Capitalism's Enemies Within

Wall Street's pay practices perversely encourage extreme risk-taking that can destabilize the economy.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com Amid the mayhem on world financial markets, it is becoming clear that capitalism's most dangerous enemies are capitalists. No one can have watched the "subprime mortgage" debacle without noticing the absurd contrast between the magnitude of the failure and the lavish rewards heaped on those who presided over it. At Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, large losses on subprime securities cost chief executives their jobs -- and they left with multimillion-dollar pay packages. Stanley O'Neal, the ex-head of Merrill, received an estimated $161 million.

KIffin Signs , Stroud to Hang self

It is was it is. Stroud is a lame hack.

clipped from bucstats.com Monte Agrees In Principle, Stroud To Hang Self In Shower January 18, 2008 Earlier today, I read Rick Stroud's story about Kiffin getting offered less than he was currently making. It's believed the Bucs have offered Kiffin less than what he made last season, leaving the two sides considerably apart. I had half an entry written about how "it's believed" means Stroud had absolutely no sources and was just pulling this out of his gargantuan asshole, but I abandoned it because it started to sound like I was piling on when I really didn't know what Kiffin was offered myself. The Tribune touched on it, but their version of it has far fewer instances of the words "fuckface" and "hack-tacular". I'm not sure which is more satisfying, Kiffin being retained or Stroud being publicly proven wrong again. Isn't it about time to stick him on the monster truck rally or championship bingo beats?

New England Spygate DT Vince Wilfolk gets off Easy with Fine

EyE gouging incident yields Wilfolk only a fine, indicating the NFL's favored position towards the Patriots. Look for the Cheatriots to win the Super Bowl with help from the referees if necessary.

clipped from www.profootballtalk.com WILFORK GOT OFF WAY TOO EASY We're amazed -- amazed -- that Pats defensive tackle Vince Wilfork was fined only $15,000 for treating Giants running back Brandon Jacobs like he'd just said "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk." Wilfork jammed his stubby finger into Jacobs' eye! Sure, Jacobs wasn't hurt.  But the act was still heinous.  If the officials had seen it, he surely would have been ejected.  So why wasn't he suspended? And given that it was Wilfork's third fine of the year for on-field misbehavior, we think that he at least should have been fined far more than $15,000. Finally, a reader has made a great suggestion.  Why not base these fines on a percentage of the player's annual salary?  As it now stands, these penalties affect players of different income levels differently.  The goal, however, should be to create a deterrent effect that is consistent.  The best way to do that is to take away a specific portion of the player's pay.

Gruden On Garcia

NFL Video

clipped from www.nfl.com Monday, August 6, 2007 | 12:00 AM Bucs QB Jeff Garcia has pleased Coach Gruden in camp. Send to a Friend Subscribe URL:

Nominees for 2007 Sports Board/Blog Post of 2007

clipped from nfcsouth.net Mother Corporate board that is. Well, I was unusually restless tonite, so I   clipped this post from the mother corporate board to my blogger using this Clipmark add-on that integrates with my blog.  A big time saver. You can even use it with video clips, Facebook and more...post to multiple blogs, e mail etc. Plays nice with my Mozilla Firefox browser.  **tip Anyway, if you'd like to nominate your own, have at it and have fun.  Panthers, Falcons and Saints fans invited too, even Nascar!  The other funny part I guess is that the thread started in August starts out by saying how bad Gruden and the Bucs will suck this year. This post has been edited by NewRiders4 on Dec 31 2007

2007 Sports Board post of the year

I clipped this from the transsexual, cross dressing corporate board. Not that there is anything wrong with that...but this was really good. Yes, I'm turning lemons into lemonade.

clipped from bbs.buccaneers.com Quote: Originally Posted by Jellies Dude, a guy is criticizing the Bucs D all over the forum tonight. Where are you?! Sorry I was in the Buc Cave changing the oil on the Bucmobile. __________________

Murdoch's Way: Buying pols with book deals!

The halls of Washington and their lobbyists...who's representing you?

According to two former F.C.C. officials, Mr. Murdoch’s chief in-house lobbyist at the time, Preston Padden, confronted Mr. Hundt’s chief of staff at a meeting at a coffee shop near the agency’s headquarters. Mr. Hundt (the F.C.C. chariman at the time) would not be able to “get a job as dog-catcher” if the F.C.C. took away a single News Corporation television license, Mr. Padden warned, they said.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Murdoch Reaches Out for Even More In the fall of 2003, a piece of Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media empire was in jeopardy. Congress was on the verge of limiting any company from owning local television stations that reached more than 35 percent of American homes. Mr. Murdoch’s Fox stations reached nearly 39 percent, meaning he would have to sell some. A strike force of Mr. Murdoch’s lobbyists joined other media companies in working on the issue. The White House backed the industry, and in a late-night meeting just before Thanksgiving, Congressional leaders agreed to raise the limit — to 39 percent. One leader of the Congressional movement to limit ownership was Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi. But in the end, he, too, agreed to the compromise. It turns out he had a business connection to Mr. Murdoch. Months before, HarperCollins, Mr. Murdoch’s publishing house, had signed a $250,000 book deal to publish Mr. Lott’s memoir, “Herding Cats,” records and interviews show.

Alzheimer's memory loss faster among well-educated

strange...I just thought that the more your read, think & write, the more you shall be excercising your brains!...wasted a lot of time in getting qualified!!!

clipped from www.reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Having more years of formal education delays the memory loss linked to Alzheimer's disease, but once the condition begins to take hold, better-educated people decline more rapidly, researchers said on Monday. Their study, published in the journal Neurology, tracked memory loss in a group of elderly people from New York City's Bronx borough before they were diagnosed with Alzheimer's or another form of old-age dementia. Every year of education delayed the accelerated memory decline that precedes dementia by about 2-1/2 months, according to the researchers at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. But once this memory loss began, the rate of decline unfolded 4 percent more quickly for each additional year of education, the researchers said. Someone with 16 years of schooling might experience memory decline 50 percent more quickly than another person with just four years education, based on the findings.

Non Guru Building a Business Online

There is notion on the internet that one can make easy money. That is simply not true, regardless of the shit you been sold by 'gurus'.It takes hard work. It can be a "Marketing Nightmare". Frustration, long hours and overcoming fear and information overload will create paralysis. I know because I been there. For the better part of the last 4 years I've jumping from one opportunity to the next to find the key. Until just now, I thought it would take forever to learn the technology and make the connections. I read at least 10-20 newsletters a week and am still subscribe to many more.

Why am I writing this. Well I just joined a membership site at an extreme discount that I believe will create more 6 figure incomes in a year from newbie or 'second tier' internet marketers than any other product on the market.

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Many in US Military: Bush & Cheney Out of Control

CENTCOM Admiral William Fallon reportedly thwarted Cheney's wish to sent a third additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One paper wrote that he "vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM."

The whole article is worth a read.

clipped from www.spiegel.de 'Many in the US Military Think Bush and Cheney Are Out of Control' Amsterdam-based military historian Gabriel Kolko The American military is stretched to the limit. They are losing both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Everything is being sacrificed for these wars: money, equipment in Asia, American military power globally, etc. Where and how can they fight yet another? The Pentagon is short of money for procurement, and that is what so many people in the military bureaucracy live for. The situation will be far worse in the event of a war with Iran. Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win. Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control. They are rebelling against Bush and Cheney. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest recently said in an interview that she believed the US military would revolt and refuse to fly missions against Iran if the White House issued such orders.

Can Business Make Friends with Web 2.0?

Still, there are quite a few, actually thousands of niches
where Web2.0 will integrate nicely. I will show 'you' them in the weeks and months ahead. Meanwhile, trust the process

clipped from www.itbusinessedge.com Maybe the problem is just the opposite - business leaders have seen what happens when Web 2.0 users target their business and they aren’t happy with the results. Thus far, the intersection of business and Web 2.0 generally has not been pretty. Consider StarbucksGossip, a hobbyist site that quickly became the place for Starbucks employees to publicly and anonymously air corporate grievances. And then there was the public relations nightmare AOL faced when blogger Vincent Ferrari recorded his frustrating interactions with an AOL customer service representative while trying to cancel his AOL account. He posted the encounter to his blog, where it quickly became viral, much to AOL’s chagrin. No wonder companies hesitate to invest in Web or even Enterprise 2.0. You just can’t be sure what will happen because you can’t control the message. And if you do try to control the message, you’re likely to face a very public blogger backlash.

Many in US Military: Bush & Cheney Out of Control

CENTCOM Admiral William Fallon reportedly thwarted Cheney's wish to sent a third additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One paper wrote that he "vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM."

The whole article is worth a read.

clipped from www.spiegel.de 'Many in the US Military Think Bush and Cheney Are Out of Control' Amsterdam-based military historian Gabriel Kolko The American military is stretched to the limit. They are losing both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Everything is being sacrificed for these wars: money, equipment in Asia, American military power globally, etc. Where and how can they fight yet another? The Pentagon is short of money for procurement, and that is what so many people in the military bureaucracy live for. The situation will be far worse in the event of a war with Iran. Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win. Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control. They are rebelling against Bush and Cheney. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest recently said in an interview that she believed the US military would revolt and refuse to fly missions against Iran if the White House issued such orders.

Many in US Military: Bush & Cheney Out of Control

CENTCOM Admiral William Fallon reportedly thwarted Cheney's wish to sent a third additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One paper wrote that he "vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM."

The whole article is worth a read.

clipped from www.spiegel.de 'Many in the US Military Think Bush and Cheney Are Out of Control' Amsterdam-based military historian Gabriel Kolko The American military is stretched to the limit. They are losing both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Everything is being sacrificed for these wars: money, equipment in Asia, American military power globally, etc. Where and how can they fight yet another? The Pentagon is short of money for procurement, and that is what so many people in the military bureaucracy live for. The situation will be far worse in the event of a war with Iran. Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win. Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control. They are rebelling against Bush and Cheney. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest recently said in an interview that she believed the US military would revolt and refuse to fly missions against Iran if the White House issued such orders.

Life is Harder Today , say Experts

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com Life is harder now, some experts say Generation gap: After paying the bills, middle-class pockets are emptier So what's the problem? Why do so many middle class Americans with so much stuff say they feel so squeezed? If they are dogged by debt, isn’t it their own fault? Bankruptcy law expert and Harvard University Professor Elizabeth Warren spent a lot of time crunching consumer spending numbers for her popular books, "The Fragile Middle Class,” and “The Two-Income Trap.” In both, she makes this point: Despite all those $200 sneakers you hear about and the long lines at Starbucks, consumers are actually spending less of their income — much less — on discretionary items like clothing, entertainment and food than their parents did. In fact, after taking care of essentials like housing and health care, today’s middle class has about half as much spending money as their parents did in the early 1970s, Warren says.

NFL: Great Patriots Video

It's football season and it's amazing how sports weave themselves into politics of it's own. Most of us enjoy the 'escapism' aspect of football more than anything. I hope you enjoy this video since this is a quickly exploding medium used by the masses to capture the imagination.



I will be creating some videos of my own as well as obtaining rights to some where possible. Did you know successful movies such as Borat got their start on You Tube?

How would we Benefit from Ron Paul presidency

Some people (i.e. followers of Kucinich) claim that Ron Paul won’t reduce military spending in their long rants about how a Ron Paul presidency would destroy us all, because what we really need is just more government to save us all.

This is just flat out wrong, we have been getting more and more government for the last 70+ years, and our students are getting more ignorant (see article here) and Americans are getting less healthy. Ron Paul has said he would shrink the military industrial complex (article in SFGate.com) and eliminate the war on drugs. Without these drains on the productivity of America, we would have more funds to be able to make positive choices for ourselves, our families, and yes even the children.

It’s a sad fact that the children are used to control the present and future, and that they are being ill used by the current “education” system.
Until you acknowledge that the factual contents of your mind upon which you base decisions have been inserted there by others whose motives you cannot fully understand, you will never come to appreciate the neglected genius of Western spirituality which teaches that you are the center of the universe. And that the most important things worth knowing are innate in you already. They cannot be learned through schooling. They are self-taught through the burdens of having to work, having to sort out right from wrong, having to check your appetites, and having to age and die.
John Taylor Gatto


http://blog.globaltoad.com/?p=286

Until you acknowledge that the factual contents of your mind upon which you base decisions have been inserted there by others whose motives you cannot fully understand

I'm repeating the above quote for emphasis because it is so good and true. It is clear to me that everything that Ron Paul stands for is moving away from control by the now present Orwellian 'big brother'. It is so ingrained in our culture; politics and government, legislators and corporations that we need a radical break from the "we don't do it that way here" thinking. Dr. Paul stands out as the only anti-war candidate of the other top 5 GOP candidates. The GOP needs a dramatic break from the Gingrich-Bush era GOP of corruption and waste. With Clinton (CFR member) the front runner from the Democrats, Paul will emerge from the GOP as the only candidate that can defeat her. Ron Paul will be a force for good for many years to come and is the only hope to free this nation and possibly the world from the neo conservative (not conservative; a misnomer)controlled media and government.
NeoRiders

Video Tutorial: How To Build A Mini Website

In this free 2 hour video tutorial, Louis Allport teaches you how to build a mini website. He shows you that making great looking minisites is extremely easy, and he'll show you how:

• You do not need expensive software.
• You do not need any technical experience (whatever people may tell you).
• You can create minisites with free software...I'll show you Kick back and get some coffee, enjoy this!

http://www.robsblog.co.uk/59/how-to-create-a-minisite-in-30-minutes-or-less/

Watch closely, there is some excellent info in the comments as well.

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http://wp-plugins.net/ (for wordpress)

http://www.youtube.com/user/RonPaul2008dotcom

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uploaded 12 videos to my video hosting site

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Ron paul sites

notes to self:
vote at nrsc . org, gopstrawpolls . com


Check out pledgeronpaul . com, dailypaul . com

notes and tidbits CFR (Council on Foreign relations)

"The New World Order will be built...an end
run on national sovereignty, eroding it piece
by piece will accomplish much more than the
frontal assault" CFR, Council on Foreign Relations

CFR Members: Giuliani, McCain, Romney, Hillary
Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, David
Rockefeller, Cheney, Condy Rice, B Clinton, Dodd,
Biden, Volcker

Google vid: Terrorstorm-2hr, America: Freedom to
Fascism-2hr, Loose Change-2hr & 'Walt Mearsheimer
Israel'

...Ron Paul 2008 Call abc news radio 212-456-5100 ,ask nicely to be

transfered to abc news tv,let them know why you are calling.Once you are

transfered be very nice and ask to leave a comment for this week once

there prompt 844 to leave a comment.Let them know we all know Ron Paul

won the last 4 debates and ask nicely ,why they are covering it up,its

obvious that RON PAUL has won all the debates enuff is enuff.RON PAUL

2008 Colorado

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Physician, Heal Thyself (Not Ron Paul)

Mind/Body Healing

As with any illness or disorder of the body, full healing can only be effected when the emotional and mental components are also addressed. Anger, fear and anxiety are emotions that are typically stored and expressed in the gut. This is clearly evidenced in our language - how often have you heard expressions like, 'his guts were churning with anxiety', or, 'the bile rose in her throat whenever she thought about what he'd done', or, 'her stomach clenched in fear'. In fact, what do people do when faced with extreme violence or fear? They often urinate or defecate uncontrollably.

Any bodywork therapies that utilize somato-emotional release will be very healing to people with IBS. Somato(body)-emotional release is based on the premise that emotional trauma is actually stored in the physical tissues of the body - not just in the mind or soul. When you release the event, or memory, or feeling at this level, the catharsis is particularly effective and healing. Therapies like craniosacral, acupuncture, reiki and other forms of energy healing can all facilitate somato-emotional release. It's best to look for a therapist that specifically lists somato-emotional release as part of their practice. Choose your practitioner the same way you'd choose a counselor, make sure it's someone with legitimate qualifications that you feel comfortable and safe with.

I once went to a craniosacral therapist who specialized in somato-emotional release. We started first with my neck and he began by just holding it as I lay on my back (fully clothed). Then, as I relaxed, he slowly began to rotate my head gently to the left and up a bit. Much to my surprise, I immediately experienced a technicolor memory of being beaten as a child. Even more surprising, I re-experienced the fear and anger I had felt then and tears began streaming down my face. When he sensed the emotion was getting a bit much for me, he gently moved my head back to its former position and the memory, the feelings, and the tears disappeared instantly! I was back to the jolly self I walked in there as. I lay there laughing over how bizarre that was and wiped the tears away. He waited for me to relax again and then moved my head back to the same position and immediately I was back in the memory crying away again. He continued this process until I had worked through the memory and released it. Then he moved on to work with other parts of my body.

A friend of mine would experience visions and feel as though she left her body during certain acupuncture sessions. Another friend re-experienced and released a memory of childhood sexual abuse when the craniosacral therapist began working on her arm. You wouldn't think a sexual abuse memory would be stored in someone's arm, but the memory began with her being forcefully grabbed at the elbow and marched up the stairs, so that's where her body stored it. Another woman I know feels distinctly linked with her inner child whenever her energy healer works on her colon. She cries throughout the session and sometimes for a while afterwards, but for the next few days experiences no symptoms of bowel distress whatsoever. Going beyond the psychological, talk-therapy approach and into the body itself can be a very profound and deeply healing experience. Meditation, in whichever form you prefer, is also beneficial. Different people have different ways of meditating and you don't have to sympathize with Eastern philosophies to be able to meditate. Many people feel a walk through the woods, or along the beach, communing with nature soothes their soul and quiets their mind. If you're a Christian, the next time you're praying, stop talking to God/Jesus and just listen. Spend 15 minutes or so simply being open and let God speak to you. Don't worry if you don't hear/feel/sense anything right away, be persistent and it will come.
http://www.healingwell.com/library/ibs/article.asp?author=thompson&id=2

The inside of a person often has to be healed before other illnesses can be fixed. Dr. Ron Paul, a respected M.D. is running for President to try and heal the ills of the USA. He is all about healing. His heart and gut is on the right place. I feel it in my 'gut'. Spread the word, he's the only candidate that can save us.
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