RANT: “Audit the Fed” has some life

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

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Dear Ferdinand,

This is it!

Earlier today, I received word that Audit the Fed (H.R. 459) is now scheduled for a vote this July in the U.S. House of Representatives!

This historic moment is only possible thanks to your relentless pressure. Now we must turn up the heat to secure victory – first in the House and then in Harry Reid’s U.S. Senate.

That’s why I hope you’ll read the note below from Senator Rand Paul and take immediate action.

In Liberty,

Matt Hawes
Vice President
Campaign for Liberty

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If one has to find the one single thing, that has impoverished us as a nation, while allowing the Gooferment to grow out of control and dramatically preventing us from controlling that “sprawl”, then one only has to look at the 1913 creation of the Fed.

Killing it wouldn’t solve our problems. 

But it would go along way to stop the hole we’re in from being dug to even grater depths.

AND, it would stop “inflation”. The automatic debasement of our unit of account.

The Dead Old White Guys must be rolling over to see us make this basic mistake.

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GOVERNACIDE: Lat’s call it “Decoration Day” again; that should be the focus

Monday, May 28, 2012

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/does-your-rep-really-believe-the-troops-are-fighting-for-freedom

May 25, 2012
Does Your Rep Really Believe the Troops Are Fighting for Freedom?
Posted by James Wilson

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Politicians send troops abroad to die. Then they bestow fake honor on them at home. It’s called Memorial Day.

Chances are EVERY member of Congress will be back in their district, pontificating and posing as a patriot, who values the sacrifice of the fallen.

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Maybe I’m a curmudgeon. Maybe I’m a cynic. Maybe I’m just a disagreeable SOB.

But I’m a vet.

And, I feel that I, and all other vets, were screwed by the political governing class.

The icon is Robert McNamara.

He knew the truth about “Viet Nam, Republic of”, but played along with the “gag”.

He confessed later on.

Too late for 55k boys who made the ultimate sacrifice because they weren’t in on the “gag”.

Ditto for WW1; Wilson’s war. Ditto for WW2; FDR’s war. Ditto for Korea; Truman’s war.

Sorry, but “We, The Sheeple” have put a stop to politician’s standing on the graves of a lot of good men and women to make their speeches.

Time to call them to account.

When the “enemy” arrives at the water’s edge, then, and only then, should we be asking the youth to defend their land.

Argh!

Un-patriotic?

Not in the least. 

Dissent is by definition patriotic.

Like Ron Paul says: “… first thing smoking coming in this direction …”!

Sorry, but I think the best way to honor Decoration Day is stop creating more graves to “decorate”.

And, the fact, that a charity has to pander on TV for funds to take care of the “wounded warriors”, is further national disgrace.

Tell me about how that’s fixed and the girls and boys aren’t wasting their blood, then you can celebrate “Memorial Day”.

Argh! To the n-th power.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Hollywood bribes the District of Corruption

Sunday, May 27, 2012

http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/travel/10-things-hollywood-wont-tell-you-1337096257188/?cid=djem_sm_WeekontheStreet_t#articleTabs

10 Things Hollywood Won’t Tell You
Now playing: sequels, 3-D reruns and long ads.
By CHARLES PASSY

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6. “We scratch Washington’s back…”

Yep, even Hollywood has a lobbying arm: the Motion Picture Association of America, which spent more than $2 million wooing elected officials last year. And its positions aren’t always popular with either the public or politicians. Recently, the association, under the stewardship of former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, pushed for antipiracy legislation designed to keep films from being easily shared and copied online. But the bills were seen as restricting the overall use of the Internet and failed to garner support. After Congress put the legislation on hold, Dodd warned that “those who count on ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake.” That led some critics to charge that the MPAA was bullying legislators and prompted an online petition asking the White House to “investigate this blatant bribery.” The Obama administration declined to comment on the petition.

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This one caught even an old grump like me. I thought they were just “liberals”. Turns out they are “unindicted coconspirators”!  

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INTERESTING: How does one give a youngster advice?

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Dear Miss X:

May I share something that I wish some one had told me when I was your age?

You’ve recently experienced a disappointment. Crushing.

I’ve been rejected in my life.

Many times. Sometimes important; sometimes trivial. Sometimes I cared a lot; sometimes not at all.

In retrospect, I wish I’d known to ask the person rejecting, “Why?”

Robert Burns’ quote is “O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.”

The JoHari window http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window tells us that there is a whole “half” that we can see and that can be reduced in half by fining out what other people see.

I suggest that you want to meet the rejector and ask why?

Yup. Face 2 Face.

Ask him why? Why, you weren’t picked? In what dimensions, did you fall short of your peers? What could you have done or could not have done? What preparations could you have done?

See, now you just suspect, but you really really don’t know.

There’s one You Tube Taylor Swift video where as a young girl, she actually thanks a radio host critic for negative feedback. That’s is an astounding revelation that I never had when I was young. To interrogate a critic for feedback and thinking the person for it is a skill far beyond anyone’s years. I wish I’d had it; I wish you’d develop it.

So that’s my “pearl”. Hope I explained it well enough. It’s up to you to “steal” the idea.

I wish I had it when I was you’re age.

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RANT: End Gooferment Skrules

Friday, May 25, 2012

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle670-20120513-02.html

To Hell With Public Schools
by L. Neil Smith

Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

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It is time to end the public schools.

I just heard about a little boy—a six-year-old in First Grade—who is being treated like a sex criminal by the drooling half-wits who run the Aurora (Colorado) school system because he quoted an M&Ms commercial to a little girl his own age. Something about “I’m sexy and I know it”, a concept of which the poor kid can’t possibly have any understanding.

Everybody reading this knows that this is just the latest in an endless series—”a long train of abuses and usurpations” if I ever saw one—of Nazi-like idiocies occurring all over the country, and in Canada, as well. The last one that pissed off every intelligent individual on the continent was when a little girl drew a picture of a gun of some kind, and her father got strip-searched and their home invaded by uniformed goons with the intelligence of vicious man-eating eggplants.

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If I had one quibble with L. Neil Smith, it is that he confuses “public schools” with “Gooferment Skrules” aka “Big Government Propaganda Reeducation Camps”. Or as some wag said: “Prison’s Minor League Training Program”.

I vaguely remember back in the days of my yute, there were “public schools” that were not run by the Government. Schools of Ethical Culture. The Lutherans had schools that weren’t “parochial”, but were open to anyone. I only vaguely remember those. They were gone before I was far along in school. There were “private” schools that were “public”. They had some number of slots paid for by benefactors to be given to worthy families; as I reflect you had to be smart and your family broke. 

“Free” Gooferment Skrules quickly wiped them all out. Who can compete with a “free good”? Like trying to market air or dirt.

Not a doubt in my mind that the current “stupidity” of Ameirkan Yute is totally due to Gooferment Skrules. Ending them would one of the single best things that could happen.

The only thing I’d rank higher would be: End the Fed; End the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”; and End the Income Tax. 

But ending Gooferment Skrules would certainly be a good start and the increase in IQ would probably lead to nuking these other things!

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JOBFINDING: Electrical Engineer PE in Manhattan, NY

Friday, May 25, 2012

Please let me know your interest level in the 2 positions below or if you know of anyone that can assist me in my search. I will pay you $1,500 if you refer me someone that I place.

 

Lead Electrical Engineer PE in Manhattan, NY: $160K-$180K

-Manage/design/plan electrical engineering projects/department, hands on design, resource scheduling, client relations/coordination, and assign work to/mentor staff

-Projects include commercial, institutional, and industrial

 

Requirements:

-10-12+ years of electrical engineering experience

-BSEE required

-NY Electrical PE required. Electrical PE in surrounding states and LEED are a plus

Sr. HVAC PE in Manhattan, NY: $150K-$170K

-Design/plan HVAC engineering projects and client relations

-Projects include industrial, education, and healthcare

 

Requirements:

-7-10+ years of mechanical engineering experience

-BSME, PE, and LEED are required

 

Benefits for all Positions:

-Employee stock ownership, 401K, tuition reimbursement, paid holidays, PTO, short/long-term disability, employee assistance, professional license & association reimbursement, term life insurance, benefit plan, healthcare/dependent care reimbursement, public transportation/parking reimbursement, dental, and health insurance

 

John Ikariyama

Executive Recruiter at AgentHR

Office/Fax: (702) 586-3075

Emails: jikariyama@yahoo.com

jikariyama@argpeople.com

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RANT: Gooferment protection is nonexistent; circular reasoning

Thursday, May 24, 2012

EXCERPT FROM AN EMAIL ABOUT Gooferment!

But, see there is the “key fact”, the Gooferment ENABLES that bad product to make to the market in the first place. Then you think the Gooferment should “protect” us from it. It’s ineffective and inefficient. If makers were exposed to the FULL BRUNT of their mistakes, then they would be infinitely more careful.

The marketplace exacts a SWIFT and TERRIBLE justice on the “offenders”. Think Corvair. Think Thallidomide. Think Enron. Think … any good disaster. Yeah, the Gooferment got involved long after the train left the station. I remember TIME magazine breakign the Thallidomide story and had women stopping that drug LONG before the actual link was formally recognized in Europe. Which PRECEEDED the FDA by a while.

Yes, my little L libertarian “paradise” my be only in my dreams now. But it’s coming. Because humans NEED to be free. And, you can only surpress it for so long before it erupts. My exemplar is “drugs in prisons”. Humans are irrepressible; you can only kill them.

Good point about the the seat belts. But it was one passionate committed man who dragged Gooferment along kicking a screaming. Even some good things result from a big bad thing.

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INTERESTING: Seatbelts

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp

Dear Jasper John

I learned something new thanks to my research into seat belts.

The Air Force was very instrumental in the passing of laws making seat belts mandatory
thanks in no mall measure to the work of Col. John Stapp
Car safety

During his work at Holloman Air Force Base Stapp became interested in the implications of his work for car safety. At the time, cars were generally not fitted with seatbelts but Stapp had shown that a properly restrained human could survive far greater impacts than an unrestrained one. Many traffic accident deaths were therefore avoidable but for the lack of seatbelts. Stapp became a strong advocate and publicist for this cause, frequently steering interviews onto the subject, organizing conferences, and staging demonstrations (including the first known use of automobile crash test dummies). At one point the military objected to funding work they believed was outside their purview, but they were persuaded when Stapp gave them statistics showing that more Air Force pilots were killed in traffic accidents than in plane crashes. The culmination of his efforts came in 1966 when Stapp witnessed Lyndon B. Johnson sign the law making manufacture of cars with seatbelts (lapbelts at that time) compulsory.[1]

John Paul Stapp, M.D., Ph.D., Colonel, USAF (Ret.) (11 July 1910–13 November 1999) was a career U.S. Air Force officer, USAF flight surgeon and pioneer in studying the effects of acceleration and deceleration forces on humans. He was a colleague and contemporary of Chuck Yeager, and became known as “the fastest man on earth”.

Stebbins, Donald M. (MC1961) 

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Couldn’t use this in the Alumni news, but it was to good to loose.

I’d credit this “success” to the man; not the Gooferment. Even some good comes out of a “bad thing” (i.e., Gooferment).

I first heard about seat belts when my maternal Grandfather Eddie and my Dad put them in all the cars. Front and back. Long before I even knew what they were. Their use was condition of being allowed to use the car. It was so rare for my Grandfather to insist on ANYTHING, it made a big impression in my mind. This was back in the early 60’s. 

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Drones over Amerika

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

WMAL in DC is going nuts with drones and drone sightings.

They have DOD documents that say that USAF is authorized to use them in a myriad of cases. 

So has the Big Brother “Surveillance State” become a fait acompli?

Similar to one’s electronic privacy that disappeared with the introduction of the Social Security Number.

You remember that gag “Not For Identification Purposes”?

I just had to give it to the gas, electric, and cable companies to start service at my new “crash pad”.

Argh!

“We, The Sheeple” wake up. 

The “third revolutionary war” is over. YOU lost.

You may know return to the modern day bread and circuses where everyone depends on a Gooferment check (and YES, that INCLUDES Social Security!) and everyone watches “reality TV” for their “life”.

Argh! Squared.

By way of a small revolt, I only have one TV in my new condo. And, that’s just a concession to guests.

Argh! Cubed.

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ADMINISTRATIVE: Out of PERIDOT; In at INTL414

Monday, May 21, 2012

If you have to ask you have to ask, you dont need to know. Attention, Luddite, now you can worry. I’m on the FOURTH floor and the windows do open. Paint is progressing. ETA Friday. Furniture on Tuesday. No TV. Have to get one. No cable; have to call for install. Inet via Verizon mifi.

p.s., don’t believe Verizshit advertising mifi ain’t broadband. IMHO a 9600 modem would be better.

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