RANT: Too many “centurions”?

Monday, October 8, 2012

http://www.irishcentral.com/sport/Rory-McIlroys-mistake-as-Europe-steal-Ryder-Cup-after-tee-time-error-172069011.html

Rory McIlroy’s mistake as Europe steal Ryder Cup after tee-time error
Late scare for Ulsterman but Europeans pull off Miracle at Medinah
By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Staff Writer

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Rory McIlroy was brought to Medinah in a police car – as Europe stole the Ryder Cup from under American noses!

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Television coverage listed his start time at 12:25pm but that referred to Eastern Standard Time (EST), which is 11:25am Central Time (CT).

He said: “I was just casually strolling out of my hotel room when I got a phone call saying you have 25 minutes.

“I have never been so worried driving to the course. Luckily there was a State Trooper outside who gave me the escort, if not I would not have made it on time.”

Officials confirmed that if McIlroy was two minutes late he would have forfeited the opening hole while five minutes late, he faced disqualification.

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Now bear in mind, I give not a about “golf”, Riders Cup, or any holed up competition between Europe and the USA.

I will correlate the taxpayer’s sad state in Chicago with having “centurions” standing around to provide “escorts”.

Mach nix to me.

But maybe I am just enough of grump to ask why this was provided?

If I’m late to a business meeting does any of the privileged class of our masters give a …

Well you get the idea.

I think there should be an investigation into this. Obviously, the “Statie” fails to understand his duty.

Argh!

I sit here just shaking me head.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: A record of theft and killing

Sunday, October 7, 2012

http://cafehayek.com/2012/10/spare-us.html

Spare Us
by Don Boudreaux on October 3, 2012

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Where, for example, was Mr. Obama’s empathy and sense of fairness in 2009 for Chrysler’s senior creditors – people he bullied into accepting fewer cents on the dollar than they were entitled to receive under long-established tenets of bankruptcy law? Mr. Obama’s “empathy” for the UAW – junior creditors (and political supporters) who gained what was stripped from the senior creditors – hardly excuses his lack of empathy for the senior creditors (and, by the way, also U.S. taxpayers) victimized by his political opportunism.

Much worse: where is Mr. Obama’s “empathy” for the hundreds of innocent Pakistanis killed – and the thousands daily terrorized – by the drone strikes that he authorizes? As The Atlantic‘s Conor Friedersdorf now-famously explained, “Women cower in their homes. Children are kept out of school. The stress they endure gives them psychiatric disorders. Men are driven crazy by an inability to sleep as drones buzz overhead 24 hours a day, a deadly strike possible at any moment. At worst, this policy creates more terrorists than it kills; at best, America is ruining the lives of thousands of innocent people and killing hundreds of innocents for a small increase in safety from terrorists. It is a cowardly, immoral, and illegal policy, deliberately cloaked in opportunistic secrecy.”*

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Obama “screwed” my wife. Yup, she had GM Bonds in her retirement portfolio. She got NOTHING for them. Was it everything she had? Of course not, she was too smart to put more than one egg in any basket. But, it hurt her. Reminded her of childhood poverty. Apolitical all her life, she was torqued.

For me, as I became more anti-war as I got older and wiser, the war and killing of innocents was most objectionable. Candidate Obama hammered Bush43 on water boarding. Seems like murder is worse to me.

Argh! 

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POLITICAL: Do “we” really understand the cost of war?

Saturday, October 6, 2012

http://lewrockwell.com/woods/woods201.html

I Was Fooled by the War-Makers

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

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Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn’t know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian.

Like most people, I was unaware that any alternative to those two choices existed, or that in some ways they were two sides of a common statist coin. In particular, I embraced a neoconservative foreign policy with gusto. The way to show you weren’t a commie was by supporting the U.S. military as it doled out summary justice to bad guys all over the world. And frankly, it was exciting to watch it all unfold on TV.

I never gave the human cost of war a second thought and became impatient with anyone who did. War was like a video game I could enjoy from the comfort of my home. Devastation and human suffering were quite beside the point: the righteous U.S. government was dispensing justice to the wicked, and that was that. What are you, a liberal?

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Mothers and fathers were crying themselves to exhaustion over children they had lost, or who, worse still, were dying agonizing deaths before their very eyes. There is no worse anguish for parents than to watch their children suffer and to be helpless to do anything about it.

Was it really right that we Americans should meanwhile be celebrating with a Bob Hope special, and – on cue – flattered by the ceaseless reminders that ours was the awesomest country ever?

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How can anyone be for war?

How can anyone support BHO44’s “drone war”?

How do we explain the deaths of 2,000 American youths?

Sorry, but I too was once fooled by the welfare / warfare state!

This scale of killing was never envisioned by the Constitution. The political class doesn’t even follow these supposed limits. How was war in Libya declared? By Presidential fiat! 

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FUN: Swift gets the last laugh

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Allston gets a personal gift from Taylor Swift
Boston.com

The local public school made national news in August when internet trolls on 4chan and Reddit began nominating Horace Mann to win a Papa John’s and Chegg-sponsored contest that would send pop singer Taylor Swift to perform at the school with the …

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You have to admit that the inet trolls have a sense of humor!

That’s “my” girl. She’ to savvy. (Or her marketing team is?) To let this “challenge” go unanswered.

I’d still suggest that she do the concert. What better way to insure she’s “america’s sweetheart”.

I wouldn’t make a big deal of it. Maybe a “surprise one” like the one at Auburn.

And it’s is close to Conor?

LOL!

(What do you want from a fat old white guy injineer with no life?)

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FLASH: good news from florida

Friday, October 5, 2012

remember Pete;s grandson went to the hospital for blood coming out from where it wasn’t supposed to be coming out.

good news, it’s a virus from his parakeet. doing tests to confirm but he’s doing much better.

too bad for the bird. squab anyone?

don’t comment, the child’s parents are arranging a suitable adoption.

… for the bird; not the child.

I, of course, recommend a long list of politicians and bureaucrats to send the “typhoid bird” to.

Of course, there are always hungry gators who love “chicken”.

sigh, it’s good that it’s not serious. been that route too many times.

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POLITICAL: The O’Reilly Stewart debate; the 2012 Lincoln Douglas equivalent?

Friday, October 5, 2012

http://www.therumble2012.com/index.html

Bill O’Reilly. Jon Stewart. 2 podiums. 1 Air-Conditioned Auditorium. “O’Reilly v Stewart 2012: The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium” will be streamed live, Saturday, October 6th at 8pm ET from Lisner Auditorium at The George Washington University. O’Reilly and Stewart will take an entertaining and comedic approach to today’s pressing political issues in an attempt to find the best direction for America. “The Rumble 2012” will surely be a must-see event! If you pre-order by October 1st, you can suggest a question that Jon and Bill may answer during the debate. Pre-Order Now to be a part of the action! 

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MY question:

How can we get the girls and boys home from AfPak and Iraq? Only Ron Paul gave us a choice to get them out. With him out and basically BHO43 and Mitt have the same non-policy. The “anti-war” movement has been shown to be astroturf for the democrats. But the Taft wing of the R’s was definitely an anti war tradition. Given the blood and treasure wasted, how do “we” get out? Viet Nam, Republic of taught “We, The Sheeple” nothing!

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FLASH: Missing Child found: Lizbeth Vasquez, 10, Female, Hispanic, 4’11”, 120-130lbs.. Last seen: 10/3 1530hrs. www.njsp.org for more info

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Praying for her safe return! This should be a region-wide priority!

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NIC #: M480980789
Last Name: Vasquez
First Name: Lizbeth
Age: 10
Gender: Female
Height: 4’1″
Weight: 120-130 Pounds
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Complexion: Light
Race: Hispanic
Date of birth: 06/05/2002
Date of last contact: 10/03/2012 1530HRS
********Lizbeth was last seen on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 1530 HRS leaving the Anastasia
School at 95 Seventh Avenue in Long Branch, NJ (Monmouth County).*********
********She was last seen wearing a grey sweatshirt, a green polo shirt with a patch of the Anastasia
school logo, tan pants, and grey Jordan sneakers. She also has a black back pack in her
possession.**********
THE PHOTO ABOVE IS OVER 2 YEARS OLD BUT LIZBETH DOES CURRENTLY LOOK THE
SAME
ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT LONG BRANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT AT
#732-222-1000 OR NJSP MISSING PERSONS UNIT AT #800-709-7090.
THIS CHILD CAN ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE STATE WEBSITE AT:
WWW.NJSP.ORG (under the MP icon).
LONG BRANCH PD #732-222-1000
NJSP MPU #800-709-7090

Instructions:

ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT LONG BRANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT AT #732-222-1000 OR NJSP MISSING PERSONS UNIT AT #800-709-7090.

For full details, view this message on the web.

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NIC #: M480980789
Last Name: Vasquez
First Name: Lizbeth
Age: 10
Gender: Female
Height: 4’1″
Weight: 120-130 Pounds
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Complexion: Light
Race: Hispanic
Date of birth: 06/05/2002
Date of last contact: 10/03/2012 1530HRS
********Lizbeth was last seen on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 1530 HRS leaving the Anastasia
School at 95 Seventh Avenue in Long Branch, NJ (Monmouth County).*********
********She was last seen wearing a grey sweatshirt, a green polo shirt with a patch of the Anastasia
school logo, tan pants, and grey Jordan sneakers. She also has a black back pack in her
possession.**********
THE PHOTO ABOVE IS OVER 2 YEARS OLD BUT LIZBETH DOES CURRENTLY LOOK THE
SAME
ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT LONG BRANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT AT
#732-222-1000 OR NJSP MISSING PERSONS UNIT AT #800-709-7090.
THIS CHILD CAN ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE STATE WEBSITE AT:
WWW.NJSP.ORG (under the MP icon).
LONG BRANCH PD #732-222-1000
NJSP MPU #800-709-7090

Instructions:

ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT LONG BRANCH POLICE DEPARTMENT AT #732-222-1000 OR NJSP MISSING PERSONS UNIT AT #800-709-7090.

For full details, view this message on the web.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Red-light camera; revenue raising scam

Thursday, October 4, 2012

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/10/bamboozled_red_light_camera_er.html

Bamboozled: Red-light camera error leads to road of exasperation in Edison
Published: Monday, October 01, 2012, 9:16 AM Updated: Monday, October 01, 2012, 9:43 AM
Karin Price Mueller/The Star-Ledger By Karin Price Mueller/The Star-Ledger

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In March 2010, Lauren Morosoff packed her stuff into her 2008 Scion TC and moved from Kendall Park to Colorado for a job opportunity.

Unsure of how long she’d stay in Colorado, the 27-year-old kept her New Jersey driver’s license and license plates.

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But a few days later, the Morosoffs had a change of heart — not because they felt they were wrong — but because of pure economics.

The cost to file an appeal is $75, plus transcription fees, and they’d have added costs to send the documents “certified mail.”

“It seems like Lauren might have to appear in court and with the cost of airfare over $400 and the time she’d have to miss from work, it’s not financially feasible,” Morosoff said. “I suppose she could hire a lawyer to represent her, but I can’t imagine what his fees would be.”

Simply paying the fines would be far less costly, unless an attorney would take her case pro bono.

“This really eliminates any faith I had in our judicial system,” Terri Morosoff said.

“We cannot even trust our own state to do the right thing. I feel very sorry for all New Jersey and non-New Jersey drivers out there,” she said.

“Who knows how many others have received bogus tickets and were forced to pay them?”

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MONEY: CD rates are the answer to the wrong question

Thursday, October 4, 2012

BANKING
Is It Stupid to Save? 5 Alternatives
With low interest rates here to stay, we look at options that can beat putting money in the bank.
http://www.smartmoney.com/plan/banking/is-it-stupid-to-save-5-alternatives-1348525179055/?cid=djem_sm_WeekontheStreet_t

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I find it amusing when articles give financial advice without any context. No that I’m a financial guru. But at least I’d stratified my advice into some tiers:

dirt poor — you should be focusing on burn rate and “months of cushion”

poor — you should be focused on pyramid and how you establish a basis going forward

young family man — should be thinking insurance and home ownership

youngsters — save your nickels and develop 10 part time jobs

… … before you start worrying about savings rates!!!

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INSPIRATIONAL: California Legalizes Self Driving Cars

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/26/1621200/california-legalizes-self-driving-cars

California Legalizes Self Driving Cars
Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday September 26, @12:36PM
from the third-place-leaders-of-the-free-world dept.

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Hugh Pickens writes writes “The Seattle PI reports that California has become the third state to explicitly legalize driverless vehicles, setting the stage for computers to take the wheel along the state’s highways and roads … ‘Today we’re looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow’s reality,’ said Gov. Brown. ‘This self-driving car is another step forward in this long, march of California pioneering the future and leading not just the country, but the whole world.’ The law immediately allows for testing of the vehicles on public roadways, so long as properly licensed drivers are seated at the wheel and able to take over. It also lays out a roadmap for manufacturers to seek permits from the DMV to build and sell driverless cars to consumers. Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Automotive Research points to a statistical basis for safety that the DMV might consider as it begins to develop standards: ‘Google’s cars would need to drive themselves (by themselves) more than 725,000 representative miles without incident for us to say with 99 percent confidence that they crash less frequently than conventional cars. If we look only at fatal crashes, this minimum skyrockets to 300 million miles. To my knowledge, Google has yet to reach these milestones.'”

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I’d buy one of those if they are available for sale here!

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