I’m going to plug Bristol Palin’s Blog-site (even though she doesn’t need it) because I think she’s got a great idea and so many people are jumping in with pictures of their businesses, all created without government “help”.
So follow the link, and if you have a photo of your business, send it. My suggestion would be that if you see a business on her blog that is in your area, stop by and give them a thumbs up!
I had to stop and think about this for a while. After my job got eliminated and I found myself out of work for the first time in forty years, I dusted off the plans I have considered over the years to start my own business. I do pretty good photography (So I think), I know a lot about sound and paging, I even had considered running some kind of kayak tour on my favorite river. (forget Telecom, there are more unemployed Telecom consultants than there are fish in Alaska)
But after Donie died I didn’t have much spark left, and after more than a year and boredom set in making me re-consider the question. I realized that if I were to take my capital and start a new business it wouldn’t be in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. Unions, state bureaucracy and regulations, licensing fees and god knows what, it would be a great way to end up broke.
In addition as I browsed the pictures on Bristol’s blog that her readers have sent in I realized that most of them are by people who started the business with or for someone, a husband and wife, or kids that work for a business that was started by their parents (or grandparents). I’m afraid I don’t have that anymore. I envy these people that still have that.
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Salmon Fishing
Todd Palin – Business: Working a Salmon Run – Location: Bristol Bay, Alaska
The former Texas ACORN chapter has a new name and a scheme to collect donations and divert them for political use in a way that abuses tax laws governing charitable organizations, according to a Washington-based public interest group.
Cause of Action, a nonprofit taxpayer watchdog, charged in a letter to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration that the tax-exempt Texas Organizing Project (TOP), formed from the ashes of scandal-ridden ACORN, is using money funneled to it by a closely associated group called the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund for political activity…
Early last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a secret letter to a phone company demanding that it turn over customer records for an investigation. The phone company then did something almost unheard of: It fought the letter in court.
The U.S. Department of Justice fired back with a serious accusation. It filed a civil complaint claiming that the company, by not handing over its files, was interfering “with the United States’ sovereign interests” in national security.
As it happens, I’ve been watching old seasons of “24” with my mother, who is a huge Jack Bauer fan. At least five times in each episode, someone at CTU says “Trace this/that phone number/line”. Well, in the the backroom of CTU some drudge must be very busy generating a “national security letter,” or NSL, for each request.
In this story, somewhere, somebody at a Telecom company is challenging the governments right to do so and is also challenging the secrecy inherent in these orders. It’s amusing to see the Obama’s administration lack-of-Justice Department defending a Bush Era, Patriot Act provision.
That being said, in so far as these orders are used against Jihadist conspirators in the war on terror I have no problem with it. Or, are they already being used domestically against us?
The EPA is doing their part to research air pollution and is engaged in testing the effects of air pollution on our bodies. According to an EPA case study published in Environmental Health Perspectives in September 2011 a human test subject was used by the EPA to study the effects of air pollutants on our bodies…
Steve Milloy, Washington D.C. based environmental and public health consultant and attorney as well as publisher of the website junkscience.com, through a Freedom of Information Act request, found out:
“EPA has been conducting air pollution effects tests on human subjects since at least January 2010.”
“By the time the EPA researchers had published their September 2011 report in Environmental Health Perspectives, they had conducted 41 such tests.” (bolding is mine)
“Of the 41 human experiments, clinical effects were reported by the EPA in only two study subjects. Both of these are controversial. One is the case study reported in Environmental Health Perspectives, which has been previously debunked. The other study subject flagged by the EPA researchers as experiencing a clinical effect (“a short episode of an elevated heart rate during exposure”), in fact, denied feeling any effects. This reported effect was most probably due to some pre-existing condition or other stressor given the low-level of PM2.5 to which the study subject was exposed. Certainly the EPA has no reason to believe that was not the case or that the alleged heart rate jump was due to the PM2.5 exposure.”
“The other 39 study subjects were exposed to PM2.5 levels up to 21 times greater (i.e, up to 750 μg/m3) than the EPA’s own permissible exposure limit for PM2.5 on a 24-hour basis (i.e, 35 μg/m3). All reported exposures among the 39 study subjects were greater than the EPA’s 24-hour PM2.5 standard. Seven study subjects were exposed to levels 10 times greater than the EPA’s 24-hour PM2.5 standard. No clinical effects were reported for any of these exposures.”
Milloy argues that EPA researchers failed to disclose the 40 other human test subjects in the agency’s air pollution research and is a cause for “ethical concern.”
Why the hell are you on the defensive when Obama attacks Romney’s career at Bain or calls for the release of more tax returns – all to imply Romney’s hiding something? Don’t bring a softball to a game of hardball.
Here’s a better idea, guys. “Mr. President, when you release your college transcripts and clear up the other questions you refuse to answer about your murky past, maybe then we can talk.” One retort from Mitt that sounds something like that and Obama and Axelrod will crawl back under a rock.
Dozens of traffic signs have been destroyed by prostitutes performing pole-dances in the street to attract clients, officials in New Zealand’s biggest city have revealed.
Dozens of traffic signs have been destroyed by prostitutes performing pole-dances in Auckland, New Zealand Photo: Alamy
By Paul Chapman in Wellington
More than 40 poles have been bent, buckled or broken in the past 18 months in one area of south Auckland, New Zealand, it is claimed.
The signs, bearing legally required notices such as parking restrictions, are thought to have cost ratepayers thousands of dollars to replace.
“Prostitutes use these street sign poles as dancing poles,” said Donna Lee, an elected member of the city council’s Otara-Papatoetoe Local Board.
“The poles are part of their soliciting equipment and they often snap them.
Horst Faas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer who became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with the AP, captured these images during the Vietnam War. Faas died Thursday, May 10, 2012 in Munich at age 79.
These Pictures should remind us that America MUST always operate from a position of strength…..rather than of weakness ……AND NEVER let our military guard down.
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IF you don’t look at any of the pictures except #46 be sure to see the Cedartown, Ga. soldier..
This is a terrible reminder of what our troops and the South Viet Nam soldiers endured and the lives lost in this hellish war. I just wonder if any of the family of this Cedartown man are still around Cedartown.
This was sent by a Rockmart native and friend who was there. Some of the comments at the bottom of this are quite profound too. In effect stating that many those in power send our troops but do not go nor maybe fully understand the horror of war.
During the day, he adds, the legislators in the two chambers gathered to discuss
such weighty topics as whether to develop funeral rites for dogs and cats, and whether to ratify resolutions condemning genetically modified foods. Both were approved by a vote, along with a resolution to “dismantle the effects of the doctrine of discovery,” in effect an apology to Native Americans for exposing them to Christianity.
I wish that I were making this up, but I am not doing so — and it looks as if things are going to get worse, for the Episcopalians are on the verge of formalizing what Akasie calls “the reality that many Episcopalians already know: a church in the grip of executive committees under the direct supervision of the church’s secretive and authoritarian presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Shori, [which] now set the agenda and decide well in advance what kind of legislation comes before the two houses.” I am not myself a republican in ecclesiastical affairs, but it looks as if what Lenin once called “democratic centralism” is going to become the order of the day.
As I wrote recently, in Maggies Farm:It’s the same thing with the UCC, which comprises most of the old Congregation churches in the Northeast. The new “central command” in CT has been taken over by a liberal, far-left coterie espousing “political cleansing” of the words and songs of traditional worship. The old “Pilgrims Hymnal” is being replaced with the New Century Hymnal that gets rid of all that bothersome “God the Father” wording. They even re-wrote the words of “America the Beautiful”.
That’s when I got out. Still looking for a place to worship on the south shore of Boston.
Getting so that the only religious group remaining true to its belief’s are the Catholics and the Wiccans. Go Figure?
Our state government can keep secrets better than the Obama White House.
My mother came back from a cribbage game with the ladies to inform me that a new ramp and parking area had opened next to the T parking lot for East Braintree Station.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man.
Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck." -- Robert A. Heinlein
Wrath Of Gnon
“In an age where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.” ー Nicolás Gómez Dávila
On the North River 