LIBERTY: I like the idea of eliminating 12 sets of gubamint.

Monday, July 31, 2006

http://www.tjc.com/38states/

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The map reducing the U.S. to 38 States is the creation of C. Etzel Pearcy, geography professor at California State University, Los Angeles. The new boundaries totally erase the 104 lines currently separating the 50 States. Each State’s new name, chosen with the help of a poll of geography students, represents a physical or cultural aspect of the new territory. For example, Cascade (named after a major mountain range in Washington and Oregon), Cochise (named after the Apache Indian chief of Arizona), and Alamo (named after the mission in San Antonio, Tex.).

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But, I still think the Free State Project http://www.freestateproject.org is a better idea. A plague on all the politicians, bureaucrats, and the parasites.


RANT: Greedy state government defrauds the taxpayers with an unneeded sales tax hike!

Monday, July 31, 2006

Note that 101.5 today is reporting that only one sixth of the tax increase is going to close the “budget gap”; the rest is for pork! Doesn’t anyone else find that amusing? The politicians pulled another fast one. AND, as I believe I mentioned, back on Wall Street, old Jon would have closed that budget gap with some good old fashioned cost cutting. But he wasn’t spending his money! Vote ’em all out. And, send them to jail for fraud.


FUNY: Tuskgee Airman … wonder how much of the movie is true?

Monday, July 31, 2006

Chose to watch the movie Tuskgee Airmen last night. Given Hollywood’s liberal bias, I suspect everything that comes out of there. But if in fact that group never lost a bomber and if in fact the losses were a third prior to that, that’s some accomplishment. Strip away all the fluff and stuff, you have to wonder about racist assumptions. Very powerful paradigm shifter.