LIBERTY: unenumerated rights — those rights the Founders felt no need to specify in the Bill of Rights — Yours!

Monday, April 23, 2007

http://vtcommons.org/node/741

Remembering the 9th Amendment
Submitted by Rob Williams on Mon, 04/23/2007 – 1:38pm.

Thanks to “Alternet” for this important book review.

The “Silent” Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don’t Know They Have
By Daniel A. Farber, Basic Books
Posted on April 23, 2007, Printed on April 23, 2007

 

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What a pity. Even more, what a terrible oversight: the Ninth Amendment bears directly on such modern-day constitutional issues as abortion, the right to die, and gay rights.

The Ninth Amendment is key to understanding how the Founding Fathers thought about the liberties they expected Americans to enjoy under the Constitution. They did not believe that they were creating these liberties in the Bill of Rights. Instead, they were merely acknowledging some of the rights that no government could properly deny.

The history of the Constitution reveals the purpose of the Ninth and the Founders’ intent: to protect what constitutional lawyers call unenumerated rights — those rights the Founder assumed and felt no need to specify in the Bill of Rights. Unenumerated rights include, for example, the right to privacy. In the America of today, unenumerated rights account for freedoms like a woman’s right to abortion. …

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So the next time any politician talks about a “right”, remind them that the Constitution reserves it to the people and he should shut up!

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TECH SOFTWARE: ACT2007 has its problems

Monday, April 23, 2007

http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/
04/some_sage_advic.html

http://tinyurl.com/3xoyjt

April 23, 2007
Some Sage Advice

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Act 2007 Premium for Workgroups is reliant on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. It turns out that the very installation of Act breaks all of our other SQL instances. That includes Sharepoint, Backup Exec and other critical apps. It’s a one-way upgrade too. So there is no ‘uninstall.’ The cure? Uninstall SBS2003 and reinstall. Oh, and yes, the files that Backup Exec has recorded — unusable.

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Ed (Gripeline) Foster always has some good “heads up” type stuff.

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INTERESTING: Don’t annoy the wild animals! (Seems obvious?)

Monday, April 23, 2007

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china//
article1690634.ece?Submitted=true

http://tinyurl.com/34phxr

April 23, 2007
Catapult boy is eaten after taunting crocodile in pen

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The official Xinhua news agency said: “One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu’s clothes and dragged him into the water where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles.” His companions then raised the alarm.

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Remember the Darwin awards?

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Honoring those who improve the species…by accidentally removing themselves from it!

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RANT: Yup, nothing anyone could do

Monday, April 23, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lelong5.html

Bloomberg’s World
by A.D Lelong

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Here is how Bloomie saves lives. On the exact same day he told rational people they were sick, we had a murder suicide in Queens. A 20-year-old man, with a history of mental disturbances, shot and killed his mother, his mother’s invalid boyfriend, and the boyfriend’s hired nurse. He then wounded a nephew, and turned the gun on himself. Before the incident, the mother three times tried to get the cops to do something, but they said she needed a court order. The victim’s sister said, “He was threatening to kill her, and she told the police everything. The police said we can’t do anything about it.”

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Or is it that any one could be a concealed weapons carrier. Exercising their (God Given, Inherent, Constitutionally protected) RIGHT to self defense.

Argh!

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RANT: Managed to muck up my worktop

Monday, April 23, 2007

I like to have a partition of the hard drive for “my” data. Stuff I create and back up. Done it lots of times before. Tried it last night and now the pig won’t boot. Argh!

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