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You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've got a couple of kids; the younger asked that I stop with the lectures and asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later 'Yea, that's a great idea, thinkin' they might just read it someday, me - Gaarr of Blog'
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avoiding gossip and hate-speech.
A Ponderosity:
To say: "He is a man of truth," is to say nothing;
2 say: "He is a man of of," is to state an elementary truth of logic.
Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College Valedictorian - 1970; known endeavor: actuarial contributions to the Donald; since has contacted me and sadly is quite ill. A prayer for his recovery & his music.
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History, Common Nonsense
Well let’s have every sort of ‘government takeover’ of our lives be installed. Of course you won’t really have to study any really strategically important stuff, because that might be too difficult… and don’t think for yourselves, because we wouldn’t want any more Steve Jobs, Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, or Lehr types who didn’t complete a formal education…. but bootstrapped themselves.
Let’s all be wards of the state.
History, Uncommon Sense, Human Affairs
Bush, like the rest of the ‘ruling class’, are there at the grace of those who really oppose American Exceptionalism, and proclaim that our enemies would be our friends ‘if we only bowed down to them’, like Obama does to especially Arabs, because don’t they have a lot of money?
This story is really about Israel, and her exceptionalism. Retreating to 1949 borders is not going to make Arab hate vanish, but rather make them ever hungrier as they whittle the Israeli land, like flesh ‘down to the bone.’
Likewise, with the Arizona ‘Open Border’ policy of Obama and the 3 747’s per week landing in Caracas from Iran with young men aboard, that’s 52,000 per year who are poised on our southern flank to ‘take back to Mexico what Mexico would like to claim, or not … it doesn’t matter, because to Iran it is only important what will weaken the USA that is important. It is easy enough to convince Mexico that our weakness is also their strength.
Except for the fact, that it isn’t. But that’s not important to the Leftist Socialist Oligarchy. Totalitarianism never really cares how strong a country is, like the mushroom, fungus preys on death and weakness, not strength. It can grow suddenly and dominate the landscape if the rotting conditions persist.
Are illegals infesting U.S. military bases?
Law, Environment, Waldo
This is the Arizona Obama is trying to have infiltrated by not enforcing border security and by not apprehending all illegals. Arrogant ignorance, or is this the Kenyan Islamist Marxist like his father, and Odinga, who now violently holds on to his Islamist centric power in Kenya?
History, Thugology, Theology, Humor
Imagine the pick up line at a Burka store. “Hey baby, Got Milk?’
Congressional Budget Office - Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis
Law, Finance, Uncommon Sense, Humor
All I got left is a little change I can believe in.
Humor, Human Affairs(RangelVs.Edwards)
Just a big whalloping laughing spanker.
Okay, one more.
Humor, Uncommon Sense, Science, Psychophysics
DiCaprio: I’m telling you I can’t be honest. I can divide by zero, but you cannot.
I really liked the movie ‘Inception’. The violence was a little gratuitous, but the fall of the van from the bridge reminded me of ‘Contact’ where the pod fell through the eggbeater in about 6 seconds, but there were 60 minutes of static on the videotape.
Multiply time as it is inversely proportional to space; smaller stuff moves faster.
US Faces ‘Disaster’ from Financial Reform Bill, Bachmann Warns
Law, Finances, Uncommon Sense
Yes, the blame is to those who would loan money, knowing that the only way it would be paid back was if the home prices continued to rise. Home improvement loans and all the materials sold could not make up the difference for the losses which occurred when the market faltered. Nobody really needs granite countertops for $5k, or new vinyl siding.
And then it was just a freebie to ACORN’s gang who threatened to sue if monies were not provided to minorities… and nothing was done …. just wait to sell it to the next sucker… who could threaten to get a 125 percent loan … or sue….
via CMM
Mathematics, Uncommon Sense
Well, I have a son looking to join a university home. Best subject is math, with both years calculus AP’s at 5. MIT’s 21, Cornell’s 10, Duke’s 6, Johns Hopkins 4, or just get a job at AT&T at 2.
Note these are ranked by the number of citations per research paper in the last 10 years (that’s when someone uses your idea and references it). So it is a measure of significance or so it would seem.
» Jury Damage Award Could Close California Healthcare Facilities - Big Government
Law, Medicine, Common Nonsense
So let me get this straight: no harm was done; no patient filed a complaint; the facility passed its inspections.
Oh, but they didn’t hire exactly the number of people that REGULATIONS required.
Sure that’s worth about a Billion Dollars in damages, and one half of that penalty going to the Trial Lawyers who ‘chased’ up the case.
So ‘Do no harm’ doesn’t mean do no harm to the patient; it means ‘Do no harm to the government regulation’. Gotit.
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t like ‘nursing homes’; I don’t ever want to go to one; I never sent my parents there, and as a matter of fact, they gave me the money to buy a house, so they didn’t have enough money to get it. Mom and dad lived to 96 and 93 on their own and with little help from friends and relatives.
But the alternative of Obamacare; where no regulation will ever be challenged … why, because they will change it before it comes to trial… and where care can be like the worst Gulag of those Soviet Siberian Resort community legends.
So if this stands, there won’t be too many more places to stick granny when she leaves her teeth in the toybox.
“This could help limit the rate of tumour growth, increase the responsiveness to chemotherapy and may prevent the formation of solid tumours. ” -
Vitamin C can curb cancer growth, say New Zealand researchers | Earth Times News
Medicine, Environment, Uncommon Sense
Actually it’s quite common sense, except kept uncommon by those who demanded more and more proof. I hope this is sufficient.
Oh, and as a kind of anecdotal observation, dogs rarely get cancer if fed decently and kept away from lawns heavily sprayed with pesticides. Dogs produce their own Vitamin C. And there are many others that produce Vit. C as well.
Also Nobel laureate, Linus Pauling recommended high doses of Vitamin C to even ward off the common cold. He believed that it increased the tenacity of the connective tissues surrounding your body, thereby warding off even viruses.
Wahoo, love that OJ, too.
The New Media Journal | Virginia Senator Webb Calls for End to Diversity Programs
History, Law, Human Affairs, Humor
Well, Andy; I do believe that Kingfish is gettin’ the raw end of that imported shrimp boat special all you can eat Smogesbord Brunch of Sunday.
Oh, Kingfish, now don’t you want to give all that you can to the ppppooooorrrrr folks comin’ from acccrrooossss the sea in a skiffff without an oar or a bucket?
I just wanted to put it out there because it’s a little hard to believe that a lefty democrat wants less diversity. Oh, I guess ACORN won’t be able to manufacture as many immigrant votes this next round. They need a few white votes because the my kind of people are noticing that the Shirley Sherrods can’t really be trusted to be fair.
Oh, it’s time to be fair? You mean ‘Equal under the Law’ might actually have some bureaucratic program …. like merit, like legal status?
You mean that illegals might not get all the Free Education, Medical, Food Stamps, Housing like Obama’s Aunt has been getting for the last 6 years (except education, unless she to is at Harvard Law)?
Tea Party Express spokesman resigns after racist blog post - latimes.com
History, Human Affairs, Humor, Hegel
In Defense of Mark Williams, Hegel, Dreams, Doormen, Tan White Guys … screw the rest (as in pleasure)
Many claim that there is always a little truth in humor, in satire, even if it is judged ‘an embarrassment’. So let’s see: the first sentence seems ok. It’s that second one that people forget is pretending to be a modern day NAACP leader writing to Abe Lincoln, who is about to free ‘Colored People’, or risk and ultimately sacrifice his life in order to accomplish that.
So we have Mr. Jealous and Ms. Shirley Sherrod with Shirley talking of ‘his kind’ (white guy) and not doing everything she should do for him to save his farm. Well, here we have a welfare program, where a poor white guy is being helped … which in effect takes it from a black or ‘colored’ guy . Now Shirley obviously doesn’t want to do this, and her epiphany of coming together … ‘working together’ … well it got her the promotion … so she could keep on making sure … the black guy got as much as possible. Oh, yeah and Fox News is trying to stop that because they are racist.
OK … seems to real to be totally imaginary. Remember in ‘Grapes of Wrath’, by Steinbeck, the rather slow white dude from Okie land, Lenny kept saying’ when they were going to go to California …. ‘to live off the fat of the land.’ Well, I’m 61 and looking’ to that Social Security check in a year …. that I’ve paid in dearly for … but yet, it’s a ‘slave wage’ and it keeps me at least able to buy some food … live with family … kind of survive as a poor man …. under the yoke of ‘the man’. I can imagine living in a simple house .. in the country …. growing a garden and relaxing in the winter, at night … and not be worried about being fired, too poor to buy a new car, keep up with the neighbors, and all that other trapping that goes with ‘FREEDOM’ in the work-a-day world.
So I can imagine at least thinking this as a poor man … looking at how difficult it is to compete with all those worldly people out there. Hey even the smartest white guy or gal has to worry about the Asians in technology … where they number 30 percent or higher in all the top university technical programs. Pretty soon, as a white guy, I guess I’ll be getting the 20 points for the leg up in admissions … when I am the recognized minority.
So the game goes on, as it did in original Africa, when the ruling Tribe rounded up the weaker tribes and sold them off, took their property and perhaps women. (read Philosophy of History by Hegel pp. 203. Also p 45 which tells us that life is a cruel place … and if not for laws and morality, we would be on equal footing with the bugs that get underneath our feet on the sidewalk… squish …. and nobody cares.
So Mark Williams, your crime is against the sweet dreams of your potential as a person, who makes his way … the best way he can. It’s just that Blacks especially have groups like the NAACP trying to give them all the advantages …. not on merit, but on skin color …. on ‘your kind’ … you know the kind you expect to see in the mirror. Hard to give up being enslaved by privilege…. but it shows in your vitriol, Shirley, and yours Jealous … as you protect what elitism was granted you by whitey (founders of NAACP were two white guys in 1909 New York).
My dad was especially concerned that I lived within my means.. whatever that means…. and that can mean ‘imagination’ where I work especially hard to benefit me and those I love later on. I hate to break it to you, but some of the most rewarding times in my life have been when I have been serving the benefit of others … to a doctor that means ‘Do no harm’. Am I a slave to wish that I do not have to pay dearly for every small mistake I make, and like a surgeon, does that mean I have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for the privilege of trying to live up to ‘doing no harm’.
Ease up on Mark Williams. There is truth there; just not the political propaganda like ‘when you elect me, I will lift all of you above your expectations’. Hey dummy, you are going to stay a doorman and love it… and in fact you may not be that dumb after all, because it just ain’t that bad. And Mark, don’t give up your day job to be a satirist; except I can imagine a little stand up comedy in your future, once we get past all this crap…. Hey everyone is created equal… or so our constitution reads. That doesn’t mean they’re going to remain equal … look at Donald Trump, when he passed the homeless bum asleep on the bench in the park: ‘He’s 58 Million dollars richer than me and he has nothing.’
Of course, until the bail out and the new financial package bill, the joke was on the banker who lent The Don the money … he had to keep giving it too him, until he struck the big one or risk losing it all. Now whose slave to whom?
Drop the pretense and look all you melanin endowed people, your not going to have to face that extra tax on tanning booths we vain white guys have to suffer. Obama stickin’ it to whitey … Wahooo!
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History, Theology, Environment, Human Affairs
Newt, let’s amend that to say ‘in Mecca Saudi Arabia’. The church’s name will be ‘Crusader’s Mission’ and the synagogue will be named ‘Abraham’s Favored Son Temple’. Also until equal rights are granted to every woman, child and man in Muslim countries, Non-Profit status, tax-exempt status is revoked for any Koran or Mohammed referencing organization or individual.
And in Kuwait, the Minister of the Virginity will be disbanned; no more enslaving girls, especially western ones to enter any harem and giving first favor, (like King Ed I in England tried to do with Mel Gibson’s (Braveheart’s wife.)
And in exchange, we won’t help fund your country’s abortions, like Obama and Biden were doing illegally for the old homeland, Kenya to the tune of $23 mil.
History, Humor, Waldo, Human Affairs
Ann Coulter Defends Conservatives Unfairly Smeared … of Racism … Well done.
Here’s Rick Sanchez of CNN, losing every argument with Ann Coulter. Ann proposed that in the NAACP lecture by a woman who admitted her racism 24 years ago, was ‘Extracted’ by someone and provided to Andrew Breitbart, but could have known that the entire tape would have ‘elevated her to Mother Teresa’ because the woman concluded with ‘we should work together.’ In other words, a double agent could have given the tape and then provided all the info to the other side (NBC, CNN, ABC, White House) to discredit Breitbart as an unreliable news source … and of course racist.
Sanchez compares this to the downfall of Dan Rather, who was accused of knowing of the bad info. on Prez. Bush in 2004 before he proclaimed it as fact. The problem is that Ann did not consistently defend herself. Dan Rather’s source doctored the documents (which included using a font that was circa 2004 on a document, not of a typewriter of the 1960’s when the event happened). Oops, opps. That is a little different that publishing an unedited excerpt of a video.
But, bravo to Ann, she cooked Rick’s Kiddyporn goose on every other front. And she did it laughing with a smile.
