Amazon Basics Micro-cut shredder is impressive

Got an Amazon Basics 12-sheet micro-cut shredder for Father' Day. It arrived today so I had to test it, much to my partner's chagrin. 

The shredder looked very similar to a crosscut made by Aptiva. The switch on both machines was identical. However, This shredder is a big improvement to the crosscut Aptiva. It is larger and quieter.

The output is has the consistency to kitty litter. Other features:

• The shred size of 5/32" x 15/32" (4 x 12 mm) is security level 4 rated.
• A shred speed of 6 feet per minute plus a continuous shred duty cycle of 8 minutes
• A large 6.7 gallon wastebasket has a capacity of 600 sheets

Most shredders won't run for more than 15 minutes. A thermal auto switch will turn the shredder off so the electric motor doesn't burn out. You should also lubricate the blades every month. You can buy shredder oil, but mineral oil and basic vegetable oil will work, too. Canola or corn oil should work well because it has a high smoke point.

The other good news about this shredder is that it costs about $100. You will find equivalent shredders is retail store starting at about $150.

The shredder has removable bin. The cutters are built into the unit. There is no safety switch in this unit so if the unit tips, it will continue to run.

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A trick with Roku and Pandora.

 Roku 2 controller with earbuds connected to Blue Tooth audio jack

If you have a Roku 2 or 3 appliance, ii comes with a controller that contains a female Blue Tooth headphone jack. You can connect a headphone to a standard male 3.5mm connector and listen to Pandora while you work out as long as you are within the 33 foot range off Blue Tooth enabled Roku appliance

Have to change the HDMI input on my TV to bring up the Roku options that include Netflix and Amazon Prime. I then scroll to Pandora and use the shuffle option.

I found Pandora would continue to work even after changing the TV input back to cable TV. 

Instead of using a head phone, I decided to connect a Blue Tooth enabled 808 speaker to the Roku controller using an audio cable that came with the speaker. You can charge the 808 speaker with a USB cable that is also provided with the 808 speaker.

Have the speaker charging from my laptop. There are also USB adapters that will charge the speaker from a wall outlet.

At bedtime, turned off the speaker. When I got up, turned the speaker back on and to my surprise the speaker was still playing the Pandora music.

You can also use the Pause button on the Roku controller to pause music.

So a music aficionado can listen to Pandora all day long while his significant other watches TV that has the same Roku connection. This setup is independent from a laptop or PC.

You can turn off or pause the streaming music and restart it at a later time.

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Job options for a smart young Democrat

Rightardia has noticed a lot of intelligent and gifted people posting on our FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/rightardia?fref=ts or go to FB and search for Eric Elder. If you want to be "friended," you will have to be referred to by someone with friend" status on this page. Or leave a comment on this blog.

My advice to a smart young person graduating from high school or college is to start your own business or work for the government or in the public sector.

Working for most corporations in the USA is pointless. Most underpay workers, offer marginal benefits and no retirement.

By no retirement, Rightardia means that a 401K is not a retirement option. In fact, the 401 K was originally designed for affluent people and became a marginal savings plan for other Americans.

Don't waste your time working for a soulless corporation. Start a business or work for the government. Although this may be a tough row to hoe in the beginning, in the long run you will come out ahead.

Let the Republican stooges, lackeys, corporate running dogs  and sycophants work for the corporations. They will get their just rewards, too.



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American Spring falls flat

This could be the end for the Tea Party. Will anyone take them seriously after the "American Spring?"

 

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Are you a proud Democrat?

You don't need to apologize for being a progressive, liberal or centrist Democrat.


The Republicans have nothing to counter these two.

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The Nazi baby machine

Hitler sought a superior and pure race.

The Nazi party emphasized the family and told Germans how to raise their children.

The Nazis provided incentives to mothers to have as many children as possible regardless of whether women was married or not.

The Nazi party created an ideal mother archetype. Their objective were millions blond blue-eyed Aryans who would lead and take over Europe. 

The Nazis’ first task was to encourage families to produce as many children as possible. With a greater population, Nazi Germany could become a strong and pure nation. 

During the Weimar era, the birth rate was dropping.  In an effort to change this, the Nazis encouraged motherhood through propaganda. Mothers were esteemed as heroes, and this idea was instilled in children through books and radio programs. 

A mother, her daughters and her son in the uniform of the Hitler Youth in the magazine "SS-Leitheft February 1943.

German mothers were expected to produce children and 'Marriage loans' were also created for recently married couples to fund a baby. These loans were to be used as “vouchers for furniture and other household goods. The German women had to give up work to devote herself to marriage and motherhood.

In order to ensure the success of these marriage loans, there were increased taxes for single people and couples without children.

There was also the concept of the good German mother in propaganda.

We see several of these themes in the GOP today:

1. national family values
2. vouchers

3. stereotypical role of women often using a biblical basis
4. outlawing or putting severe limits abortion even in cases of rape
5. parental rights for rapists. 
6. making women pay for rape kits and forensic tests after filing rape charges
7. outlawing or restricting birth control 

The Republican concept of US exceptionalism even ties into Nazi Master Race idea.  Many Republicans believe the US is superior to other nations and has a destiny to lead the world.

The Nazis did not produce enough children and actually ran out of solders by the end of the war.  When the Red army entered Berlin, parts of it were defended by children, the Hitler Jugend. This is one of the last pictures of Der Fuhrer before he committed suicide.

sources: 

http://webpage.pace.edu/nreagin/F2005WS267/ReginaGennari/history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Nazi_propaganda#Motherhood


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The American dream and Family Values

If you had been on the Rightardia Facebook page on Mother's Day, you would probably have gotten a good idea of the real American dream. Mothers' were showing off their handsome sons and beautiful doughters, There were pictures of grandmothers , both extant and deceased.

These beautiful families are the American dream. This country needs a just society that promotes the needs of families and provides them with a secure future.

One of the first person to talk about an American dream was Martin Luther King, Jr. not Marco Rubio. King said:

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"

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America likes to think of itself as a melting pot, but sociologists will tell you that the reality is ethnic neighborhoods of Eastern Europeans, Italians, Irish, blacks and Hispanics. Some neighborhoods are integrated based upon the economics of housing. Some cities do a better job of integrating their communities than others. 

We have a long way to go to achieve King's dream. King certainly didn't talk about producing children to sacrificed upon the altars of of militarism or corporatism. 

He didn't talk about a future in which schools produced corporate drones to work in corporations operated like command and control military operations and owned by oligarchs. 

King envisioned a an integrated society, one of which you may have caught a glimpse at in the Rightardia Facebook Page on Mother's Day. . The families are diverse: white, black, Hispanic, mixed race, native American and LGBT. A hodge podge of religions were also represented. 

All of the parents want their children to be successful and raise families. They want secured futures for their children with well paying jobs that lead toward a positive retirement one day. The parents want  to be able to send their children to college and technical schools. They want the their children to have the same dream and opportunities. 

Marco Rubio has never really defined what he means by the American Dream, but he did say this to the  Rockingham County Republican Committee about Hillary Clinton. 

"They're (Democrats) threatening to nominate someone now who wants to take us to the past — to an era that's never coming back. The road we're on right now is a road that will rob us of the American dream."

Rubio talks about opportunity, but the reality is the American social system has very limited social
mobility. 

The Economist noted that "evidence from social scientists suggests that American society is much 'stickier' than most Americans assume. ... would-be Horatio Algers are finding it no easier to climb from rags to riches, while the children of the privileged have a greater chance of staying at the top of the social heap. The United States risks calcifying into a European-style class-based society."

Marco Rubio came form a different generation when his family emigrated form Cuba, There were many Federal and charitable programs that helped Cuban-Americans make the transition. These programs are now gone.  

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

Marco Rubio

Rubio is the one who seems to be the one remembering a bygone era. Rubio is 43 and his family benefited from government programs that helped Cubans make the transition to American life that were not available to other Hispanics or even other Americans. 

When the Cuban children from Operation Peter Pan--which was as an aftermath to the Castro Revolution--arrived in Miami they were met by Catholic Charities.  The children were then sent to live with relatives or to foster homes, orphanages or boarding schools until their parents could leave Cuba. 

The United States Congress passed the Cuban Adjustment Act in 1966 to help the immigrants who were classified as political refugees. The Cuban Refugee Program provided more than $1.3 billion of direct financial assistance. Emigrees also were eligible for public assistance, Medicare, free English courses, scholarships, and low-interest college loans.

That is the world Marco Rubio grew up in. Rightrdia thinks he has forgotten his Cuban-American roots and the largesse of the US government. 

sources:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/rubio-visit-hampshire-weighs-2016-run-23651340

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the_United_States


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Three progressive voices go silent

Rightardia has been publishing  for more than four years. During that time we have seen some strong progressive voices fade away due to illness and subsequent death.

The first big loss was RS Jayne. He often used modified comic book covers to satirize the right wing. If you search  the Rightardia blog, you can find examples of his work. Most of his art on Google images has disappeared. Here is another example below.

To avoid copy right violations, Rightardia linked a lot of the art. Much of Jayne's art is now gone, even missing from the Rightardia blog. 

One of the first progressive bloggers was Bartcop.com and you kind find information about Bartcop on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartcop.

The blog was written by Terry Coppage. Terry died on died March 5th, 2014.

Last but not least in Barabara Broido who recently passed away. Rightardia used her art a lot on both the blog and the Facebook page.

Check Out Barbara's Doodle blog to see her work. She was a very funny lady who would dress up in a variety of humorous costumes with her husband, Kenny. Barbara Broido died on April 8th, 2014 at the Albany Medical Center, following a short battle with multiple Myeloma.See her blog at https://barbarabroido.wordpress.com/ before it disappears.

It is sad to see these three pass. All will be hard acts to follow Hope some new progressive talent materializes one fine day that can generate an equivalent  body of work that these three produced.

Good-bye, my Internet friends. You are already missed.

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Just a coincidence

source:  Democratic Underground

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White hat hackers's Hack-ANON infiltrate RNC servers

Hack-ANON discovered the new new political theme on the RNC servers for the 2104 elections: "We're ready to wreck America again!"

RNC theme: "We're ready to wreck America again!"

The RNC has established teams that will present the various tenets of the "We're ready" campaign.

Sarah Palin and Marcia Blackburn will present the women's phase of the the RNC theme: God has a plan for you in the kitchen."

Ben Carson will present his three step programs for getting brothers and sisters off the plantation with dramatic cuts to HUD housing, food stamps and school lunches. 

Paul Ryan will present his solutions for fixing poverty in America, once and for all. Ryan said the poor just need a swift kick in the ass to get them going.

Paul Wolfortz will present American foreign policy in the Age of Armageddon emphasizing why the US needs to take a stand in the Ukraine.

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney will explain how war  can create economic opportunity for America. Dick Cheney added war is also great for the medical community, too.

A Reince Priebus memo also indicated the RNC is certain it has the correct prescription for America's ills.


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