WRITING: It’s always freezing in the field

Sunday, November 20, 2011

And it’s always freezing in the field

It’s always freezing in the field.
Thump, thump, thump …
Sight picture, trigger control, calmly breathe.
Thump, … thump, … thump, …
This is my rifle. … This is for fighting … Pray.
… thump, … … thump, … … thump, … … squeeze.

I am the boy / man who took to Massachusetts’ woods,
when the hated invader marched his red target
across the land of my birth,
to take our liberty and my manhood.

It’s always freezing in the field.
Thump, thump, thump …
Sight picture, trigger control, calmly breathe.
Thump, … thump, … thump, …
This is my rifle. … This is for fighting … Pray.
… thump, … … thump, … … thump, … … squeeze.

I am the boy / man dressed himself in blue or gray,
when the hated invader marched his gray / blue target
across the land of my birth,
to take our liberty and my manhood.

It’s always freezing in the field.
Thump, thump, thump …
Sight picture, trigger control, calmly breathe.
Thump, … thump, … thump, …
This is my rifle. … This is for fighting … Pray.
… thump, … … thump, … … thump, … … squeeze.

I am the old man who will take to America’s woods,
when the hated invader in the UN’s blue beret marches
across the land of my birth,
to take our liberty and my manhood.

It’s always freezing in the field.
Thump, thump, thump …
Sight picture, trigger control, calmly breathe.
Thump, … thump, … thump, …
This is my rifle. … This is for fighting … Pray.
… thump, … … thump, … … thump, … … squeeze.

Fair warning to all that it’ll be Chosin Reservoir cold,
when we all become those riflemen behind every blade of grass.
But we’ll be warmed by the long forgotten passion for liberty,
That has burned in all the riflemen before us.

It’s always freezing in the field.
Thump, thump, thump …
Sight picture, trigger control, calmly breathe.
Thump, … thump, … thump, …
This is my rifle. … This is for fighting.
… thump, … … thump, … … thump, … … squeeze.

Cold it will eternally be,
for the hated blue beret wearing enemy,
killed by all sorts of young and old men,
willingly passionately freezing in the field.

GBA!

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HARDWARE: Meet Wu and Kong

Sunday, November 20, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vkk8kMm08cA

Ping pong robots
Written by Lucy Black
Friday, 11 November 2011 13:00

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Meet Wu and Kong – the latest in ping pong playing robots. They may not achieve exciting matches at the moment, but the fact that they can do the job at all is an indication of how fast things are moving.

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Hmm, seems like their nerds are ahead of our nerds. Except that they have a nerd girl!

Guess one should NOT plan to specialize in anything a robot can do!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The FDA is an absurd regulator

Saturday, November 19, 2011

News Alert
from The Wall Street Journal

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The Food and Drug Administration said it was removing the approval of Roche’s drug Avastin as a breast-cancer treatment.

The agency said that there was no proof that Avastin was effective against breast cancer and that the drug carried a risk of bleeding and heart failure.

Avastin remains approved as a treatment for certain types of colon, lung, kidney and brain cancer.

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The FDA should be reduced to an “advisory” role.

If a court wants an opinion, then the FDA should be a finder of scientific fact. It could “vend” opinions to courts and any citizen when asked.

Sort of like a Consumers’ Reports!

For them to make the process so expensive and time-consuming is just plain dumb.

Then, after all that, they make mistakes too.

We’d be better off without them.

And, lest anyone forget, remember that they are the poster child — along with the SEC — for “regulatory capture” (i.e., those regulated rule the regulators and politicians).

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Tea Party debt proposal

Saturday, November 19, 2011

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/senate-rules-committee-blocks-tea-party-debt-commission-from-presenting-budget-proposal/

POLITICS
SENATE RULES COMMITTEE BLOCKS TEA PARTY DEBT COMMISSION FROM PRESENTING BUDGET PROPOSAL
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:09pm by Madeleine Morgenstern

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) addressed Tea Party activists who came to hear the debt commission’s findings after the informal hearing was shuttered at the Capitol Thursday. (Image source: YouTube)

The Senate Rules Committee reportedly blocked the Tea Party Debt Commission from unveiling its budget proposal at the Capitol Thursday, with staff members removing microphones and locking doors to the room where the group was set to present its findings.

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I guess we’ll all just have to read what they wanted to say. They can’t suppress the truth.

http://blogs.freedomworks.org/files/TeaPartyBudget.pdf

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MONEY: The difference between capital and money

Saturday, November 19, 2011

http://dailyreckoning.com/the-illusion-of-capital/

The Illusion of Capital
By Dan Amoss

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11/11/11 Jacobus, Pennsylvania – The world’s “faith-based” monetary system is breaking down before our eyes. Don’t be caught off guard.

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A few weeks ago, as I was rolling up the tracks from Baltimore to New York, my gaze landed on an oil refinery. A little while later, I spotted a casino. Then I started to think about these two very different forms of capitalism — one that relies on an intensive investment of physical capital and one that relies almost entirely on paper money.

Is one of these forms of capitalism inherently better than the other? Does one of them produce a more enduring prosperity?

Yes, to both questions.

Passing by Sunoco’s Marcus Hook Refinery, you can’t help but admire this feat of engineering. Situated on the Delaware/Pennsylvania border, this 800-acre campus covered in miles of steel pipe has the capacity to crack 175,000 barrels of crude oil into refined products in a single day.

Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack does not produce gasoline. It does not produce anything…except a transfer of wealth. It stands in stark contrast to the refinery. The only similarity between the two is that you wouldn’t want either in your backyard.

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Contrary to popular opinion, paper money is not wealth. Paper money is a claim on wealth. It only has value to the extent that it can be exchanged for things — a bushel of corn, a gallon of gasoline, a dental cleaning, or an Intel microprocessor.

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Investors who hold gold will be very reluctant to sell it when dollar-holders around the world anticipate the endgame of paper monetary systems. For its holders, gold will serve as a solid bridge on the journey from this monetary system to the next.

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For some reason, this seemed to clearly present the difference between wealth, capital, and money.

I’ve driven by that refinery and played in that casino. That’s a striking difference.

One produces wealth; the other merely some entertainment.

We’ve been deluded into thinking that a bunch of “dollars” are wealth. That refinery and the gas it produces is “wealth”.

I like the expression “faith-based monetary system”! It really sums up what this game of musical chairs is all about.

We’ve had some real world examples of what happens when the music stops — hyperinflation — the pre-WW2 Weimar Germany (that I heard first hand from survivors), circa ‘82 Argentina, or ‘98 Zimbabwe.

The tin foil hats prepare for many types of disasters. Hyperinflation is one of them. First thing to recognize that you have to think in terms of “wealth”; not a “faith based” money. “Beans, bullets, and bandaids” is on the first list; “junk silver” on the second.

Some day, maybe I’ll write the “fat old white guy injineer’s intro to ekkynomics” with stories from a mythical “Robinson Crusoe’s” island. When it’s really simplified. Distilled down to a few facts in a fairy tale, it’s easier to see.

That refinery! The Gooferment can’t print more of them. If a “dollar”, whatever that is, (don’t tell me what it was), is a claim on wealth, then it has to have a value. When the Gooferment, through it’s chief counterfeiter the FED, aka “Federal Reserve Bank” or the “Federal Reserve System”, prints extra “claims”, it’s stealing. Pure and simple.

If “We, The Sheeple” had half credit hour of economics or history, then they’d understand the Ponzi-like scam thatR

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NOTRECOMMENDED: Jiffylube is a criminal enterprise

Friday, November 18, 2011

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:10 AM, LUDDITE wrote:

click link http://www.wimp.com/lubeinvestigated/

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Should be in jail!!!

And makes one wonder if this isn’t wide spread.

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RANT: Girl, 10, gives birth to baby in Mexico

Friday, November 18, 2011

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060241/Girl-10-gives-birth-baby-Mexico.html

Girl, 10, gives birth to baby in Mexico… and is now breastfeeding him
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 4:33 PM on 11th November 2011

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A Mexican girl has become a mother at the age of just 10, according to reports.

The youngster arrived at a hospital in the city of Puebla, suffering from life-threatening complications in her 31-week pregnancy, including seizures.

She gave birth by Caesarean section to a boy weighing 3.3lb at the Women’s Hospital in the city, 60 miles south-east of Mexico City.

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Is this true?

If so, terrible. If not, good.

The UK Daily Mail is usually reliable.

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RANT: Paterno “sold” house to wife; in anticipation?

Friday, November 18, 2011

A RELATIVE TIPPED ME OFF TO THIS

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=368701

Joe Paterno in line for $500,000 pension
Coach transferred full ownership of his house to his wife for $1 in July
Posted: November 16, 2011 9:08 pm Eastern

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It has also been confirmed that Sandusky collects $59,000 annual pension and withdrew $148,000 upon retirement from his job at Penn State, according to records obtained by the Associated Press.

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One would assume that this transfer would be found “fraudulent” since it was OBVIOUSLY intended to save it from a civil judgement.

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HARDWARE: VERIZON DVR and EAS incompatible

Thursday, November 17, 2011

In a recent test of the Emergency Alert System, the Verizon DVR stupidly assumed that there was a new recording of a series. So I lost LMAD and VARNEY. The test was at 1053. SO I now have a few minutes of recording of each show. I only save one on the theory of if I don’t watch it within a day, I won’t get to it. Except for power failures and EASs. Argh!

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FUN: The Book

Thursday, November 17, 2011

http://youtu.be/xFAWR6hzZek

From an educator responding to a nag about ebooks and etexts. ROFL!

http://youtu.be/yUQRbqc2qtY

But it’s funnier in other than English, imho.

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