The Zenzoid Files

Whoa! Found this site from Reuters. They talk about it being for, “Alerting humanitarians to emergencies.” Uh huh. How ’bout “Alerting ghouls to the dead and dying.” I dunno. Maybe I’m too damn cynical, but I can’t help seeing a nakedly self-serving motive for these seemingly “humanitarian” sites. Especially from someone like Reuters. Yeah, as if.

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The apocryphal tale that you can’t grow new brain cells just isn’t true. Neurons continue to grow and change beyond the first years of development and well into adulthood, according to a new study. [...]

Thank the pot-bellied, buck-toothed, cross-eyed Buddha! There’s hope for us children of the “better living through chemistry” revolution.

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(Iconographic greeting card courtesy of Tregubov Studios)

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If this isn’t the clearest example of the complete and utter stupidity of government-sponsored war, I don’t know what is. Let me share with you a human truism: most of the time, most people will not choose to kill each other. It is governments that cause people to divide along ideological lines with sufficient animosity to commit murder. In the absence of government, most people will live and let live.

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You know what the Hard Day is: think Katrina that goes on for a couple months… or few years. It won’t be a hurricane; it’ll be something big that’s going to affect everyone in the North American continent for sure and maybe the entire populace of the planet. Hell, it’s no secret; even the brown shirts in Dubya’s administration, including “Iron-Heart” Cheney, have made several official announcements saying, in effect “It’s not a matter of ‘if,’ it’s a matter of ‘when’.”

Maybe it won’t be terrorism at all; maybe it’ll be a meteor strike or a kill-shot blast from a solar flare. Or maybe something economic, like a currency collapse or a huge, long-term oil embargo/disruption. I don’t know exactly what’s gonna happen, but I know something definitely is gonna happen. And soon. I feel like I’ve been preparing for it my whole life. (Or, maybe this is an allegorical mis-interpretation of my own mortality and the Hard Day is really the day my body dies. Ok, I better stop– I’m confusing myself again.)

Anyway, if you’re not ready for the Hard Day, whatever it may bring, my new online commnity, Get Ready!, can help you. Lots of resources, files, news and other information on all aspects of preparedness, for both short-term and long-term emergencies. Be there now!

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Something tells me there’s a lot more where this came from.

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[P]rolonged exposure to loud music from portable-media devices can lead to significant hearing loss. Northwestern University audiologist Dean Garstecki has issued a warning to the roughly 37 million iPod owners to turn down their tunes — or else.

“We’re seeing the kind of hearing loss in younger people typically found in aging adults,” Garstecki said. “Unfortunately, the earbuds preferred by music listeners are even more likely to cause hearing loss than the muff-type earphones that were associated with older devices.”

Garstecki and other audiologists want music listeners to adopt their so-called “60 percent, 60 minute” rule. The solution, they said, is to spend no more than one hour each day listening to an MP3 player or iPod with the volume level lower than 60 percent of the maximum.

“If music listeners are willing to turn the volume down further still and use different headphones, they can increase the amount of time that they can safely listen,” Garstecki pointed out.

Earbud users can avoid permanent hearing loss in the middle ranges, the range necessary to hear a conversation in a noisy environment — such as a restaurant, for instance — by replacing them with safer, old-school style headphones that are larger and rest over the entire ear. Or they can try using noise-canceling headphones that Garstecki fears won’t be a likely choice because of their cost and ungainly appearance in contrast to the inexpensive, diminutive earbuds.

“Unlike earbuds, noise-canceling headphones quiet or eliminate background noise, Garstecki explained. “That means listeners don’t feel the need to crank up the volume so high as to damage their hearing.”

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Microsoft plans to use the Firefox browser’s Really Simple Syndication (RSS) icon in the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, according to the company’s Internet Explorer team blog. [...]

Mozilla: godzilla
Firefox: orange bullocks
Internet Explorer: another whorer

Safari is the best browser made today. If you’re stuck on a Windows platform, my condolences; if you have a choice, and you still chose a Windows platform, kindly flush yourself out of the gene pool. I’ll wait… Thank you.

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The UN flag was ceremoniously burned today at the Second Annual UN Flag Burn in Keene, NH.

And there was much rejoicing!

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If this doesn’t tell you that we’re just a stroke of the pen away from total martial law, I don’t know what would:

“GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”

And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

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CNet:

Handing a stiff rebuke to President Bush, the U.S. Senate on Friday refused to end the filibuster that is blocking a four-year extension of the Patriot Act. In a 52-to-47 vote, the Senate failed to reach the 60-person majority required to cut off a filibuster and force a vote on the Republican-backed extension of the portions of the controversial law that are set to expire on Dec. 31. The vote makes it more likely that lawmakers will enact an alternate proposal, backed by critics of the Patriot Act, that would extend those 16 sections for only three months. That would yield additional time for negotiations when senators return from their holiday vacation in January.

http://tinyurl.com/ajrlw

BOOYAH!

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Two air marshals gunned down an American citizen last week in Miami and most of the establishment media seemingly couldn’t care less. Immediately after 44-year-old Rigoberto Alpizar died on Dec. 7 in a hail of bullets from two air marshals, Dave Adams, a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service, told CNN that Alpizar had shouted “I have a bomb in my bag” as he ran up and down the aisle of the plane as it sat on the runway. This was the version of events that the vast majority of the media repeated unquestioningly in the first days after the killing.

However, online articles on Dec. 8 by Time.com and CNN.com contained quotes from passengers debunking the feds’ story. The Orlando Sentinel reported on Dec. 9: “Seven passengers interviewed by the Orlando Sentinel — seated in both the front and rear of the main passenger cabin — said Alpizar was silent as he ran past them on his way to the exit.” No passenger the Sentinel spoke to offered any account akin to what the feds claimed.

It is not yet clear exactly what happened on Dec. 7 at the Miami airport. But the primary justification the feds offered for using deadly force did not survive even two full news cycles.

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Surprise! Yet again, your pals in the Federal leviathan are lying to us to cover their beastly, collective asses.

Start practicing yoga now so you can kiss your keester adios, Bubba, ‘cuz Rome is burnin’!

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I’ve been running my appliance repair website as a blog since May 2002. As you’d expect, eventually a copycat would come along and rip-off my concept. The copycat’s website is ApplianceBlog and he started it up almost a year ago. Well, as karma would have it, I discovered something interesting and disturbing about the guy who runs the ApplianceBlog site.

I was searching Technorati for blogs about appliance repair; I came up with mine and copycat’s sites:

http://technorati.com/blogs/appliance repair

Online, he uses the names Jake, JakeTJ, John Lucier, and Jacob.

Out of curiosity, I clicked on Jake/John/Jacob’s profile link, and, saw that he runs another site besides ApplianceBlog:

http://www.blogyouth.com/

And from there, you you’ll see a prominent link to yet another one of his sites:

http://www.youthtalentgalleries.com/

(I’ve not made these clickable because I want to avoid giving link credit to these sites. To see them, copy and past the URLs into your browser address bar.)

And just to make sure that the above site is really his, I looked up the Whois record for Youth Talent Galleries.

Some background information on Jake/John/Jacob. He’s an almost 40-year old single appliance repairman with no known professional affiliation with the movie or modeling businesses.

After viewing these sites, I pose the question: why would a middle-aged, single man apparently spend a large chunk of his spare time collecting photographs of little boys wearing nothing but underwear and doing provocative poses?

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said humanity suffers from arrogant and corrupt governments, stressing Islam was the solution to the world’s suffering.

Speaking Thursday at the city of Nikashahr in southeast Iran, Ahmadinejad said, “We see injustice everywhere in the world, as decisions to displace peoples and kill civilians are taken easily while arms factories compete to produce more lethal weapons,” the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

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The Iranian HMFIC correctly identifies government as the prime cause for most of the misery in the world. This is a fact; government is a parasite that leeches life and liberty from the governed and creates artificial divisions between people where none would otherwise exist.

But, as would be expected, his solution is all wrong. Strip away all the robes, jihads, and funky head gear and Islam is nothing more than another type of government.

The correct solution is smaller, less intrusive governments and more liberty for individuals. Get the government out of the way and let people freely associate with each other… or not.

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What’s that asshole gone and done now?

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So, I’ve finally gotten burned out writing about just appliance repair-related stuff. Time to broaden my horizon and develop another subject that’s very timely these days: emergency preparedness.

If Katrina has shown us nothing else, it’s the dangers of allowing yourself to become a dependent vassal of The State. I’ve never been inclined to that myself, but I was appalled at the great unwashed hordes standing around, waiting for the gubmint to save their fat, welfare asses. Afterwards, everyone’s pointing fingers of blame at different tentacles of government for failing to be all things to all people all the time. Land of the free and home of the brave? HA! We need to change that last line in the national anthem to be, “land of the freeloaders and home of the depraved.” Pathetic how dependent the sheeple have become on Big Gubmint. The ultimate irony is that these are the same people who bitch and moan about Big Corporations, oblivious to the fact that it is a symbiote with Big Government; Big Gubmint and Big Bidness serve each other’s needs and they both suck life and liberty from the sheeple.

Anyway, we live in interesting times, as Chairman Mao used to say. And the economic and social conditions in this country are a mess, it’s unsustainable. Without warning, the music will stop and this house of cards will come crashing down. When that happens, it’ll be the beginnings of a new era of liberty, but not without some horrific birth pangs.

History shows that power never peaceably devolves from the government to the governed, it is always violent, bloody, and ugly. Likewise, in the case of America, the only way to reform the pork-barrel, collectivist system is for it to break, to collapse under its own weight like the dying, diseased beast it is.

The resulting financial collapse will precipitate a societal collapse. Some parts of the country will try to establish martial law but that, too, will fail as the National Guardsmen and state troopers decide they’d rather be at home protecting their homes and families from the rampant, roving criminal gangs instead of protecting the property of people they don’t even know. Thanks to the near complete unravelling of the moral fiber of the nation, violent crime will be a way of life for a while until communities are able to re-group and establish safe zones.

And so it is with great glee and merriment that I announce my latest project, Get Ready! It’s a forum to help those who know the feces are about to fly and would like to connect with other people online to help each other to, well, get ready! I’ve finished the basic structure and layout and now I’ll be working on adding content. Come on over and add some of your own pearls of wisdom.

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Irina Krajcik, a friend of ours from Church, was killed this past Monday, December 5. Her husband, Frank, is also our optometrist. Both Irina and Frank were in the car when they were struck by another vehicle. By the grace of God, she did not suffer. Frank sustained injuries but is, thankfully, alive.

Irina was a gifted seamstress and made a beautiful baby bag for our son, Stephen, shortly after he was born. Her death is a reminder that we’re all terminal cases and that our lives hang by a delicate thread that could snap at any time. We will sorely miss her.

We love you, Irina, and I wish I had told you that directly.

Here is her obituary written by her daughter, Debbie. Memory Eternal!

Irina N. Krajcik, 66 of Edgemont Road in Sunapee, NH died Monday (December 5) at New London Hospital as the result of an automobile accident.

She was born in Armavir, Russia on April 3, 1939 the daughter of Nikolaj and Ludmilla (Wilken) Borisjuk. At 4 years old she and her family fled to Germany and lived in an American refugee camp for several years.

She graduated high school in Lubeck, Germany shortly before immigrating to the United States in April 1957 at age 18. She was fluent in five languages and started working in the United States at a dress factory and took evening classes in a Beauty Academy to support her parents and two younger brothers.

On January 24, 1959 she married Dr. Frank A. Krajcik, Optometrist. Recently, Irina had worked with her husband as Office Manager. As an accomplished and professional seamstress, she made religious vestments among other items. She enjoyed many hobbies and especially enjoyed being with her family. She was a member of the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church and served as director of the parish bookstore.

Members of her surviving family include her husband, Dr. Frank Krajcik, Sunapee, NH; her mother, Ludmilla Borisjuk, Sunapee, NH and Gulfport, FL; six children, Richard Krajcik and wife Jody, Pembroke, NH; Deborah Krajcik, Keene, NH; Sandra Cashion, Cary, NC; Ellen Wirta and her husband Mark, Sunapee, NH; Lorena Montefusco and her husband, Frank, Raleigh, NC; Tanya Kress and her husband Joel, Weare, NH; 14 grandchildren, Carol, Matt, Rachel and husband Dany, Sarah, Hannah, Alexandra, Anna, Erin, Nate, Tara, Jake, Loren, Anthony, and Samuel. Brothers, Igor Boris and wife Suzanne, Westbrook, CT; Lova Borisjuk and wife Deborah, North Haven, CT, and many nieces and nephews.

Funeral Matins Service will be held at 4:00 pm this Friday in the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church. Calling hours are 5:00-8:00 pm immediately following. Funeral Liturgy will be celebrated at 9:30 am on Saturday in the church with the V. Rev. Andrew Tregubov, officiating. Graveside services will follow in Mountain View Cemetery in Claremont, NH. Arrangements are under the direction of the Roy Funeral Home, 93 Sullivan Street, Claremont, NH. Flowers and/or donations may be sent to Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church Memorial Fund, 99 Sullivan St., Claremont, NH 603-542-6273.

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While it may seem heartless to the teeming masses of whiney collectivists here in the land of the freeloaders and home of the depraved, the Chinese health care system is more free-market and humane than our own, where we are forced to pay for anyone who cannot, or will not, pay. How ironic is that for a Libertarian and staunch enemy of The State to be supporting a policy in Communist China?

(The link is to an article in the Wall Street Journal Online, you may need to be a subscriber to read it. If that’s the case, cough up the subscription payment or just go away. )

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Drink coffee; it’s good for you!

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I’ve never voted for a Bush and never will. They’re all weenies. Even the way they talk; it’s weenie. Besides Lincoln, Dubya will go down as the worst president ever. Good riddance in 2008… if we make it that far.

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