GUNS: Sure throw another gun law on the pile

Monday, September 10, 2007

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070910/D8RINT7O1.html

Cleveland Mayor: Ban Guns for Under 21
Sep 10, 1:26 PM (ET)

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CLEVELAND (AP) – Cleveland’s mayor called on the state Monday to create a new law that would prohibit anyone under age 21 from possessing a firearm.

Mayor Frank Jackson’s proposal followed the shooting death last week of a 12-year-old girl who was hit by a stray bullet as she walked to a corner store. He noted that police statistics from 2004 to 2006 show 70 percent of those arrested for crimes involving firearms were under 28.

Under Ohio law, no one under 18 is permitted to purchase a firearm. A person must be at least 21 to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

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And like a giant non sequiteur, how this helps the situation is unclear to me? Am I missing something?

End the pseudo drug war, and just like Prohibition, the collateral damage will end. We don’t see Bud and Miller shooting it out over who will sell their wares on what corner.

We have had a the “War on Drugs” for several decades now. It’s don a lot of good. We have more people in jail, more drug addiction, more shoot outs, and less treatment.

Let’s have the gooferment leave it to the marketplace to solve the problem. The gooferment should just walk away from the problem. Wonder what all the drug dealers will do when you can buy your drugs at the corner store for pennies. Best estimates that I have seen, say that MaryJane will be akin to tobacco. Other drugs will be akin to aspirin. That’s the way it was in the early 1900s. It would be a real laff to see the Columbian Drug cartel lined up against WalMart.

And, we won’t have young adults, who should know better, dead from drugs adulterated with poisons or of unknown strength.

Drug addiction is a medical problem.

Gun violence is due to the “drug prohibition” we have stupidly allowed the gooferment to enforce.

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STATE: NC gets on a legally binding organ donation plan

Monday, September 10, 2007

http://lifesharers.blogspot.com/2007/09/legally-binding-organ-donation.html

Saturday, September 08, 2007
“Legally binding” organ donation?

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North Carolina will soon become the 45th state to make signing up to be an organ donor legally binding, according to a story in the Charlotte Observer. http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/268591.html

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Seems like a “sin” to deny another of God’s children a chance to live by being “stupid” or vain or superstitious. Imagine arriving at the Pearly gates, where there’s a big queue, and being greeted by a big Purple EZPASS like sign that says “Express Lane for Organ Donors”? :-) As if there is such a thing as a Pearly Gate. More likely Minnie Pearle saying “Howdeee”. And, I have to laff at my older relatives who believed that they’d need all their parts in the after life. To steal Marv Alpert’s line, “if there is a next time”.

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MONEY: Money conveys information if not crowded out by gooferment noise

Monday, September 10, 2007

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle433-20070902-06.html

Thoughts About Money and Other Things
by L. Neil Smith

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Here’s why: the information that money conveys is called “price”—a word, in the study of economics, with a technical definition. Each of us contributes to the pool of that information whenever he buys something—or refrains from buying it—in the marketplace, as long as the marketplace, and the choices we all make, remain free and uncoerced.

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I think this is an important attribute of money that is often overlooked. (I know when I took economics I don’t think I heard this concept.)

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USA: The gooferement kills private rail

Sunday, September 9, 2007

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle433-20070902-05.html

 

Of Rails and Liberty
by Daniel G. Jennings
Jdangjenn@aol.com

Credit The Libertarian Enterprise

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Once upon a time, America had an efficient, cost effective transportation system technology that adequately served the needs of virtually all citizens. This transportation system utilized cutting edge high technology and didn’t run on imported energy sources like oil. Best of all this transportation was almost entirely owned and operated by private enterprise and developed without government money.

The year was 1910 and the transportation system was electric powered rail. Back in 1910 residents of most American urban areas could take an electric powered trolley car to work for about five cents. Private developers were expanding what we would call light rail networks to suburban and rural areas. Plans were even afoot for high speed electric powered trains that connected major cities similar to the Japanese and French bullet trains.

So what happened to this transportation system? Government and politicians got to work that’s happened. The politicians didn’t like rail because it was an efficient privately owned and operated transportation system that they couldn’t control. So they looked around for an alternative and found one: the automobile.

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Interesting?

Gooferment creates the problem. Then, “solves” it.

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Getting back Frau’s game

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Frau has one game she likes. I bought it for her eons ago. Naturally it doesn’t work on Vista. Argh! Trek back to the developer. It’s site suggested running it in compatibility mode. Works. But now it times out as unregistered. Luckily I have our serial number. Back to the developers site, and download. Install. (Twice. Vista burped.) Register it by typing in a huge serial number. (Darn, I’m good got it right on the first try despite Dell’s pop up in the middle of things. Let see what goes wrong next.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Power Napping

Sunday, September 9, 2007

http://ririanproject.com/2007/09/05/10-benefits-of-power-napping-and-how-to-do-it

10 Benefits of Power Napping, and How to Do It

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How Long Is A Good Nap?

# THE NANO-NAP: 10 to 20 seconds. Sleep studies haven’t yet concluded whether there are benefits to these brief intervals, like when you nod off on someone’s shoulder on the train.
# THE MICRO-NAP: two to five minutes. Shown to be surprisingly effective at shedding sleepiness.
# THE MINI-NAP: five to 20 minutes. Increases alertness, stamina, motor learning, and motor performance.
# THE ORIGINAL POWER NAP: 20 minutes. Includes the benefits of the micro and the mini, but additionally improves muscle memory and clears the brain of useless built-up information, which helps with long-term memory (remembering facts, events, and names).
# THE LAZY MAN’S NAP: 50 to 90 minutes. Includes slow-wave plus REM sleep; good for improving perceptual processing; also when the system is flooded with human growth hormone, great for repairing bones and muscles.

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Always seemed like a smart idea. But not in an american workplace.

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NATIONAL: Putting the gooferment in health care .. ya gotta be kiddin

Sunday, September 9, 2007

http://www.telegraphbusinessclub.co.uk/default.asp?p_id=search&showresults=1&showarticle=2261

A helping hand with checking patients

Consultant David Morgan tells Philip Smith why he’s invested in technology to give medical staff instant access to records.

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According to the National Patient Safety Agency, each year tens of thousands of NHS patients are given the wrong treatment or operation because of mistaken identity – and it can be very serious.

“There are the famous stories of people having the wrong kidney removed. As it was their only functioning kidney, the patients died,” said David Morgan, a consultant ENT surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands NHS Trust.

It’s a startling statistic even when placed in the context of a health service providing 49m hospital treatments a year. “The errors are usually the result of both human and system errors. It’s usually down to the operating list being changed at the last minute which can happen for a number of reasons,” he added.

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While doing casual duty while in the USAF waiting for orders in TX in 1970 (i.e., casual duty was making you a gopher while you were idle), I was assigned to the base hospital. (I had both civilian EMT training and the USAF survival schools under my belt.) In this role I was considered more useful than a candy stripper but less than a janitor. It was the first time, while waiting to transport a patient to the OR, that I saw an old full bird colonel surgeon say to a patient: “This leg, right?”. And, he had his crew of junior wanna bees, all agreeing. And, (I was stunned), he whips out this big old black magic marker and proceeds to write on the OTHER leg “wrong leg” all over it. He smiled knowingly and said “just to be sure”. Then to me “airmen, this man is ready for transport. Don’t drop him at the exit.” Everyone laughed at his joke. (He struck me as the kinda guy who didn’t take to mistakes.) Later, in my training, (that I never got to use), I was taught that when giving pain killers in the field to mark foreheads with Ax’s in lipstick and write details in magic marker on the stomach to prevent overdoses. Seems like these bozos in NHS could learn from the good colonel with some X’s and O’s. I think, if I was a patient, I’d have someone mark me as sort of self-help or self-defense. And we laff at witch doctors at least they don’t kill you with their pixie dust. Argh!

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JOBSEARCH: My quote for all my turkeys

Saturday, September 8, 2007

http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/My_generic_survival_pack.htm

I was quoted more than a decade ago in Execunet saying

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“Time has not stood still. Age is not respected. Experience is not valued. And, Education is not revered.”

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More true today than a decade ago.

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USA: Ron Paul’s after the debate report!

Saturday, September 8, 2007

FROM RON’S EMAIL TO THE FAITHFUL

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September 7, 2007

Has this been a hectic and encouraging time! First we got almost 17% in the Texas straw poll, an event set-up to represent the establishment, with very restrictive voting rules. That 17% of the Republican hierarchy would support our views, after a full day of pro-war propaganda, is good news. Then we won the more open Maryland Republican straw poll with 28%. In both cases, as usual, hard-working, well-organized volunteers made all the difference.

The Fox debate was a lot of fun as well. It’s true that a few of the network people are not exactly with us on foreign or domestic policy (though one famous guy whispered to me that he is a libertarian), but the audience-with lots of students from the University of New Hampshire-was definitely fair and balanced, as their enthusiastic reaction showed.

My opponents called for more war, more torture, more secret prisons, more eavesdropping, more presidential power. Some seemed to identify the government and the people as if they were one entity. But you and I know that once the government moves beyond its very limited constitutional mandate, it is an opponent of the people, a rip-off operation that takes our money and our freedom and our social peace, and gives us a mess of statist pottage in return.

The government failed miserably on 911 to protect us, despite spending trillions. So the answer was supposed to be the giant, socialist Department of Homeland Security, protecting you and me from taking our toothpaste on the airplane. I was ridiculed for saying that the airlines, which know best how to protect their property, should have been allowed to arm their pilots. But then, you and I really believe in the Second Amendment. It is not just a political slogan for us.

When I discussed the blowback that came from us intervening on the Arabian peninsula, Chris Wallace asked me if I wanted to follow the marching orders of al-Qaeda. I responded that I wanted to follow the marching orders of the Constitution, and not wage undeclared, aggressive wars that cause us only trouble. This is a mystifying to some, of course, but not to more and more Americans.

There was much talk of taxes, and a pledge not to raise rates. But as usual, I was not allowed to discuss my lifelong pledge to abolish the income tax. Just holding the line, when the government takes such vast sums through an illegitimate guilty-until-proven-innocent system, is hardly enough. We need to slash taxes and spending if we are to have a future of prosperity for ourselves and our families.

After the debate, many young people gathered around the stage to discuss our ideas and ask questions about them (and to have me sign their badges). My colleagues got no such response, and after a few moments, “security” ordered me off the stage. Can’t have any such demonstration of interest in liberty.

But the young are with us, and so are Americans of every stripe. Even party officials. When one of my opponent said it was OK to lose elections through supporting the Iraq war, that set party people’s teeth on edge, and rightly so. The Republican party is shrinking. We need new people. It’s either our ideas or President Hillary, and more and more people recognize it.

But the media, and everyone else, will be looking at fundraising totals at the end of this month. They’ll judge us by how we do. And we need help to wage what we hope will be a full-scale, 50-state campaign. Please help me head into the next quarter fully armed to do battle for freedom, peace and prosperity. Make your most generous contribution https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/. This Revolution is on the move, but it very much needs your support.

Sincerely,

Ron

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Go Ron Paul!

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PRODUCTIVITY: Put a little Zen in your daily reading

Saturday, September 8, 2007

http://zenhabits.net/

May I suggest that this site is worth the investment of your attention?

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