GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Kick the gooferment OUT of health care, health insurance, and whatever

Friday, August 21, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107221

Is ‘death panels’ charge over the top?
Posted: August 18, 2009
Thomas Sowell

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As for a “death panel,” no politician would ever use that phrase when trying to get a piece of legislation passed. “End of life” care under the “guidance” of “some independent group” sounds so much nicer – and these are the terms President Obama used in an interview with the New York Times back on April 14.

He said, “The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out there.” He added: “It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. That is why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance.”

But when you select people like Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to give “independent” guidance, you have already chosen a policy through your choice of advisers, who simply provide political cover. The net result can be exactly the same as if those providing that guidance were openly called “death panels.”

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The gooferment has no business in health care, health insurance (other than to prevent fraud), or anything like it.

The FDA should be shut down. People, in consultation with their doctors, should decide the efficacy and safety of drugs.

We got into this mess because of Medicare. Unfortunately, time for that to go. We should be spending our energies on how to unwind that mess.

It all comes down to the definition of insurance. What is the purpose of wealth at end of life.

Insurance is not for routine maintenance (i.e., you don’t insure your car’s oil changes) and for predictable stuff (i.e., the car reaches the end of its useful life). Insurance is for the unpredictable catastrophes. People, all subject to the same random risk, band together to minimize the impact. That’s why insurers talk about “pools”. If I have a pool of ten people who all share the same risk (e.g., a meteor will strike ONE car this year), then the premium is 10% of the car’s cost plus administration. Very smart actuaries figure it all out. And, it seemed to work fine for decades. Think Lloyds of London. But, now the gooferment says “insurance has to pay for hair replacement”. What if I don’t want to insure that risk. Too bad; you’re screwed. Live in NJ; can’t buy NY insurance. Can’t buy multi-year insurance. No 20 year level premium term insurance in health care. Argh!

And, when I come to the end of my life, and I begin to spend my wealth in my declining years, who’s business is it anyway. What did I save it for? If not to extend or make my life comfortable?

Let’s send the gooferment back to the drawing board. They should stick to figuring out how to honor the camel. Wasn’t it a horse designed by a congress critter committee?

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RANT: Lemonade sellers to jail!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162009/news/regionalnews/sweet_lemonade_kid_lapped_184770.htm

SWEET LEMONADE KID $LAPPED
BITTER AGENTS WRITE $50 TICKET
By FRANK ROSARIO and TIM PERONE
JUST FINE! Clementine Lee holds the ticket that agents handed her and her dad. Parks boss Adrian Benepe voided it.

Last updated: 4:13 am
August 16, 2009
Posted: 2:13 am

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Three sourpuss Parks Department agents put the squeeze on a 10-year-old girl in Riverside Park yesterday, slapping the tyke with a $50 ticket for hawking lemonade without a permit.

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Sorry, but where did the bureaucrat get off “voiding” the ticket? And, what about Federal charges for practicing chemistry without a license.

The City (an imaginary entity) needs the fifty bucks.

Yeah, it’s absurd. But then, gooferment is absurd.

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RANT: Gooferment charity

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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Please explain the notion of marriage which is not a civil agreement. The churches can do their things, I’m OK with it. But if someone wants to get married (not gay, just not via the church) he has an option of registering in the city hall. What’s the L alternative? A contract at a lawyer’s office? I’m OK with it – but it needs to carry the benefits “formal” marriage brings. I’m OK with destroying the entire system so these “benefits” will not be provided by the government – but until we do you have an unjust system. So to say we are not going to give gays the right to marry because we think the government should be out of this business is a bit unfair.

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Ahh, see, that’s where you get into trouble … Courtesy of the gooferment … “benefits”. There are NO benefits to “marriage” UNTIL the goofermetn gets involved. Marriage is a PRIVATE matter between consenting adults. Recognizing it in a commumnity of like minded individuals — call it chaurch or the local gay commnity — is again a private matter. No one’s business but those folks who voluntarily associate with each other. What benefits do you see in marraige that come from anywhere else but the gooferment? I personally don’t care who marrys. I do care that I am forced to pay for all the gooferment benefits.

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As to the protecting the weak – I’m not a big believer in Human good hearts. If it wasn’t for the government, retarded people as well as people with physical disabilities would be killed – as it was the case in old societies. And since economists and libertarian put financial value on everything they can claim with clean conscious that it made financial sense to keep them alive. Something I can’t subscribe to. Thoughts?

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Well, you need to update your perceptions. Americans are a SPECTACULARLY generous people. Despite paying heavy taxes, look at the response to the Tsunami. Third world people. Half a globe away. And the amount of money that was donated by real people was staggering. Then the various gooferments got involved ripping it off. Read your history. The first hospitals, orphanages, “rest homes” were all the result of Churches and the charity of their members. I think you’ll find that economists and little L libertarians are very “charitable” when it comes to keeping people alive. It is all about dollars and cents. We have limited resources so we must be very smart how we use them. People take care of other people. Once the gooferment gets involved then the problems begin. Morality is not an economic calculation. Besides businesses first provided benefits to get good workers and get around the WW2 wage and price controls. Workers work harder when there is a comfortable retirement at the end of the rainbow. It’s the social welfare programs of the Federal Gooferment in Social Security that litterally destroyed the extended family structure when it enabled grandparents to abscond to Florida with their social security check paid for by future generations. The gooferment also destroyed the Black Churches and the Black Family with welfare. So don’t think that the gooferment is innocent in this mess. Were there abuses? Sure, but I bet a lot less than today’s gooferment care paradigm.

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I rather see less government but I’m being realistic and the no-government future isn’t realistic right now so how do we minimize the role of government while being fair about it is a question I’m struggling with. To tell my friend whose a teacher whose husband died two years back and left her with three kids that she can’t have health insurance but if they’re about to die she can take them to the ER isn’t OK with me. I know it’s not MY causing and not MY problem but as a human being it bothers me. How can you live with this?

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Well, I think the no-gov future is getting more realistic as the current set of crooks spend us into bankruptcy. The spigot is going to go dry. That Russian might be right; the USA will devolve into smaller states. We have to do some “minimizing”! Some time or other. I vote R and get bigger gooferment. I vote D and get bigger gooferment. I listen to candidates who swear up and down that they are different; they turn out to be same old same old.

Now, let’s look at your specific case. You’re friend, the teacher. The husband dies without life insurance. (Not surprising. Cantor Fitgerald, the Wall Street firm, wiped out by 9/11, had 95% of their employees had NO life insurance. Financial industry professionals.) So someone made a choice to forgo life insurance. (My Mom made me buy mine when I got married. She said: “A husband, who dies without life insurace for his family, doesn’t die; he absconds.” She’d seen too many widows in desparate striaghts because of it.) I feel bad. But, some one made a bad choice. Now she has three children and doesn’t have medical insurance. She’s obviously not teaching now. They all have gold plated benefits. So what have you done to HELP her solve her problem. I’m assuming that YOU could buy her a catastrophic health insuance for 500$ per month. What about her family? Her social organizations? I spend a lot of money each month helping two differnet relatives out of my own (unemployed) pocket. You can’t look to the government to solve problems; they can only create them.

I live with the current environment because I know I didn’t create it and I can’t fix it. I can “clean up” my little part of the Universe.

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The reason I’m asking is not to argue or tease, it’s because I really don’t have a good answer

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I took the time to answer becuase I think that you’re not arguing or teasing. I know that you’ve got a good head and heart from our time together at XXXXXXXXX. Of course, you were a mucky muck and I was a peon. (I learned along time ago that I don’t want to be a mucky muck. Too painful!) I think if WE empower people and hold them accountable for their choices, we’ll all be better off.

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RANT: Congresscritters’ double standard

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124986067095218079.html

AUGUST 10, 2009

Opposition Emerges to House’s Jet Spree
By BRODY MULLINS and T.W. FARNAM

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WASHINGTON — Bipartisan opposition is emerging in the Senate to a plan by House lawmakers to spend $550 million for additional passenger jets for senior government officials.

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Weren’t these the sae congresscritters who were outraged by the car execs flying into get questioned?

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Pay the big gang off first

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

http://www.parojo.com/news/content/DR_DOOLITTLE_CLOSED_08-09-09_ITFAOKI_v45.39864d3.html

Pet store shut over sales-tax nonpayment
01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, August 9, 2009
By Alex Kuffner
Journal Staff Writer

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He went to the Division of Taxation in Providence on July 30 to deliver a check for $4,500 — all the money he had on hand. He asked if he could keep the pet shop on Newport Avenue open long enough to liquidate by selling off the animals. The tax representative said no.

The next day, he returned to file tax forms that were overdue. A representative told him that if he paid another $10,000, he would be allowed to reopen. He said he didn’t have the money. He asked what would happen if he defied the order and was told he could be fined and imprisoned. He left the office in tears, escorted out by a supervisor.

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Make no mistake about it, the gooferment is a criminal gang. Heartless and money hungry. And, dont stand in their way.

In a perverse sort of a way, they are doing the fellow a favor forcing him out of business. A money losing business.

But, force leads to force.

In this case, it’s wasy to see the guns of government.

Aren’t you ashamed at what is done in your name?

I am.

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POLITICS: CA IOUs; CA says “No”

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

California Won’t Accept Its Own IOUs

By MARIA DINZEO

ShareThis

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Small businesses that received $682 million in IOUs from the state say California expects them to pay taxes on the worthless scraps of paper, but refuses to accept its own IOUs to pay debts or taxes.

via Courthouse News Service.

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Don’t you find this ironic? I do. On so many levels. Why should any one take their paper? Is it even legal? Really legal; not what the gooferment’s own courts say. Seems not!

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INTERESTING: Exercise won’t impact weight

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857-2,00.html

Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin
By John Cloud Thursday, Aug. 06, 2009

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The findings are important because the government and various medical organizations routinely prescribe more and more exercise for those who want to lose weight. In 2007 the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association issued new guidelines stating that “to lose weight … 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity may be necessary.” That’s 60 to 90 minutes on most days of the week, a level that not only is unrealistic for those of us trying to keep or find a job but also could easily produce, on the basis of Church’s data, ravenous compensatory eating.

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My family roots are heavy people. I’ve struggled with my weight for decades. I’ve gotten the exercise bug. I’ve eaten “healthy”.

Other than my thirty day “survival training” with the USAF, I’ve never varied much in my weight. After starving for a month, I looked like a POW! Even walked past Frau, before she was Frau, in the airport.

Other than my year in “language skrool” again with the USAF where I gained 200#+ out of frustration, which I lost when I went back to working a real job.

I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’ll never be thin.

(I blame genetic programming. I read somewhere that fat people survived the Black Death in the middle ages better than thin. SO natural selection has made me fat?)

This demonstrates to me that we, least of all the gooferment, know anything about what they are purporting to be wisdom!

Argh!

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RANT: Throw the gooferment out of “health”

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106149

Obama: Unwitting catalyst for free-market health care?
Posted: August 07, 2009
David Limbaugh

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a sampling of excessive state-mandated treatments that are covered, including: acupuncture, alcoholism treatment, athletic trainers, breast reduction, contraceptives, dieticians, drug abuse treatment, hair prosthesis, home health care, hormone replacement therapy, in vitro fertilization, marriage therapy, massage therapy, nature treatments, pastoral counseling, Port-stain elimination, professional counseling, smoking cessation, speech therapy and varicose vein removal.

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Time to push the gooferment out of all the things that it is into.

At the root, the only proper function of government is to protect us from force or fraud.

So, the federal gooferment has no role in “health care” other than to resolve conflicts between the states. The FDA is an agency that has failed. “Health and Human Services” needs to be nuked.

Slash the Federal budget. Repeal the income tax. And, make the bureaucrats literally barefoot beggars.

Congress critters and their minons have better pensions than almost any taxpayer. That’s just not right.

Argh!

Wake up sheeple!

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POLITICAL: Australia wastes billions in national health

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Australia: Billions wasted in national health care system

The Australian [Australia]

“Australia is wasting much of the $94 billion it spends each year on health services and will not be able to afford even the current, flawed system without major reforms. The Prime Minister’s National Health and Hospital Reform Commission will publicly release more than 120 recommendations in Canberra today, handing the government a blueprint for change, but allowing for ‘long-term’ implementation that pushes the most politically sensitive reforms beyond the next election. Among its recommendations will be taking responsibility for some health services away from the states and giving it to the commonwealth.” (07/27/09)

http://tinyurl.com/krv3za

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Argh! And we are going to volunteer for this nonsense.

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RANT: Gooferment Flood Insurance

Saturday, August 8, 2009

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/08/07/flood-insurance-mend-it-or-end-it-but-dont-just-extend-it/

Flood Insurance: Mend It or End It, But Don’t Just Extend It
Posted by Mark A. Calabria

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Before leaving for the August recess, the House of Representatives passed a bill (HR3139) to extend the authority for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) until March 2010. The program was set to expire on Oct. 1, 2009. The bill now goes to the Senate. Instead of taking up HR3139, the Senate should insist on real reforms to the NFIP, rather then a blanket extension.

Since Hurricane Katrina, the NFIP has operated under a deficit of close to $17 billion, which had to be borrowed from the Treasury in order to pay claims. Under the NFIP’s current structure, it cannot even make the interest payments on its borrowing; these losses will ultimately hit the taxpayer.

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In one instance, a house in Houston this is valued at around $100,000 received over $800,000 in flood insurance claims over a 20-year period, before it was finally destroyed.

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At the very least, we, te taxpayer, should only be forced to insure something once.

And, what exactly is the gooferment doing in the “insurance business” any way?

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The unanswered questions of the Kennedy assasination

Friday, August 7, 2009

http://www.motherbird.com/deep_politics.html

Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott
Book review by Jodey Bateman

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Scott says that at this point it is not possible to say what specific individuals plotted to kill Kennedy. However, there is publicly available information, easy to obtain, on why a much larger group of individuals was willing to stage an official cover-up to make it appear that the Kennedy assassination was simply a horrible accident without political significance.

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And, that is why dear Sheeple, we will never get the truth about anything.

The gooferment is corrupt.

Slowly, but surely, with age, I am becoming an anarchist.

The gooferment is the meme that kills and enslaves us.

We need to find a better answer.

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RANT: Reply to an abomb post

Friday, August 7, 2009

Unfortunately, the gooferment writes the history book. And, now teaches the young to bey. Secrets are hidden almost forever. A sad day for the American experiment in so many ways. Did the experiment end with the bloody “civil” war? If not, Shay’s rebellion? We’re just kidding ourselves that we control this monster called government. That’s why I call government the meme that kills and enslaves us. Time to update out thinking?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Obama’s garden is polluted!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/30/michelle-obamas-toxic-veggie-nightmare-white-house-organic-gar/

Michelle Obama’s toxic veggie nightmare: White House organic garden polluted with sludge
Alex Salkever
Jul 30th 2009 at 10:00AM

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The White House has sought to downplay the issue, and a number of experts have pointed out that 93 ppm of sludge in soil is somewhat normal for older urban locales. However, the EPA recommends not growing food in soil that has 100 ppm. Several major food producers, including H.J. Heinz and Del Monte, won’t accept produce grown in sludge. That’s despite decades of U.S. government efforts to encourage farmers to use solid sewage wastes in lieu of traditional fertilizer products.

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You have to admire liberals. Their hearts are always in the right place. And, their heads are … …

Well, it’s intentions that count; not results. Right?

No one in the gooferment could tell them about this problem BEFORE the big garden photo op?

And, it’s the big bad corporations like Heinz and DelMonte that want to poison us!

ROFL!

I just shake my head.

And, they want to run HEALTHCARE, ENERGY, as well as GM, the Banks, Wall Street and everything else.

They can’t even manage a small garden!

Argh!

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RANT: Sheepke are suckers

Monday, August 3, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/07/forget-tea-parties-wherere-pitchforks.html

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We will continue to need significant public spending to get us out of this mess

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SORRY, buzzz, incorrect thinking.

The gooferment can’t get us out of this mess, that THEY put us into. (Sweetheart deals for their pals on Wall Street. See CRA, Freddie, Fannie, FED, FTC, etc, etc! Oiled by “contributions” to Dodd, Barney, and others.)

The gooferment has completely corrupted our concept of money. The stuff they are printing ain’t “money”. It’s toilet paper. And, just look at the value of the dollar over time or in international trade and you can see the result.

They will get us out of this mess by inflating the currency. It’s the only tool they have. Screw the savers, those on fixed income, and anyone holding “dollars”. Inflation rewards their friends and gives them more “money” to spend.

In actuality, the only way to get out of this mess is to do the hard work. Cut the gooferment down to a size we can afford (about 25% of what it is now). Free individuals and small biz from regulations desinged to protect the “players” (i.e., those supposedly regualted). Cut taxes.

But they won’t do that. The politicians, the congress crtiters, and the bureaucrats like things just the way they are.

Sheeple are suckers!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Obama-care will kill us!

Saturday, August 1, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo175.html

Socialized Healthcare vs. the Laws of Economics
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

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In the UK as well – thanks to nationalization, price controls, and government rationing of healthcare – thousands of people die needlessly every year because of shortages of kidney dialysis machines, pediatric intensive care units, pacemakers, and even x-ray machines. This is America’s future, if “ObamaCare” becomes a reality.

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Seems to me like this is the essence of Obama-care. Just like Hillary-care. National socialism. And just wrong!

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WRITING: THE PEN IS MIGHTIER (An Index Card Novel)

Friday, July 31, 2009

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER (An Index Card Novel)

Munitions are defined as military supplies such as weapons and ammunition. The government of the United States and many other countries classified cryptology as munitions for many years. Those policies were relaxed in the 1990s, due to the rise of the Internet, which made the policies impossible to enforce.

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The fat old white guy had a funny idea. He was tired of his email being like a post card. And, he had no confidence that ANY commercially available product was trustworthy. So being a crotchety old fart, he decided to reinvent the wheel.

During the “great” World Wars (i.e., One, Two, Cold, Semi-cold, Semi-sweet) — don’t forget there are lots of them — poverty, drugs, cigarette smoking — spies used One Time Pads as unbreakable ciphers. Now possession of a one time pad was a “red flag”. As well as sending the message itself was fraught with danger.

The fat old white guy found an algorithm for generating random text. Twenty six scrabble tiles. He sit while he was watching TV and during the commercials he’d draw a letter, transcribe it, return the tile to the bag, and shake. Could do as many as five letters per commercials. He watched a lot of TV and the commercials were very long.

Soon he self-published “My First Code Book”. With instructions. Write your message out, copy the one time pad key, “add” the letters, mod 26 if needed, and shazam you had your secret message. He wrote some blog posts about it. One was picked up by USA today. Instant hit. He was soon hard at work picking tiles for his subsequent volumes.

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In China, a student found an odd message of a web site.

PAGE 120

YXMNO DMKYI FVMYR YXMNO WOYZJ

OXTSK ZPKPY HOLMJ OXTSK NZBGB

JGWRW KONNP NMYRG JGWRW BFWUE

SOOXR VEQQR WFKME SOOXR XFSVE

So did the secret police.

But the student went to University, and heard about a funny fellow in the USA making a fortune selling “code books”. While he couldn’t buy the book, he could download a copy on to a Bit Torrent site.

The secret police did NOT hear about that wrinkle!

Sure enough he found the “code book”, and looked up Page 120.

It started:

bbiwy owytl xgwgc soshw hbxsu

ikfbt ubqzg shtlw nfofv vuorh

gudfr guyuu xwjzm amcjv nghzd

pfgql fobxm nloii vqimn hstdx

jscjo xvhsu ibvdv wxfkd pmyrg

He didn’t have a lot of instructions, but he had lots of time.

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About a week later, he’d figured it out. He had to subtract to decrypt.

thepe oplew hopro fitfr omago

vernm entpr ogram aremo remot

ivate dtosu pport ittha nyoua

retoo ppose it

He was entranced.

He began writing his true feelings about liberty and posting them from internet cafes. He’d share his pages with his friends. Then he began to see others doing the same.

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The secret police were at a loss as to how to stop this “virus”. Comments on blog posts were inciting people to think. Communications was unfettered. They even found stenography in a picture of the Chairman. Nothing like an obscenity in a picture.

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“My First Code Book” made the New York Times bestseller list.

Governments around the world were banning it.

Chairman Mao’s “Little Red Book” became a global best seller.

People realized that any book can be a code book.

Privacy was liberating.

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NJ: Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee

Friday, July 31, 2009

http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1686289,CST-NWS-corrupt27.article

Is Illinois the most corrupt state?
44 ARRESTS? | Based on FBI resources, late-night TV, Illinois has no rivals
July 27, 2009
BY NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter nkorecki@suntimes.com

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Hey, back off, New Jersey.

Just as Illinois basks in the shameful glow of its most-corrupt reputation, the Garden State wants to one-up us.

Sure, we’ve had two consecutive governors, an army of alderman and a posse of political fund-raisers under indictment — not to mention two current members of Congress facing ethics inquiries.

But in New Jersey last week, 44 people, including three mayors, two state lawmakers and a slew of rabbis were rounded up in a corruption scheme replete with allegations of organ sales, $97,000 stuffed into a cereal box and plenty of good, old-fashioned bribes.

There were so many arrestees, the FBI had to herd them onto a bus.

Well, New Jersey may be trying to outshine us, but if the sleaze factor is gauged by FBI resources, Chicago isn’t slipping.

{Extraneous Deleted}

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Let’s go NJ we can be number one at something.

Argh!

Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee

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SOCIALISM: Take the company for the UAW and screw the killed and maimed

Saturday, July 18, 2009

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=8016340&page=2

Bankruptcies Leave GM, Chrysler Defect Victims in the Dust
General Motors and Chrysler Are Rebuilding but Those With Injury, Death Claims May Not Get Their Day in Court
By ALICE GOMSTYN
ABC NEWS Business Unit
July 8, 2009

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Asked about consumers’ pending claims against GM and Chrysler, the Obama administration, which has worked closely with the companies on their reorganization plans, reiterated its support for both automakers.

“This was a commercial decision by the company, which we are confident will not interfere with the future viability of GM. While the U.S. Treasury was engaged in this process, GM was responsible for determining the best approach going forward,” an administration official said.

Chrysler’s decisions, meanwhile, were “consistent with conventional bankruptcy practice,” according to the official.

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I thought the Democrats were the party of the working man.

Silly me!

The White House was up to its elbows in this deal which was a payoff to the UAW and seizing the wealth of honest people.

(The majority of the bondholders were banks who received TARP money. Of course, they voted like the whores to the Government they are. I’d be very circumspect about any bond or any claim made by a politician!)

Screw these little people.

Maybe ABC should ask Obama these questions in his next staged press conference that they get to play act in.

(The mainstream media is just as big a whore for the gooferment as the banks.)

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: why do we need the USDA?

Friday, July 17, 2009

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE56660K20090707

USDA to oversee school snack food: Senate ag chair
Tue Jul 7, 2009 2:30pm EDT

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department would be given the power to regulate all food sold in schools — including vending machine snacks — when Congress renews child nutrition programs, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee said on Tuesday.

Chairman Tom Harkin said he hopes the committee will start work on legislation to reauthorize school lunch programs in October or November, with a goal to conclude the work by the end of the year.

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http://harkin.senate.gov/c/

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The U.S. Agriculture Department would be given the power to regulate all food sold in schools — including vending machine snacks

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Please tell me that this is a mistake. Where in the Constitution do you find the authority to do this? And, even more importantly, why would you want ot do it? Makes zero sense. So we are going to pay federal bureaucrats to tell state bureaucrats to tell county bureaucrats to tell township bureaucrats to tell school bureaucrats what can go in a vending machine! Are you out of your mind? I think that you can make a case that the USDA should be closed down. Adding to it’s “mission” is absurd.

P.S.: I have a relative that votes in Iowa and I’m copying him on this note.

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I suggest that we all do the same thing.

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NJ: Justice? Nah, revenue!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-Rules-for-Living-thr-by-Chaz-Valenza-090706-403.html

July 7, 2009 at 15:28:40
Three Rules for Living through the Second Depression
by Chaz Valenza

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If you haven’t already noticed, the police are out in force and quick to pull the ticket book trigger. Here in New Jersey, though the civil and criminal courts were subject to cost-cutting furlough days, no such thing happened in the money making municipal courts. Basically, now is not the time to get caught being late with payments or cheating on taxes, nor the moment to get on any bureaucrat’s building code violations clipboard. As the tax & budget shortfalls grow, expect to be hunted down for the most insignificant violation of any law, code or tax regulation.

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Traffic stops have always been, imho, about revenue!

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POLITICS: No politics at work when it comes to spending for the recovery

Sunday, July 12, 2009

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-08-redblue_N.htm

Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ’08
By Brad Heath, USA TODAY

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WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year’s presidential election.

That aid — about $17 billion — is the first piece of the administration’s massive stimulus package that can be tracked locally. Much of it has followed a well-worn path to places that regularly collect a bigger share of federal grants and contracts, guided by formulas that have been in place for decades and leave little room for manipulation.

“There’s no politics at work when it comes to spending for the recovery,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says.

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Yeah, that’s a howler. Almost wet myself. Does anyone really believe these guys?

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POLITICAL: Homeless housing; a right?

Sunday, July 5, 2009

http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/local_wpri_massachusetts_is_housing_homeless_in_motels20090624bcm

Mass. is housing homeless in motels
Costing tax payers around $2 million per month
Updated: Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009, 9:24 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009, 9:15 AM EDT
Bruce Morin

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MASSACHUSETTS (WPRI) – A record number of families are being put up in motels in Massachusetts. High unemployment and the rising number of home foreclosures is the reason the state is taking this action.

Housing Massachusetts’ homeless is costing tax payers around $2 million per month. It costs an average of $85 per night to have families, including nearly 1000 children, stay in motels.

The Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness admits that the use of motels for the homeless is not ideal, but is the best that can be done at this time.

Homeless advocates are worried that families are not getting the support of shelters with living rooms, kitchens, and play areas.

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MY COMMENT

Is it the role of the State Government to “shelter”? Is shelter a “right”? Remember where you say someone has a “right” that says you’re going to take a gun and force someone else to pay for it. As a little L libertarian, this is a function of families, churches, charities, fraternities, sororities, and other institutions. The  government becomes the gooferment when it tries to be all things to all people. It forces out “charity” with it’s high taxes. AND, the first thing it does is create a bureaucracy with a union. Note at the end: “homeless advocates” want shelters with living rooms and kitchens. Argh! And, who pays the “homeless advocates” for all this “advocating”? Am I the only one who has a problem with this?

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MONEY: Cash; one defense against gooferment

Saturday, July 4, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/abolish-cash.html

To Fight Deflation, Abolish Cash
Could Japan Make Reality of ‘Science Fiction’?
by Leo Lewis

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With recovery elusive, a population doddering into old age and perhaps a decade of deflation in prospect, Japan may start mulling the most radical monetary policy of all – the abolition of cash.

Unorthodox, untried and, said one Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi strategist, “in the realms of economic science fiction”, the recommendation has nevertheless begun floating around Tokyo’s corridors of power and economists have described Japan as particularly suitable as a testing ground.

The search for more outré economic policies continues, despite the recent surge in the Nikkei 225 index. The market may be reflecting soaring Chinese investment, rising consumer confidence and other cheerful data but economists see few long-term beacons of hope for Japan.

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There’s no doubt that the gooferment would love to eliminate cash.

It could really track and control the People then.

How can we think that we are “independent”?

The gooferment manipulates us into thinking we’re in charge. Just try and change anything. They don’t even follow their own rules!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The USA is broke; deal with reality!

Friday, July 3, 2009

http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/2009/06/22/truth-power-james-howard-kunstler-snake-eating-its-own-tail

TRUTH TO POWER: JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER–A SNAKE EATING ITS OWN TAIL
Submitted by Carolyn Baker on Mon, 06/22/2009 – 5:54pm.

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The current mass delusion that will go down in history as the “green shoots fugue” can’t possibly bring the credit freak show back because the credit — i.e. money borrowed from the American future — was swindled away. Something like $14 trillion worth of nominal dollars is being sucked into a cosmic vortex never to be seen again. It was last seen in the spectral forms of so many collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, so-called structured investment vehicles and other now-obvious frauds. That giant sucking sound we hear means the process is still underway, and the “money” disappearing into yawning oblivion will out-pace any effort orchestrated by the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to replace it with new “money” (or credit). Therefore there is no chance between heaven and hell that the pre-2008 suburban homesteading and shopping fiesta can ever come back. The American polity is tapped out in all sectors, personal, corporate, and public.

Notice the two words largely absent from whatever public discussion exists around these matters — “swindle” and “fraud.” The reason they’re missing is because if they happened to enter the conversation, something would have to be done about them, namely investigations and prosecutions. The president is the person in the best position to set the terms of this public discussion, and by avoiding these two words he’s blowing the chance to begin the process of correcting the tragic course we’re on.

These swindles and frauds range from malfeasance at the highest levels to indecency in the lowliest cubicles — i.e. the collusion of a revolving cast of cabinet-level officials with Wall Street executives to loot the US Treasury, the probable criminal dereliction at the mid-level of agencies like the Federal Reserve’s oversight office and the SEC, to certain and outright street grifting in the traffic of securities known to be worthless at their creation. The current fiction that the public seems to be swallowing (for the moment) is along the lines of the old “mistakes were made” locution, which is an easy way to avoid holding individuals responsible for misdeeds.

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At least this fellow has the honesty to call it for what it is … fraud!

A fraud on the Sheeple and the future generations.

How do we avoid this fiscal disaster?

Hard choices. Very hard choices.

On a national level, we have to begin to reestablish our moral compass.

Pay as we go. Not this “barbara streisand” that they use in Congress. But real pay as we go.

First thing that has to happen is we have to have honest money. No more FED funny fiat paper. We’re all adults. We know the situation is bad; we just have no idea how bad.

Audit the FED; strip the monopoly of its power. Redefine and dollar as some amount of gold.

(If I had to guess, FDR paid 20$ per ounce and immediately redefined it as $32. That was in the Thirties. We know that from 1970 to 2000, the dollar lost 97% of its purchasing power. Let’s guess the dollar was inflated let’s peg the dollar to gold. Let’s say the Treasure will exchange 1500 dollars for an ounce of gold and an ounce of gold will buy 500 dollars. No one will be lining up at that window to transact. But we will have fixed the number of dollars.)

(An easier idea is to repeal the legal tender laws and see what happens.)

Second, we need to “Save Social Security”. Hire that guy form Cato who did it in Chile and do something similar here. (Yup, some rich old folks may well get screwed. Sorry about that. It was a wlefare program anyway.)

Third, we need to FIX medicare, medicaid, and all the socialized medical programs (e.g., VA).

Forth, we need to prune government. (Bye bye Amtrak, post office, Education Department, and the countless bureaucrats.)

It will be painful, But what choice do we have?

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MONEY: A dollar is worth a dollar, except when the dollar is a gold coin

Friday, July 3, 2009

http://federalism.typepad.com/crime_federalism/2009/06/are-gold-american-eagles-worth-what-congress-has-said-they-are-worth.html

June 16, 2009
Are Gold American Eagles Worth What Congress Has Said They Are Worth? Or: The IRS v. Robert Kahre

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[Editor’s note: I am not a tax protester. Until researching the issue that is subject to this blog post, I thought all of the arguments raised by the tax protester crowd were frivolous. On this issue, I am not so confident.]

Take a look at this gold coin. It’s a Gold American Eagle. Look at the image on the right. Do you see what the coin says on the bottom half, underneath the nesting baby eagle?Gold American Eagle 50 Dollars

It says $50, right?

Indeed, it is (as I will explain below) $50. It’s worth as much as an Ulysses S. Grant. Well, if you believe it’s really only worth $50, send all of your Gold Eagles to me. I will sell them on eBay for about $1,000 each.

And now you can see the problem of Robert Kahre. Mr. Kahre is facing federal prison because he claimed that Gold Eagles are worth what Congress has said that Gold Eagles are worth.

Is Mr. Kahre’s position frivolous? I don’t think so. Please indulge me.

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I blogged about this one.

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https://reinkefaceslife.com/2008/02/26/goldbug-why-buy-and-hold-gold/

(4) There are some interesting nuances in holding American Gold Eagle, which are produced by the gooferment (i.e., the Treasury Department’s Mint), and are asserted to be dominated in dollars. The one ounce gold American Eagle is stamped 50 “dollars”. AND, it is really worth ~940 “dollars” in Federal Reserve Notes. (There’s a recent tax case where the employer declared his employees earnings in “dollars” as represented on the Eagles he gave them. Everyone paid less taxes.)

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This is an interesting quirk that can be exploited.

Of course, at your own risk.

Sigh, what is a dollar anyway!

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POLITICAL: USA response to IRAN unrest?

Thursday, July 2, 2009

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=537777419&story_fbid=94104019058

Tsvi Gal Y aren’t we marching in front of the UN 2 demand the security council calls iran 2 stop slautering its own? Y all the thousands who r willing 2 come 2 the streets any time a palestinian is killed by israel, terrorist or not (2 clarify: israel also has no right 2 kill innocent people just the right 2 protect itself) show so much understanding 2 Iranian “internal” affairs?

MY RESPONSE:

(1) The UN is an ineffective gang of thugs (i.e., Cuba on the Human Rights committee); (2) we need to be more circumspect about what we beleive versus propaganda. Who REALLY knows what is going on in Iran. (3) Appealing to the UN is asking for trouble. They don’t settle stuff. “Peacekeepers” are trouble. (4) The US has a history of screwing “… Read Morefreedon fighters” (e.g., Hungary). So let’s not kid the people in Iran that we will help. (5) Their country, their freedom. Sad to say. All power does come fromt eh barrel of a gun. They’re most effective weapon is Ghandi. (6) We have our own set of problems here. We’re broke. Drunken sailors in Congress and the White House don’t know it.

Government is the meme that kills and enslaves us.

Peace!

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