<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093149334449095114</id><updated>2011-04-21T14:10:50.075-07:00</updated><title type='text'>cxpukdbea</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>35</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093149334449095114.post-3836604973201441845</id><published>2007-07-26T18:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-26T18:04:37.632-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral obligation to return &lt;a href="http://backuponlinestorage.pconlinebackup.com/backuponlinestorage"&gt;backup online storage&lt;/a&gt; the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers &lt;a href="http://capecanaveraldeepseafishing.deepster.com"&gt;cape canaveral deep sea fishing&lt;/a&gt; 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. I've had it. Again. There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" (I can only assume he means tectonic) &lt;a href="http://discoverniagara.pcdiscover.com"&gt;discover niagara&lt;/a&gt; is coming soon in the so-called fourth generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a &lt;a href="http://freeemailaccounts.offerbyemail.com"&gt;free email accounts&lt;/a&gt; moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. 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To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted public opinion polls. A few examples of my favorites from yesteryear: During the 1964 &lt;a href="http://horizonhobby.hobbyonline.com"&gt;horizon hobby&lt;/a&gt; presidential race, there was a best-selling button that had Senator Barry Goldwater's smiling face surmounted with the words, "In Your Guts You Know He's Nuts!" Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the late "Clown Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" 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There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, &lt;a href="http://regelnroulette.pcroulette.com"&gt;regeln roulette&lt;/a&gt; that I can't stand it. I found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" (I can only assume he means tectonic) is coming soon in the so-called fourth generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion &lt;a href="http://trendmicropccillininternetsecurity2005.pc911.net"&gt;trend micro pc cillin internet security 2005&lt;/a&gt; of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining &lt;a href="http://freeoceanscreensaver.pcscreensaver.com"&gt;free ocean screensaver&lt;/a&gt; about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm &lt;a href="http://spywarekillersoftware.getspyware.com/spywarekillersoftware"&gt;spyware killer software&lt;/a&gt; your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One sure barometer of a president's -- or senator's or governor's -- standing with the public is the quantity, quality and creativity of bumper stickers, posters, slogans and what used to be called "Guerrilla Theater." To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted public opinion polls. A few examples of my favorites from yesteryear: During the 1964 presidential race, there was a best-selling button that had Senator Barry Goldwater's smiling face surmounted with the words, "In Your Guts You Know He's Nuts!" Back in the late 1960s, when then-California &lt;a href="http://vansaustin.vanster.com"&gt;vans austin&lt;/a&gt; Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the late "Clown Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" In my more than 40 years as a political junkie, I cannot recall a time or a president who has garnered more buttons, bumper stickers or slogans than George W. Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. I've had it. Again. There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial &lt;a href="http://lakeviewrentals.perview.com"&gt;lake view rentals&lt;/a&gt; Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" (I can only assume he means tectonic) is coming soon in the so-called fourth generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://marvintheparanoidandroid.akelyr.info"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. I've had it. Again. There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I &lt;a href="http://goodcreditscore.breegr.info"&gt;good credit score&lt;/a&gt; found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" (I can only assume he means tectonic) is coming soon in the so-called fourth generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. I've had it. Again. There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I found &lt;a href="http://fundraisingideas.cichbl.info"&gt;fundraising ideas&lt;/a&gt; it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" (I can only assume he means tectonic) is coming soon in the so-called fourth generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with &lt;a href="http://staminabandflex.clakec.info"&gt;stamina band flex&lt;/a&gt; George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6093149334449095114-3836604973201441845?l=cxpukdbea.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/feeds/3836604973201441845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6093149334449095114&amp;postID=3836604973201441845' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/3836604973201441845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/3836604973201441845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/2007/07/following-was-sent-to-george-tenet_26.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093149334449095114.post-3094143277720051878</id><published>2007-07-26T18:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-26T18:03:27.802-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. 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The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral &lt;a href="http://capecanaveraldeepseafishing.deepster.com/capecanaveraldeepseafishing"&gt;cape canaveral deep sea fishing&lt;/a&gt; obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOTE Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together. But we call him Quincey. In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation. When we got home we were talking of the old time, which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, &lt;a href="http://discoverniagara.pcdiscover.com"&gt;discover niagara&lt;/a&gt; there is hardly one authentic document. Nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later notebooks of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum. We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Mississippi and Federal law, transfers of assets by an Medicaid applicant within 60 months prior to a Medicaid application will result in a penalty of ineligibility. Congress does not want you to move into a nursing home on Monday, give all your money to your children (or whomever) on Tuesday, and qualify for Medicaid on Wednesday. So it has imposed a penalty on people who transfer assets without receiving fair value in return. These restrictions, already severe, have been made even harsher by enactment of the DRA. This penalty is a period of time during which the person transferring the assets will be ineligible for Medicaid. 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It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together. But we call him Quincey. In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories. &lt;a href="http://emergencyflight.pcemergency.com"&gt;emergency flight&lt;/a&gt; It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation. When we got home we were talking of the old time, which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document. Nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later notebooks of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum. We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Mississippi and Federal law, transfers of assets by an Medicaid applicant within 60 months prior to a Medicaid application will result in a penalty of ineligibility. Congress does not want you to move into a nursing home on Monday, give all your money to your children (or whomever) on Tuesday, and qualify for Medicaid on Wednesday. So it has imposed a penalty on people who transfer assets without receiving fair value in return. These restrictions, already severe, have been made even harsher by enactment of the DRA. This penalty is a period of time during which the person transferring the assets will &lt;a href="http://datafiles.wwwfilester.com"&gt;data files&lt;/a&gt; be ineligible for Medicaid. The penalty period is determined by dividing the amount transferred by what Medicaid determines to be the average private pay cost of a nursing home in your state. In Mississippi, this divisor is $4,600. Example: For example, in Mississippi, where the average monthly cost of care has been determined to be $4,600, and you give away property worth $46,000, you will be ineligible for benefits for 10 months ($46,000 ÷ $4,600= 10). Another way to look at the above example is that for every $4,600 transferred, an applicant would be ineligible for Medicaid nursing home benefits for one month. In theory, there is no limit on the number of months a person can be ineligible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families &lt;a href="http://horizonhobby.hobbyonline.com"&gt;horizon hobby&lt;/a&gt; who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. I've had it. Again. There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because &lt;a href="http://paydayloanleads.411leads.com"&gt;payday loan leads&lt;/a&gt; my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" (I can only assume he means tectonic) is coming soon in the so-called fourth generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . 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But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One sure barometer of a president's -- or senator's or governor's -- standing with the public is the quantity, quality and creativity of bumper stickers, posters, slogans and what used to be called "Guerrilla Theater." To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted public opinion polls. A few examples of my favorites from yesteryear: During the 1964 presidential race, there was a best-selling button that had Senator Barry Goldwater's smiling face surmounted with the words, "In Your Guts You Know He's Nuts!" Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was &lt;a href="http://trendmicropccillininternetsecurity2005.pc911.net"&gt;trend micro pc cillin internet security 2005&lt;/a&gt; making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the late "Clown Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" In my more than 40 years as a political junkie, I cannot recall a time or a president who has garnered more buttons, bumper stickers or slogans than George W. Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Mississippi and Federal law, transfers of assets by an Medicaid applicant within 60 months prior to a Medicaid application will result in a penalty of ineligibility. Congress does not want you to move into a nursing home on Monday, give all your money to your children (or whomever) on Tuesday, and qualify for Medicaid on Wednesday. So it has imposed a penalty on people who transfer assets without receiving fair value in return. These restrictions, already severe, have been made even harsher by enactment of the DRA. This penalty is a period of time during which the person transferring the assets &lt;a href="http://freeoceanscreensaver.pcscreensaver.com/findingnemoscreensaver"&gt;finding nemo screensaver&lt;/a&gt; will be ineligible for Medicaid. The penalty period is determined by dividing the amount transferred by what Medicaid determines to be the average private pay cost of a nursing home in your state. In Mississippi, this divisor is $4,600. Example: For example, in Mississippi, where the average monthly cost of care has been determined to be $4,600, and you give away property worth $46,000, you will be ineligible for benefits for 10 months ($46,000 ÷ $4,600= 10). Another way to look at the above example is that for every $4,600 transferred, an applicant would be ineligible for Medicaid nursing home benefits for one month. In theory, there is no limit on the number of months a person can be ineligible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. I've had it. Again. There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling &lt;a href="http://spywarekillersoftware.getspyware.com"&gt;spyware killer software&lt;/a&gt; the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" (I can only assume he means tectonic) is coming soon in the so-called fourth generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vansaustin.vanster.com"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. 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We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. 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You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One sure barometer of a president's -- or senator's or governor's -- standing with the public is the quantity, quality and creativity of bumper stickers, posters, slogans and what used to be called "Guerrilla Theater." To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted public opinion polls. A few examples of my favorites from yesteryear: During the 1964 presidential &lt;a href="http://goodcreditscore.breegr.info/goodcreditscorerange"&gt;good credit score range&lt;/a&gt; race, there was a best-selling button that had Senator Barry Goldwater's smiling face surmounted with the words, "In Your Guts You Know He's Nuts!" Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the late "Clown Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" In my more than 40 years as a political junkie, I cannot recall a time or a president who has garnered more buttons, bumper stickers or slogans than George W. Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Mississippi and Federal law, transfers of assets by an Medicaid applicant within 60 months prior to a Medicaid application will result in a penalty of ineligibility. Congress does not want you to move into a nursing home on Monday, give all your money to your children (or whomever) on Tuesday, and qualify for Medicaid on Wednesday. So it has imposed a penalty on people who transfer assets without receiving fair value in return. These restrictions, already severe, have been made even harsher by enactment of the DRA. This penalty is a period of time during which the person transferring the assets will be ineligible for Medicaid. The penalty period is determined by dividing the amount transferred by what Medicaid determines to be the average private pay cost of a nursing home in your state. In Mississippi, this divisor is $4,600. Example: For example, in Mississippi, where the average monthly cost of care has been determined to be $4,600, and you give away property worth $46,000, you will be ineligible for benefits for 10 months ($46,000 ÷ $4,600= 10). 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These restrictions, already severe, have been made even harsher by enactment of the DRA. This penalty is a period of time during which the person transferring the assets will be ineligible for Medicaid. The penalty period is determined by dividing the amount transferred by what Medicaid determines to be the average private pay cost of a nursing home in your state. In Mississippi, this divisor is $4,600. Example: For example, in Mississippi, where the average monthly cost of care has been determined to be $4,600, and you give away property worth $46,000, you will be ineligible for benefits for 10 months ($46,000 ÷ $4,600= 10). Another way to look at the above example is that for every $4,600 transferred, an applicant would be ineligible for Medicaid nursing home benefits for one month. In theory, there is no limit on the number of months a person can be ineligible.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6093149334449095114-3094143277720051878?l=cxpukdbea.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/feeds/3094143277720051878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6093149334449095114&amp;postID=3094143277720051878' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/3094143277720051878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/3094143277720051878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/2007/07/following-was-sent-to-george-tenet.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093149334449095114.post-7833154422439034807</id><published>2007-07-26T18:02:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-26T18:02:16.956-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>One sure barometer of a president's -- or senator's or governor's -- standing with the public is the quantity, quality and creativity of bumper stickers, posters, slogans and what used to be called "Guerrilla Theater." To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted public opinion polls. A few examples of my favorites from yesteryear: During the 1964 presidential race, there was a best-selling button that had Senator Barry Goldwater's smiling face surmounted with the words, "In Your Guts You Know He's Nuts!" Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself &lt;a href="http://backuponlinestorage.pconlinebackup.com/onlinestoragebackup"&gt;online storage backup&lt;/a&gt; as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the late "Clown Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" In my more than 40 years as a political junkie, I cannot recall a time or a president who has garnered more buttons, bumper stickers or slogans than George W. Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greg Van Kirk and his team of volunteers comprise Community Enterprise Solutions the not for profit he co-founded &lt;a href="http://capecanaveraldeepseafishing.deepster.com"&gt;cape canaveral deep sea fishing&lt;/a&gt; with fellow Guatemala Peace Corps Volunteer George Glickley to provide loans to rural constituents While working in investment banking in New York City in 2000, Greg Van Kirk read about Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus’ micro-credit work providing loans to the poor of Bangledesh. “When I turned 30 and read about Mohammad Yunnus’ work, I knew it was now or never, so I joined the Peace Corps,” he said. Armed with his investment banking credibility, and accrued analytic and business skills, Van Kirk knew that what he needed was real field experience. His transformation from Peace Corps volunteer to social entrepreneur began in Nebaj, an indigenous, rural town in the mountains of Guatemala, where he found himself surrounded by nature and culture but with no facilities or centers for tourists to stay at or visit. Seeing an opportunity to help local people bring new money into the community and create new jobs, he donated his own money and solicited the support of family and friends and created five tourism-focused businesses: a restaurant, a Spanish language school, a guiding service, an Internet café, and an artisan store. Van Kirk said Jan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Mississippi and Federal law, transfers of assets by an Medicaid applicant within 60 months prior to a Medicaid application will result in a penalty of ineligibility. Congress does not want you to move into a nursing home on Monday, give all your money to your children (or whomever) on Tuesday, and qualify for Medicaid on Wednesday. So it has imposed a penalty on people who transfer assets without receiving fair value in return. These restrictions, already severe, have been made even harsher by enactment of the DRA. This penalty is a period of time during which &lt;a href="http://discoverniagara.pcdiscover.com"&gt;discover niagara&lt;/a&gt; the person transferring the assets will be ineligible for Medicaid. The penalty period is determined by dividing the amount transferred by what Medicaid determines to be the average private pay cost of a nursing home in your state. In Mississippi, this divisor is $4,600. Example: For example, in Mississippi, where the average monthly cost of care has been determined to be $4,600, and you give away property worth $46,000, you will be ineligible for benefits for 10 months ($46,000 ÷ $4,600= 10). Another way to look at the above example is that for every $4,600 transferred, an applicant would be ineligible for Medicaid nursing home benefits for one month. In theory, there is no limit on the number of months a person can be ineligible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 &lt;a href="http://freeemailaccounts.offerbyemail.com/freepop3emailaccounts"&gt;free pop3 email accounts&lt;/a&gt; ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. We believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush. We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. I've had it. Again. There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu &lt;a href="http://emergencyflight.pcemergency.com"&gt;emergency flight&lt;/a&gt; don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" (I can only assume he means tectonic) is coming soon in the so-called fourth generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . 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His bundle of names links all our little band of men together. But we call him Quincey. In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation. When we got home we were talking of the old time, which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document. Nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later notebooks of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum. We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. I've had it. Again. There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" &lt;a href="http://freeoceanscreensaver.pcscreensaver.com"&gt;free ocean screensaver&lt;/a&gt; (I can only assume he means tectonic) is coming soon in the so-called fourth generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One sure barometer of a president's -- or senator's or governor's -- standing with the public is the quantity, quality and creativity of bumper stickers, posters, slogans and what used to be called "Guerrilla Theater." To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted public opinion polls. A few examples of my favorites from yesteryear: During the 1964 presidential race, there was a best-selling button that had Senator Barry Goldwater's smiling face surmounted with the words, "In Your Guts You Know He's Nuts!" Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the late "Clown Prince &lt;a href="http://spywarekillersoftware.getspyware.com/spywareremoversoftware"&gt;spyware remover software&lt;/a&gt; of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" In my more than 40 years as a political junkie, I cannot recall a time or a president who has garnered more buttons, bumper stickers or slogans than George W. 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Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the late "Clown Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" In my more than 40 years as a political junkie, I cannot recall a time or a president who has garnered more buttons, bumper stickers or slogans than George W. Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Mississippi and Federal law, transfers of assets by an Medicaid applicant within 60 months prior to a Medicaid application will result in a penalty of ineligibility. 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Another way to look at the above example is that for every $4,600 transferred, an applicant would be ineligible for Medicaid nursing home benefits for one month. In theory, there is no limit on the number of months a person can be ineligible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One sure barometer of a president's -- or senator's or governor's -- standing with the public is the quantity, quality and creativity of bumper stickers, posters, slogans and what used to be called "Guerrilla Theater." To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted public opinion polls. A few examples of my favorites from yesteryear: During the 1964 presidential race, there was a best-selling button that had Senator Barry Goldwater's smiling face surmounted with the words, "In Your Guts You Know He's Nuts!" Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the &lt;a href="http://fundraisingideas.cichbl.info"&gt;fundraising ideas&lt;/a&gt; late "Clown Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" In my more than 40 years as a political junkie, I cannot recall a time or a president who has garnered more buttons, bumper stickers or slogans than George W. Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One sure barometer of a president's -- or senator's or governor's -- standing with the public is the quantity, quality and creativity of bumper stickers, posters, slogans and what used to be called "Guerrilla Theater." 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Van Kirk said Jan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One sure barometer of a president's -- or senator's or governor's -- standing with the public is the quantity, quality and creativity of bumper stickers, posters, slogans and what used to be called "Guerrilla Theater." To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted &lt;a href="http://capecanaveraldeepseafishing.deepster.com/deepseafishingcapecanaveral"&gt;deep sea fishing cape canaveral&lt;/a&gt; public opinion polls. A few examples of my favorites from yesteryear: During the 1964 presidential race, there was a best-selling button that had Senator Barry Goldwater's smiling face surmounted with the words, "In Your Guts You Know He's Nuts!" Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the late "Clown Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" In my more than 40 years as a political junkie, I cannot recall a time or a president who has garnered more buttons, bumper stickers or slogans than George W. Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://discoverniagara.pcdiscover.com"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Mississippi and Federal law, transfers of assets by an Medicaid applicant within 60 months prior to a Medicaid application will result in a penalty of ineligibility. Congress does not want you to move into a nursing home on Monday, give all your money to your children (or whomever) on Tuesday, and qualify for Medicaid on Wednesday. So it has imposed a penalty on people who transfer assets without receiving fair value in return. These restrictions, already severe, have been made even harsher by enactment of the DRA. &lt;a href="http://freeemailaccounts.offerbyemail.com/freeemailaccount"&gt;free email account&lt;/a&gt; This penalty is a period of time during which the person transferring the assets will be ineligible for Medicaid. The penalty period is determined by dividing the amount transferred by what Medicaid determines to be the average private pay cost of a nursing home in your state. In Mississippi, this divisor is $4,600. Example: For example, in Mississippi, where the average monthly cost of care has been determined to be $4,600, and you give away property worth $46,000, you will be ineligible for benefits for 10 months ($46,000 ÷ $4,600= 10). Another way to look at the above example is that for every $4,600 transferred, an applicant would be ineligible for Medicaid nursing home benefits for one month. In theory, there is no limit on the number of months a person can be ineligible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One sure barometer of a president's -- or senator's or governor's -- standing with the public is the quantity, quality and creativity of bumper stickers, posters, slogans and what used to be called "Guerrilla Theater." To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted public opinion polls. 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There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. Besides trying to wean Fortinet away from the classification as UTM devices (which Richard clearly hates to be associated with) by suggesting that UTM should be renamed as "Flexible Security Platform," he does a fine job of asserting that a "geologic shift" (I can only assume he means tectonic) is coming soon in the so-called fourth &lt;a href="http://datafiles.wwwfilester.com"&gt;data files&lt;/a&gt; generation of security products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Mississippi and Federal law, transfers of assets by an Medicaid applicant within 60 months prior to a Medicaid application will result in a penalty of ineligibility. Congress does not want you to move into a nursing home on Monday, give all your money to your children (or whomever) on Tuesday, and qualify for Medicaid on Wednesday. So it has imposed a penalty on people who transfer assets without receiving fair value in return. These restrictions, already severe, have been made even harsher by enactment of the DRA. This penalty is a period of time during which the person transferring the assets will &lt;a href="http://horizonhobby.hobbyonline.com/horizonhobby"&gt;horizonhobby&lt;/a&gt; be ineligible for Medicaid. The penalty period is determined by dividing the amount transferred by what Medicaid determines to be the average private pay cost of a nursing home in your state. In Mississippi, this divisor is $4,600. Example: For example, in Mississippi, where the average monthly cost of care has been determined to be $4,600, and you give away property worth $46,000, you will be ineligible for benefits for 10 months ($46,000 ÷ $4,600= 10). Another way to look at the above example is that for every $4,600 transferred, an applicant would be ineligible for Medicaid nursing home benefits for one month. In theory, there is no limit on the number of months a person can be ineligible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOTE Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together. But we call him Quincey. In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went &lt;a href="http://paydayloanleads.411leads.com"&gt;payday loan leads&lt;/a&gt; over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. 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His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together. But we call him Quincey. In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The castle stood as before, reared high above &lt;a href="http://regelnroulette.pcroulette.com"&gt;regeln roulette&lt;/a&gt; a waste of desolation. When we got home we were talking of the old time, which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document. Nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later notebooks of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum. We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. 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You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. The letter, written by a group of former intelligence officers, reflects disgust with George Tenet's effort to burnish his image with his new "tell" all book. 28 April 2007 Mr. George Tenet c/o Harper Collins Publishers 10 East 53rd Street 8 th Floor New York City, New York 10022 ATTN: Ms. Tina Andredis Dear Mr. Tenet: We write to you on the occasion of the release of your book, At the Center of the Storm . You are on the record complaining about the “damage to your reputation”. In our view the damage to your reputation is inconsequential compared to the harm your actions have caused for the U.S. soldiers engaged in combat in Iraq and the national security of the United States. 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To my way of thinking, these products and activities are often more accurate -- and definitely more entertaining -- than scientifically-conducted public opinion polls. A few examples of my favorites from yesteryear: During the 1964 presidential race, there was a best-selling button that had Senator Barry Goldwater's smiling face surmounted with the words, "In Your Guts You Know He's Nuts!" Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, &lt;a href="http://lakeviewrentals.perview.com/lakeviewrentals"&gt;lakeview rentals&lt;/a&gt; Dick Tuck, the late "Clown Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" 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I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document. Nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later notebooks of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum. We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it. I've had it. Again. There's no way I'd ever make it as a Marketeer. &lt;sigh&gt; I almost wasn't going to write anything about this particular topic because my response can (and probably should) easily be perceived as and retorted against as a pissy little marketing match between competitors. Chu don't like it, Chu don't gotta read it, capice? Sue me for telling the truth. {strike that, as someone probably will} However, this sort of blatant exhalation of so-called revolutionary security product and architectural advances disguised as prophecy is just so, well, recockulous, that I can't stand it. I found it funny that the Anti-Hoff (Stiennon) managed to slip another patented advertising editorial Captain Obvious press piece in SC Magazine regarding what can only be described as the natural evolution of network security products that plug into -- but are not natively -- routing or switching architectures. I don't really mind that, but to suggest that somehow this is an original concept is just disingenuous. 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We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://datafiles.wwwfilester.com"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOTE Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. 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We also call for you to dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from your book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq. We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOTE Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together. But we call him Quincey. In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation. When we got home we were talking of the old time, which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married. I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material &lt;a href="http://lakeviewrentals.perview.com"&gt;lake view rentals&lt;/a&gt; of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document. 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Back in the late 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was making a name for himself as the first line of defense against anti-war protesters at Berkley, there was a fast-selling poster that proclaimed, "Impeach Bonzo and his Buddy!" During the 1968 presidential election, Dick Tuck, the late "Clown &lt;a href="http://marvintheparanoidandroid.akelyr.info/marvintheparanoidandroidquotes"&gt;marvin the paranoid android quotes&lt;/a&gt; Prince of Politics," lined up several dozen obviously pregnant women at a train siding, all holding placards proclaiming, "Nixon's the One!" In my more than 40 years as a political junkie, I cannot recall a time or a president who has garnered more buttons, bumper stickers or slogans than George W. Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following was sent to George Tenet today in care of his publisher. 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Or, even better: To make my "Web content" more dynamic and original, I can record my classroom lectures and link the audio to my site in the form of "podcasts," which students can then download into their MP-3 players and listen to while jogging or playing video games.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6093149334449095114-7218940015364041654?l=cxpukdbea.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/feeds/7218940015364041654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6093149334449095114&amp;postID=7218940015364041654' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/7218940015364041654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/7218940015364041654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/2007/07/hesitant-best-cell-deal-hesitant.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093149334449095114.post-1164535556255755390</id><published>2007-07-25T17:29:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T17:29:36.517-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>And guess what? 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That could be as simple as placing my syllabi, lecture notes, and other course materials on my Web site -- which would mean that I first have to get a Web site. Um, yes...which implies that the effort involved in getting a web site today is analogous to what, scaling Mount Everest? Has he never heard of Blackboard or WebCT? 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Or, even better: To make my "Web content" more dynamic and original, I can record my classroom lectures and link the audio to my site in the form of "podcasts," which students can then download into their MP-3 players and listen to while jogging or playing video games.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An article by Gary Wills (one of my &lt;a href="http://monopolyonline.pcmonopoly.com"&gt;monopoly online&lt;/a&gt; favorite intellectuals) in the current issue of the New York Review of Books asks a great question after making a great point: There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? What is Prof. Wells trying to get at? If you guessed it has something to do with the Iraq War and the God Squad, you're right. Here's the context. That is unthinkable to the evangelicals. They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and He was the one who led them into war. Thus, in 2006, when two thirds of the American people told pollsters that the war in Iraq was a mistake, the third of those still standing behind it were mainly evangelicals (who make up about one third of the population). It was a faith-based certitude. Nothing good ever comes from certitude and absolutes, especially from the evangelical right. How can rational debate and dialog, so necessary to the health of our democracy, take place with people who are absolutely certain God is on their side and He is guiding America's political process? You can't. And that my friends is dangerous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I might have banged my head or something... &lt;a href="http://queenanne.queenster.com/queenanne"&gt;queen anne&lt;/a&gt; but I am coming round to Richard. Out of all of them, his... erm... Richard-ness suddenly seems winner-worthy, admirable, not as annoying or grating as it has been. What's happened to me? Why do I care? 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And when they tell him about some of the ways in which he might use technology in his classroom, he proceeds to snark about each option and dismiss it without engaging in any serious consideration of the topic. To wit: &lt;a href="http://staminapro.clakec.info"&gt;stamina pro&lt;/a&gt; I can create a course that's more user-friendly and appealing to today's students by incorporating more Web-based elements. That could be as simple as placing my syllabi, lecture notes, and other course materials on my Web site -- which would mean that I first have to get a Web site. Um, yes...which implies that the effort involved in getting a web site today is analogous to what, scaling Mount Everest? Has he never heard of Blackboard or WebCT? Or, even better: To make my "Web content" more dynamic and original, I can record my classroom lectures and link the audio to my site in the form of "podcasts," which students can then download into their MP-3 players and listen to while jogging or playing video games.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well recently with all the media attention on secondlife.com , I started my second life. Yes I currently have another life on top of my hectic Real Life! You may wonder what I am talking about but this is all about living in the virtual world. No it is not a game. It is more than a game. A virtual world where you can look pretty much as anything and you can create pretty much anything that you can imagine. Second Life is the 3 dimentional virtual world that received a lot of media attention lately. Hence I decided to give it a try about 2 weeks ago. Initially I thought it would be a game just like any other SIM games. However, when I joined I ran into to real people in a virtual world. Amazing! I've heard about people making money with their second life as well. So the first day I've spent about $40 for my account at Second Life. Note, it is free to join second life and it is free to do many things in second life. However, if you want to own any land and build houses or businesses then you need to upgrade your account to Premium. That is what I did the first day. Upgrade my account and then &lt;a href="http://editingpdffiles.cliffq.info/editpdffile"&gt;edit pdf file&lt;/a&gt; converted my US dollars into Linden dollars to purchase some land. Yes Second Life has their own currency! Hence within the last 2 weeks, I have engaged in about $250 worth of transaction in world. 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That could be as simple as placing my syllabi, lecture notes, and other course materials on my Web site -- which would mean that I first have to get a Web site. Um, yes...which implies that the effort involved in getting a web site today is analogous to what, scaling Mount Everest? Has he never heard of Blackboard or WebCT? Or, even better: To make my "Web content" more dynamic and original, I can record my classroom lectures and link the audio to my site in the form of "podcasts," which students can then download into their MP-3 players and listen to while jogging or playing video games.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And guess what? It's in the Chronicle ! (No! Surely not!) So what have we here? Another incredibly insightful commentary on technology and education. (I can't wait to see Geeky Mom 's take on this, although she may well ignore it, as it's not really worth that much attention.) 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What if God should lose? What is Prof. Wells trying to get at? If you guessed it has something to do with the Iraq War and the God Squad, you're right. Here's the context. That is unthinkable to the evangelicals. They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and He was the one who led them into war. Thus, in 2006, when two thirds of the American people told pollsters that the war in Iraq was a mistake, the third of those still standing behind it were mainly evangelicals (who make up about one third of the population). It was a faith-based certitude. Nothing good ever comes from certitude and absolutes, especially from the evangelical right. How can rational debate and dialog, so necessary to the health of our democracy, take place with people who are absolutely certain God is on their side and He is guiding America's political process? You can't. And that my friends is dangerous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well recently with all the media attention on secondlife.com , I started my second life. Yes I currently have another life on top of my hectic Real Life! You may wonder what I am talking about but this is all about living in the virtual world. No it is not a game. It is more than a game. A virtual world where you can look pretty much as anything and you can create pretty much anything that you can imagine. Second Life is the 3 dimentional virtual world that received a lot of media attention lately. Hence I decided to give it a try about 2 weeks ago. Initially I thought it would be a game just like any other SIM games. However, when I joined I ran into to real people in a virtual world. Amazing! I've heard about people making money with their second life as well. So the first day I've spent about $40 for my account at Second Life. Note, it is free to join second life and it is free to do many things in second life. However, if you want to own any land and build houses or businesses then you need to upgrade your account to Premium. That is what I did the first day. Upgrade my account and then converted my US dollars into Linden dollars to purchase some land. Yes Second Life has their own currency! Hence within the last 2 weeks, I have engaged in about $250 worth of transaction in world. I've bought few parcels of lands and then sold them until I found a large waterfront property &lt;a href="http://downloadantispamsoftware.pcantispam.biz/freetrialsoftware"&gt;free trial software&lt;/a&gt; to make it my home base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And guess what? It's in the Chronicle ! (No! Surely not!) So what have we here? Another incredibly insightful commentary on technology and education. (I can't wait to see Geeky Mom 's take on this, although she may well ignore it, as it's not really worth that much attention.) We have an associate professor who admits he's "doing pretty much the same things in class [he] was doing 20 years ago" (despite the fact that today's students are not the same as those from 20 years ago), who enquires among his colleagues about this new technology thing. And when they tell him about some of the ways in which he might use technology in his classroom, he proceeds to snark about each option and dismiss it without engaging in any serious consideration of the topic. To wit: I can create a course that's more user-friendly and appealing to today's students by incorporating more Web-based elements. That could be as simple as placing my syllabi, lecture notes, and other course materials on my Web site -- which would mean that I first have to get &lt;a href="http://familyfishingtrip.tripster.net/familyfishingtrips"&gt;family fishing trips&lt;/a&gt; a Web site. 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Hence I decided to give it a try about 2 weeks ago. Initially I thought it would be a game just like any other SIM games. However, when I joined I ran into to real people in a virtual world. Amazing! I've heard about people making money with their second life as well. So the first day I've spent about $40 for my account at Second Life. Note, it is free to join second life and it is free to do many things in second life. However, if you want to own any land and build houses or businesses then you need to upgrade your account to Premium. That is what I did &lt;a href="http://staminapro.clakec.info"&gt;stamina pro&lt;/a&gt; the first day. Upgrade my account and then converted my US dollars into Linden dollars to purchase some land. Yes Second Life has their own currency! Hence within the last 2 weeks, I have engaged in about $250 worth of transaction in world. I've bought few parcels of lands and then sold them until I found a large waterfront property to make it my home base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And guess what? It's in the Chronicle ! (No! Surely not!) So what have we here? Another incredibly insightful commentary on technology and education. (I can't wait to see Geeky Mom 's take on this, although she may well ignore it, as it's not really worth that much attention.) We have an associate professor who admits he's "doing pretty much the same things in class [he] was doing 20 years ago" (despite the fact that today's students are not the same as those from 20 years ago), who enquires among his colleagues about this new technology thing. And when they tell him about some of the ways in which he might use technology in his classroom, he proceeds to snark about each option and dismiss it without engaging in any serious consideration of the topic. 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One definitive option I'd like to offer is the use of color. Ordinary links are underlined and in blue, which sets them apart from the black text. Bearing that in mind, use a color for your links that has enough contrast from the surrounding text to be recognized as a link, even if it isn't underlined. Another way to confirm that a non-underlined link is a link is to use the hover pseudo class in CSS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normally, people just show up. They show up at work, or at a conference. They show up on vacation or even sometimes they show up at home. They aren't doing anything special, they're just doing. Well, I spent the day with several hundred enthusiastic people. This group, led by Jennifer Young, didn't just show up. They arrived. They were purposeful and positive and prepared and in a hurry... but in a good way. It didn't cost anything. It didn't take any more effort (in fact, it probably ended up being less of an effort.) 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We used to watch "Imus in the Morning" when the old boy was trashing Bill "it depends upon what your definition of is is" Clinton years ago but haven't been tempted since GW moved into the White House. Presumably, Imus's ratings are still healthy amongst a subset of our fellow Americans (misogyny is universal and can rear its ugly head at any time), since the best the bottom-line guys at MSNBC -- soon to be The NBC News Channel -- can muster in his defense is "We have expressed our displeasure to Don.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's some food for thought in regards to online training development , Jared Spool, over at BrainSparks looks at an interesting question about the use of underlined and non-underlined links . The &lt;a href="http://freeroulettesystems.pcroulette.com"&gt;free roulette systems&lt;/a&gt; orm in web design, since it's start, is that links are identified by an underline. Adept web surfers troll for underlined text, since that text is generally considered a link. These same surfers however, have been able to identify links that weren't underlined just by moving their mouse over the text and watching their mouse react. Yes, the boring convention of underlined text is a reliable option for formatting your links, but CSS offers the ability to treat links in several ways. You could have a background color on your links, put a border around them, have them appear bold on a hover, whatever floats your boat. I think the key to effective link aesthetics is, like all other design tactics, keeping things consistent. In his article, Jared shows examples of sites that weren't consistent with their linking, some underlined and others not, which confused the users. One definitive option I'd like to offer is the use of color. Ordinary links are underlined and in blue, which sets them apart from the black text. Bearing that in mind, use a color for your links that has enough contrast from the surrounding text to be recognized as a link, even if it isn't underlined. Another way to confirm that a non-underlined link is a link is to use the hover pseudo class in CSS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Via the Blogfather, a well-written piece in the WaPo tells the story of our battlebots and the troops who work with them. It sounds rather familiar to anyone who grew up on Keith Laumer's SF stories of the Bolos , gigantic autonomous battle tanks of the future. Laumer wrote in the 60s, when the images of WWII armor battles still lingered, when counterinsurgency and asymmetric warfare were still minor military specialties, and before the miniaturizing effects of Moore's Law had really kicked in. A real 21st century PackBot would be dust under the ten foot wide treads of a Bolo Mark XXVIII. 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( James Thurber: Writings and Drawings ) " Seems to me that MSNBC needs to remove a lot more than "MS" from the network to improve its image ," writes Michelle Malkin re the cadaverish Don Imus's latest gratuitous trashing of a woman who doesn't please his eye, in this case MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer : That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning . . . Who's she kidding? . . . Plus, she's dumber than dirt . . . Oh, my God, what a pig. Who's a pig? 'Can't help but wonder how Deirdre feels about her husband's venomous misogyny. We used to watch "Imus in the Morning" when the old boy was trashing Bill "it depends upon what your definition of is is" Clinton years ago but &lt;a href="http://customerrelationshipmanagementsolution.rxcustomercare.com"&gt;customer relationship management solution&lt;/a&gt; aven't been tempted since GW moved into the White House. 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Yes, the boring convention of underlined text is a reliable option for formatting your links, but CSS offers the ability to treat links in several ways. You could have a background color on your links, put a border around them, have them appear bold on a hover, whatever floats your boat. I think the key to effective link aesthetics is, like all other design tactics, keeping things consistent. In his article, Jared shows examples of sites &lt;a href="http://emailencryptionsoftware.emailwizard.com"&gt;email encryption software&lt;/a&gt; hat weren't consistent with their linking, some underlined and others not, which confused the users. One definitive option I'd like to offer is the use of color. Ordinary links are underlined and in blue, which sets them apart from the black text. Bearing that in mind, use a color for your links that has enough contrast from the surrounding text to be recognized as a link, even if it isn't underlined. 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Enthusiasm has a lot to be said for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normally, people just show up. They show up at work, or at a conference. They show up on vacation or even sometimes they show up at home. They aren't doing anything special, they're just doing. Well, I spent the day with several hundred enthusiastic people. This group, led by Jennifer Young, didn't just show up. They arrived. They were purposeful and positive and prepared and in a hurry... but in a good way. It didn't cost anything. It didn't take any more effort (in fact, it probably ended up being less of an effort.) They got more out &lt;a href="http://parentalinternetfilter.pcparentalcontrols.com"&gt;parental internet filter&lt;/a&gt; f me, more out of each other, more out of the day. 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Perhaps unsurprising given the tendency of teamwork under stress to create strong relationships- and a phenomenon fairly well know in the literature. Back in the day... (flashback dissolve) I and a team of folks at Apple showed that you could get people to attribute human emotions to a 32x32 pixel black and white icon fronting for a simple database algorithm ( skip to 'Guides' heading here ). Then a couple of Stanford profs systematically showed just how simple it is to get someone to project human motivations and social roles onto computing or communications devices, with very modest amounts of cueing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;( While this essay is really for those who have seen all of the episodes of Doctor Who starring Tom Baker and the complete Buffy the Vampire Slayer , I have been careful to avoid any significant spoilers. 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High deductibles mean that a single person working for Wal Mart can purchase this insurance for under $25 per month.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6093149334449095114-5003607651283264834?l=cxpukdbea.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/feeds/5003607651283264834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6093149334449095114&amp;postID=5003607651283264834' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/5003607651283264834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/5003607651283264834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/2007/07/in-case-you-missed-it-at-pajama-media.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093149334449095114.post-6957670800016381125</id><published>2007-07-15T11:44:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T11:44:27.106-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Wal Mart is offering 124 generic drugs &lt;a href="http://highestpaidactor.privateactor.com/highestpaidactor"&gt;highest paid actor&lt;/a&gt; covered drugs available here ) at $4 for a month's supply. 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In this story about providing $4 generics to everyone, Wal Mart's employee benefit package is called into question: "critics argue that Wal-Mart's coverage calls for a deductible that requires workers to pick up the first $1,000 in medical expenses, and the deductible rises to a maximum of $3,000 for families." What isn't mentioned is that this plan is one of several options being offered to Wal Mart employees. High deductibles mean that a single person working for Wal Mart can purchase this insurance for under $25 per month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;here's another piece i had in last friday's irish times . it's about the mobile dot mobi domain and an interview i did with their uber-enthusiastic ceo neil edwards. The mission of dot mobi, backed by a consortium of the world's leading mobile operators, is to establish its internet domain as the address of choice for businesses to locate their mobile websites, writes John Collins Despite the best efforts of Ireland's skilled technology workers, this State's favourable corporate tax regime is still one of the prime reasons so many of the world's leading technology companies choose to locate European headquarters here. So when a consortium of some of the world's leading mobile operators and technology companies, including Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile and Vodafone, was seeking a global headquarters for the dot mobi mobile internet address it was establishing two years ago, Dublin was at the top of the list. "When the company was founded, quite honestly Ireland was picked because of tax reasons," explains Neil Edwards, the dotcom veteran who moved to Dublin to become chief executive officer of dot mobi. 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So, his being the only address I had to communicate with CREEM (the &lt;a href="http://customerrelationshipmanagementproduct.rxcustomercare.com"&gt;customer relationship management product&lt;/a&gt; ommittee to Re-Elect the Mayor), I used it on the Parks1 site. Is Neil the right guy? Not necessarily. But our Communications Director did receive this email back from him: "Ms. Daly, I am inquiring about the posting on your web site that references Mayor Bloomberg (http://www.parks1.org/candidates) You listed my email address. I can direct you to an appropriate person within the campaign for comment. But, I did not supply that statement nor do I deal in matters of policy and the press. Sincerely, Neil Giacobbi" Which means soon the Mayor can hide behind the appropriate policy rep. And it means that people have trying to write to the Mayor about our parks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the ident.tv blog I picked up this funny ABC TV ident . Congrats to Sydney agency Host &lt;a href="http://DenonPMA.wwwdenon.com"&gt;Denon PMA&lt;/a&gt; or thinking this one up. Great ending!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wal Mart is offering 124 generic drugs (covered drugs available here ) at $4 for a month's supply. Today's news features people tripping over themselves describing how this really isn't that big of a deal . Criticisms range &lt;a href="http://peoplerelationshipdating.people411.com"&gt;people relationship dating&lt;/a&gt; rom the fact that it will 'only' help the uninsured (because people with insurance already have low copays) to this quote, taken from the article linked above, "I think people are going to be disappointed when they go into the stores and find out their drug isn't there." Well, hopefully, people who go to the store and find out their drug isn't there will ask their doctors to prescribe something else. Or, even better, doctors who treat uninsured patients will take price into consideration and prescribe an equivalent generic that is covered by the plan. But that would be bad. Why? Because the real argument has nothing to do with cheaper drugs and more to do with the fact that some people hate Wal Mart just for being Wal Mart. In this story about providing $4 generics to everyone, Wal Mart's employee benefit package is called into question: "critics argue that Wal-Mart's coverage calls for a deductible that requires workers to pick up the first $1,000 in medical expenses, and the deductible rises to a maximum of $3,000 for families." What isn't mentioned is that this plan is one of several options being offered to Wal Mart employees. High deductibles mean that a single person working for Wal Mart can purchase this insurance for under $25 per month.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6093149334449095114-6957670800016381125?l=cxpukdbea.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/feeds/6957670800016381125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6093149334449095114&amp;postID=6957670800016381125' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/6957670800016381125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/6957670800016381125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/2007/07/wal-mart-is-offering-124-generic-drugs.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093149334449095114.post-1162222437296400885</id><published>2007-07-15T11:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T11:44:04.467-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>From the ident.tv blog I picked up this funny ABC TV ident . 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The mission of dot mobi, backed by a consortium of the world's leading mobile operators, is to establish its internet domain as the address of choice for businesses to locate their mobile websites, writes John Collins Despite the best efforts of Ireland's skilled technology workers, this State's favourable corporate tax regime is still one of the prime reasons so many of the world's leading technology companies choose to locate European headquarters here. So when a consortium &lt;a href="http://freenewjerseycreditreport.freecreditreportinstantly.com"&gt;free new jersey credit report&lt;/a&gt; f some of the world's leading mobile operators and technology companies, including Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile and Vodafone, was seeking a global headquarters for the dot mobi mobile internet address it was establishing two years ago, Dublin was at the top of the list. "When the company was founded, quite honestly Ireland was picked because of tax reasons," explains Neil Edwards, the dotcom veteran who moved to Dublin to become chief executive officer of dot mobi. "There were also some ideas that there might be some good talent in Ireland and there might be some benefit in doing that, but the reality was that it was the tax rate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is landscape changing technology. Think about what it means to reduce the amount of physical data being stored for primary, copies, digital archives and backup by a factor of 10, 20 or more. Data de-duplication is still in early stages but there &lt;a href="http://customerrelationshipmanagementproduct.rxcustomercare.com/customercasestudy"&gt;customer case study&lt;/a&gt; re a number of products that support it and hundreds of customer implementations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is landscape changing technology. 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Is Neil the right guy? Not necessarily. But our Communications Director did receive this email back from him: "Ms. Daly, I am inquiring about the posting on your web site that references Mayor Bloomberg (http://www.parks1.org/candidates) You listed my email address. I can direct you to an appropriate person within the campaign for comment. But, I did not supply that statement nor do I deal in matters of policy and the press. Sincerely, Neil Giacobbi" Which means soon the Mayor can hide behind the appropriate policy rep. And it means that people have trying to write to the Mayor about our parks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6093149334449095114-1162222437296400885?l=cxpukdbea.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/feeds/1162222437296400885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6093149334449095114&amp;postID=1162222437296400885' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/1162222437296400885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/1162222437296400885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/2007/07/from-ident.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093149334449095114.post-329362098860780489</id><published>2007-07-14T04:27:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T04:27:06.070-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The other day, Connery was sitting on my bed while I was finishing up my morning ablutions. 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Usually, though, I try to come up with some kind of logical reason or explanation for the questions. Yesterday's "What is poetry?" was a pretty tough one. I almost had to call in the reinforcements, i.e. my mom the retired English teacher. Anyway, he was watching me put on a pair of earrings and of course wanted to know why I was putting on earrings. I think I first answered, "Because I like earrings." The next question, naturally, is why I like earrings? Casting about, discarding "Because I am a tool of the patriarchy who finds it necessary to further establish her defined gender role!", I settled on "Because it gives me a polished look." He accepted that. Now, every morning since, he has wanted to come into my room and help me out with achieving my "polished look". Yesterday I let him pick out some earrings for me, and he wanted to today as well. When he hands me the earrings, he watches me put them on, and then he asks, "Do you have that polished look now?" Hey, it's a far better outcome than what I would have expected, which was "But why do you want that polished look?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some reason, I love a good, sad song. They somehow fill me with feeling without actually making me feel sad. Garrison Keillor sang this one on Saturday's " Prairie Home Companion " rebroadcast. Sadness, nobility (of a fashion), tragedy and the supernatural. The song give me goosebumps. Long Black Veil by Lefty Frizzell Ten years ago, on a cold, dark night, There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light There were few at the scene, but they all agreed That the stranger who fled looked a lot like me Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me. The judge said Son, what is your alibi If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die I spoke not a word, though it meant my life, For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife. 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Now, he has been admitted to hospice care. He's ready. I won't say more than that here. I've yet to set up the other blog, as mentioned in the previous post , where I could write about the big, awful stuff. But, I have to admit a terrible truth - each time I flip open my laptop to set up the blog, I regress. I turn back into a frightened and spooked little girl who has been silenced - "Don't talk...be quiet...don't tell." Yeah, that old tape, playing in a taunting continuous loop in my head. It doesn't matter because I'm at a loss for words. I can't find them anywhere. I'm tongue tied. Or, keyboard locked? I don't know. My mantra, these days - I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. What I do know is that there are arrangements to be made. We will alert those kindly folks who attend to our earthly remains - priests, funeral directors, a crematorium. There will be phone calls to make and emails to send. My mother's house must be readied to receive family and friends. 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But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans, In a long, black veil, she cries on my bones. She walks these hills in a long black veil, She visits my grave where the night winds wail. Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me. The song has been done by Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio, Johnny Cash, The New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Dave Matthews Band, to name a few . The Chieftains did it with Mick Jagger on the vocals. You can hear a snippet of the song from their album at Amazon .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pasture &lt;a href="http://howtobuildarobot.botmatic.com"&gt;how to build a robot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day, Connery was sitting on my bed while I was finishing up my morning ablutions. He's totally into the "why" questions these days (to the point of my occasionally resorting to the worst parental response &lt;a href="http://custombuiltpcs.pcspros.com/custombuiltpc's"&gt;custom built pc's&lt;/a&gt; ver to such questions: Why? Because! 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Hey, it's a far better outcome than what I would have expected, which was "But why do you want that polished look?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve Shaviro posted another segment of his current project last week--an excellent and insightful account of the antinomy of consumer choice. Link: The Pinocchio Theory: Age of Aesthetics . The Antinomy of consumer choice is this. On the one hand, postmodern capitalism limits, and even abolishes, choice, in the interest of monopolistic accumulation. On the other &lt;a href="http://telnethacking.pctelnet.com/telnethacking"&gt;telnet hacking&lt;/a&gt; and, postmodern capitalism increases and proliferates choice, in order to saturate the market, and thereby both expand it and capture more of it. The “solution” to the Antinomy can therefore be stated as follows. Postmodern capitalism does indeed expand the range of choices we can make; but it does this by channeling choice exclusively, and restrictively, into the realm of commodity consumption. Zizek is right to argue that capitalism today is all about diversity and choice, and that the multiculturalist celebration of difference fits perfectly into its agenda. But he is wrong to condemn Deleuze as an “ideologist” of this process. In fact, Deleuze and Guattari offer a powerful critical analysis of late capitalism’s flows and “axiomatics” – something that Zĭzek himself conspicuously fails ever to do. For her part, Klein is right to insist that, in the regime of transnational corporations, with their ubiquitous logos and brand names, “options for unbranded alternatives, for open debate, criticism, and uncensored art – for real choice – are facing new and ominous restrictions” (131).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oppose &lt;a href="http://customvans.vanster.com"&gt;custom vans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some reason, I love a good, sad song. They somehow fill me with feeling without actually making me feel sad. 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But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans, In a long, black veil, she cries on my bones. She walks these hills in a long black veil, She visits my grave where the night winds wail. Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me. The song has been done by Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio, Johnny Cash, The New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Dave Matthews Band, to name a few . The Chieftains did it with Mick Jagger on the vocals. You can hear a snippet of the song from their album at Amazon .&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6093149334449095114-38425203863269686?l=cxpukdbea.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/feeds/38425203863269686/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6093149334449095114&amp;postID=38425203863269686' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/38425203863269686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6093149334449095114/posts/default/38425203863269686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cxpukdbea.blogspot.com/2007/07/pasture-go-anywhere-other-day-connery.html' title=''/><author><name>Secret Agent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13941513018364973788</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093149334449095114.post-8655822200483995016</id><published>2007-07-14T04:25:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T04:25:01.717-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Steve Shaviro posted another segment of his current project last week--an excellent and insightful account of the antinomy of consumer choice. Link: The Pinocchio Theory: Age of Aesthetics . The Antinomy of consumer choice is this. On the one hand, postmodern capitalism limits, and even abolishes, choice, in the interest of monopolistic accumulation. On the other hand, postmodern capitalism increases and proliferates choice, in order to saturate the market, and thereby both expand it and capture more of it. The “solution” to the Antinomy can therefore be stated as follows. Postmodern capitalism does indeed expand the range of choices we can make; but it does this by channeling choice exclusively, and restrictively, into the realm of commodity consumption. Zizek is right to argue that capitalism today is all about diversity and choice, and that the multiculturalist celebration of difference fits perfectly into its agenda. But he is wrong to condemn Deleuze as an “ideologist” of this process. In fact, Deleuze and Guattari offer a powerful critical analysis of late capitalism’s flows and “axiomatics” – something that Zĭzek himself conspicuously fails ever to do. For her part, Klein is right to insist that, in the regime of transnational corporations, with their ubiquitous logos and brand names, “options for unbranded alternatives, &lt;a href="http://GoAnywhere.411anywhere.com/GoAnywhere"&gt;Go Anywhere&lt;/a&gt; or open debate, criticism, and uncensored art – for real choice – are facing new and ominous restrictions” (131).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stemcaster.turbocaster.com"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve Shaviro posted another segment of his current project last week--an excellent and insightful account of the antinomy of consumer choice. Link: The Pinocchio Theory: Age of Aesthetics . The Antinomy of consumer choice is this. 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The “solution” to the Antinomy can therefore be stated as follows. Postmodern capitalism does indeed expand the range of choices we can make; but it does this by channeling choice exclusively, and restrictively, into the realm of commodity consumption. Zizek is right to argue that capitalism today is all about diversity and choice, and that the multiculturalist celebration of difference fits perfectly into its agenda. But he is wrong to condemn &lt;a href="http://FuryfromtheDeep.deepster.com"&gt;Fury from the Deep&lt;/a&gt; eleuze as an “ideologist” of this process. In fact, Deleuze and Guattari offer a powerful critical analysis of late capitalism’s flows and “axiomatics” – something that Zĭzek himself conspicuously fails ever to do. 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Hey, it's a far better outcome than what I would have expected, which was "But why do you want that polished look?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some reason, I love a good, sad song. They somehow fill me with feeling without actually making me feel sad. Garrison Keillor sang this one on Saturday's " Prairie Home Companion " rebroadcast. Sadness, nobility (of a fashion), tragedy and the supernatural. The song give me goosebumps. Long Black Veil by Lefty Frizzell Ten years ago, on a cold, dark night, There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light There were few at the scene, but they all agreed That the stranger who fled looked a lot like me Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me. The judge said Son, what is your alibi If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die I spoke not a word, though it meant my life, For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife. She walks these hills in a long, black veil, She visits my grave where the night winds wail, Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me. The scaffold was high, and eternity near, She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear. But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans, In a long, black veil, she cries on my bones. She walks these hills in a long black veil, She visits my grave where the night winds wail. Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me. The song has been done by Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio, Johnny Cash, The New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Dave Matthews Band, to name a few . The Chieftains did it with Mick Jagger on the vocals. You can hear a snippet of the song from their album at Amazon . &lt;a href="http://imacos.wwwlimac.com"&gt;imac os&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oppose &lt;a href="http://mailinglistmanagementsoftware.listmanage.net"&gt;mailing list management software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some reason, I love a good, sad song. 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On the other hand, postmodern capitalism increases and proliferates choice, in order to saturate the market, and thereby both expand it and capture more of it. The “solution” to the Antinomy can therefore be stated as follows. Postmodern capitalism does indeed expand the range of choices we can make; but it does this by channeling choice exclusively, and restrictively, into the realm of commodity consumption. Zizek is right to argue that capitalism today is all about diversity and choice, and that the multiculturalist celebration of difference fits perfectly into its agenda. But he is wrong to condemn Deleuze as an “ideologist” of this process. In fact, Deleuze and Guattari offer a powerful critical analysis of late capitalism’s flows and “axiomatics” – something that Zĭzek himself conspicuously fails ever to do. 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Casting about, discarding "Because I am a tool of the patriarchy who finds it necessary to further establish her defined gender role!", I settled on "Because it gives me a polished look." He accepted that. Now, every morning since, he has wanted to come into my room and help me out with achieving my "polished look". Yesterday I let him pick out some earrings for me, and he wanted to today as well. When he hands me the earrings, he watches me put them on, and then he asks, "Do you have that polished look now?" Hey, it's a far better outcome than what I would have expected, which was "But why do you want that polished look?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oppose &lt;a href="http://custombuiltpcs.pcspros.com"&gt;custom built pcs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My father's life is coming to a close. He refused a tracheotomy and chose to be "DNR" - not to be resuscitated. The man is tired of the tubes and the machines. Now, he has been admitted to hospice care. He's ready. 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For her part, Klein is right to insist that, in the regime of transnational corporations, with their ubiquitous logos and brand names, “options for unbranded alternatives, for open debate, criticism, and uncensored art – for real choice – are facing new and ominous restrictions” (131).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My father's life is coming to a close. He refused a tracheotomy and chose to be "DNR" - not to be resuscitated. The man is tired of the tubes and the machines. Now, he has been admitted to hospice care. He's ready. I won't say more than that here. I've yet to set up the other blog, as mentioned in the previous post , where I could write about the big, awful stuff. But, I have to admit a terrible truth - each time I flip open my laptop to set up the blog, I regress. I turn back into a frightened and spooked little girl who has been silenced - "Don't talk...be quiet...don't tell." 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Yesterday's outpouring of geekjoy could be just a foretaste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The building was full—though not completely full—of cheerful..." Kelefa Sanneh in today's New York Times. That was enough to get me to stop reading. Here's the thing: people are reading less than ever. They're reading faster than ever. And they're jumping to the next thing at a moment's notice. Why waste a sentence saying nothing? Worse, why say less &lt;a href="http://washingtonmutualonlinebanking.awmu.com"&gt;washington mutual online banking&lt;/a&gt; han nothing by being contradictory or vague or (worst of all) hyperbolic? 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Jeff Han blew away the TED audience in Monterey in February with his pioneering demo. There were rumors that Apple had tried (unsuccessfully) to hire Jeff at one point to work on the launch of the iphone. NY Times techie David Pogue even asked Steve Jobs about him on the day of the launch. So I pinged Jeff to see if he had any comment on it. Here's his response: "The iPhone is absolutely gorgeous, and I've always said, if there ever were a company to bring this kind of technology to the consumer market, it's Apple. I just wish it were &lt;a href="http://wirecage.nickcage.com"&gt;wire cage&lt;/a&gt;  bit bigger so I could really use both of my hands." Something tells me there will be a LOT of ongoing excitement and delight around multi-touch in the next couple years. Hopefully Apple will publish APIs to allow third party apps on the iphone. 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From the report, reprinted in full below, the following seems clear: The deportation benefits: 1) Putin. 2) Chabad. 3) Chabad's 'chief rabbi' and Putin quisling Berel Lazar. 3) The Russian Jewish Congress. 4) The RJC's oligarch, Vladimir Slutsker. 5) The Russian Orthodox Church. The deportation hurts : 1) The Moscow Jewish community. 2) Democracy in Russia. 3) Human Rights activists. 4) Religious minorities including Catholics, Buddhists and Evangelicals. Rabbi &lt;a href="http://tollfreedirectoryassistance.reversedirectoryassistance.com"&gt;toll free directory assistance&lt;/a&gt; hayevitch seems to be covering for the RJC and Slutsker. According to the Moscow News , Slutsker, when he joined the RJC last year was, [L]ittle known within the Jewish community; up until now he has not been a member of the Congress although he privately supported some Jewish projects in Russia - in particular, the building of an FJCR [Chabad] community center in Maryina Roshcha [synagogue], in Moscow. 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