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What web browser do you use? I currently use Firefox but…

I have been using Firefox for sometime, but it seems to be getting flakier and requires frequent restarts. I am not running a crazy amount of extensions: AdBlockPlus ColorfulTabs Context Menus Plus Download Status Bar Flashblock HTTPS-Everywhere InFormEnter Link Alert PDF Download Power Twitter Tab Counter WOT So, I am thinking to moving to something [...]

“Self improvement never has been and is not now a message solely for elites”

Walter Russel Meade gets it:   The advice to make the most of your talents applies to everyone.  If anything, people who are constantly being told in school and elsewhere that they are ‘too dumb’ are MORE likely to miss their hidden talents and abilities than those who are constantly being told how special they [...]

5GW Spotting: China vs. Islam

Is this a little 5GW being exposed?   Are the Chinese Sabotaging Islam? The Chinese are masters at copycat capitalism;  give them a blueprint–or even an item they can reverse-engineer–and they’ll speedily and inexpensively start manufacturing knockoffs.  Some of us worry about quality control (understatement alert) for components of everything from computers to aircraft.  Whatif [...]

Brain Dump: Triple Entry Accounting?

Has anybody else heard about Triple Entry Accounting? I have four references: here, here, here, and here.   Would this really be an pro-transparency and anti-fraud control? Any accountants out there? This is outside my expertise.    

Brain Dump: New States From Old

CA into 3 (maybe 4…Los Angles as a city-state) TX into 2 (maybe 3) FL into 2 IL into 2 (IL and Chicago as a city-state) NY into 3 (maybe 4, NYC as a city-state, Long Island, West York, Buffalo) PA into 2 (West and East) Form Superior from Upper MI/Northern WI

My USA Job Creation Notes

…feel free to crib, comment, add to, or criticize them.  I needed to to do a brain dump. Short Term – Dump SOX – Dump Dodd-Frank – POTUS should grant 30-year waivers for Obamacare to all businesses and organizations and instead work to implement something like this – Lease out and/or sell idle governement assets [...]

My War-ish Reading List

Inspired by others, here is my War-ish reading list: Two Classics: – The Art of War by Sun-Tzu – The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli General Purpose-ish – The American Threat: National Security and Foreign Policy By James L Payne – The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century by [...]

“We owe it to our veterans and to ourselves not to continue to blindly walk the path of the trajectory of 9/11, but to pause and reflect on what changes in the last ten years have been for the good and which require reassessment. Or repeal. To reassert ourselves, as Americans, as masters of our own destiny rather than reacting blindly to events while carelessly ceding more and more control over our lives and our livelihoods to the whims of others and a theatric quest for perfect security. America needs to regain the initiative, remember our strengths and do a much better job of minding the store at home.”

Zenpundit also gets it.

“Bottom-up, inductive, spontaneous self-organization is the essence of America”

Lexington Green at ChicagoBoyz gets it.

9/10/2001 and 9/11/2001

I don’t have anything to add to my old 9/10/2001 and 9/11/2001 posts. My country – The USA – is a divided nation. USGOV and large parts of the public refuse to name our enemies. The enemy hasn’t been defeated – yet. The US Economy nosedive is harming US National Security. Our future capabilities and [...]

Doctor Who/River Song – Note to Myself

Nobody else will care about this note. I just wanted to get this theory down. I am writing this with  the “Let’s Go Kill Hitler” episode being the last  have seen. I don’t think we know the River Song story yet. We are being fooled. In the first River Song Episode (supposedly the oldest version [...]