http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/liberty-and-habeas-corpus-i.html
A GREAT post on Habeas Corpus. A must read for every liberty lover!
LIBERTY: Habeas corpus well deserves its other traditional name: the Great Writ.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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GUNS: The “liberals” are whining for more restrictions
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/10/shot-through-heart_02.html#comments
Sorry, but the answer is not to create more potential victims.
The world’s, by its very nature, is a dangerous place. Two-legged and four-legged varmints abound. Maybe if schools were NOT a “gun free zone”, then the staff would have a fighting chance to keep their charges safe.
Everyone predicted that Florida would become the OK corral at every traffic accident. It didn’t BECAUSE those that are armed are law abiding.
I know I can’t convince you, and other nice people, that you are living in Fantasy Land if you think that by passing more laws and regulations and rules you can keep these things from happening.
Maybe I CAN convince you that what you are doing is depriving yourself of the protection of your fellow law abiding citizens and residents, who would choose to arm themselves for their protection, and that of society. See part of the benefit of unrestricted concealed carry is that the bad guys don’t know which of the good guys are sheep and which are the sheepdogs. Fatal to the bad guy if he guesses wrong!
Envision if that teacher, who had to run to call police, was “packing heat”. I don’t fault her at all. Only an idiot would try to take on an armed madman with her bare hands. Like the hijacked airline passengers. But if armed, look how the situation would have changed. While the varmint was busy boarding up the doors, would anyone have minded if she had put five in his back? If she was even charged, then I’d like to be on that jury. I’d convict the prosecutor who charged her. Five little girls would be alive and one madman dead. Hard to envision a worse outcome than the one we have now.
The “gun free schools zone” merely ensures that the madman will have no armed opposition to worry about until the police get there.
Why make it easy for them?
After all who are the police anyway? They are nothing more than the agents of the citizens. If we can empower the police to defend us, why should we defend ourselves?
Do you think that teachers, principle, and school custodians can’t tell the difference between bad guys and their students?
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JOBSEARCH: LINKEDIN’s value
Tuesday, October 3, 2006Posted by: “George”
Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:34 am (PST)
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I don’t know about other users, but I am finding diminishing returns
on LinkedIn.
I have used it for over a year for networking and business development
as a consultant and executive coach. But more and more I am getting
stuff from recruiters looking for me to do their job for them.
Whats the next big thing?
Has LinkedIn outlived its usefulness?
What other networking and business development tools are people using now?
There also seem to be more executives who – it appears – have someone
put their profile in LinkedIn – but never use the tool or respond to
invitations. Whats the point of that? Another sign of its diminishing
value.
George F Franks III
Franks Consulting Group
Web site: http://franksconsultinggroup.com
E-zine: http://careerandleadership.com
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This is an interesting observation.
For each person that I link to, after two weeks, I send them a chatty little email. So far I have ZERO responses.
So LinkedIn isn’t networking. And, it may be of ZERO use other than a glorified yellow pages of people.
Hmmm!?!
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LIBERTY: Strategy For Smaller Government
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://freetalklive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Strategy_For_Smaller_Government
Strategy For Smaller Government
1. Political Party
Join the big L Libertarian party and work to get enough people elected. (Seen how well that has worked over the last 30 years!)
2. Issue Oriented Group
Join Advocates for Smaller Government and push an agenda. (Carla has had some modest success in MA.)
3. Free State Project
Move to NH and revolt. (Seems to be working. But, it’s definitely not easy. For me, probably won’t happen.)
4. Lauren C’s in their face activism
Just refuse to cooperate at all. Worked for Gandhi and MLK. (I’m not so sure I’m brave enough to pull that off!)
5. Dave’s individual silent signs
Seems to annoy them. Probably will wind up in arrests.
6. Get people to laugh at Big Gubamint foolishness.
Try to make fun of big gubamint. See Penn & Teller on HBO. See how fast the Spanish American War Telephone tax was repealed. (Big Gubamint can stand being laughed at!)
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LIBERTY: Gubamint makes losers of us all
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://www.niagara-gazette.com/local/local_story_275204901.html
Published: October 02, 2006 08:49 pm
DAY 3: Stabilizing neighborhoods
Millions of public dollars will be spent in the next three years on Niagara Falls housing
By Denise Jewell
Niagara Gazette
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Public officials are also working on housing plans that would address the lack of private-sector investment into building new housing in Niagara Falls.
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While the HOPE VI project has been hailed by advocates as a key to revitalizing public housing, local landlords have expressed concerned that the proposal will negatively impact private rental units by pulling tenants into newer public housing.
“We’re putting up units at $200,000 for poor people and you wonder what’s wrong?” asked Ken Hamilton, a Niagara Falls citizen who has spoken out against the project. “If there’s a glut, why extend the glut?”
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Ahh, why isn’t there any private sector investment?
For the same reason that there aren’t any parochial schools being built, you can’t compete with he gubamint “giving away” free or below cost stuff!
There is a reason why the free market allocates resources so efficiently and that mechanism is prices. High prices signal entrepreneurs that there is a potential profit. That signal communicates that there is an unmet need that someone is willing to pay to have satisfied.
Milton Freedman did a great exposition on the pencil. No one had to be told to make it. The marketplace energized a whole bunch of greedy people to get together and work cooperatively to satisfy his basic human need for a pencil. It was not a committee. It was not the gubamint. And, it wasn’t funded using “public money”.
So here we have the gubamint manipulating its citizens.
When it puts its “proverbial thumb” on the marketplace scale, it makes everything worse. By depressing the value of a rental property, it signals the marketplace to produce less housing in that area. To invest less money. That there are fewer human needs in that area. Perversely, it makes the problem worse.
And, the media and the intellectuals just don’t get it.
In a marketplace, all needs are addressed. In a gubmint solution, only some needs are met and it’s at a fantastic cost. I bet if we had a forensic accountant look into it, we’d find that the ~200k per unit would translate into ~600k being stolen from taxpayers. And, what about the silent cost of this “housing project” to those silent victims of gubamint taxation? maybe they were ready to buy their first house, but the gubamint taxes took it away from them and gave it to those “poor people” over there.
See that’s what gubamint does, it makes losers of us all!
Note: It’s interesting that the news site bans certain ips from commenting. Oh well, not that they’d listen much.
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INTERESTING: Fire alarm tone not as effective as Mom
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9410
New Breed of ‘Mom’ Alarms
Posted on Monday, October 02 @ 23:43:28 CDT
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The recorded sound of a parent’s voice urging their child to wake up and get out of bed is a better smoke alarm than conventional tone alarms, a study shows.
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Hmmm, sounds like a great idea. I could have my Mom record a wake up message to get me out of bed and off to work. Instead of my daily “fire drill”?
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GUNS: Tragedy would have been stopped if schools NOT gun free
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/15663292.htm
Death toll in Lancaster Co. Amish school shooting rises to 5
MARK SCOLFORO
Associated Press
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NICKEL MINES, Pa. – Two more children died Tuesday morning of wounds from the shootings at an Amish schoolhouse, raising the death toll to five girls plus the gunman who apparently was spurred by a two-decade-old grudge.
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There is no doubt that this is a tragedy. Young girls cut down by a madman.
But, just as the antidote for bad speech is more free speech, the antidote for this is not more victim disarmament.
I don’t understand the “gun free school zones” legislation. Do politicians think that they actually DO something by passing a law? They should realize that only law abiding people obey laws. The lawless just go on their merry way and take advantage of the opportunities that we give them.
In Israel, schools are NOT gun free zones. And, they are trouble free. Grandparents guard schools and school trips. Teachers, and the average citizen, are more than likely “packing heat”. The terrorists have a problem because there are no target rich zones where guns are absent.
The world is a dangerous place. No amount of wishful thinking or inane laws is going to make it any less dangerous. My grandmother traveled the Oregon trail and she had “her” long gun hung on the mantle until she died. She was no “victim”. I’m not sure that she ever used it, wish I had asked, but, even in her old age, she was not someone to be “crossed”. Read her bible and prayed, but she was armed. I know she would have protected any child. Let’s give women an “equalizer”.
Envision the scenario where a nut job KNOWS that there is a good chance that, in his killing spree, he may run into an armed citizen. Bet that dampens his ardor for blood just a little. Imagine he invades the school, and instead of the teacher running to call police, she whips out a “girlie gun” like a 380 and puts a full clip into him. Or, as he is ushering out the pregnant lady, she grabs him close and dispatches him with three to the gut a la the French Resistance of WW2. Or, the teacher’s aide, or anyone else, does their civic duty. See if there is no restriction, he has to rethink his plan.
Just as no American airline passenger is going to allow a hijacker to take over a plane, we should be armed to take care of two legged, and four legged, varmints.
TECH: What happens when a web service doesn’t get traction
Tuesday, October 3, 2006http://www.i-neighbors.org/index.php
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The FREE service that connects you with your neighbors and government officials. Click here to join.
Discover I-Neighbors communities near you.
Enter a Postal or ZIP Code:
Or Browse:
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Over 6200 neighborhoods use I-Neighbors to:
# Meet and communicate with neighbors
# Contact elected officials
# Vocalize local concerns
# Organize events
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The answer is not much! It just languishes. A potential good idea that went no where. Who’s paying for it?
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Reinke Faces Life 