Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Just What Is the Ryan Medicare Plan?

OK - Just What Is the Ryan Medicare Plan?

Que Healthcare

As proposed, the Ryan Medicare plan resembles the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP).  In the FEHBP model the government provides a set financial contribution each year.  Employees and retirees have a variety of options, including catastrophic coverage plans with high deductibles, health maintenance organizations, and high-end plans with many choices of doctors and other providers.  Everyone has a choice of at least 10 fee-for-service plans, but the exact number varies by where an enrollee lives.

The Ryan plan also resembles the health insurance model developed over the years in Germany.  Under the German system, seniors choose insurance coverage from among a list of approved, competing nongovernmental "sickness funds" (Krankenkassen).  Those insurers, in turn, pay for healthcare provided by private physicians and hospitals with beneficiaries and the government each paying a share of healthcare premiums.
A major difference between the two plans, however, is that Ryan Medicare provides a fixed payment toward insurance premium reimbursement which increases with the cost of living as measured by the general consumer price index (CPI).  To the extent that healthcare costs exceed the CPI, that excess must be borne by the individual. [American Thinker - What Is the Ryan Medicare Plan?]
One big reason why Democrats are so easily able to demagogue the health-care issue is,  I think, that just trying to read this Medicare synopsis (none of which I included above) is so goddamn boring. It's like reading all the fine print on the tax form booklet we used to get every January.  But, try anyway. You'll be health-care maven of your Mahjong club.

Mc Kinney's Colors

Cynthia McKinney Agonistes
Coloring Between The Times

Since 2003, Cynthia McKinney has gone from Red, To  Yellow, and now  Green.  How has this woman avoided a cabinet position in the Administration?


I hate the media

Baba baba

Today's Sharp Crack Across Deserving Knuckles

To my way of thinking, the saddest part of this story is Barbara Walters devolution; this once-respected newswoman nears the end of her distinguished career by playing as ghastly a non-sequitur as I’ve ever heard, saying (in essence) if Sarah Palin ‘can ride around on her bus,’ Weiner Can Stay in Congress.

When Joy Behar, of all people has to defend Sarah Palin from your bizarrely gratuitous swipe, you know you’ve let your hate lead you too far into Whackyland.
bad girls
This is the problem with the mainstream media in a nutshell. They “know” the people they’re supposed to be covering, and they consider themselves “friends” of those people. And it has ruined them. As you listen to Walters, all you see is passionate advocacy; not a newswoman concerned with the truth of a story, but a partisan doing everything she can to divert attention from a story she doesn’t like — even to comparing a private citizen on a bus to a sitting congressman having some sort of cyber-engagement in his office — and championing her “friend.” -The Anchoress


Monday, June 06, 2011

What's that b______'s name again?

I don't know how it happened, but Bob Schieffer decided to be a newsman



CBS reporter Bob Schieffer decided to ask Nancy Pelosi the tough questions and cornered her on her Congress’s record on the economy. How did she react? Let’s just say you could stamp ‘hypocrite’ on her forehead after this.

“We’re talking in kind of a different way, when unemployment went to 5% under George Bush. What you said then, that Americans are struggling with skyrocketing energy prices, gas was only $3 a gas then, and you say this morning this is January 4th, 2008, this morning’s job report confirms what most Americans already knew. President Bush’s economic policies have failed our country’s middle class. I mean, aren’t Republicans entitled to say, you know, if gas was $3 and unemployment was 5% and the President has failed the American people, don’t they have a right to say that this President has failed the American people?” Schieffer asked (emphasis ours).

Her response?

“Well, if you want to go into the past, we can talk about the past all you want,” she said before adding that Americans are looking to the future.

Unfortunately, this comes from a woman and an administration that has defined their entire time in office by the actions and ‘failures’ of the Bush administration – Glenn Beck
Damn  that was good!

cuzzin ricky

¿QuĂ© el Fluko?

GOP Immigration Doesn’t Alienate All Hispanics

According to the 2010 Census, the Hispanic population in the United States increased by 43 percent over the last ten years, leaving the final tally for the largest minority group in America at 50.5 million people. That being said, the Democratic Party may not be the demographic’s forever favorite. A Zogby poll conducted in 2009 surveyed Hispanic members of religious denominations and found that a majority of likely Hispanic voters believe that illegal immigration is too high, and results from inadequate enforcement. Their voices were heard the following year in a CNN Exit poll, where 38 percent of Hispanics reportedly voted Republican in the 2010 Congressional elections, and resulted in more Republican Hispanics’ elections to office ... [U.S. Election News]
¿QuĂ© el Fluko?
¿Qué el Fluko?

USB Monitor

Now we need a computer that runs off its own USB
USB 24''
USB-powered monitors started out small but are finally getting big enough to serve as a main display. The 24-inch ASUS MS248B is brought to life with a single cable courtesy of USB 3.0's extra current and bandwidth. What's more, this is achieved with few compromises: the LED monitor is just 16.5mm (0.66-inches) thick, does 1080p with a 2ms response time and has a 10000000:1 contrast ratio (although this last spec requires the usual seasoning). Some extras did have to be thrown overboard to bring power consumption down -- there's no additional USB or audio ports, webcam, card reader or ability to daisy-chain. But then, how much could you achieve with a mere 9W? engadget
I can't find a price for this, but Amazon has this item.
Lilliput 7" Um-70 Mini USB Monitor(non-touch Screen) by Lilliput Buy new$1,099.95 $109.99
I'll guess then that the ASUS 24-inch ASUS MS248B  will debut sell for $654,000, but drop to $129.95 six months later.


Attn: Alear -

Weiner confesses that he's a liar

Weiner also said he would not resign and that he did not believe that he did anything that broke the law.

The Democrat Party in one sentence

Okay. One More Sentence

Awwwww





Wasserman Flunks Another Test

Debbie Wasserman's Load of crap

"This goes beyond Rep. Foley, it goes to the values of the Congressional leadership and the fact that when children felt that sexual advances were being made against them by people in positions of authority, the Congressional leadership of this Congress did nothing.
Debbie "Wasserman Test" 2006: 


What Anthony Weiner is dealing with right now is a personal matter, and uh, and that's where it should be left. Debbie "Wasserman Test" Schultz,  June 2011: 
Wasserman's Load

German Confederates

Confederates on the Rhine
General Robert E Cartman

I'll chance it, and say that Yoni Appelbaum may safely be placed in the column of progressive thinkers.  And sub-categorized— like all Liberals, as consumed by the unforgivable sin of slavery in America?  AWK!. No, not us!  Not we who are in full thrall of our progressive government.  I mean  African slaves— the ones sold by other Africans for transport to America.  That slavery. Anyway, he's presently appalled by —
"On a warm spring morning about 50 miles north of Berlin, Union troops and their Confederate rivals prepare for battle." That's the attention-grabbing lede of a PRI story on the bizarre phenomenon of Germans reenacting the American Civil War. The reporter explains that many participants feel "a personal connection to the war," and that everyone with whom she spoke took care to note that 200,000 Germans had taken part in the fight -

But the two parties to the fraternal conflict exert unequal appeal. When Germans gather at the reenactments, "more people want to be on the Confederate side." That produces a surreal spectacle. Germans marching about in butternut and gray, pretending to dwell in Dixie. With Teutonic precision, they have replicated every detail, down to the brass buttons and the brightly colored piping on their trousers.   

They have missed only one thing. In their search for an anodyne conflict, lacking the baggage of their historical wars of mastery, these Germans have taken a wrong turn. The units they prefer to recreate fought to preserve an abhorrent system that kept more than three million men, women, and children in bondage while denying their very humanity. THE HUMANITY!
Eat me Yoni.  To say that the rank and file Confederate soldier was fighting to save the institution of slavery, is like saying that the people don't like Obama must be racist. Which of course is what Yoni's pals do say, but you catch my drift.

 In 1861,  1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites)  owned one or more slaves.*  To say that the  750,000 to 1,000,000 men who wore the Butternut, of whom approximately 258,000 died, did so to protect the institution of slavery is preposterous.  So to is  the proposition that the Union rank and file were primarily motivated by the slave issue.  Some did, and were,  but  state's rights, and saving the union were, respectively, what most of these men fought for.

"Take the [Germans] out of the Union Army and we could whip the Yankees easily," Robert E. Lee allegedly remarked. The quote, likely apocryphal. [Rhine]

He said this too.. In an 1856 letter to his wife Mary Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee called slavery "a moral and political evil." Yet he concluded that black slaves were immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially and physically.  Black educators like  Thomas Sowell have pragmatically agreed with that assessment. At any rate, it happened, and it's over.

Have some  Jägermeister and chill Yoni.

Happy 50th Barbie

Happy 50th Barbie




Richar Glover- Tattoo Climate Deniers

Richard Glover's 'Denier" Tattoo
The dangers of bone-headed beliefs (sic) 

  Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.

Not necessarily on the forehead; I'm a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, ''Really? You were one of the ones who tried to stop the world doing something? And why exactly was that, granddad?'' Richard Glover


Richard Glover's 'Denier" Tattoo

Ya-know, Gore was right.  This debate is over.  For the most part,  anyone who still believes in man-caused climate change is a True Believer, or is pushing the progressive One World  agenda.  In either case, offering proof to the contrary is wasted effort.  Yesterday Anonymoose (O-Club) had this observation, which pretty much pigeon-holes the world's Richard Glovers. It's all about control.

20110605 15:24 Anonymoose Though it's not worth reading an entire article, once again a group of internationalists, in this case the World Bank, are trying to get some kind, any kind, of a worldwide tax, both to set a precedent, and to have a continual stream of money into their filthy pockets.

In this case, a "CO2 levy" on jet and shipping fuel.

79 Dollar Computer

$79

$79 Computer

You're welcome

Maryland My Christmas Tree

Maryland My Christmas Tree
Spending boost among nation's largest
—  despite $1B deficit


Happy Marylanders Celebrate Spending-Tax increases
Happy Marylanders Celebrate Spending-Tax increases

Street party planned for Potemkin Circle

It 's all so simple

Are you happy of yourself?
Well are you?


This best video of the world from Sondrakistan!

Sunday, June 05, 2011

workng sunroof

President Schultz works too

Maher: 'I Think Anybody Could Be President In This Dumb F**king Country'...

Earth to Maher: So we see

2 Money Mull

Actually, I think Maher may be spot-on, almost, for another reason.  

The president is CEO of the USA.    The most important thing he brings to office, besides (hopefully)  integrity and  executive experience, is his vision for the United States. Obama has a vision.  He's  been implementing the hell out of it, with the help of experts he hired, and  like-minded factotums already in place.  That those experts are socialist  thugs, who've  used sledgehammers and baseball bats to move things along is beside the point of this argument. 

That point is—   executives hire experts to advise them on how to build the engine with 900 horsepower..The one he wants to use  in nest year's model.  His vision, now get it done!  That's why I'm entirely comfortable with "President Sarah Palin."  I'm convinced that her vision is consistent with my own, and that she would fill White House offices with people who share that same vision enough to work to get it done.   The draftsmen, engineers, model makers, and a marketing and legal team.  So, yes, President Bill Maher would almost certainly be the equal of Presidents Obama, Clinton, or Carter.  With Palin,  you get Reagan and something America wants to own.

Hounded Gingers

Prince Harry - Hounded By New Zealand Bigotry?

Prince Harry - A Hounded Ginger

Cool Cutting Board - But where is it?

Sept 6, 2006
 Design Concept: Cutting Board with Embedded Scale
...the technology to build the thing is between one and five years away.

Cutting Board Concept

>Blood Car! Ryan Levin! Deluxe!

Blood Car! Ryan Levin! Deluxe!

Blood Car Ryan Levin

Ryan LeVin, scion of a wealthy Chicago-area family, was driving his his $120,000 Porsche 911 Turbo in Fort Lauderdale, FL when it jumped a sidewalk in  and killed British businessmen as they walked to their beachside hotel Feb. 13, 2009. LeVin fled the scene., and later denied driving the speeding car and pinned the blame on a friend.

At the time of the crash, LeVin was on probation in Illinois for a 2006 case in which he had driven into a Chicago police officer and instigated a chase on the Kennedy Expressway. Court records show LeVin has more than 50 traffic violations and a long history of drug abuse.

LeVin's sentencing guidelines called for up to 45 years behind bars.

Instead. Ryan LeVin will spend two years under house arrest in his parents' oceanside condominium. In return he mommy and daddy will pay an undisclosed amount to his victim's families.

Ain't that sweet?


Nice parenting, wot. This sentence was so predictably outrageous, to just about everyone, that I'm not sure Ryan money alone could have pulled it off. Chicago? I think if one were to dig around, a  political component could be found.  I'm just saying. 

Moderate Communists?

Dear Mom, not to worry ...
  After we take over the United States, it is our plan to eventually take over the entire world so that all people everywhere can benefit from our perfected way of life.

"I'm not going to be that kind of Neo-Nazi. "

    We are going to install a system of governance whereby the charging of interest is a crime, and we are going to eliminate all investing and market speculation. We are also going to demand nationalized free healthcare and pensions, and we are going to nationalize all private trusts and savings. Hoarding money is a crime against humanity. Wealth should be spread around and shared. I'm sure you agree with this! -- Articles: A Peaceful Neo-Nazi?

Posted by Vanderleun at June 4, 2011 7:19 PM
'There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.'


If you read, or did not read the full article, the author explains:

  The point of this piece is to highlight the absurdity of the false concepts of "moderate Islam" and "extremist Islam."  There is no more "moderate Islam" than there is "moderate Nazism."  This nomenclature is willfully manipulative propaganda and must be called out and corrected whenever and wherever it is used.

"There is no moderate or immoderate Islam.  Islam is Islam and that's it."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey

A valid and brilliant device, that, by Ann Barnhardt. But, I must admit that through most of the narrative I was fixated on why she was using the Nazis, and not Communists, as her simile for the Democrat Party?   My brain will store it both ways, so I got two treats in one! Bravo.

Harlequin Novel, Updated

Harlequin Novel, Updated

He grasped me firmly, but gently, just above my elbow and guided me into
a room, his room. Then he quietly shut the door and we were alone. He approached me soundlessly, from behind, and spoke in a low, reassuring voice close to my ear.

"Just relax."

TSA BARRY
Without warning, he reached down and I felt his strong, calloused hands start at my ankles, gently probing, and moving upward along my calves, slowly but steadily. My breath caught in my throat.

I knew I should be afraid, but somehow I didn't care.  His touch was so experienced, so sure. When his hands moved up onto my thighs, I gave a slight shudder, and partly closed my eyes. My pulse was pounding. I felt his knowing fingers caress my abdomen, my ribcage.  And then, as he cupped my firm, full breasts in his hands, I inhaled sharply.

Probing, searching, knowing what he wanted, he brought his hands to my shoulders, slid them down my tingling spine and into my panties.   Although I knew nothing about this man, I felt oddly trusting and expectant. This is a man, I thought. A man used to taking charge. A man not used to taking  'No' for an answer. A man who would tell me what he wanted. A man who would look into my soul and say . . .

"Okay ma'am, you can board your flight now."


Tom Mann

Enough is enough ya flea bitten cat

A timely metaphor
When lions have you by the throat, and crocodiles are  chewing your ass, it's time to say,
We don't have to take this s*it anymore!


thor

Saturday, June 04, 2011

Bless me Father for I have sinned ...

An Act of Contrition 

faux Ramsey grave

I was convinced that Jon Benet Ramsey was killed by a member of the family. My personal suspect was her brother, with the parents covering for him. The principle reason I knew it was one of them was evidence that there were no footprints in the snow around the Ramsey house.  Snow that had fallen on Christmas Eve, prior to her body being found.  There is no way a killer could get in, or out,  of the house without leaving tracks.  What I learned by watching this True Crime with Aphrodite Jones episode;  Jon Benet Ramsey Evidence, is that we were manipulated— lied to by omission of fact, by police and media. 
  • The full video of the home taken that morning shows the back yard, under a canopy of evergreens, had little or no snow.
  • The window leading into the part of the basement where her body was found was in the back yard. 
  • We were told that window was too small for somebody to crawl through.
  • We were not told when the retired homicide detective hired by the Ramseys tested that theory by crawling through it, straightaway. 
  • We were not told that this detective found two sets of foot prints in the basement [video].  Neither matched anything the Ramseys owned.  One print was identified as a boot manufactured by HI-TEK.
  • We were not told that the Ramseys held a on Christmas Eve day open house for their community.  An estimated 1500-2000 people were in the house, any of whom had an opportunity to scope out floor plans.
  • As to the beauty contests that disgusted so many of us, we were not told that when Pat Ramsey began that journey, she was in the fourth stage of cancer (that later went into remission for awhile).  It's not hard to understand a mother wanting cram in all the activities with her daughter that she could in that circumstance.
There came a point when the Boulder Chief of Police held a press conference where he stated [paraphrased]

I'm speaking to the person who killed Jon Benet Ramsey. Our list of suspects is growing smaller every day.  Soon there will only be one person on the list.  You!" 

The statement was drafted by the FBI in a move designed to disorient the killer; make him do something overt. The next day a young man committed suicide.  There was reason to believe it was a staged suicide, but that was never pursued by the police. Ahem.  However, police did find in his house a pair of Hi-TEK boots that matched the print taken from the basement.  They found a stun-gun that was consistent with the marks found on Jon Benet's body. His DNA however did not match the stains found on her clothing. Of course none of the Ramsey DNA did either.  So, who wore the second pair of shoes?

I don't have answers to these questions, but I am more than satisfied that nobody in the Ramsey family did this.  I apologize for my contribution to the public case against them. (I did the same when that freak John Mark Karr was arrested in 2006, but withdrew it when he turned out to be a psycho-wannabe.) I also believe that the Boulder Police Department are rank, arrogant, incompetents, and that the media are a pack of scum.  In that perfect storm, it's a wonder Jon Benet wasn't posthumously elected president.

Weiner Scooter

Rep. Weiner makes a run for it




Small Claims Court

Snarky Headline of the Year
Weiner's Weiner

WEINER'S PENIS PHOTO DISPUTE TO BE SETTLED IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT

An Open Letter To -

An Open Letter to the Gentleman Blow-
Drying His Balls in the Gym Locker Room


  Dear gentleman blow-drying his balls in the gym locker room,
Geezer Locker Room

You're actually doing it. I mean, we've all dreamt of blow-drying our balls out in the open, but you're actually doing it in front of me and at least sixteen other people that just finished exercising at this pricey sports club. Some of us will do it in private in our homes, or in a hotel room using a hairdryer a stranger might have just used to style their hair for that big business meeting in Denver. But not you. You are not confined to such social norms, norms that usually keep flapping, flag-like balls out of my eyes.

Does the courage to do this in public come with age? Perhaps it's something a young man like me can't understand. But you, you are on in years; gray and spotted like a ham in a paintball fight. Your scrotum reminds me of boardwalk taffy. Maybe you've been building up to this day your whole life and I'm witnessing the birth of a phoenix. You are no longer a man that blow-dries his balls in secret. You have transcended that station and now fall into an elite group of Spartans that blow-dry their balls wherever they God damn please. If caterpillars emerged from their cocoons as butterflies with heavy, sagging testicles I'd imagine they'd feel the same as you might right now.

Maybe you're making up for the fact that you no longer have any hair on your head that requires blow-drying. Is grabbing a hairdryer a rote, preening response from your earlier years when you and your majestic mane would say things like, "bees knees" to fresh-faced nurses at the pool hall while discussing the Teapot Dome scandal? Did they have hairdryers back then? I think my ability to correctly recall history is being affected by the sight of your twin sperm fountains. [continued]

I believe Mr. McSweeney and the proprietor of Blunt Cards might well benefit by association. Enjoy AN OPEN LETTER TO MY HIGH SCHOOL'S CLASS OF 2011.  

Kottke

Attacked by Mugwumps and Asshats

That Stupid Palin, Getting Her History Right 
  I guess there’s a new kerfuffle related to Sarah Palin.  This video was linked at NRO “without comment” by Andrew Stiles.  It’s more evidence that she’s some kind of historical illiterate, or something, as she supposedly claims that Paul Revere rode to warn the Brits.

When you're the person most feared by the Democrat Party— well, you know.  But still, the raw hubris of these clowns, in light of the volume of malapropisms, and stuttered nincompoopery delivered by Frick & Frack, envelops this latest criticism of Palin like a tub  of Jello.

 Jumping at the opportunity to solder their image of Sarah as an idiot, Progressives—  and GOP apparatchiks, it must be said, take her to task for saying "Paul Revere rode to warn th British."  Even if she did say that,  it would be handled as a  tongue-slip by anyone else.  But, well here,  this guy says what I think.

Admittedly Palin’s wording is incredibly garbled and she did not give a very articulate response.  Here’s the thing: her comments are completely accurate.  Here’s a letter written by Paul Revere himself:

“I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. When I got there, out Started Six officers, on Horse back,and ordered me to dismount;-one of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me, where I came from,& what my Name Was? I told him. it was Revere, he asked if it was Paul? I told him yes He asked me if I was an express? I answered in the afirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston? I told him; and added, that their troops had catched aground in passing the River, and that There would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up. He imediately rode towards those who stoppd us, when all five of them came down upon a full gallop; one of them, whom I afterwards found to be Major Mitchel, of the 5th Regiment, Clapped his pistol to my head, called me by name, & told me he was going to ask me some questions, & if I did not give him true answers, he would blow my brains out. He then asked me similar questions to those above. He then orderd me to mount my Horse, after searching me for arms.”

Again, though spoken in mangled English, Palin’s comments are pretty much right on the money.  Revere was in fact warning the British, but more as a way of bragging.

You can even forget all that, if you like. Listen to her comment.  Do you think Gov. Palin thinks Paul Revere was on the way to warn the British Army of  a trap?  Puh-leeeeze.   But hey, asking these people to pass an opportunity to tar her — with being as foggy about American history as Chief  Teleprompter, or as generally stupid as Joe Biden— is like asking a baby not to poop its diaper.

Stuff that bounces

Classic Upswings




Brian The Movie Guy

Brian The Movie Guy


This is cuzzin brian.  He started out selling advertising for a radio station in Seattle. One day the on-air talent asked him  about a movie, and Brian did such a snappy review that the hosts gave him a regular gig.  Under my tutelage by example, he went on to host his own television show, and is off and running Big Time.  Even though cuzzin brian lives in Seattle, I don't think he's one of them.

Follow Brian on Facebook, and Twitter for the latest in movie poop. And for the latest movie reviews visit Brian The Movie Guy. You don't have to remember all this; I added it to my link list below.

cuzzin ricky

Close Stuff

Closeness

Close, but not close enough

LOL

The Polish Cover

Exposing Weiners

Smart blog comment of the day
There's a back story, of course
Exposing Weiners


I nebber knew what that ‘goatsee’ thing was. Now I do.

I hates you for three minutes Doug.

*Okay, I’m over it now*
Looking for Obama

About Bauer's departure

Don't go jumping no sharks on us Mr. Corsi
Corsi says move 'marks beginning' of end of Obama eligibility cover-up

Is Corsi jumping the shark?
  "Bauer sent Perkins and Coie attorneys to Honolulu to pick up from the Hawaii Department of Health what he believed would be two certified copies of Obama's 1961 long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate," Corsi said.

"When the White House released to the public the birth certificate in the form of a PDF computer file obviously created on Adobe software and a Xerox copy, Bauer realized the Hawaii DOH (D'oh) had participated in the fraud," Corsi charged.

Corsi said he had been tipped off early in February that a long-form birth document for Obama had been forged and that the document was to be released.

"The information came from a mole within the Hawaii DOH who had been examining the vault logbook for months," Corsi explained. "Until just prior to February 24, no Obama long-form hospital-generated birth record could be found in the Hawaii DOH."

When the announcement about Bauer's departure was made today, the AP said he was returning to private practice and to represent Obama as his personal attorney and as general counsel to Obama's re-election campaign. ['Birth certificate' prompts departure of White House counsel]

Corsi is tying Bauer's sudden resignation as White House Counsel to his worry about being entangled in a fraud (Vince Foster, anyone?). All that may be true, but I don't see anything unusual about a top White House aide leaving to participate in a reelection campaign.  Correct me if I'm wrong. 

A GOOGLE AND AN OGLE


The two pics are unrelated, so don't hurt your brain trying

Going, Going, GOOGLE

The Horror
Previously
How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business 

  And that’s why I used to think that Google was unstoppable.

Until I realized one very important thing: despite the fact that Google goes to great lengths to keep its index fresh by indexing pages that often change every hour, or even every few minutes, and despite its efforts at realtime search (including searching the Twitter firehose), its dominant dataset is dead, while the Web is—each day more so than the last—vibrantly and energetically alive.

Indeed, Google’s revered and unparalleled dataset is increasingly dating itself as an ossified relic akin to the Dead Sea Scrolls—outshined by the freshness of the living, breathing organism that is the social Web. [Tech Crunch]
Oh Lord.  I can see it coming.  Since Google's my landlord here on Blogspot, the first thing they'll do when their dance of death begins is make me start paying rent. And what choice will I have but pay it?  But that won't be enough to keep Google from going the way of AOL, so what happens next?  That's right.  Huffington Post will buy You Tube and Blogger, and I'll have to pay Arianna! Or go to Facebook.  Oh Geez.  I'm going to bed instead.

Ink jet Printer. Digital camera. One device.

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Featuring PrintDreams de RMPT™ Full technology, it will print in color directly onto virtually any surface
Hold it in your hand and sweep back and forth -just like a brush!.
What I've been looking for.  I'll grab a few of these, and when the SHTF  disappear into the Amazon rain forest where I'll soon be a god to one of those tribes nobody's ever heard of.  Bwahahahahaaaaaa! Yes, I'll lounge around all day while lovely bare bosomed maidens feed me monkey brains and fat grubs. Bwahahahahaaaaa.!  Eat me Obama.