While I am glad he’s home …
…i think of all the girls and boys who are not home.
And what about those who don’t?
Or come home broken beyond repair?
Argh!
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GUNS: “Help will be there is a few minutes.”
Friday, January 31, 2014best line is: “But I don’t have a few minutes.”
Argh!
Technically, I guess she should have waited until he broke in.
But, if I was on the Jury, I’d wink at that distinction.
Not like he was there to sell Girl Scout cookies.
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INTERESTING: “chastity” versus “continence”
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When I went through Kothlic Skrule, it was “chastity”; nothing about “continence”.
As I get older and take diuretics, maybe I was misinformed?
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POLITICAL: SOTU is a crock
Wednesday, January 29, 2014http://www.ijreview.com/2014/01/111537-seven-big-lies-obama-told-in-his-state-of-the-union-speech/
Seven Big Lies Obama Told In His State Of The Union Speech
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2) Raising minimum wage will help families
Obama sayeth, “[We] have a bill to fix that by lifting the minimum wage to $10.10… This will help families. It will give businesses customers with more money to spend… So join the rest of the country. Say yes. Give America a raise.”
It’s not hard to believe that Obama, who has never run a business, doesn’t understand that artificially forcing a business to pay someone more than their wage is worth will put more people out of the labor market. Making job creation more expensive leads to fewer jobs.
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I’m sorry that I believe that the “minimum wage” is essentially a tax on the poor and “middle class”. As, if there was a difference.
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MONEY: Nickels are “poor man’s gold”
Wednesday, January 29, 2014http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/robert-wenzel/machinations-at-the-mint/
Price Inflation Will Force the US Mint to Once Again Change the Metal Content of Coins
By Robert Wenzel
Economic Policy Journal
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The Mint is considering a change to the mix of metals it uses to make quarters, dimes and nickels, because of the climbing cost of production of the coins. reports WSJ.
It now costs 1.8 cents to make a penny and 9.4 cents to make a nickel, costing the federal government about $104.5 million last year.
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I fully expect that in the next bout of accelerating price inflation that the value of the metal content of current nickels will soar. Thus, nickels are a great no downside investment. If the price inflation I anticipate doesn’t develop, just spend the nickels. For more on nickels as an investment see: Why You Need to Own Nickels, Right Now
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/why-you-need-to-own-nickels-right-now.html
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Nickels are “poor man’s gold”.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Kaine says “Our goal of making sure that instability in Afghanistan”
Tuesday, January 28, 2014Mr. Ferdinand Reinke
1641 International Dr Unit 414
McLean, VA 22102-4831
Dear Mr. Reinke:
Thank you for contacting me about our troops serving in Afghanistan. I appreciate hearing from you.
Over a decade ago, the United States overthrew the Afghan Taliban that was providing a safe haven for Al Qaeda – the terrorist organization that attacked our country on September 11, 2001. Since then, we have decimated core Al Qaeda and its affiliates, and paved the way for the Afghans to establish democratic institutions, take control of their own security, and join us as partners in the fight against extremism. With our main mission in Afghanistan – destroying Al Qaeda – nearly complete, I support bringing our troops home as quickly as we can, consistent with our goal of making sure that instability in Afghanistan poses no danger to American interests.
Throughout my years in public service, I have witnessed first-hand the extraordinary challenges faced by our troops and their families. In 2006, I had the pleasure of visiting members of the Virginia National Guard stationed in Afghanistan who faced tremendous threats to their personal safety as they fought for their country. Throughout our Commonwealth, I have talked with military families who have endured the pain of lengthy separation from their loved ones when they are deployed overseas.
When I was Governor of Virginia, I signed the Military Relief Act to assist military families that encountered urgent needs for basic living expenses. In addition, I signed the 5-Star Statement of Support to confirm that we would assist state employees who served in the Virginia National Guard and Reserve.
As a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, I will continue to be a strong advocate for our troops who serve abroad – before they deploy and after they return home. We must support their well-being to show our gratitude for the incredible sacrifices they endure for us all.
Thank you once again for contacting me.
Sincerely,
Signature
Tim Kaine
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For the record, all i said was: “bring them home NOW!”!!!!!
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POLITICAL: A very upsetting example
Tuesday, January 28, 2014http://toprightnews.com/?p=761
Illegal Alien With 7 Kids Got Food Stamps, Housing & Social Security – for 20 Years (Video)
by Top Right News on January 18, 2014 in amnesty, Border Security, Economy, GOP, Immigration, Obama, Politics
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Illegal alien and mother of seven, Florida resident Marita Nelson, receives $240 in food stamps, monthly medications, $700 in Social Security and a housing allowance.
And she has been receiving government assistance for over 20 YEARS – ever since she illegally entered the U.S. by swimming the Rio Grande.
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If this is true, then The Sheeple are fools.
This is unacceptable!
Why should the producers subsidize the moochers?
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LIBERTY: Rights are not “Mother may I?”
Monday, January 27, 2014http://www.survivalblog.com/2014/01/odds-n-sods-2843.html
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Several readers mentioned some great commentary from Mac Slavo that ties into a recent news headline: Why I Cannot Support Concealed Carry Weapons Permits (And Why You Shouldn’t Either!)
JWR’s Comments: I agree wholeheartedly. I’ve said it here a couple of times, but it bears repeating: Whenever someone must buy a license or pay a fee to exercise a right, then it is something less than a right. It is in fact a mere privilege, subject to the whim of petty bureaucrats. Fundamental rights are not abstract tokens that are given or sold by other men. They are in fact primary liberties bestowed upon us by God, our maker. Rights are not substantially secured by asking, “Mother may I?” of any government agency. Rights are more properly demanded or boldly seized and then conspicuously exercised regularly. This secures the liberties that have legitimately belonged to us since birth. If need be, lost rights can and must be restored through proscriptive use. If you live in a land where your rights have been marginalized into privileges, then it is either time to change your government, or to change your address. Much like a muscle that atrophies with disuse, any right that goes unexercised for many years devolves into a privilege, and eventually can even be redefined as a crime.
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I agree.
While open resistance to the Gooferment is a terrible mismatch.
But subtle non-cooperation, passive resistance, “sugar in the gas” approach is what we have available to us now.
Clog the system.
Don’t cooperate willingly. Don’t ever consent. And, don’t ever lose heart that liberty will will out.
The Gooferment can not control 300 million Americans.
They can’t even keep drugs out of their prisons!
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FUN: “What’s your least favorite word?”
Sunday, January 26, 2014TRY
“NO! … Try not! … Do or do not… there is no try.” (To do it justice, you must say the word try with all the revulsion and disgust you can put on it. Like you were talking about a rapist, a child murderer, or a politician!) — Yoda (Fictional character from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” movie)
It’s a prediction of failure and setting up the excuse: “I tried”.
Argh!
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SERVICE: Google’s not infallable
Saturday, January 25, 2014Official Google Blog
Today’s outage for several Google services
Posted: 24 Jan 2014 04:47 PM PST
Earlier today, most Google users who use logged-in services like Gmail, Google+, Calendar and Documents found they were unable to access those services for approximately 25 minutes. For about 10 percent of users, the problem persisted for as much as 30 minutes longer. Whether the effect was brief or lasted the better part of an hour, please accept our apologies—we strive to make all of Google’s services available and fast for you, all the time, and we missed the mark today.
The issue has been resolved, and we’re now focused on correcting the bug that caused the outage, as well as putting more checks and monitors in place to ensure that this kind of problem doesn’t happen again. If you’re interested in the technical explanation for what occurred and how it was fixed, read on.
At 10:55 a.m. PST this morning, an internal system that generates configurations—essentially, information that tells other systems how to behave—encountered a software bug and generated an incorrect configuration. The incorrect configuration was sent to live services over the next 15 minutes, caused users’ requests for their data to be ignored, and those services, in turn, generated errors. Users began seeing these errors on affected services at 11:02 a.m., and at that time our internal monitoring alerted Google’s Site Reliability Team. Engineers were still debugging 12 minutes later when the same system, having automatically cleared the original error, generated a new correct configuration at 11:14 a.m. and began sending it; errors subsided rapidly starting at this time. By 11:30 a.m. the correct configuration was live everywhere and almost all users’ service was restored.
With services once again working normally, our work is now focused on (a) removing the source of failure that caused today’s outage, and (b) speeding up recovery when a problem does occur. We’ll be taking the following steps in the next few days:
1. Correcting the bug in the configuration generator to prevent recurrence, and auditing all other critical configuration generation systems to ensure they do not contain a similar bug.
2. Adding additional input validation checks for configurations, so that a bad configuration generated in the future will not result in service disruption.
3. Adding additional targeted monitoring to more quickly detect and diagnose the cause of service failure.
Posted by Ben Treynor, VP Engineering
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