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I always see posts for newcomers advocating moving to far ends of town and the suburbs, and I'm just wondering if anyone other than me is more centrally located and loving it? I'm about half a mile from the Downtown Cocktail Lounge, Don't Tell Mama, and other cool bars, probably less than that from more than one fantastic taco shop (Los Tacos rocks my world), really close to Fresh and Easy, Smiths, and Albertsons, relatively close to Barnes and Noble, Target, and places like that, five minutes or so from great Thai food and plenty of other restaurants, near Ham Hall... I mean, it may not be the safest neighborhood, but it's not the most dangerous either, and it's really cheap. I do wish there were Trader Joe's and Whole Foods more close by, but even those aren't so far. Anybody with me on this?

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) late last Thursday released a more detailed cost estimate (pdf) of the Pelosicare bill that shows when the leviathan bureaucracy is fully implemented it will cost taxpayers over $3 trillion over 10 years
- http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34354

men and women of the people (esp. dems): Report: 237 millionaires in Congress - California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is the richest lawmaker on Capitol Hill, with a net worth estimated at about $251 million. Next in line: Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), worth about $244.7 million; Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), worth about $214.5 million; Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), worth about $209.7 million; and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), worth about $208.8 million.
- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29235.html

is he f'ing serious? Bill Clinton on Health Care: "There is No Perfect Bill," "Worst Thing We Can Do is Nothing"
- http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/bill-clinton-pushes-senate-democrats-health-care/story?id=9044652

our kookoo world: FDIC boss: Big banks still aren't lending enough - Large banks aren't ‘stepping up to the plate providing credit,’ Bair says
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33843049/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

Twenty years ago, the rubble of the Berlin Wall crashed down loudly onto Marxism and pulverized it. Something that, paradoxically, confirmed Marx's opinion about theories, which he explained in his Theses on Feuerbach: ``It is in practice that man must prove the truth, i.e., the reality and power, the worldliness [Diesseitigkeit] of his thinking.'' - Marxism simply could not withstand its confrontation with reality. It promised paradise on Earth and spawned 20 horrendous dictatorships. It left 100 million dead. It impoverished half a planet. It retarded the scientific and technical progress of numerous nations and debased several generations of people who were forced to lie and celebrate a regime they deeply detested. - When Marx died, his disciple, comrade and friend Friedrich Engels described the two ``great contributions'' of the German thinker: historical materialism and surplus value.
- http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/10/reality_defeated_communist_theory_99089.html

outstanding phrase: Climate McCarthyism Part 2: Equate Your Political Opponents with Holocaust Deniers
- http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2009/11/climate_mccarthyism_part_2_equ.shtml
c/o http://volokh.com/2009/11/10/against-climate-mccarthyism-part-deux/

Green Push on ‘Sesame Street’: Programming Your Kids For ‘Sustainable Living’
- http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/11/10/green-push-on-sesame-street-programming-your-kids-for-sustainable-living/

Jon Voight: Like the Tea Party People, Left Dismisses Me With Slurs
- http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/10/jon-voight-like-the-tea-party-people-left-dismisses-me-with-slurs/

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Famed Navajo Code Talkers break silence - Navajo Marines helped U.S. prevail in W.W.II battles with unbreakable code
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33842227/ns/us_news-military/

Low-Fat Diets Can Boost Your Mood - Low-Fat Dieters Get Happier but Low-Carbers Stay the Same
- http://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_DietAndFitness/diet-choose-affect-mood/story?id=9036928

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as a follow up to my earlier question -- has anyone been to the grand canyon caverns? stayed in the hotel there? ate at the restaurant? what did you think?

the president of the united states of america: “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”
- http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGU3N2E5NzFhZjRiOTkyMjRhNDk0YWNiZGM1NjQ4NzU=
c/o http://community.livejournal.com/therightfangirl/1014705.html

no comment: Gibbs: Can you imagine if, five years ago, protesters had compared our government to Hitler?
- http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/06/gibbs-can-you-imagine-if-five-years-ago-protesters-had-compared-our-government-to-hitler/
c/o http://community.livejournal.com/libtards/361689.html

Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters
- http://volokh.com/2009/11/08/why-the-neglect-of-communist-crimes-matters/

Der Staatssozialismus paukt sich durch. (State Socialism will forcibly move forward.) - Otto von Bismark. - Democrats want to replace the Liberal American ideals of limited government, personal freedom, and individual responsibility with Mitteleuropean statism, socialism, and collectivism. Their “modern society” is, just like Bismark’s, centralized, bureaucratized, and dirigiste. - Socialism, statism, collectivism are all actually terribly old-fashioned ideas, representing nothing other than a variety of negative responses to the Liberal Enlightenment ideals of individual liberty and the restraint of state power in favor of voluntary and organic order. The would-be rulers of mankind simply ceased appealing to claims of Divine Right and hereditary superiority and began attempting to gain power by flattering and bribing the masses, while arousing their passions with fraudulent claims of injury and entitlement.
- http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/08/what-side-of-history-do-you-want-to-be-on/

High-speed rail fact of the day: American Intercity rail service is slower today than it was in the 1940s.
- http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/11/highspeed-rail-fact-of-the-day.html
links to: The Obama administration has revived the dream of building high-speed rail lines to rival those of Japan and Europe, but the tracks are littered with political and financial obstacles. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=554055

A few centuries ago, the ratio between the per capita income of the richest country and poorest country was maybe five to one. Today it is maybe one hundred to one. - How short a time horizon is needed to motivate catch-up growth?
- http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/11/how-short-a-time-horizon-is-needed-to-motivate-catchup-growth.html

( links for 11-09-09 pt 2 )

So I have learned with Medicare Im not covered for Dental Visits Under Medicaid I am Guess which one I have You guys want this Public Option! I warned you all

So I have learned that under Medicare Im not covered for Dental Visits Under Medicaid I am Guess which one I have You guys want this Public Option! I warned you all

So I have learned that under Medicare Im not covered for Dental Visits Under Medicaid I am covered Guess which one I have You guys want this Public Option! I warned you all

So I have learned that under Medicare I am not covered for Dental Visits, Under Medicaid I am covered. Wanna Guess which one I am on? And you guys want this Public Option! I warned you all

So doing a double test to see if a different setup for Ping.fm and friendfeed work

is abcnews trying to tell us something? they ask in main-page headline to this story - http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abortion-amendment-health-care-bills-ignites-debate-womens/ - if this is "the end of abortion." so the federal government will control all? no one could afford them privately? this is akin to bush not funding stem cells with federal money becoming turned into a "ban on stem cell research" with implied totality. [and if they are predicting future consequences, then they cannot deny our concern over future consequences, like death panel effects or medicare/social security deficit bombs as "mere speculation"? ]

Pfizer Corporation to close down headquarters in New London, Conn. - Pfizer played a key role in instigating notorious condemnations that led to Supreme Court’s decision upholding taking of private property for “economic development” in Kelo v. City of New London. Pfizer lobbied state and local governments to undertake condemnation so that the land could be transferred to developers who would build facilities - The head of the New London Development Corporation - the quasi-governmental agency that ordered the takings - had close ties to Pfizer and was married to a Pfizer executive.
- http://volokh.com/2009/11/09/pfizer-corporation-plans-to-abandon-new-london-headquarters-that-led-to-the-kelo-takings/
[ but leftists should be glad - fewer evil pharma people: also in - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33794657/ns/business-us_business/ ]

victor davis hansen: Who are 'they'? - Barack Obama ran a healing campaign. He offered sonorous themes of a country no longer to be divided by blue-state/red-state animosities, by race, by income - or by much of anything. - In turn, we were to suspend disbelief over his past hardball campaigns for the state senate and sthe U.S. Senate. The young, charismatic, post-racial, post-political inheritor of Camelot could not really have compiled the most partisan record in the Senate. We were to think away his tough-guy Chicago-style associates. His pastor at the time, the venomous Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was an aberration. And when candidate Obama occasionally derided George W. Bush, it was considered rough, but deserved. - Alas, the first nine months of this administration have proven the most polarizing in memory. Polls show a 61 percent partisan gap. Obama is now rated as the most divisive first-year president in the past four decades. As this week’s elections suggest, even in liberal New Jersey and moderate Virginia, voters are becoming tired of being caricatured as either saints or sinners, depending on the degree to which they embrace the Obama vision. No wonder. As a Manichean, he increasingly envisions the world as “us” versus “them.” - Who are “they,” who have raised the bar on everyone else?
- http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjUyOGEyZTUzNjAxMWFjNWI1NzJiYWM0MzIwNTZhN2Y=

The Forgotten Battle of World War II: Remembering the Aleutian Campaign - Every Veterans Day presents an opportunity to commemorate those who served in some faraway place long ago, many of whom paid that ultimate sacrifice. - Sadly, however, one series of battles continues to be ignored. On June 3, 1942, the Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor, located at the Aleutian Islands, west of the Alaskan peninsula. Three days later, they landed on the islands of Kiska and Attu, culminating in the only battles of the war fought in North America. Many of the men there went through hell.
- http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=1a9f718f-8646-4c1a-9280-74cffbc2f311&t=c

magic bullets: yep, MSM, two words did it! Sarah Palin is returning to the two words widely credited with helping to spur angry town-halls on health care reform over the summer: "death panels."
- http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/09/palin-returns-to-death-panels/

A quiz for Liberals: Bush or Obama: The Quiz
- http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/bush_or_obama_the_quiz.html
c/o http://melvin-udall.livejournal.com/771824.html ( links for 11-10-09 pt 3 )

Intimidated Americans Claim Not To Know Hasan's Motives
- http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/10/intimidated_americans_claim_not_to_know_hasans_motives_99085.html

Another Czar Bites The Dust - In the flurry of news this week, you may have missed another body tossed under the insatiable Obama bus: Internet Czar Susan Crawford.
- http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2009/11/06/another-czar-bites-the-dust/

sowell sees it too: fascinating to see Barack Obama warning us not to leap to conclusions about the killings at Fort Hood, Texas - after the way he leaped to conclusions over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, when he knew less about the facts than we already know about the massacre at Fort Hood.
- http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2M2ZjU0YWI1YzQzY2E5NDcxOGJmZjRiOWJlMmM1Mzk=
[ sowell bonus: e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground. ]

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In its heyday, ACORN sent platoons of voter registrars out into urban neighborhoods all over the land. They seemed to be everywhere--and so did their cell phones. You probably saw clips on the evening news of them coordinating their routes of march with one another by cellphone. - In those balmy days of the nation's leading community organizer outfit, the sky was the limit. One team in Las Vegas registered the starting lineup of the St.Louis Cardinals as local voters. The Cards of course weren't there, but no problem. In Seattle, other teams scoured telephone books at public libraries, carefully filling in names on their voter registration forms and signing them. - As soon as a mission was accomplished, the platoon leader would call the good news in to the local ACORN headquarters. In some jurisdictions officials took a dim view of these registration practices. Any time these came to public attention, the local and national ACORN headquarters would behave like Claude Rains in “Casablanca” who was “shocked, shocked” to find gambling going on at Rick's Cafe. They would insist all their people were carefully trained and these must have been rogues who slipped under the radar.

- http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34310

hey, with a mere 5 vote lead in the house, i guess obalosicare doesn't have a mandate. (has anyone ever applied the concept of mandate to house/senate passes? why not? it seems to have been applied very little if at all - only conveniently when needed for popular elections - even when a candidate didn't get a statistically important majority ... ]

google's lousy political consciousness continues: nothing on home page visuals about wall coming down - must not offend communists
mentioned by http://ellie-kay.livejournal.com/158782.html

the unhonored dead of the "ddr": first to die was 58-year-old Ida Siekmann, who jumped from her building to the bordering road in West Berlin on Aug. 22, 1961. Two days later a 24-year-old tailor, Guenter Litfin, became the first to be shot and killed - while attempting to swim the River Spree. - On Feb. 6, 1989, 20-year-old Chris Gueffroy was the last East German to be murdered while seeking liberty. He was shot 10 times. On March 8, 32-year-old Winfried Freudenberg, an electrical engineer, became the last person to die in an escape attempt, when his home-made balloon crashed.
- http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10949

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is this the u.s. army or is it pre-school?! how could there be "benign" unauthorized contact of a u.s. army officer with an al-qaeda figure?! "army strong": merely a slogan for t.v. commercials, eh?
- http://abcnews.go.com/WN/FtHoodShooting/alleged-fort-hood-shooter-slipped-cracks/story?id=9039742

ahh, now we have the answer: gun rights are the problem! The gun thought to be used in the Fort Hood massacre packs so much firepower, it's known as 'the Cop Killer,' federal law enforcement officials said.
- http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cop-killer-gun-thought-ft-hood-shooting/story?id=9019521

apply leftist rhetoric re. bush and iraq/katrina/economy, "the buck stops here," etc.: Americans starting to lose confidence in the government's ability to prevent a nationwide epidemic of the H1N1 flu, according to new national poll.
- http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/10/h1n1.poll/index.html
[ how much more power and efficacy will america have to lose under dems and repubs alike before the people awake? ]

related to america fading: How the financial crisis could leave Europe even stronger than America?
- http://www.newsweek.com/id/221614

maybe the jihadists will help us: From within Libya's most secure jail a new challenge to al Qaeda is emerging. - Leaders of one of the world's most effective jihadist organizations have written a new "code" for jihad. - result of more than two years of intense and secret talks - The code's most direct challenge to al Qaeda is this: "Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like. Betrayal is prohibited and it is vital to keep promises and treat prisoners of war in a good way. Standing by those ethics is what distinguishes Muslims' jihad from the wars of other nations." - In essence the new code for jihad is exactly what the West has been waiting for: a credible challenge from within jihadist ranks to al Qaeda's ideology.
- http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/09/libya.jihadi.code/index.html

Health Insurance Profits: Not So Outrageous After All? - analysts: "Insurance companies are not money trees. They got out into the market and buy health care services and resell those services at some markup at health care consumers. I would argue that markup is not that much," - "This whole notion of big bad insurance companies is rather silly." - insur. companies' profits represent miniscule percentage of $2.5 trillion Americans spend every year on health care. - "Insurance company profits in the large picture have very little to do with the overall rising cost of health care" - Carroll and others pointed out that the profit margins the health insurance companies report - often below 5% percent - pace some industries and lag behind many others. - "From a net margin basis, it's not that much" - "The bottom line is any business needs to make money. That's why you're in business."
- http://abcnews.go.com/Business/health-insurance-profits-worth-outrage/story?id=9036632

carrie prejean says some truths: “Americans heard only bits and pieces of what really happened,” Prejean said. “I think that there is a liberal bias in the media, and it’s unfortunate that conservative women are attacked for their beliefs. It’s unacceptable and it shouldn’t happen. So many Americans are frustrated. So many Americans believe that their beliefs are under attack, and they should be silent and free speech doesn’t exist.” - specifically mentioned Olbermann, who has recently criticized her for what he calls her hypocrisy. - “There is an extreme double standard that conservative women are under attack for whatever it is,” Prejean told Vieira. “If Sean Hannity went out there and said some of the things that Keith Olbermann has said about me, if he says anything about [Sonia] Sotomayor, Michelle Obama, he would be off the air. Why is there this double standard? That’s the reason why I wrote this book.”
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33823079/ns/today-today_people/

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Got any suggestions when it comes to quick, healthy foods to eat when you have little time to cook? Studying foods that are not fast food or nuked? Snacks that can cheer one up even when dying a thousand deaths in fear of THE exam? Don't forget... I am a Vegetarian!

What was/are your favorite things to eat or drink during exams?

Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, is leaving the White House at the end of the month, sources tell ABC News. She will remain a consultant to the White House advising with long-term communications planning and other strategic issues.

- http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/dunn-out-pfeiffer-up-at-white-house-communications-shop.html

i want to skip town this thanksgiving. need something interesting for me & the 15-year-old teenager to do that is not too far from vegas (within driving distance). was thinking flagstaff or sedona or grand canyon. never been to any of them and don't know what there is to do in any of them.

also, thinking about southern california. near the ocean somewhere. once again, haven't traveled much out here. don't know what there is to do.

any suggestions?

COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) is designed to allow law enforcement officers to collect digital evidence from a suspect's PC without requiring any particular expertise. Using the technology - which recovers a list of processes running on an active computer at the scene of an investigation - involves inserting a specially adapted USB stick into a computer.

Grabbing data from a PC without interfering with the machine is no substitute for a detailed examination by experts where something amiss is discovered, but still attractive to the computer crime authorities. It allows police to search a computer's internet history, analyse systems and data stored and even decrypt passwords, without having to transport the machine to a lab. It does this in a fraction of the time the process would normally require.

The free-of-charge tool (actually a bundle of 150 applications) was developed by Microsoft and distributed solely to law enforcement agencies, most recently via Interpol. Despite this, copies of the software leaked onto the web and were briefly made available via BitTorrent, before the torrent tracking file was pulled.

The development has spurred fears that miscreants might still be able to get their hands on the software and use it to develop countermeasures. Graham Cluley, senior security consultant a Sophos, explains: "What's to say that the bad guys couldn't analyse COFEE, and write their own code which neutralises it (or wipes sensitive data from their computer) if they determine it is being run on their own computer?"

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