POLITICAL: “Government investment” is Orwellian

Monday, January 12, 2009

http://mises.org/article.aspx?Id=1423

Repudiating the National Debt

Daily Article by Murray N. Rothbard | Posted on 1/16/2004 12:00:00 AM

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In reality, however, government spending only qualifies as “investment” in an Orwellian sense; government actually spends on behalf of the “consumer goods” and desires of bureaucrats, politicians, and their dependent client groups. Government spending, therefore, rather than being “investment,” is consumer spending of a peculiarly wasteful and unproductive sort, since it is indulged not by producers but by a parasitic class that is living off, and increasingly weakening, the productive private sector.

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Here’s how to think about the bailouts and other “government spending”!

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RANT: Feel sorry when anyone gets “screwed”

Monday, January 12, 2009

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Play-clock-was-at-zero-for-crucial-Ravens-first?urn=nfl,133498

Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:47 pm EST
Play clock was at zero for crucial Ravens first down
By Chris Chase

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Another game, another officiating error in the NFL.

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Guess we need an automated “goal light” that “prevents” the game from proceeding.

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POLITICAL: O’s “Raw Deal” and how it ends for us little people?

Monday, January 12, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/how-this-happened.html

How This Happened
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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Will this go on for ten years like the last time? Will it end in World War III, as if following some historical script? Is it possible that we will go the way of Germany in the 1920s, straight into the abyss of hyperinflation and into the hands of a ghastly dictator? It is unwise to rule it out.

And yet, I’m not that pessimistic. It is extremely crucial to realize that there is a difference this time. In the 1930s, technological limits put severe restrictions on information delivery. Government propaganda easily dominated the culture. All of that has changed. Despite everything, people simply do not trust the government as they once did. Obama will enjoy a short honeymoon but it will be over by summer.

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I’m not so sure. I think Hannity got it right when I heard him say something like: ” … It’s not that these programs get passed. It’s that it’s impossible to kill them. They get a life of their own.”

Look at the Income Tax impoverishing us.

Look at the Social Security Ponzi scheme unraveling.

Look at the Medicare socializing medicine.

Look at the TSA “teaching” us to be “sheeple”.

Look at the double whammy of the monopoly in banking represented by the “Federal Reserve Bank” which is a private cartel of bankers with some lipstick pretending to be answerable to the gooferment. Double! It permitted the NIJA (no income no job no paperwork no hope of being repaid.) mortgages, that it could have prevented with the stroke of a pen on a regulation like short stock. (Requiring a 50% down for the privilege of having ZERO paperwork. Would have ended that REAL quick!) It manipulated interest rates and inflate the currency that allowed the congresscritters to spend wilily nelly with impose a hidden tax on all holders of dollar bills. (That ignited the run up in oil prices. Sadam got knocked off because he dared to suggest to OPEC that oil be paid for in gold. Right idea; wrong to be right when the biggest force in the world is wrong!)

No, I’m not so optimistic how this all ends up!

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TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Tag – My #2

Sunday, January 11, 2009

It's a secret what it points to!

Microsoft Tag is supposed to make it easy for you using your mobile phone to get to “something”.

Does it work?

Only you can tell me.

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TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Live Tag? My first

Sunday, January 11, 2009

My mystery barcoderfl_smart_tag

http://tag.microsoft.com

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RANT: Some Habitat Homes are falling apart; flawed concept imho

Sunday, January 11, 2009

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5439388.ece

January 4, 2009

Charity homes built by Hollywood start to crumble

John Harlow in Los Angeles

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RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.

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Another liberal love fest goes down in flames.

There is no substitute for someone saving their coins and buying their own home by the sweat of their brow.

Liberals ignore the learnigns over eons at their own peril.

There ain’t no such thing as free lunch.

The determination to get out of poverty must come form the individual. Sure there can be “help” along the way. Or at least, no concerted effort like the Liberal’s psuedo-drug-war, to keep the poor down trodden or the LBJ “war on poverty” which destroyed the “black family”, the “black churches”, and the “black neighborhoods”.

To me the biggest crime has been “gooferment education”. Huge amounts of money flushed down ratholes. The illusion of education. That’s the tradgey of our generation. A lost generation.

Second, is abortion. We’ve killed all those children who would have made who knows what contributions to society.

We are fools!

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WEBSITE: An online diary? with TWITTER-like limits. Good for kids?

Sunday, January 11, 2009

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/cool-websites-and-tools-238/

As suggested by MAKEUSEOF

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(2) Memiary – Online diary keeping tool that helps you remember what you did each day and come back to it after years. You’re given a simple template where you can add 5 interesting things that you did today. Read more: Memiary – Online Diary Keeping Made Easy.

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A tool for youngsters who don’t keep a diary?

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POLITICAL: NASA’s Hansen to Obama: Use Global Warming to Redistribute Wealth

Saturday, January 10, 2009

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/01/01/nasas-hansen-obama-use-global-warming-redistribute-wealth

NASA’s Hansen to Obama: Use Global Warming to Redistribute Wealth
By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
January 1, 2009 – 12:51 ET

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Climate realists around the world have contended for years that the real goal of alarmists such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his followers is to use the fear of man-made global warming to redistribute wealth.

On Monday, one of Gore’s leading scientific resources, Goddard Institute for Space Studies chief James Hansen, sent a letter to Barack and Michelle Obama specifically urging the president-elect to enact a tax on carbon emissions that would take money from higher-income Americans and distribute the proceeds to the less fortunate.

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Incredible!

Why is this guy wasting his talents at NASA. He should be a socialist politician!

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MONEY: The value today of a future dollar

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Years @ 5.0%

1 $0.952381

2 $0.907029

3 $0.863838

4 $0.822702

5 $0.783526

6 $0.746215

7 $0.710681

8 $0.676839

9 $0.644609

10 $0.613913

11 $0.584679

12 $0.556837

13 $0.530321

14 $0.505068

15 $0.481017

16 $0.458112

17 $0.436297

18 $0.415521

19 $0.395734

20 $0.376889

21 $0.358942

22 $0.341850

23 $0.325571

24 $0.310068

25 $0.295303

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RANT: GOT SCREWED AT JOE’S; Not Recommended!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Got the promo email. Went in for my “free” appetizer. (Hey, I know it’s a scam, but we like the food.) Asked for it. Didn’t get it. Told to: “Check the fine print. You have to have the offer to get it.” See offer below. (Ignoring the crude way they did it.) You see any fine print? I don’t. Guess we won’t be back there. I’d urge you to avoid it as well. I filled out the web site comment (with the annoying music) and we’ll see. I’m not expecting much! Please help me boycott them! Nationwide. If you do go, (cause you have to), please give the manager a print of this blog post. Be interested to see just how much power the inet has?

JUST SAY “NO” … TO JOE!

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