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Showing posts with label big government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big government. Show all posts
Monday, December 10, 2012

Misplaced Priorities Nearly Disarmed US Jet Fighters

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One of the problems of allowing edicts from the top go forth based on spurious “science” is that you get unintended consequences. Most of th...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Runaway Inflation Is Now Unavoidable

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Bernanke has chosen to do the worst thing possible and that is an open ended qualitative easing . If you have savings or an IRA, expect to l...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Trust

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A post in which I ramble about trust, lies, and forgiveness. Inspired by a post by Hanny , I have been pondering the topic of trust for the...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Obamacare Upheld Entirely

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Article here. So much for the survival of the Republic. Now that government intrusion into every facet of life is justified as long as it i...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Insert Title Here

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Pick a title, any title, my creativity is not flowing today. While I have more energy than I did over the weekend, yesterday was a busier th...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Mass Effect 3, Entitlement Culture, and Endings

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Over at Bioware’s Mass Effect 3 forums there is a considerable uprising in protest of the grim ending to the game. Without going into the m...
Monday, February 06, 2012

Going Intellectually Bankrupt

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One of the more interesting chapters in the Intellectual Property (IP) wars was the takedown attempt of the Pirate Bay website. While Sweden...
Friday, February 03, 2012

Shades of Orwell

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The FBI has a new flyer out suggesting people watch other Web users at internet cafes. If this isn’t playing Big Brother, I do not know wha...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

IP Rights Battles Are Only Beginning

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There seems to be a great deal of celebration over having derailed SOPA and PIPA in the U.S.A., but they are not completely dead yet. In the...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Stop SOPA and PIPA!

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Contact your local Senator and Congressman to let them know you support free speech on the Web.   Allowing web sites to be taken down by t...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Wikipedia, Minecraft, Craigslist, and Reddit Go Black Tomorrow

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While it is only the English language version of Wikipedia going black to protest SOPA and PIPA , it will not go ignored by millions of user...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Ding Dong, the SOPA Bill Is Dead

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Some good news that Eric Cantor has killed the bill in the House after a weekend where the author, Lamar Smith, started backing away from i...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012

China Going Backwards

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It has been fashionable in multiple circles to believe that China will take over the title of most powerful nation during this century. Much...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Wikipedia May Go Blank in Protest Against Bill

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There is an odious piece of legislation called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) being pushed in Congress right now that jeopardizes a large amo...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Shape of Things to Come

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As the economic conditions continue to deteriorate to the inevitable collapse, governments at all levels will become obsessed with picking t...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Moody Minnesota

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It had slipped my attention that the state of Minnesota was downgraded from AAA to AA+ by Moody’s last month. So it was somewhat surprising ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Bad Moon Rising

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There are those who actually believe we emerged out of the recession and are worried we are going into another. Well, we aren’t. We never go...
Friday, July 01, 2011

The Shutdown

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The big news in Minnesota is the state government shutdown due to an inability to get a budget passed. As I expected, the media is backing G...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

When the Levy Breaks

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Watching the Berlin Wall being attacked with sledgehammers as East and West Germany spontaneously reunited left an indelible impression on m...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Misleading Ads and Dayton’s Shadow PAC

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Starting this week, I’ve been getting targeted ads in several places I visit on the Net.  They all say “Tell Sen. Jeremy Miller to stand up ...