FLASH: U.S. soldier died in a non-hostile incident in northern Iraq

Sunday, April 10, 2011

http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2011/04/10/sunday-1-us-soldier-5-iraqis-killed-12-iraqis-wounded

Sunday: 1 US Soldier, 5 Iraqis Killed; 12 Iraqis Wounded

by Margaret Griffis, April 10, 2011

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At least five Iraqis were killed and 12 were wounded in light violence. Also, a U.S. soldier died in a non-hostile incident in northern Iraq.

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Bring them all home now!

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MEMORIES: I miss … Our Girl and my Scout

Sunday, April 10, 2011

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>so I’m thinking how many miles to the gallon did that monster get?

18 highway under 60mph. (Assuming of course you were were not in 4 wheel drive and had the “locking hubs” splines out. 4 wheel drive was for macho men in those days — you had to “lock in” the four hubs by hand and then shift the transfer case into 4 wheel high or 4 wheel low.) Ev used to have a hoot driving it. She was no ordinary woman — she understood the splines and had a nice touch with them. The Scout had springs but no shocks in the traditional sense to smooth the ride. Shocks as God intended them to be were only from the frame to the wheel to push the wheel to the pavement. Passengers were just a minor annoyance to International Harvester. Think John Deere on steroids. Good thing she knew how to drive a stick. You could also “lock out” all the wheels and tow it or run “power tools” off the take off — like an auger, a drill, or a power lift. :-) It was really a farm vehicle; I was planning to buy in Nevada, Vermont, or Maine. Life had other plans. :-(

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RANT: The most murderous institution in human history; time for a new meme?

Sunday, April 10, 2011

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/84684.html

Oppose DC? You Must Hate Mankind

Posted by Thomas Woods on April 4, 2011 03:27 PM

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Would it have been wrong for the states to try to nullify the internment of the Japanese in the 1940s?

Was it wrong for Wisconsin, expressly citing the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 (which introduced nullification into the American political lexicon), to oppose the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

Is the federal war on drugs just A-OK, even though it’s been called the new Jim Crow, just because it happens to be carried out by our wise overlords in Washington rather than by the states?

Would it have been easier or more difficult for the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century to carry out their atrocities against vulnerable minorities (whether Jews or Ukrainian “kulaks” as the case may be) had those countries instead been loose confederations of states?

In other words, although states at all levels are capable of great enormities, why is the moral benefit of the doubt given to the most murderous institution in human history, instead of to those decentralizing forces that seek to limit its predatory behavior?

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Why do we tolerate the Gooferment?

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