GUNS: City infringes

Monday, May 25, 2009

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/915329.html

POSTED: Tuesday, May. 19, 2009
Bellingham drafts ban on gun sales
Law would affect areas near primary, secondary schools
JARED PABEN – THE BELLINGHAM HERALD

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BELLINGHAM – Guns sales would still be allowed within 500 feet of day cares and colleges, but they’d be banned near public and private primary and secondary schools, under a new city proposal.

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What part of “shall not be infringed” do these politicians not understand?

Do gun sales near a school threaten the school? Perhaps, if some of the teachers and staff were armed, then it wouldn’t be a “TARGET”! Arm the custodians and it would give new meaning to “take out the trash”.

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LIBERTY: Memorial Day; very sad

Monday, May 25, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day

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A lot of good men, and even some women, paid the ultimate price getting us to where we are now. Memorial Day remembers them.

And, that their sacrifice should not be in vane.

Sigh, sadly, I’m not so sure we appreciate it.

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RANT: Unidine or Obama’s Heathcare proxy

Monday, May 25, 2009

RANT: Unidine or Obama’s Heathcare proxy

LADIES4LIBERTY do a skit for universal dining … err, healthcare. Hey, amateur? Yes! Dead on accurate? Yes! See your local VA patron for how they feel about gooferment health care.

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INTERESTING: Carrier targets

Monday, May 25, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/a_memorial_in_naval_history.html

May 25, 2009
A Memorial in Naval History
By Jan LaRue

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Japanese hubris contributed to the loss of their carriers. Their decks, painted bright yellow with the infamous red dot, were perfect targets for our bomber pilots. The decks of our carriers were painted blue, like the sea.

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Re: the Battle of Midway

I never heard that before?

May need some confirmation of that!

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INTERESTING: Memorial Day war movies

Monday, May 25, 2009

It’s with mixed emotion that I watch the “war movies” that inhabit the old TV movie channels on “patriotic” holidays. Now, I have no illusions why they are showing the genre. Not that they are “patriots”. But, it does get an audience of those wistful for the simpler times, those seeking “action”, and those who have illusions of what war is.

People, mostly men, die!

You can lose sight of that fact in their silver screen propaganda.

Argh!

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INTERESTING: 50 year old ocean flow mode is wrong; “global warming”?

Monday, May 25, 2009

Ocean Circulation Doesn’t Work As Expected

from Slashdot by kdawson

techno-vampire writes with word that a long-accepted model of deep ocean currents is inaccurate. Deep Sea News has a summary of the research, to be published in Nature. The Woods Hole press release has more details. “A 50 year old model of global thermohaline circulation that predicts a deep Atlantic counter current below the Gulf Stream is now formally called into question by an armada of subsurface RAFOS floats drifting 700 – 1500m deep. Nearly 80% of the RAFOS floats escaped the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC), drifting into the open ocean. This confirms suspicions that have been around since the 1990’s, and likely plays havoc with global models of climate change.”

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A fifty year old model is wrong! And “global warming” is based on what model? How old?

Argh!

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INTERESTING: The origination of “America”

Sunday, May 24, 2009

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I thought America (i.e., the USA) was founded by LEFT-wing extremists. They were essentially LIBERTARIANS. At least Jefferson was. Everyone other than Hamilton and the Federalists. The Anit-Federalist definitely were LEFT.

imho

The problem is that Democrats have forgotten they are the party of civil liberties and the Republicans have forgotten they are the party of smaller government.

Too bad, Mister Jefferson, it was a nice try. And, too bad, Mister Franklin, we couldn’t keep it.

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RANT: Taxpayers pay for sports socialism

Sunday, May 24, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026830.html

May 18, 2009
No Thanks, Emperor
Posted by Lew Rockwell at May 18, 2009 09:46 AM

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Finally, when you take into account the way local taxpayers always seem to foot the bill for stadia and arenas, it is clear that we have sports socialism in this country, just like the bread and circuses of old Rome. I love sports, but I think this country desperately needs separation of sports and state.

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I think we should have the separation of the “state” from everything. Can we put DC on the space telescope?

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INTERSTING: PA or PIA

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Role of “Patient Advocate” (or PIA)

  • Record keeping — chronology — doctors are confusing
  • Schedule, execute, and follow up — docs and labs
      
  • Insurance and financial manager

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There is a need to keep a lifetime chronology.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Save 13k$ per day by moving? I’d be gone tomorrow.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/new_york_taxpayers_voting_with.html

May 18, 2009
New York Taxpayers voting with their feet
Ethel C. Fenig

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Proving former President Ronald Reagan’s (R) adage that taxpayers vote with their feet, Tom Precious of the Buffalo News reports that billionaire Buffalo Sabres’ owner Thomas Golisano will save a reported $13,000 a day by moving from NY to Florida – punishing high income workers in New York state with a huge tax increase

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See the gooferment in general, politicians and bureaucrats in particular, forget that the rich can modify their behavior. The poor have no such luxury.

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