Power outage in 08824!?
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TECHNOLOGY: Stuff doesn’t work so good without power
Monday, June 29, 2009Power outage in 08824!?
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GUN: Women’s rights
Saturday, June 27, 2009http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/06/quote-of-day_06.html
“The gun is the great equalizer. It is the only tool that puts a 100 pound woman on the same level as a 250 pound rapist. Women’s self defense courses, emergency call boxes, and mace cannot compare to the power of a gun in a woman’s hands.”
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Like: “God made men and women; Sam Colt made them equal!”
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GUNS: Teaching self-defense
Wednesday, June 24, 2009http://ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle523-20090614-01.html
Letter from A.X. Perez
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In spite of warnings that submission to violent criminals only leads to their becoming more vicious, many liberals continue to advise not arming oneself to fight back, Their claim is that most people lack adequate training to fight back. It would be better to increase training.
Therefore the following is proposed as a change to publicly funded education (as long as we are stuck with public funded education.):
Students are to be trained in self defense with and without weapons from kindergarten through graduation from high school and even into undergraduate school in college. Besides instilling in people the necessary skills to defend themselves this should help instill the self confidence and independent spirit appropriate for members of a society of free people. It should also provide physical activity leading to pulmonary and cardiovascular health, greater physical strength, coordination, and flexibility.
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Now that’s a great idea. Wish it had been around when I was growing up.
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POLITICAL: Healthcare debate
Monday, June 22, 2009http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/06/health-care-naysayers.html
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Health care naysayers
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Republicans were out in force, trying to kill the kind of healthcare reform that Americans — if opinion polling is any indication — desire and expect. All are claiming to support reform, but none seem to be listening to the majority, which repeatedly says it wants a public plan as an alternative to the current system — and that it trusts the government to manage health care coverage better than the insurance companies.
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MY RESPONSE
(1) Put me down as a naysayer. And, I am not an R. Nor am I a D.
(2) Hope you’re not relying on that NY Times “poll”. Non-partisan stats lookers find that they polled 66% D’s versus 33% R’s. Polling partisans isn’t really polling.
(3) While the insurances companies may not be the ideal gatekeeper of health care, do you really want some version of Amtrak or the Post Office doing it?
(4) How about some “baby steps”, to make sure that we don’t kill what we got, disconnect employment from health insurance. Allow health care to be tax deductible to the individual and treat it like life insurance. (Note: see how cheap life insurance is and how expensive health insurance is. Why is that?)
(5) When Hillary tried to nationalize health care, everyone saw it as socialism. (Which works so well else where.) Her methods turned everyone off. Here is is again. Methods are slightly more “open”. BUT again, like the bailouts, we are being hustled and rushed. DO it now! Can’t wait. That’s the clear sign of a scam.
(6) The Government can not be both the participant in and the referee in this future fiasco. It will set the rules and then “compete” in the marketplace. Please lets not fool ourselves. EVERYONE knows that the Left’s objective is to takeover healthcare. It’s always been that. They have even said that in leaked audios and video. Sometimes they even say it in rare moments of honesty. So let’s not kid ourselves. It’s the Communist Manifesto playbook. This is all about ensure Democratic voters forever. This is all about control. This is a giant scam!
Government is the meme that kills and enslaves its citizens.
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GUNS: Don’t put your loved ones in harm’s way; arm yourself now while you still can!
Saturday, June 6, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese4.html
Dumb, Dumber And Dumbest by Charley Reese
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If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life. Unless you wish to spend years learning the bow and arrow and the broadsword, I’d suggest you join 4 million others and me in the National Rifle Association, lest a bunch of dumb urban politicians put you and your family at the mercy of any wandering criminal.
November 11, 2003
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True then; even truer now.
Although I’d suggest the Gun Owners of America as opposed to the NRA. The NRA accepts the concept of “reasonable gun regulation”. There is no “reasonable regulation” of ANY right! Either it is an “inalienable right” or it’s something subject to the whim of the Gooferment.
And, about Right to Life, or any “right”, you only have the “rights” that you are willing to fight for and exercise.
(The interesting point about the RKBA is that with concealed carry, you don’t have to carry to get a benefit. See the criminals have to guess who packing and who isn’t. Like sprinkling sheepdogs with big teeth in the flock of sheep. Quite a surprise for the wolves when they guess wrong. See “gun free zones” merely tell criminals that they have nothing to fear. We let the school janitor carry tools; the gun is nothing more than a tool.)
Like that Churchill quote! “…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
When do the sheep fight? When on the way to the slaughter?
From my cold dead hand … …
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Health Care: Oppose greater government role. Support free market solutions!
Saturday, June 6, 2009https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/114
Health Care: Oppose greater government role. Support free market solutions
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Please oppose increased government involvement in health care. Please work to reduce government involvement in health care.
We can’t afford to lose what we have by further governmental meddling in health care. Go fix the VA and Medicare before you start messing up something that is at least working.
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Before you create a worse problem, how about trying some small gentle corrections. How about making medical insurance tax deductible in reducing the gross income right on page 1 of the 1040 just like an IRA contribution? If you’re concerned about the “uninsured”, why not make that tax deduction and refundable tax credit paid directly to an insurance company? Why not offer your congressional health plan to an “uninsured”?
Bottom line, just like we wouldn’t have identity theft without social security numbers, we won’t have medical privacy if you “federalize” this problem. Stay out of our doctor’s office.
Don’t nationalize health care! We’ve seen Canada, England, and the VA. No thanks!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The Gooferment; do you trust it?
Thursday, May 28, 2009http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/05/on_the_anonymit.html
May 21, 2009
On the Anonymity of Home/Work Location Pairs
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“On the Anonymity of Home/Work Location Pairs,” by Philippe Golle and Kurt Partridge:
Many applications benefit from user location data, but location data raises privacy concerns. Anonymization can protect privacy, but identities can sometimes be inferred from supposedly anonymous data. This paper studies a new attack on the anonymity of location data. We show that if the approximate locations of an individual’s home and workplace can both be deduced from a location trace, then the median size of the individual’s anonymity set in the U.S. working population is 1, 21 and 34,980, for locations known at the granularity of a census block, census track and county respectively. The location data of people who live and work in different regions can be re-identified even more easily. Our results show that the threat of re-identification for location data is much greater when the individual’s home and work locations can both be deduced from the data. To preserve anonymity, we offer guidance for obfuscating location traces before they are disclosed.
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Bruce Schneier highlights that “anonymous data” ain’t so anonymous. AND, the Census is going to collect geo tracking data in the next census. Good bye privacy.
Who authorized the gooferment to do more than count?
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LIBERTY: Search by the FCC?
Thursday, May 28, 2009http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/fcc-raid/
FCC’s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts
* By Ryan Singel Email Author
* May 21, 2009 |
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You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.
That’s the upshot of the rules the agency has followed for years to monitor licensed television and radio stations, and to crack down on pirate radio broadcasters. And the commission maintains the same policy applies to any licensed or unlicensed radio-frequency device.
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Sure, the Fourth Amendment no longer applies in Amerika!
Argh!
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LIBERTY: Memorial Day; very sad
Monday, May 25, 2009http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day
A lot of good men, and even some women, paid the ultimate price getting us to where we are now. Memorial Day remembers them.
And, that their sacrifice should not be in vane.
Sigh, sadly, I’m not so sure we appreciate it.
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GOVERNACIDE: Government Health Care? Think VA or Medicare!
Thursday, May 21, 2009I suggest EVERYONE get active. Hillary tried to nationalize Healthcare; Obama is back to try again. I don’t know about you but I’ve seen the VA’s health care and Medicare. Canadians come to Buffalo for MRIs; it’s well documented that by the time a Canadian can get their “free” MRI, cancers have had time to metastasize and kill people. England has a booming “medical tourism” industry where the English go to India and the Far East for cheap medical care that they can’t get at home. Don’t forget that medical care is the classic economic service with an inelastic demand curve. (Demand isn’t very responsive to cost.) So, the only way that the government can control demand is with rationing. If you think that dealing with Insurance Companies is bad, try dealing with the Government. Sorry, the current system has problems, but imho they are caused by government at the State and Federal level. They have the FDA a captive of the drug companies, the AMA restrict who can “practice medicine”, and the Pharmacists have a monopoly on dispensing drug. Plus don’t forget the psuedo drug war. Sorry, but I need quality medical care for spouse. Remember, if Fritz had been in England, then he’d have been too old for dialyses. Rationing, like gas lines, will kill people. And, once “it” is started, like Social Security, Medicare, and the Medicare Drug Benefit, there will be no way to stop it. And, future generations will go broke paying for it. Argh!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/tea_party_americans_can_stop_a.html
May 16, 2009
How to Stop a Healthcare Hijack
By J. Robert Smith
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Stop an arcane parliamentary maneuver – “reconciliation” – and the odds improve at stopping the Democrats march toward socialized medicine. But Republicans can’t do it; not alone, anyway. It’s up to the legions of Tea Partiers and average Americans to win the fight.
Reconciliation is aimed at dramatically restricting debate and banning filibuster on budget-related matters. It allows for a simple up or down vote. Senate Democrats are keeping it as an option if progress lags in recasting healthcare as a government-run enterprise. A good bet is that they’ll invoke it. Why?
Because a thorough public airing and extensive Senate debate will expose the Democrats’ plan for what it is: a demolishing of the doctor-patient relationship in favor of a politician-bureaucrat driven system; and a system all about rationing.
Democrats are quick to say that Republicans used reconciliation when they were the majority. That’s true, but it was used principally to get up or down votes on lowering taxes, not upending a huge portion of the nation’s economy.
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