orange touches green, problem would not have occurred. However, what six year old do you know who could walk 1,220 miles (minimum), probably more like 1,500 miles on their own without dying?
How many days would it take for a 6 year old…1st Grade…..to walk 1,220 Miles without help, directions, food, sun protection, etc.?….#____________
I am beginning to think that the truth of all this isn’t being given fully to us, folks.
Someone created and assisted this, and the Socialist Media doesn’t want us figuring out who it is, don’t you think?
One answer, of course, is that they travel with their parents who drop them off at the border, then while the Border Patrol is babysitting the children, the parents sneak across the border, along with the drug smugglers and assorted other terrorists and felons! … then they will Vote for the next Socialist Democrat….Hillary!
Of course they will VOTE, we are the ONLY Democracy in the World that doesn’t have Voter I.D. ! Wonder Why? Now you have the answer.
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…British essayist G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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FUN: S370HSSV
Thursday, August 7, 2014The French Leader got a coded message from Bush Administration.
It read: S370HSSV‐0773H
The French were stumped and sent for the French Information Agency. The FIA was stumped too, so it went to the Russians.
The Russians couldn’t solve it either, so they asked the Germans.
The Germans, having received this same message during WWII from the Americans, suggested turning it upside down …
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I’ve added this to my profanity list.
As #2 behind <an anal opening surrounded by a sphincter> and near “ass” <synonym for donkey>!
Laughing!
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INTERESTING: “How smart is your right foot”
Wednesday, August 6, 2014My friend shared some internet factoid which was interesting but not copyable.
(That is itself was interesting. I’ll be exploring that some more.)
Essentially, how start making an imaginary clockwise circles with your right foot.
Then, write the number 6.
Supposedly, your food will go in the opposite direction.
When I tried, it didn’t work.
Here’s my email back to him.
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Nope.
Instead of making the 6 as a right hander, us lefties, “forced converts” from being left handed to a right handed world, make our sixes from the inside in a clockwise fashion.
Hence, this doesn’t apply to us.
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I have put my investigation into this non-copyable email on my Remember The Milk (https://www.rememberthemilk.com) “Techie” task list.
The only other place I’ve seen this is Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/). I figured out a bypass for that in an hour. (Not that I want to copy their stuff. Just that it’s an article of my”faith in technology” that nothing on the inet can be protected.
Laugh!
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