GOVEROTRAGEOUS: How stupid are the people in Gooferment?

Friday, July 16, 2010

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/20100714_Man_posts_bail_with_counterfeit_bills.html

Posted on Wed, Jul. 14, 2010
Man posts bail with counterfeit bills
By Peter Mucha Inquirer Staff Writer

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Most people post bail to stay out of jail.

Not to risk a lot more time there.

According to Cinnaminson Police, a Camden man included counterfeit $20 bills while paying his $400 bail on July 7.

Lousy counterfeit $20s.

Run off on a color copier, apparently.

“They’re pretty poor. I didn’t have to touch them and I knew they were bad,” said Detective Sgt. William K. Covert.

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But the funniest part of the story is that the Gooferment TOOK them. It wasn’t until later that they realized they we counterfeit.

Argh!

How stupid are the people in Gooferment?

Obviously as stupid as the guy passing the fake bills.

Having gotten away with it. And, after all, how are they going to PROVE that he gave them the bogus bills? He returns with more of them in his possession.

Dumb criminals and dumb Gooferment bureaucrats.

Is this dumb and dumber?

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PLINKY: Overheard at My Own Funeral

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Just killing time in the CCU!

TOP TEN THINGS HEARD AT MY FUNERAL:

⑩ “Who’s got the keys to the Shore House?”

⑨ “Whose got his passwords?”

⑧ “What do we do with 1,000 pounds of nitrogen packed rice?”

⑦ “What’s this about him having a George and a Martha at home?”

⑥ “Who wants 200 copies of CHURCH 10●19●62?”

⑤ “What can we do with 10,000 rounds of 22 longs?”

④ “How many long guns did he buy and where are they buried?”

③ “Never mind that, you fool, where did the old fart bury his gold?”

② “Remember: Don’t anyone touch the refrigerator! He was certifiable.”

AND THE NUMBER ONE THING HEARD AT MY FUNERAL:

① “Man! Am I glad that know-it-all-sob has left the building. Now lets get to the reading of the will.”

(ROFL, everyone will be surprised. I’ll have spent it all!)

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POLITICAL: Worrying about reelection as opposed to the country

Thursday, July 15, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/us/politics/12governors.html

July 11, 2010
Governors Voice Grave Concerns on Immigration
By ABBY GOODNOUGH

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BOSTON — In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.

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Interesting that there is very little worry about the massive problems that face the country. That’s of little concern. It’s all about getting reelected. And, what issues reflect upon that goal. Never a concern that if they had real solutions they’d be whisked into power.

At the root of the Gooferment’s problem is their starting point — force. It immediately makes what they do: immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. They have a tremendous unavoidable and imho unrecoverable burden.

It seems so apparent to me: adopt honest money by repealing the “legal tender” diktats, end the income tax returning to funding the Gooferment by tariffs and excise taxes; repeal the mandatory school attendance diktats; reduce the size and scope of the Gooferment by shutting down whole sections of Gooferment; stop the various wars; end the “war” on (some) drugs; pardon non-violent drug offenders; repeal the 17th for the direct election of Senators; and institute a single 18 year term for Supreme Court justices.

Seems so obvious to me!

Then stand back and watch the economy take off.

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TECHNOLOGY: The “iCosystem”? WTH it’s about creating “dead end” that are rich for Apple

Thursday, July 15, 2010

http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/07/apple-geeks-google-technology-cio-network-ipad_3.html

Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Center for Digital Business.

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I hope the vitriol and alarmism around the iCosystem dies down, because it’s not doing much good. Maybe Barry Goldwater was right that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. But crying wolf surely is.

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I could care less about the “iCosystem”. If Apple can con folks into paying a health markup for some dumbed down hardware / software platform, more power to them. (Happened to be at the Apple store yesterday, saw a lot of playing but not a lot of buying. Saw quite a few monitors being exchanged. Saw a lot of bitching about hardwre problems. Including me, with a defective Time Capsule. Saw two purchases. One cash and one credit card. Have to do a lot better to pay the rent, I suspect.) While if given one, I certainly would refuse, put it in the trash, or put it in the corner. But, why should I buy an expensive dead end on the Information Super Highway. It has just enough “features” to fool the technological illiterate into buying it. First, which model do you buy. Cheap “small” wifi or expensive “big” talker? You don’t get the ubiquity of the cloud without getting the talker. With only wifi, then the device is shown to be an “island” as one struggles to find free wifi. Not very “ubiquitous”. And, like a coffin, the “closed” nature of the beast starts to give you claustrophobia. Buy the WSJ, buy more apps, buy games, buy, buy, buy. Bye bye wallet. And, what do you have after all these “purchases” (Oh, I should say “licenses”!) when you can “lose” your access to what you think you bought. We haven’t heard that screaming yet. But sooner or later it’ll come. Nope, it’s a dead end. Designed to allow the old media to pretend to have adapted. imho

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POLITICAL: My plan … secession

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Republicans-should-embrace-Paul-Ryan_s-Road-Map-98201434.html

Republicans should embrace Paul Ryan’s Road Map
By: Fred Barnes Weekly Standard
July 12, 2010

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For Republicans, the road map authored by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the most important proposal in domestic policy since Ronald Reagan embraced supply-side economics in the 1980 presidential campaign. It’s not only the freshest, boldest, and most comprehensive Republican thinking, it’s also the most relevant. If Republicans adopt the road map as their basic ideological blueprint, it offers them the prospect of a landslide in the midterm election this year, followed by victory in the presidential election in 2012.

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Well, you have to have something to allow you to win. The Republicans are the only choice. We’ve seen what the Democrats can do. Not that the other side of the duopoly is much better.

“We, The People” had to turn the District Of Corruption into a revolving door until we can unwind it.

Secession is the only way to cut this mess down to size. Maybe the USA has to split into pieces like the USSR. Too big to allow to exist. Vermont may be the first to go. California if spun off would be the 12th largest country in the world. Texas.

Time to let everyone go their own way. Peacefully. The American experiment has failed. As predicted, once folks figured out how to vote themselves benefits from the public treasury.

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RANT: Is it too late?

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-11/reagan-budget-guru-david-stockman-on-obamas-shoddy-economic-team/full/

Trashing Obama’s Economic Team
by Lloyd Grove

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Yet Stockman hopes the Republicans gain the majority in the House and Senate next November, because “then the next Congress gets down to the business of trying to reform entitlements and cut spending. Also, while we’re at it, we have to get out of the imperialism business, okay? No imperial power has succeeded on the edge of bankruptcy.”

Which means: Get out of Afghanistan and Iraq right away—the same prescription touted by renegade Republican congressman Ron Paul.

“I’m totally in agreement with Ron Paul,” Stockman says. “I don’t think he can be elected president, but I think he’s the only guy who really understands monetary policy, economic policy, the proper role of the state, the proper role of the U.S. in the world. On the other hand, the world is changing pretty dramatically before our eyes. I wouldn’t rule out anything right now. But if you asked me who is speaking truth to power, it’s Ron Paul.”

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One can only hope that “We, The People” get our country back from the fascists and socialists that have taken over!

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GOVERNACIDE: Afghan attacks kill 8 US soldiers in 24 hours

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_afghanistan;_ylt=AjnENmqqMzCz1zc6CAJqNims0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNlYWN2b2ZsBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzE0L2FzX2FmZ2hhbmlzdGFuBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDNwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDYWZnaGFuYXR0YWNr

http://tinyurl.com/2b26nou

Afghan attacks kill 8 US soldiers in 24 hours

By MIRWAIS KHAN, Associated Press Writer Mirwais Khan, Associated Press Writer – 50 mins ago

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Eight American troops died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including a car bombing and gunfight outside a police compound in Kandahar, officials said Wednesday as the Taliban push back against a coalition effort to secure the volatile region.

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Bring the troops home.

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HARDWARE: APPLE TIME CAPSULE died. But that’s not the whole story

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

http://store.apple.com/us/write/review/MC343LL/A

One of the reasons for moving from Windoze to Apple as opposed to Linux was the Time Capsule.

It worked fine, until it died.

(Restoring files was balky at times, but any time I really had to do it, I was able to get it off. The User Interface for partial or complete restores could be easier imho.)

One day, I just was dead. No power. Plugged it into a different outlet. Flickered but died.

When I went on the web, it said “OOW! Sorry. You lose!!! Should have bought AppleCare on it.” Which really put my shorts in a knot. Pay a couple of hundred bucks for a 500$ item. Typical “extended warranty rip off.

I got around to taking my now deceased and out-of-warranty TIME BRICK back to the Apple Store. And, played dumb.

The Genius plug it in and it flickered and died. Another Genius was called over to consult. Replugged it in and same thing. Another Genius came over looked at the bottom of it and called a team huddle in a corner away from me and I couldn’t hear or read lips.

Genius One went to the docked macbook and began wildly typing. Then he announced “bad power supply, we’ll replace it but you’ve lost all the data. OK?”

Sure, it was just my backup device.

Another Genius, number FOUR if you’re keeping score, came over an typed in their machine and paper began to spit out of their printer.

I signed off on the paper. They took the BRICK. And said they’d call in three days for me to pcik up my brand new unit.

A duccessful jaunt, but I’m still annoyed.

What if I believd the website and tossed the unit in the trash?

Argh!!!

This is “barbara streisand” that you have to be a mind reader and guess what’s been recalled.

Argh!!!

I’d call that an “unfair deceptive practice”.

SO, if ANY Apple product dies, I’d drag the dead smelly carcass into an Apple Store. And moan and groan until you got something for your trouble.

I’d even go one step further. I wouldn’t be adverse to visiting ALL the Apple stores within driving distance dragging the dead body into the store.

Sooner or later, you might run into someone who’d have pity on you.

Argh!

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http://www.macworld.com/article/152634/2010/07/timecapsule.html

Apple announces replacement program for some 2008 Time Capsules

Posted on Jul 12, 2010 8:30 am by Serenity Caldwell, Macworld.com

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TECHNOLOGY: Using technology as the excuse for process failures

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69218

Census ‘Successfully Completed’ Work to Date Despite ‘Shaky’ Computer Problems, Census Director Says
Monday, July 12, 2010
By Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter

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(CNSNews.com) – The director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Dr. Robert Groves, told CNSNews.com that the Census “successfully completed” all operations to date despite a “shaky” information technology (IT) system that affected the early weeks of door-to-door counting. He added that he does not have “any evidence” that the IT problems had a “quality impact” on the accuracy of the population count, but encouraged people to wait for a final report that will be issued by the Commerce Department’s inspector general to “see what he has to say” as an “independent voice.”

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Can you say “cooking the books”? What better way to get the result you want than to blame it on the technology.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Adoption should be done by the Churches

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/gatto5.1.1.html

‘I’m a Saboteur’
by Daniel H. Pink

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How do you unlock that inborn genius?

When the mind is tested against something unfamiliar, it grows in front of your eyes. Adopted children have a horrible track record in adult life, and yet they often measure on IQ tests about 20 points higher than their equals in their biological family. For years, the medical community tried to figure out what could account for this. Just to transfer from your natural parent increases your intelligence? Well, sure. You’re in this desperate situation; you don’t even have enough language to find your way out. You’re looking around a lot more than you would if it was all Mother Goose.

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I never knew this but it makes sense. Survival demands adaption. The question becomes how do we get children adopted earlier and seamlessly. The current system, run by our old “friend” the Gooferment, needs to be replaced. By Churches?

Now how do we make the Gooferment give up power?

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