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More Things I Don't Have Time to Write About

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Marxist Tools

One thing that chaps me is when people blame hedge fund operators and their investors for “betting against” something or other.  I would like to hear those same illiterate jackasses defend their own insurance in contrast.  If they’re so tough and so pure, they should put money in a fund which only pays if they never get sick, and which assesses penalties beyond cost for medical care.  Why, anything else is betting against your own health, right?

Supercommittee Fools

I can’t even keep up with this, but there’s a Continuing Resolution due in days or hours.  The debt limit and the last CR have both run out of rope, and where is the talk of another shutdown?  Here is proof that the Republican Party is simply … Continue reading →

No Longer a Slave | Contagious Transformation

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From time to time I meet a person who makes me think that more of that person is exactly what this world needs. Stacy Swimp is one of those rare and heartening finds. Please meet a man with whom I am proud to associate in various online Tea Party settings.

I am a proud American who just so happens to be of African descent (I am the great, great, great, great grandson of Peter Adams, who was an African Slave on a South Carolina plantation). I am a black man who does indeed embrace the absolute best of the values of my ancestors and I have learned from the mistakes as well.

I have made up my mind wherever I go, I shall go as a man and … Continue reading →

SQL Tip of the Day

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COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT

This is a work-around, and a dangerous one, but it works in a pinch. If you are getting collation errors such as “Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation” bubbling up from SQL Server through your application, you are likely trying to JOIN two datasets of incompatible collations.

The quick and dirty workaround is to COLLATE on the fly just as you would CAST a variable for a read but not a write. So you’ll do it in a SELECT statement, which I am happy to report works just fine.

Sample problem:

SELECT Trusty.Age, Shifty.Height FROM MyGoodDataSource AS Trusty INNER JOIN SketchyDataSource AS Shifty ON Trusty.LastName = Shifty.LastName

ERROR! “Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation”

So we’re going to CHOOSE TO INTERPRET THE … Continue reading →

Bad Cop on Streets, Good Cop in White House

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This is the post I had hoped not to publish. I wrote this doom & gloom post at the same time I wrote this far more sanguine post regarding the “Occupants”, around this point:

These are not anti-globalization hooligans upset about where their coffee is harvested.  These are our fellow Americans ruined by our Marxist indoctrination system of culture and education, embittered by pre-ordained foreclosures of too-good-to-be-true loans that the banks made at the point of the government’s guns, and whipped into a teeming mass by the Provocateur-in-Chief.

Now is the time to talk our fellow Americans down from the ledge.

We have failed to do this, or the Marxist organizers have simply beat us.  Make no mistake, we are … Continue reading →

Income Inequality Numbers

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One of the interesting things about being a data-centric person is an appreciation for those who keep their data straight.  It’s right up there with appreciation for those who must straighten out data which has been obscured by others.  By considering an end result such as a “quintile” and then using inferences drawn at that stage as new sources, it is possible to convince oneself of many things which are not true.

For example, the “average income for the quintile” (of US households by income quintile, 2010) is roughly $11K for the lowest quintile, and roughly $170K for the highest.

Two facts will illuminate this seemingly impossible disparity.  First, the lowest quintile has 0.42 earners per household*, while the highest has 1.97.  Second, the age breakdown for the … Continue reading →

What if ObamaCare is The Crisis, not The Prize?

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We’ve assumed that ObamaCare is the prize, and that the financial crisis is The Crisis not to waste.

But what if ObamaCare is The Crisis, and the administration will gladly let it go by the wayside?  Their eager echo of Randy Barnett’s request for all due haste in taking it to the Supreme Court left us all scratching our heads.  There are some good theories out there, but none seem to fit well enough to get my spider-sense to stop tingling.  Now the administration dumps the CLASS act just because the implementation is prohibited by law (based on some requirements we stuck in at the last minute, whew!).  But breaking laws with impunity is a defining characteristic of this administration, so I don;t think they are tearing limbs … Continue reading →