Re: Washington Times Editorial: FTC Floats Drudge Tax

2010-06-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
considering the source. The Washington Times has all the honesty and credibility of its owner The Rev. Moon. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > "When will the madness of Corporations running the government and setting > public policies STOP???" > > I understand businesses l

Re: Thought this was great

2010-06-06 Thread Sam
Well pick it up and start carrying some of the weight slacker. On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > On 6/5/2010 5:33 PM, Maureen wrote: >> Government wages in California most certainly did not go up 40% in the >> last couple of years. > > Mine sure the hell didn't.  My third

Re: Israel attacks and kills peace activists in international waters.

2010-06-06 Thread Sam
Actually it was a sign from a friend, $50 for 3 hours and you get to watch a concert. I gave him the thumbs-up sign. On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:08 PM, denstar wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Sam wrote: >> >> I worked security for his concert at Jones Beach back in the 80's. >> What a g

Israel sinks itself deeper. Admits it doctored audio of the raid

2010-06-06 Thread Vivec
Proving the numerous claims that Israel doctored and heavily edited the video footage that has been shown on almost a continuous loop, Israel today admitted it doctored the audio. "There have been questions regarding the authenticity of the recording as well as its attribution to a communication

Re: just deleted everything i ever posted on facebook

2010-06-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
"I long ago stopped using any applications on facebook for exactly that reason" I am with you. J === The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants. - Albert Camus ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http:/

Re: Thought this was great

2010-06-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Mine sure the hell didn't. My third aniversary working for the State of California is this month and to date my wages have gone *down* every year since I started. At least that's what my W2's and Income Tax filings have told me." It seems like you missed the good times by five years. At least

Re: just deleted everything i ever posted on facebook

2010-06-06 Thread Robert Munn
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > Even if facebook did delete your account, one has to wonder if third parties > have saved the info.  I have read the Farmville (God, I hate that game-I > don't give a damn if you want to give me a chicken), gets access to all your > info.  I

Re: The great duck typing debate WAS: US steps up to the plate and defends Israel, blocking UN condemnation.

2010-06-06 Thread denstar
I don't want to gloss over what Zaph was talking about really, which is trying to make one language behave like another. We're creatures of habit, so it's an easy trap to fall into. Why should we change, when we can just change the world instead? ;) :Den -- Listen to the cry of a woman in la

Interesting article from an Israeli blogger on the flotilla incident

2010-06-06 Thread Eric Roberts
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1275739480/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: htt

Re: Thought this was great

2010-06-06 Thread Judah McAuley
As someone who is often identified as liberal but who shoots guns, drinks beer, races cars, eats meat, has started multiple companies, respects the flag, has a proud family tradition of service to this country in and out of the military and whose family has almost certainly been here longer than t

Re: A Glorious Dawn

2010-06-06 Thread denstar
FLIP'N AWESOME! Now we're cooking with gas. How lucky we are. :Den -- Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. Soren Kie

Re: Israel attacks and kills peace activists in international waters.

2010-06-06 Thread denstar
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Sam wrote: > > I worked security for his concert at Jones Beach back in the 80's. > What a great concert. I never would have thought of going if I wasn't > paid. Coincidence, or a Sign from God? =) :Den -- Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom a

Re: Thought this was great

2010-06-06 Thread denstar
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Maureen wrote: > > Government wages in California most certainly did not go up 40% in the > last couple of years.  I don't know where you find this crap.  Have > you ever met a lie you didn't like? Shhh. We're thinking positive. If enough people believe it, that

Re: Shocker: Major corporations may dump health insurance, pay penalties instead

2010-06-06 Thread denstar
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Sam wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:56 PM, denstar > >> http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/fisa/acluvnsaop081706.pdf >> Let me know what you think. > > Read it. It was overturned. If I read it right only the data-mining stuff was dismissed. The rest stood. Rig

Re: Israel attacks and kills peace activists in international waters.

2010-06-06 Thread denstar
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Sam wrote: > > Based on your principals that says it all :) I have no principles. I *am* one. "den" principle. =] :Den -- Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. Soren Kierkegaard ~| Or

Re: Google ditches Windows

2010-06-06 Thread denstar
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:40 PM, denstar wrote: > >> If you believe in probability and math and whatnot, a more hardened OS >> will by definition be less vulnerable than a less hardened one. >> > > I do not believe in probability and math

Re: Thought this was great

2010-06-06 Thread Ian Skinner
On 6/5/2010 5:33 PM, Maureen wrote: > Government wages in California most certainly did not go up 40% in the > last couple of years. Mine sure the hell didn't. My third aniversary working for the State of California is this month and to date my wages have gone *down* every year since I started

Re: Got to meet a true American hero

2010-06-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Bill Granier(sp) - who was one of the soldiers on which Band of Brothers was based." That would be neat. Great book and TV series. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-

Re: Thought this was great

2010-06-06 Thread Robert Munn
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Maureen wrote: > > That seems to be your rant, but it doesn't answer the question because > Prop 13 is local tax and is not collected or spent by the state.  And > do you really feel the government should have the right to tell people > to leave the state because t

Re: Thought this was great

2010-06-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Government wages in California most certainly did not go up 40% in the last couple of years." I thought this was an interesting statistic. It doesn't seem possible that the any salaries would rise in the last couple of years. I couldn't find anything to support it. I did find the following fr

Re: Thought this was great

2010-06-06 Thread Bruce Sorge
I am not sure but taking peoples money does not seem to be a good answer. It is stuff like this as well as the super inflated property prices and outrageous gas prices that are making my decision to leave the state and become a resident of Colorado more appealing every day. My truck is now registe

Re: just deleted everything i ever posted on facebook

2010-06-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
"I realize I'm being a bit of a conspiracy theorist here, but I don't trust FB as far as I could throw the entire staff. I have absolutely no faith in them actually deleting anything. Taking it off FB perhaps, but I doubt they actually delete anything." I'll have to say I second this opinion, reg

Re: Washington Times Editorial: FTC Floats Drudge Tax

2010-06-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
"When will the madness of Corporations running the government and setting public policies STOP???" I understand businesses like Fox, Reuters, WSJ, AP, and so on wanting to make money off of their news stories. I just don't want the government organizing it. It's one step closer to censorship an

Re: Thought this was great

2010-06-06 Thread Sam
There's a polite way to ask how I know that and there's the Mo way. I'm sorry, I was mistaken. Not all government wages increased 40% Here are some that came close: Correction officers + 37% CHIPs + 32% Engineers + 31% Over 100 prison doctors + 92% But I must have read those and this: "state wo