tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.comments2023-11-03T08:05:10.145-04:00MacBeachmacbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-8464369023696613922010-05-12T03:43:00.991-04:002010-05-12T03:43:00.991-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.emily parrrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16633329123747755544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-32223814026443634372010-03-30T16:57:13.875-04:002010-03-30T16:57:13.875-04:00WOW, I can see there is a lot of info there. I...WOW, I can see there is a lot of info there. I'll take a look at it between condo emergencies. :)<br /><br />I agree that the media is "big business" , but surely you don't think that Olberman, Maddow, Mathews, King, and many others are spouting the corporatist line?<br /><br />I really don't have a problem with CNN or any of the others having biased analysis. In that regard Fox leans right, the others (I think, and many agree) lean left.<br /><br />C-Span is the only network that comes close to being unbiased and they do that by not providing their own analysis at all and instead just pointing the cameras at events.<br /><br />Of course they could introduce bias by being selective about which events they covered. I'm not sure they have ever been caught doing this. Not by me anyway.<br /><br />With the others though, it's pretty obvious that each network spikes (fails to cover) certain stories, and there is more to learn about their leanings from what they omit than from what they include.<br /><br />When I talk to my liberal friends I often find I can debate their side of the issue better than they can because they are hopelessly uniformed. But my conservative friends are not always that well informed either. If you get all your news off a TV screen you miss a whole lot. Fortunately for me I gave up on TV, so I am "forced" to get news from a different and larger variety of sources.<br /><br />My hope is that as these traditional (particularly TV based, but also large newspapers) fail financially people will be forced to seek news from a wider range of sources. Bt maybe I'm just being an optimist about that.macbeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-6822068232205014582010-03-30T15:16:30.931-04:002010-03-30T15:16:30.931-04:00I don't agree. If the media is corporate, it&#...I don't agree. If the media is corporate, it's right-wing and conservative with very few exceptions. Here's a good site to look to for analysis: http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/Áinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01862422742727750782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-279365746409851612010-03-09T14:46:59.201-05:002010-03-09T14:46:59.201-05:00Those are definitely good.
Here is is as a link (...Those are definitely good.<br /><br />Here is is as a link (I think):<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1E3948F7BF3587F8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1E3948F7BF3587F8 </a>macbeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-11103181110966898272010-02-15T20:50:20.645-05:002010-02-15T20:50:20.645-05:00Good work Google! I chose them for my
Business Lo...Good work Google! I chose them for my <a href="http://www.ezbusinessloans.com" rel="nofollow"><br />Business Loans</a> needs.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18028087922202554985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-83750479796457549792010-02-13T20:24:00.945-05:002010-02-13T20:24:00.945-05:00Could be. I found other sources though. BG proba...Could be. I found other sources though. BG probably got it from Fox, but it was also in the post with references to Senate hearings:<br /><br />http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2009/10/cautious_optimism_for_census_p.html<br /><br />I'll spend a little time trying to find the original PDFs.<br /><br />My guess though is that BG, like so many news sites doesn't do a very good job of managing files linked by their stories (and the government moves around and deletes things willy nilly too.)macbeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-36586126030350931732010-02-13T20:09:42.064-05:002010-02-13T20:09:42.064-05:00Looks like a hoax that bit biggovernment.com. Brei...Looks like a hoax that bit biggovernment.com. Breitbart has killed all the GAO report links with 404 messages.joshuabreedanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14263034134309178503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-46712687340223742662009-12-20T22:41:25.475-05:002009-12-20T22:41:25.475-05:00Not sure how AoL got into this. I never had much ...Not sure how AoL got into this. I never had much RESPECT for the company, but they did serve the purpose of popularizing the Internet, even if not in a particularly good way. Prodigy, Compuserv, GE (I forget their product name even though I used it) and many others all had ways for people to dial-in and get information, exchange messages etc. Like the "Facebooks" of today, it only worked well if everyone you knew was on the same system. AoL was "open" by comparison as you could actually send and receive message from outside (to/from the rest of the Internet). They had a graphical interface when many Internet users were still in character mode. At the time I had experimented with all of these services, but settled instead using a small company in Maryland that supplied only a straight dial-up character-mode interface.<br /><br />But it's not like networked computers were anything new. All the computers in the state of Florida were networked in the early 70s and that was using a combination of world standards body technologies and possibly more forward thinking things from IBM. Giving government (much less Al Gore) credit for creating the Internet is sort of like giving them credit for inventing roads by funding the Interstate Highway system. The technology was a build up of public and private technologies which gradually and organically grew out of the need for various interests to communicate (you didn't use the Internet to back-up your databases back then) with one another. <br /><br />Anyway, it is generally conceded that the Internet had benefited from the government keeping its hands off of it as much as possible and we are going to throw that idea out all for the purpose (at least the publicly advertised purpose) of preventing a "crime" (predatory traffic shaping) which has only taken place once, and was discontinued after it was publicly exposed, without any government intervention.<br /><br />The FCC is going to end up (along with massive new funding) with the power to select winners and losers on totally non-technical grounds. We'll have censorship, monitoring, traceability of everything (in a lot more straightforward fashion than we have now). A few more companies will join the club of "too big to fail" and those will be the ones that smaller companies will have to kowtow to in order to stay in business. So called Network Neutrality is just the camel's nose under the tent. In ten years people will have to look it up on Wikipedia to even understand what the term means.macbeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-45606456820450024332009-12-20T22:39:15.411-05:002009-12-20T22:39:15.411-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.macbeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-65572684772674883762009-12-20T01:28:23.447-05:002009-12-20T01:28:23.447-05:00The origins of the Internet itself were a governme...The origins of the Internet itself were a government project through the National Science Foundation in conjunction with the US military, not a commercial endeavor. Commercialization occurred during the '90s. <br /><br />AOL is one example of how privatization at first seemed like a good thing, but later really sucked with their proprietary walls around content and incompatible email system, which actually worked to inhibit the free exchange of ideas and speech. The government didn't screw up AOL.Áinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01862422742727750782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-79290062206606999062009-12-04T23:57:34.471-05:002009-12-04T23:57:34.471-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-11885958964635886042009-10-31T22:37:21.266-04:002009-10-31T22:37:21.266-04:00Thanks for sharing that! Nice post. I just glanced...Thanks for sharing that! Nice post. I just glanced through it.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/buy-tomtom-gps-20" rel="nofollow">TomTom GPS - Reviews & Cheap Price, Buy Car Navigation</a>Theron Hesperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14671798705388539277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-51423839769012553352009-10-27T14:10:55.264-04:002009-10-27T14:10:55.264-04:00Click on the title of the article which points to ...Click on the title of the article which points to the original source quoted. This is sort of the default behavior for Blogger and I've never changed it.<br /><br />Many people set their blogs up so that the title links to itself, but this has never made much sense to me.macbeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-65481229917016220452009-10-24T13:30:03.287-04:002009-10-24T13:30:03.287-04:00The elephant laughs at the ant.The elephant laughs at the ant.smitty1ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559464300318848169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-48402459473118103432009-09-27T19:14:01.878-04:002009-09-27T19:14:01.878-04:00John Fund knows perfectly well his suggestion is m...John Fund knows perfectly well his suggestion is meaningless. How about something with teeth? How about truth bonding and paying their own bonding insurance? Of course, if either Congress or John Fund had to tell the truth they wouldn't know what to say. Hey! That would be an improvement, let's go for it.Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-63106865810572397972009-09-20T03:26:39.019-04:002009-09-20T03:26:39.019-04:00Exactly.
I second that completely.
What is so gr...Exactly.<br /><br />I second that completely.<br /><br />What is so great about Obama?<br /><br />Hail to the Teleprompter President!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-82081496880222802962009-09-17T17:45:51.205-04:002009-09-17T17:45:51.205-04:00The PC oriented application must be installed perm...The PC oriented application must be installed permanently on every business computer across this country? ICE should have the manpower to audit every workplace, with the power to arrest and detain employers who snub immigration laws? Repeat offenders should be dealt with harshly, including prison and confiscation of business assets. There should be no mitigating excuses because illegal immigrants are—STEALING JOBS-- on any rung of the employment ladder? These employers for years have been an intended magnet for destitute labor in many cases, but have left the burden of paying for schooling for the children, health care and a veiled miscellaneous core of government handouts to US taxpayers. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RACISM, BUT AN ULTIMATE FINANCIAL MATTER OF SURVIVAL FOR US ALL! Coincidentally, I want a government health care, specially for some low income American family members.<br /> <br />Insist your politicians guarantee E-Verify is fully funded and is not scuttled by Sen. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Janet Napolitano or any other high ranking Democrats. The Washington switchboard has their number at 202-224-3121. Research these laws, true facts and incredulous stats at NUMBERSUSA & JUDICIAL WATCHBrittanicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15971352404374602334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-8392222791943071262009-09-17T17:45:32.207-04:002009-09-17T17:45:32.207-04:00Its time to re-examine instant citizenship (Anchor...Its time to re-examine instant citizenship (Anchor babies) which hasn't been illuminated enough, to growing concern of the American public. For decades now pregnant women have arrived on tourist’s visas, through the fence and even at ports of call. Very aware of our mis-interpreted law governing "birthright citizenship", that attributes full rights to the Mother of an illegal immigrant. How can Americans benefit from this Health care reform package, when we must subsidize millions of households and not just the original interloper? Outlined in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is an article that will stun a prudent person. An illegal alien entered the states in 1997 to work as a fruit picker, bringing with him his wife and three children; all illegal aliens.<br /><br />The lady gave birth to a fourth child, and with that birth the family had an "anchor baby"—an American citizen by birth, who provided the entire family with a free pass to remain in the United States permanently and collect government, subsides. Unfortunately the baby was born prematurely, spent three months in the neonatal incubator, and cost the San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000. Meanwhile, the oldest daughter married an illegal alien and gave birth to her own anchor baby, and then the wife gave birth to yet another baby. ALL PAID FOR BY—YOU!<br /><br />This is just one taxpayer example of the 'Rule of law' that has cost taxpayers billions of dollars. A nurse admitted last weekend, according to Review-Journal reported that cash-strapped UMC hospital in Nevada is providing more than $20 million a year in emergency dialysis care for uninsured, illegal immigrants. Is American society insane when poverty stricken Americans are turned away, go bankrupt and sometimes die? TAXPAYERS ARE TAXED FOR THIS, BUT NOT FOR OUR OWN PEOPLE? We must insist that a Birthright Citizenship lawsuit be filed with the federal court and its original intent revisited? That E-Verify should be fully funded and a highly skilled MIT team, building on the original Immigration enforcement database to a highest level of security that cannot be compromised by the use of fraudulent documents.Brittanicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15971352404374602334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-9337949347009367132009-08-03T19:34:56.953-04:002009-08-03T19:34:56.953-04:00But what do we do After The Crash?
I propose a p...<i><b>But what do we do After The Crash?</b></i><br /><br /><br />I propose a plausible alternative solution to the Depression: I designed a System that will allow us, when The Crash will come, to get out of Credit Based Free Market Economy, Capitalism, and transfer to my Adjusted Credit Free, Free Market Economy and Abolish the FED:<br /><br /><br />To participate in our new economy you need to <a href="http://blog.yield-curve.net/2009/07/crash-register.html" rel="nofollow">Enter Your €5 in The Cra$h R€gi$t€r.</a> <b><i>Before The Crash</i></b>.<br /><br /><br />I.10.82<br /><br /><i>"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.</i><i><br /><br />It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice.</i><i><br /><br />But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.</i><br /><br />I.10.83<br /><br /><i>A regulation which obliges all those of the same trade in a particular town to enter their names and places of abode in <b>a public register</b>, facilitates such assemblies. It connects individuals who might never otherwise be known to one another, and gives every man of the trade a direction where to find every other man of it.</i><br /><br />I.10.84<br /><br /><i>A regulation which enables those of the same trade to tax themselves in order to provide for their poor, their sick, their widows and orphans, by giving them a common interest to manage, renders such assemblies necessary."</i><br /><br />Adam Smith<br />June 5th, 1723 – July 17tn, 1790<br /><b>An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.</b><br />Inequalities Occasioned by the Policy of Europe.<br />March 9th, 1776<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://blog.yield-curve.net/2009/07/book_3703.html" rel="nofollow">Buy Now The Tract That Will Be Published September 17th, 2009.</a><br /><br /><br />You will enjoy my popular articles:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://blog.yield-curve.net/2009/07/ron-paul.html" rel="nofollow">Ron Paul vs. Bernanke.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blog.yield-curve.net/2009/07/systemic-bernanke.html" rel="nofollow">Ben "Systemic" Bernanke.</a>SPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958954580002255948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-70473218529146799342009-08-03T19:34:32.602-04:002009-08-03T19:34:32.602-04:00In my Tract The Age of Turbulence: Plea for a New ...In my Tract <a href="http://blog.yield-curve.net/" rel="nofollow">The Age of Turbulence: Plea for a New World Economic Order,</a> I explain the nature and causes of economic depressions.<br /><br /><b><i>A turbulence in fluid mechanic is a chaotic state of a liquid. It Owns Most of the Proprieties of The Liquidity Trap, Origin of The Crash, it is a filled with Random Phenomenon and Discontinuities.</i></b><br /><br />It <i><b>proves</b></i> that after the inflation of the Mother of all Asset Price Bubbles the ominous fate of this economy is Keynes' Liquidity Trap.<br /><br />Its consequences are a new, bigger Crash causing, this time, a real Great Depression II.<br /><br />That bipolarity of the Market is the problem an person who is irrationally exuberant, as any psychiatrist would tell, is unable to understand that he will necessarily fall in a deep depression. He just doesn't want to hear the warning no matter how many times he had that experience.<br /><br /><br /><b><i>What do we do Before The Crash?</i></b><br /><br /><a href="http://blog.yield-curve.net/2009/08/03.html" rel="nofollow">Preparing for the Crash, The Age of Turbulence.</a> Proposes a strategy to profit from both the Irrational Exuberance and from the Crash.<br /><br />Using the yield curve as a predictor that strategy covers Treasuries, Corporate Bonds, Minerals (Oil, Precious Metals and Base Metals.) and Stocks.<br /><br />Its aim is to profit from both the Asset Price Bubble and Irrational Exuberance and The Crash and Economic Depression that will necessarily ensue.<br /><br />It tries, and for the time being very profitably, to accomplish Alan Greenspan Mission Impossible:<br /><br /><br /><i>"That is mission impossible. Indeed, the international financial community has made numerous efforts in recent years to establish such oversight, but none prevented or ameliorated the crisis that began last summer.</i><i><br /><br />Much as we might wish otherwise, policy makers cannot reliably anticipate financial or economic shocks or the consequences of economic imbalances.</i><i><br /><br />Financial crises are characterised by discontinuous breaks in market pricing the timing of which by definition must be unanticipated - if people see them coming, then the markets arbitrage them away."</i><i><br /><br />....<br /><br />The clear evidence of underpricing of risk did not prod private sector risk management to tighten the reins.</i><i><br /><br />In retrospect, it appears that the most market-savvy managers, although conscious that they were taking extraordinary risks, succumbed to the concern that unless they continued to "get up and dance", as ex-Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince memorably put it, they would irretrievably lose market share.</i><i><br /><br />Instead, they gambled that they could keep adding to their risky positions and still sell them out before the deluge. <b>Most were wrong</b>."</i><br /><br />Alan Greenspan<br /><b>The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World <i>[Economic Order?]</i>.</b>SPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958954580002255948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-16120475319211903452009-07-02T11:10:20.978-04:002009-07-02T11:10:20.978-04:00Remember when Congress chastized the Big Three CEO...Remember when Congress chastized the Big Three CEOs for flying in their private planes to congressional hearings?<br />Read my take on it and stick around for more good content.<br />libertarianhumor[dot]com/2009/07/02/congress/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12194115321203208547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-22054145471296648632009-03-21T01:06:00.000-04:002009-03-21T01:06:00.000-04:00He has hurt many families in America. He needs to ...He has hurt many families in America. He needs to say he is sorry in the public, not to an organization.<BR/><BR/>In addition, someone who claims to have experienced prejudice and stereotypes throughout life, and has written about them in great detail, <BR/>should be more sensitive and refined from life's lessons.<BR/><BR/>Furthermore, Obama claimed he was going to have the world think 'highly' of America again. Will this joke help?<BR/><BR/>For someone who spoke of equality as a creed. Does this joke match that philosophy?<BR/><BR/>For someone that said he would stand for all people. Does this stand up for those that participate in the special <BR/>Olympics?<BR/><BR/>The fact is Obama claimed a higher standard. To much is given, much is required.<BR/><BR/>Obama has just showed us that 'yes we can' destroy what a campaign stands for with a single joke.<BR/><BR/>During the campaign for the White House in 2008, the media criticized Palin for being ‘common,’ 'not-polished,' 'not-compassionate' and ‘not presidential.’ However, compare Sarah Palins attitude in this video created three weeks ago for the Special Olympics in Boise, Idaho.<BR/><BR/>You decide the more ‘presidential’ among them:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/ccz6nj" REL="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/ccz6nj</A>Juhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971070789037251364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-15390755453192687432009-03-19T21:46:00.000-04:002009-03-19T21:46:00.000-04:00My titles always link to the original material. B...My titles always link to the original material. But it's good to have an excuse to point that out from time to time.<BR/><BR/>One of these days I'll get motivated to make that more explicit. For now I'm just using one of the default Blogger templates.macbeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-3085337068670112452009-03-19T20:52:00.000-04:002009-03-19T20:52:00.000-04:00Aw, c'mon: you don't even give a breadcrumb for th...Aw, c'mon: you don't even give a breadcrumb for the rest of Bork's essay:<BR/>http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9506/articles/bork.htmlsmitty1ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559464300318848169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685878.post-24601017962461587352009-03-18T02:46:00.000-04:002009-03-18T02:46:00.000-04:00Thanks. I'm not sure if I knew this once and forg...Thanks. I'm not sure if I knew this once and forgot it or never got the facts right in the first place. It sure was popular among the Bush bashers.<BR/><BR/>I'll stand by my general assessment of McCain and the typical media talking heads though. This time around we had two (make that several) bad candidates and a very corrupt and apathetic media. In the end Mr. Congeniality won.macbeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.com