RANT: Unidine or Obama’s Heathcare proxy
LADIES4LIBERTY do a skit for universal dining … err, healthcare. Hey, amateur? Yes! Dead on accurate? Yes! See your local VA patron for how they feel about gooferment health care.
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RANT: Unidine or Obama’s Heathcare proxy
Monday, May 25, 2009
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INTERESTING: Carrier targets
Monday, May 25, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/a_memorial_in_naval_history.html
May 25, 2009
A Memorial in Naval History
By Jan LaRue
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Japanese hubris contributed to the loss of their carriers. Their decks, painted bright yellow with the infamous red dot, were perfect targets for our bomber pilots. The decks of our carriers were painted blue, like the sea.
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Re: the Battle of Midway
I never heard that before?
May need some confirmation of that!
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INTERESTING: Memorial Day war movies
Monday, May 25, 2009It’s with mixed emotion that I watch the “war movies” that inhabit the old TV movie channels on “patriotic” holidays. Now, I have no illusions why they are showing the genre. Not that they are “patriots”. But, it does get an audience of those wistful for the simpler times, those seeking “action”, and those who have illusions of what war is.
People, mostly men, die!
You can lose sight of that fact in their silver screen propaganda.
Argh!
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INTERESTING: 50 year old ocean flow mode is wrong; “global warming”?
Monday, May 25, 2009Ocean Circulation Doesn’t Work As Expected
from Slashdot by kdawson
techno-vampire writes with word that a long-accepted model of deep ocean currents is inaccurate. Deep Sea News has a summary of the research, to be published in Nature. The Woods Hole press release has more details. “A 50 year old model of global thermohaline circulation that predicts a deep Atlantic counter current below the Gulf Stream is now formally called into question by an armada of subsurface RAFOS floats drifting 700 – 1500m deep. Nearly 80% of the RAFOS floats escaped the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC), drifting into the open ocean. This confirms suspicions that have been around since the 1990’s, and likely plays havoc with global models of climate change.”
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A fifty year old model is wrong! And “global warming” is based on what model? How old?
Argh!
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INTERESTING: The origination of “America”
Sunday, May 24, 2009
I thought America (i.e., the USA) was founded by LEFT-wing extremists. They were essentially LIBERTARIANS. At least Jefferson was. Everyone other than Hamilton and the Federalists. The Anit-Federalist definitely were LEFT.
imho
The problem is that Democrats have forgotten they are the party of civil liberties and the Republicans have forgotten they are the party of smaller government.
Too bad, Mister Jefferson, it was a nice try. And, too bad, Mister Franklin, we couldn’t keep it.
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RANT: Taxpayers pay for sports socialism
Sunday, May 24, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026830.html
May 18, 2009
No Thanks, Emperor
Posted by Lew Rockwell at May 18, 2009 09:46 AM
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Finally, when you take into account the way local taxpayers always seem to foot the bill for stadia and arenas, it is clear that we have sports socialism in this country, just like the bread and circuses of old Rome. I love sports, but I think this country desperately needs separation of sports and state.
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I think we should have the separation of the “state” from everything. Can we put DC on the space telescope?
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INTERSTING: PA or PIA
Saturday, May 23, 2009Role of “Patient Advocate” (or PIA)
- Record keeping — chronology — doctors are confusing
- Schedule, execute, and follow up — docs and labs
- Insurance and financial manager
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There is a need to keep a lifetime chronology.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Save 13k$ per day by moving? I’d be gone tomorrow.
Saturday, May 23, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/new_york_taxpayers_voting_with.html
May 18, 2009
New York Taxpayers voting with their feet
Ethel C. Fenig
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Proving former President Ronald Reagan’s (R) adage that taxpayers vote with their feet, Tom Precious of the Buffalo News reports that billionaire Buffalo Sabres’ owner Thomas Golisano will save a reported $13,000 a day by moving from NY to Florida – punishing high income workers in New York state with a huge tax increase
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See the gooferment in general, politicians and bureaucrats in particular, forget that the rich can modify their behavior. The poor have no such luxury.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Unfunded liabilities!
Friday, May 22, 2009http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98487
FROM JEROME CORSI’S RED ALERT
New rules: Work ’til you die
Social Security, Medicare facing insolvency
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The U.S. Treasury, on a GAAP accounting basis, calculates the federal government had a $65.5 trillion negative net worth last year when the net present value of future Social Security and Medicare benefits are taken into consideration, a sum nearly identical to the annual gross domestic product, or GDP, of the world.
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Sure, it’ll be there. And, the sheeple believe the politicians!
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Writing: The Last Smart Generation (An index card novel)
Friday, May 22, 2009The Last Smart Generation
The old man was dying. His academic work was prestigious. He had even written some popular “shock” titles that were a commercial success. His wife had preceded him last year; his boy and girl were with him.
He mused over things. Most notably their future. He would leave them a substantive estate. Some to be taxed; some to be evaded. He could do nothing to assure their survival. He had warned about the fate of humanity. He chuckled at all the tin foil hats who feared asteroids, flu, Nazis, global warming, global cooling, and all manner of “disasters”. They were right to be afraid; they didn’t realize that the disaster was “hidden” in our genes and memes. He’d warned, but no one listened.
He’d try once more to give his children his message. But sadly, they weren’t “smart”. Not smart enough to understand the light at the end of the tunnel was a locomotive. Not smart enough to make their contemporaries understand. Not smart enought to avoid the onrushing disaster.
Sigh.
“Children, I’ve tried to warn society that we have turned on to a road that leads to destruction. The Greatest Generation was followed by the Me Generation. The Greatest Generation made a terrible mistake. They allowed themselves to pave the road for their children. They made it too easy, too ‘democratic’, too … too … too ‘universal’. The Nazi’s gave eugenics a bad name. They turned society off to the idea that our genes were worth studying. It wasn’t race that was to be focused on, but human achievement. The Athenians and the Spartans made the same mistake — brains and brawn must BOTH be valued. The Romans made the same mistake; the citizen soldier was replaced by mercenaries serving debauchery. Today, the global society means there is no reserve of ‘virtue’ to come forward and save humanity. ‘Coach potatoes’ develop the diseases of old age and quadriplegics as they watch mind numbing amounts of TV. The Greatest Generation made the mistake after WW2 to expand ‘education’ to everyone. The ‘education industry’ became a government job. No competition to get in; no competition with in it. High schools and colleges ‘graduated’ functional illiterates; grade inflation hid the truth. Your generation is ‘dumber’ than mine. For eons, the human race has struggled and evolved to solve new and harder problems. This is the last generation that innovates. I’ve tried to turn the Titanic away from the iceberg of stagnation. I tried to make people listen. Our genes need challenges and hardships. Our memes have made easy living that which is valued. Be afraid; be very afraid.”
The children ascribed it to the lunacy of old age. He was dying. The daughter was a plumber with a PhD in Theater. The son was an electrician with a double Masters in Fine Art and Creative Writing Criticism. They were comfortable.
It wasn’t long. In three generations, humanity died out. The Earth said good bye to another species that had failed to adapt to a new hardship. The hardship was unrecognized by any until they had slipped below critical mass. The descent was meteoric.
That old man had identified it. The hardship was “abundance”. Humanity was not smart enough to recognize the challenge and succumbed to it. All that was left was emptiness. There was no species to evolve up. The petrochemicals had all been used. Creation ended in loneliness. Earth was stuck in a dead end with no way out.
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