Please help a poor unemployed FOWG! :-)
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Here’s a list of books I’m selling on Amazon
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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POLITICAL: Unwinding the Social Security Ponzi scheme
Wednesday, January 21, 2009http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/01/entitlements-part-15-social-security.html
Friday, January 9, 2009
Entitlements Part 1.5- Social Security
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This brought up enough discussion that some things deserve to be addressed in a venue more public then the comments section. I will address as much as I can in no particular order. Here it goes.
First of all I did not mean anything seriously bad to the older folks who read the blog or your peer group. I poked some fun but it is just that, fun. I take a few friendly shots at just about everyone given the right setting. I am enough of am asshole that if I wanted to say something really mean I would.
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The most interesting idea that came out of the comments was what happened in Chile with their SS plan in the 1970’s. If you are as familiar with that as I was three hours ago then read this. I think that is sort of idea is probably the best chance of making our system viable but I still have the same big question/ concern I had about going to a privatized system before reading that article.
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Guess who made that comment? It is a good discussion about the Social Security Ponzi scheme and how to plan around it. No need to rehash it here or repeat my comments. You can read them over there.
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SERVICE: The Obameter — Tracking Obama’s Campaign Promises
Wednesday, January 21, 2009http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
The Obameter: Tracking Obama’s Campaign Promises
Tracking Obama’s promises
* Promise Kept 2
* Compromise 0
* Promise Broken 0
* Stalled 1
* In the Works 9
* No Action 498
PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.
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Be interesting to see how this shapes up.
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SERVICE: Generate safe passwords
Wednesday, January 21, 2009I like it but I’d prefer if it would generate a page at a time.
Like a one time pad.
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GUNS: Bring guns on planes; it’s the American way!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009http://uncabob.blogspot.com/2009/01/way-it-should-have-been.html
Saturday, January 3, 2009
The Way It Should Have Been
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Hijacker: This is a hijacking! I have a boxcutter!
Grandma: I have a .45! Now reach for the sky, or I’ll put a hole in that diaper-hat on top of your pointy little head!
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If it wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.
Arming the pilots versus the large stupid unionized democratic voting intrusive TSA that can’t find squat!
What stupidity!
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FUN: Too many O’s?
Tuesday, January 20, 2009Now that O (Obama) is POTUS, does O (Oprah) have to cede the designation O to him?
There’s a cat fight I’d pay to see.
LOL!
Maybe one of them can be O2 or Otoo. Yet Another O — Yao.
But O2 is oxygen and that’s a TV network.
Maybe with Oprah’s political support of Obama, there’s no diff!
ROFL.
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INTERESTING: An amazing six month exposure (I agree!)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21666
The World’s Longest Exposures
by Ransom Riggs
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British photographer Justin Quinnell is making waves with an amazing six month exposure he made in Bristol, England of the sun rising and falling over the city’s famous suspension bridge:
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A very interesting result. With makeshift equipment. Truly stunning. Take a look at the pic. Amazing!
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SERVICE: SOUP — an easy way to collect, share, and comment?
Tuesday, January 20, 2009Soup
* a blog
* collage of the web
* browser bar button adds
* aggregate
* Free! (?)
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Hey, if it’s free, I’ll try it. Argh!
Now what’s the “value”?
TBD
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SERVICE: Be careful where you put your data
Monday, January 19, 2009JournalSpace Drama: All Data Lost Without Backup, Company Deadpooled
by Robin Wauters on January 3, 2009
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Blogging platform JournalSpace (which I’d never heard of to date) has ceased to be, following a wipe-out of the main database for which there was no back-up in place. According to the JournalSpace blog, the database was overwritten as a result of a malicious act from a disgruntled ex-employee.
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Stunning. Why isn’t the fellow in jail?
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POLITICAL: Lincoln may not have approved of O, but Lincoln wasn’t so great imho
Monday, January 19, 2009http://www.mcclatchydc.com/338/story/59958.html
Pitts: Lincoln might not have welcomed Obama’s election
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Actually, Lincoln likely would have been appalled. How could he not? He was a 19th century white man who famously said in 1858 that “there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which . . . will forever forbid the two races living together upon terms of social and political equality.”
How do you reconcile that with all those cartoons of Lincoln congratulating Obama? You don’t. You simply recognize it for what it is: yet another illustration of how shallow our comprehension of history is, yet another instance where myth supersedes reality.
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Of course, Lincoln freed no slaves. That’s the myth. His Emancipation Proclamation was a military measure to demoralize and destabilize the rebellious South; it covered states he did not govern but did not apply in slaveholding states that remained under his jurisdiction.
None of which is to deny or diminish the greatness of the 16th president. His greatness stands unquestioned, unquestionable. We would be a very different nation, a lesser nation, without his political genius, his dogged faith in the unsundered Union, his refusal to accept less than Union, even when haunted by reversals and setbacks that would have broken anyone else.
No, the argument is not about Lincoln’s greatness.
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But, it should be!
Lincoln is up there on my list of “Worst American Presidents”.
As a corrupt Illinois politician who was in bed with more than the railroads, one has to take not of the following:
(1) The War of Northern Aggression. What you call the Civil War. What some call the Second American Revolution. The is no Constitutional, legal, or moral justification for this war. That alone would rocket him too the top of the list.
(2) Income tax to pay for that war. Government debt too.
(3) Freedom of Press savaged when editors dared to criticism him.
(4) Atrocities against civilian populations like Sherman’s “March to the Sea”.
(5) Single handedly destroying the concept of a Union of Equals amd morphing into the USA as the tyrant state.
And, don’t forget, he want to send all the “Negros” back to Africa. A racist among his other “endearing” qualities.
Those are just my uneducated points. There are much smarted folks than I who can give you “Chapter and Verse” about Lincoln.
But, don’t disturb the sheeple.
One of these days I should codify my “worst list”!
But that’s hard on the old BP.
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