POLITICAL: “Most armed; most free.”

Thursday, October 3, 2013

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/eric-margolis/most-armed-most-free/

Most Armed; Most Free
By Eric Margolis
September 28, 2013

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“Most armed; most free.” So the renowned Italian thinker and strategist Niccolo Machiavelli described the Swiss five centuries ago.

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Germany and France wisely decided to leave the Swiss porcupine alone.  Some leftist historians claim it was because the Axis needed the Swiss banks. Nonsense.  Berlin and Rome had access to banks in neutral Portugal, Sweden and Turkey.   The real reason was all those angry Swiss mountaineers, with their rifles zeroed in at 300 meters.

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I’m a fan of Switzerland, its neutrality, and its “common sense”.

The little L libertarians love the porcupine. All defense; no offense.

The Department of Defense? What a joke.

National Guard? Which nation?

We have so many problems, why are we seeking more?

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RANT: Pimco is crony capitalism at it’s worst

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2013/09/special-report-pimco-shook-hands-with-the-fed-and-made-a-killing/

Reuters Special Report: Pimco shook hands with the Fed – and made a killing
By Editor on September 27, 2013

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The giant fund-management firm, led by co-founder Bill Gross, started buying tens of billions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by federally sponsored agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In the third quarter of 2011 alone, Pimco’s flagship Total Return Fund, the world’s largest mutual fund, doubled its holdings of these securities to $80 billion, according to a Reuters review of trading and other data.

While Pimco was building its hoard, the Fed, in a surprise move long before any word on quantitative easing, said it would start buying more of the same kind of debt, known in the trade as “agency MBS.” The U.S. central bank would acquire as much as $30 billion of the securities a month by reinvesting proceeds from its earlier purchases. Prices rose.

As 2011 slid into 2012, Pimco started enjoying big gains on its agency holdings. Even better, the Fed in September 2012 finally announced a third round of quantitative easing, nicknamed QE3. To keep supporting the U.S. housing market, it would buy even more agency MBS. Pimco’s Total Return Fund posted billions more dollars in gains.

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Argh!

This is legalized theft.

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INTERESTING: #Oldmedia is passé

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2013/09/the-new-media-versus-oldmedia-battle-on-obamacare/

The New Media versus #Oldmedia battle on Obamacare
By Nick Sorrentino on September 28, 2013

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An interesting article from the New York Times on how alternative media, which is becoming increasingly less alternative, is changing the game in Washington DC. The narrative, long crafted by an #oldmedia with a generally statist agenda is being outflanked in many ways. 

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Who pays any attention to the #oldmedia?

Sad to say, but only the “low information voters”. Watch Jaywalking, Waters World, or any “man on the street” format. It’s funny, but so pathetic.

Talk to anyone in the Gooferment Skrules and it’s no joke!

Argh!

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RANT: The IRS influenced the BHO44 reelection

Monday, September 30, 2013

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama-and-thugs-pulled-off-the-heist-of-the-century/

OBAMA AND THUGS PULLED OFF THE HEIST OF THE CENTURY
Sep. 28, 2013 9:00am
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT

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What did the IRS get out of this? The answer is pure bribery. Republicans, and especially Tea Parties, believe in limited government, smaller budgets, fewer government employees, and cutting bloated salaries, obscene pensions, and early retirement for government employees. Another Tea Party landslide would have threatened the power of government employee unions. Many government employees would have been laid off.

Does anyone believe it a coincidence that Obama met with IRS union boss Colleen Kelley at the White House the day before the targeting of Tea Parties by the IRS began? If you do, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

Barack Obama was fraudulently re-elected. Our country was hijacked by government employees protecting their cushy lifetime jobs, bloated salaries, obscene pensions, and powerful unions.

Think I’m wrong? Evidently IRS officials don’t. Several of them have been busy hiring famous and expensive law firms to defend themselves.

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RANT: Over the wall with a pair of hands

Sunday, September 29, 2013

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-true-stories-behind-iconic-pictures-badass-women_p2/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage

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When Mrs. van Gorkum died eight years after husband, she wasn’t plopped down in the family plot at all; instead she was placed on the other side of the wall where her husband was buried. And the two graves were connected over the wall with a pair of hands.

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I really liked this one!

Screw the prejudices of others.

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MEME: Everything is as it should be

Saturday, September 28, 2013

http://www.marcandangel.com/2012/07/20/12-tough-truths-that-help-you-grow/

POST WRITTEN BY: MARC CHERNOFF
12 Tough Truths that Help You Grow

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Everything is as it should be.  It’s crazy how you always end up where you’re meant to be – how even the most tragic and stressful situations eventually teach you important lessons that you never dreamed you were going to learn.  Remember, oftentimes when things are falling apart, they are actually falling into place.

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I’m not sure if I can accept that.

I’m not sure if I even believe that.

I’m not sure if this is really true.

I’m certainly not evidence of that.

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HARDWARE: LIVESCRIBE (not recommended)

Friday, September 27, 2013

http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/

Bought one on a lark.

Some minor issues, but worked through them. 

Even liked it. 

Can think of some stuff that could be better.

BUT now I have come up with the KILLER negative.

I lost the darn thing.

OK. It’s a $200 gadget. But it was “useful”.

So I ask the question, “if I buy a new one, can I link it to my old stuff.”

Answer, <cue Jeopardy theme>, …

… NO!

Are u kidding me?

There’s an obvious “use” case!

Oh well, let me slap a big NOTRECOMMENDED on this one.

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RANT: Raging at the dying!

Thursday, September 26, 2013

http://zenhabits.net/changes/

The Pain & Beauty of Life Changes
By Leo Babauta

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The reason for our suffering is our resistance to the changes in life.

And life is all changes.

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A loved one dies. One of the ultimate changes is death, of course, but what has changed? Well, the person is obviously no longer in our life (at least, not in the same way), but just as painfully, we are not the same person when a loved one dies. We have to change who we are — we’re now a widower instead of a husband, a father without his daughter, or a friend who is left alone (for example). We want life to be the way it was, but it isn’t, so we grief, we rage.

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Be like Dylan Thomas, and rage at the “dying of the light”.

Why do I always think of Rodney Dangerfield recitation of this poem?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090685/quotes

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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To which is the movie, there’s a line: “I mad as hell! And, I don’t take no crap from anybody.”

That’s how I feel.

Raging at the dying of the light!!!

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INTERESTING: Entropy, old age, and effort

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/universal-law-causing-struggle/?utm_source=feedly

This Universal Law is Causing You to Struggle!
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 BY DR. TOM PRESTON

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The purpose of this article is to help you understand these laws and how they play a role in your life. It is to help you understand that there is a very large force at work in the Universe that has assisted you in falling into the rut you are/were in and hopefully as a result of this understanding you can stop beating yourself up, accept things as they are and choose to change it!

You are the master of your own destiny, the pilot of your life and the artist behind the creation of each day. This means that you and you alone have the power to change/effect/enhance your life through your thoughts and actions!

Do not forget that the fundamental essence of our manifest Universe is energy and that you get to exchange as much or as little energy with the Universe as YOU choose! Please do not think that this means just taking action all the time for if you have studied any physiology or psychology at all you know that “thoughts are things” and that you can exchange at least as much, if not arguably more energy with the Universe through your thoughts then you ever could with your actions!

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Sigh, but it’s so much effort to just do anything.

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RANT: Opposition to Obamacare

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Ted Cruz Is Talking Until He Can’t Stand Anymore
“I rise in opposition to Obamacare,” the Texas Republican began. This speech may go on for a while.

By Matt Berman, Matt Vasilogambros and Dustin Volz
Updated: September 24, 2013 | 7:50 p.m.
September 24, 2013 | 2:58 p.m.

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Has to stop somewhere?

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