http://www.impactlab.net/2010/11/18/top-10-photos-of-the-week-154/
Counter to what some people believe,
cleanliness and well-rehearsed marching
does not win wars
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This was a hoot!
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FUN: Cleanliness and well-rehearsed marching
Saturday, November 20, 2010
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FUN: No more coin flips
Friday, November 19, 2010http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Win_a_Coin_Toss
Win a Coin Toss – Wired How-To Wiki
(Sent from Flipboard)
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No more coin flips. Digital watch second for odds or even?
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SURVIVAL: Always go with BOB!
Friday, November 19, 2010http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101111/ap_on_bi_ge/us_cruise_ship_fire
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“It’s been like a nightmare,” she said. “There’s been no food, no power, no electricity, no flushing toilets. I spent the night tossing and turning in my cabin in the dark.”
Family members anxiously awaited the cruise liner that left Long Beach on Sunday for a seven-day trip to the Mexican Riviera, only to return days early without ever reaching the beaches vacationers had hoped for. A fire in the engine room knocked out power Monday morning, leaving passengers with no air conditioning, no hot food, no hot water, no casino. The swimming pool was off-limits because there was no way to pump chlorine.
Paul Patrick Sr., 50, of Riverside, said his daughter, Sabrina Klinge of Laguna Hills, was married on Saturday and was on her honeymoon cruise. The 27-year-old texted her father on Wednesday saying it was dark and she was living on Pop-Tarts.
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This is demonstration of why you always need your BOB, a 3 day kit, and 7 day kit. And, as my grandfather taught me about highways: “Limited egress means limited exits.”
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RANT: PTSD is pushed under the table
Thursday, November 18, 2010The long road home
Boston Globe
by Bob Kinder
“Men and women, having seen years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, are killing themselves in record numbers. Many are divorcing. Some are addicted. Scores are angry and violent, unable to process their wartime experiences. Yet, routinely, these same brave veterans are kicked out of the service and denied benefits or hope of getting well. The problem isn’t new. … In 2007, under intense congressional pressure to improve mental-health care for combat veterans, the Department of Defense acknowledged it was unfairly discharging combat troops by erroneously claiming a service member had a personality disorder rather than post-traumatic stress disorder.” (11/11/10)
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Interesting. How does that jibe with the nation’s “care”?
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GOLD: If not golden Dinar, how about a golden Punt?
Thursday, November 18, 2010http://irisheagle.blogspot.com/2010/11/better-euro-dies-than-we-leave-it.html
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Better the euro dies than we leave it
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Okay, call me nuts and I don’t really believe that our government or Department of Finance folks have this sort of courage, but what if our government has suddenly realized that the euro doesn’t suit our economy? Would it be better to leave the euro with our tail between our legs or to hope for the complete collapse of the currency?
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Ireland could become the “economic Switzerland” with one “modest” change. Very simple. Leave the euro, create an Irish Currency Unit (the golden Punt?), and tie it to some amount of gold. Forget the current price of gold. Figure out the number of Punts in circulation and how much gold or silver is in the Treasury. Then, the Central Bank opens the “gold window” to buy them back for gold and sell them for gold. Purchasable from the central bank in gold and redeemable by the average joe — paddie in your case — in gold. From the Central Bank’s concern it’s a near zero some game; they can even have a few basis points small commission on each transaction to cover their costs. As the world’s only non-fiat currency, it would quickly become the world’s reserve currency. It makes the Punt worth something intrinsically. internationally as the only non-fiat currency it becomes a proxy for gold. The Central Bank could even mint the golden punt — like the Sadam supported, proposed im Malaysia, golden dinar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_gold_dinar . What a shock to the global economy. It would hamstring the Irish Gooferment to only spend what it could afford in taxes. But, wow, the recovery would be dramatic.
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CRYPTO: Crypto can’t be trusted
Thursday, November 18, 2010*** begin quote ***
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:47:43 -0700
From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
Subject: Getting Crypto Wrong
Neal Ungerleider, How Haystack Risked Exposing Iranian Dissidents,
FastCompany.com, 20 Sep 2010
http://www.fastcompany.com/1690075/haystack-austin-heap-iran-fail
In 2009, Iran was in turmoil, and the Islamic Republic was blocking and monitoring sites used by opposition groups — until a team led by American IT specialist Austin Heap built a program, Haystack, and touted it as a secure and anonymous Web portal for Iranians. *The Guardian* lauded it, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally praised Heap. The U.S. government even gave him rare permission to export his cryptological software to Iran. Among an elite group of beta testers — and many more unauthorized users — Haystack was a godsend.
Then in Sept. 2010, security experts discovered a problem: Iranian authorities, the very ones Haystack was supposed to circumvent and shield against, were exploiting massive holes in the encryption scheme to snoop on dissidents.
[Beware of anonymity-bearing gifts. As we have noted here before, ALWAYS look a gift (trojan) horse in the mouth. PGN]
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It all comes back to how do you know the stuff works?
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GUNS: Seven years for being a responsible gun owner
Thursday, November 18, 2010http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/15/brian-aitkens-mistake/1
Brian Aitken’s Mistake
A New Jersey man gets seven years for being a responsible gun owner.
Radley Balko | November 15, 2010
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Putting Brian Aitken in prison isn’t going to make New Jersey any safer. It might, however, make some of the state’s residents think twice before calling the police, particularly if they own guns. It might even make some New Jersey gun owners wonder if they have more to fear from the state’s ridiculous laws and overly aggressive cops and prosecutors than they do from criminals. Given what happened to Aitken, those fears wouldn’t be unfounded.
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Where’s the appeal on Second Amendment grounds?
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POLITICAL: The “machines” vote
Wednesday, November 17, 2010Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:30:09 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein
Subject: Voting machines selecting default candidates
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Some voters in Las Vegas have noticed that Democratic Senator Harry Reid’s name is checked by default on their electronic voting machines. By way of explanation, the Clark County Registrar says that when voters choose English instead of Spanish, Reid’s Republican opponent, Sharron Angle, has her name checked by default. *Slashdot*, 26 Oct 2010 http://bit.ly/cBXWSj
[Reid won re-election, perhaps because of the strong Latino vote. PGN]
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And, we trust “elections”. Why?
If voting changed anything significant, do you think the elite would permit it? Think USSR voting.
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FUN: Thank you, DeWalt!!!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010LUDDITE says: “A must have in every home in America !”
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For everyone who would rather not have a gun in the house!
In view of the recent Supreme Court ruling, sales of this new product may skyrocket.
The dummies in Washington think they are going to take away our guns, so check this out. I like it!
They’d NEVER think of NAIL GUNS!
They’re concentrating on doing away with the BULLET-TYPE of ammunition! HAH! I think I’m going to buy some NAIL GUNS and NAILS,
and, we don’t even have to REGISTER them or have LICENSES for them!
HA! HOW STUPID ARE THEY?
In addition, you don’t have to worry about them being CONCEALED!
Once in awhile something so totally cool comes out that even a guy who doesn’t normally even know what he would like for Father’s Day or Christmas would immediately ask for it:
Thank you, DeWalt!!!
New Nail Gun, made by DeWALT
It can drive a 16-D nail through a 2×4 at 200 yards.
This makes construction a breeze; you can sit in your lawn chair and build a fence.
Just get your wife to hold the fence boards in place while you sit back,
relax and when she has the board in the right place, just fire away.
With the hundred round magazines, you can build the fence with a minimum of reloading. After a day of fence building with the new DeWalt Rapid fire nail gun, the wife will not ask you to build or fix anything else, probably, ever again.
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RANT: Why doesn’t El Al have these security problems?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010Airport body scans, pat-downs draw more complaints
(AP) – 13 hours ago
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“It’s all about security,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. “It’s all about everybody recognizing their role.”
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I guess “We, The Sheeple” have to recognize our role to do what we are told by this representative of the elite who run this country.
I can’t image anything she could say that was not more telling about their thinking.
So shut up and get felt up.
We know what’s good for you.
The small fact, that this has NOTHING to do with security and everything to do with control, might enter YOUR thinking!
Did the Jews being loaded on the railcars in Nazi Germany feel this way? It’s all about training you to comply and follow orders!
Xraying pilots and feeling up screaming children is a GREAT security strategy. The terrorist must think this is funnier than a Saturday Night Live skit!
I refuse to fly! I suggest that you do too. Nothing will bring this issue to a head as empty airlines over the holidays. Sorry, but explain to all your disappointed relatives that they can’t see the grandchildren because of the TSA. Nothing will change this faster than a a bunch of <past tense synonym for urine output> off grandparents with lots of time to annoy “their representatives”.
Stop the nonsense now. Disband the TSA! Turn security back to the airlines.
Why doesn’t El Al have these security problems?
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