Every once in a while, Luddite comes up with a good one!!!
Yeah, and there’s no inflation!
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FUN: Luddite submits a “gas” joke!
Saturday, October 13, 2012
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INTERESTING: Titanic’s Biggest Question
Saturday, October 13, 2012Entertainment
MythBusters Answers Titanic’s Biggest Question: Could Jack and Rose Both Have Survived on That Board?
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:06pm by Liz Klimas
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It’s something every teenage girl at the end of the 1990s seeing Titanic for the fifth time was thinking: Leo DiCaprio so could have fit on that wooden board instead of freezing in the water and dying. Now the popular show MythBusters has finally taken the time to weigh in on the topic with its expert reenactment skills.
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When I first saw the movie, I annoyed folks with that theory.
Maybe the board should have been smaller to quiet know it alls.
I think that shows like this just might induce people and children think.
One can only hope.
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HARDWARE: Cox Cable Yankee game on IPAD
Friday, October 12, 2012Watching the Yankee game live on Cox Cable. I have the cox app on the IPAD3. Interesting that the IPAD feed is at least a full minute behind the TV.
Go figure?
Hmm, “past posting” comes to mind.
LOL!
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FUN: Wonder how many authors there are? 4691!
Friday, October 12, 2012
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Today we have added a new feature, Amazon Author Rank, the definitive list of best-selling authors on Amazon.com. This list makes it easy for readers to discover the best-selling authors on Amazon.com overall and within a selection of major genres. |
Your Amazon Author Rank: 4691 in Science Fiction |
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MONEY: Governments have always robbed their subjects by debasing the currency
Thursday, October 11, 2012http://dailyreckoning.com/paper-money-despotism
Paper Money = Despotism
By Wendy McElroy | 10/08/12
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In his invaluable book What Has Government Done to Our Money? the Austrian economist Murray Rothbard addresses the strange reluctance to consider private currencies, “Many people, many economists, usually devoted to the free market, stop short at money. Money, they insist, is different; it must be supplied by government and regulated by government.” (Note: Technically, the currency is generated through a banking cartel with government support.)
History frowns upon that theory. Before the United States Mint issued its first coin in 1793, the 13 colonies were awash with an assortment of currencies that included both private and government-issued ones. Current fiscal reality also frowns on this. Privatizing zealot Martin Durkin calls the idea of government guaranteeing the quality of money “the sickest joke in economic history. Governments have always robbed their subjects by debasing the currency, but this abuse, in recent years, has burst all bounds of decency and sanity.”
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Had a similar conversation this weekend with Luddite.
We were talking about “secession”.
Among the challenges that came up was “money”.
A State, that secedes, would want to abandon the “Federal Reserve Note”. If it was smart, it would use what ever the free market dictated and allow it all to float.
Second best would be to demand gold and silver in what it collects and what it pays.
Luddite was stunned that folks might have to change money.
LOL!
Guess he’s never traveled internationally that much.
If the seceding State used gold or silver, I’d want some of that. Rather than the trash we have now.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Cells can be reprogrammed
Wednesday, October 10, 2012News Alert
from The Wall Street Journal
British researcher John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan have won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology.
The prize committee at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute said the two researchers won the award for their discovery that mature, specialized cells can be reprogrammed to become immature cells capable of developing into all tissues of the body.
Their findings had revolutionized understanding of how cells and organisms develop, the Nobel committee said.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444897304578043961363646792.html?mod=djemalertNEWS
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There is SO much we DON’T know versus what we DO know!
It’s stunning!
This could be a break thru for sick people worldwide.
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GOLD: Something has to break
Wednesday, October 10, 2012Home » Economy, News, Politics
Dollar Alternative Anyone?
29 FEBRUARY 2012 87 COMMENTS
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Countries around the world have been actively seeking ways to not do business in dollars for the past few years. The U.S. dollar is the so-called world reserve currency, but the big question is for how long? China and Japan are beginning to shun the dollar in trade between the two countries. Mind you, this is the 2nd biggest economy in the world doing business without dollars with the 3rd biggest economy in the world. Russia and China, also, have an agreement to not use the dollar, and even India recently announced it would trade gold for oil with Iran. Additionally, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been calling for an alternative to the buck. The big push is not because the U.S. dollar is held in the highest regard but because it is losing its luster on the world stage. After all, the debt debacle facing America is worse than what the Greeks are facing according to a new report from U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions. (Click here to see for yourself.) Senator Sessions says every man, woman and child in the country is saddled with $44,000 in debt.
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So what is a poor retiree to do?
Your retirement savings get no interest. The stock market is dependent upon the inflation that the FED is pumping into it. And, that inflation has to come out somewhere — barf with the world rejecting the dollar as reserve currency or fart that inflation into the economy.
We have examples of hyperinflation in other countries. I lived through the Carter inflation of the 70’s.
Nickels, silver, and gold.
Seems obvious to me?
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FUN: “Greasy Spoon” badge
Tuesday, October 9, 2012LOL! Another meaningless inet thing.
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Congrats! Your recent check-in at 29 Diner just unlocked the Greasy Spoon badge, Level 3! |
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Sticky vinyl booths, bottomless mugs of joe, apple pie fresh out of the display case… Does that waitress have syrup on her hairnet? Sounds like diner heaven to us. Now, treat yourself to onion rings. Or a milkshake. We suggest both. You’ve been to 10 different diners! The next level is only 5 more new diners away! Milkshake city! |
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GUNS: Hold the 1911 properly; hit your target. Not the ground!
Tuesday, October 9, 2012TECHNOLOGY
WANT TO KNOW WHY GANGSTERS HOLD GUNS SIDEWAYS? THIS MARINE MAY HAVE THE ANSWER
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 2:45pm by Liz Klimas Print »Email »
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In nearly all movies involving “gangsters” with guns, you’re bound to see the firearm cocked sideways.
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The technique for proper shooting that Davis recommends is called “building a castle.“ He writes on the site that the castel is built by ”lining up the three ‘turrets’” –that is the turrets on the top of the gun — with the intended target, making sure they are level and evenly paced.
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Because the uneducated and unpeacticed have no clue what they are doing. Some range time would quickly show them that the proper technique taught for a hundred years is correct.
If you want to hit your target, rather than “look kool”!
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FUN: Met with Newt And Callista
Monday, October 8, 2012Two very gracious people!
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