Reinke Faces Life

http://www.dillonprecision.com/docs/Sept_07_Return_of_pocket_pistol.pdf

This fellow makes a good argument for the 380 “girlie gun” as represented by the Argentine Bersa. I’ve never seen one, but it looks smooth.

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FROM A FACEBOOK exchange:

Daniel Buk wrote 56 minutes ago
re: Joe Biden for President ’08

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Actually, he admitted he made a mistake. He quoted Neil Kinnock before in his speeches and always attributed. However, he made a mistake once in which he forgot to attribute quotes to the British politician.

As for calling him a ‘statist socialist’, he is not. None of the candidates are socialists. However, if you point specifically to what you think is “socialist” in Biden’s record, then I could properly address those issues. Nevertheless, I assure you that Biden is not a “statist socialist.”

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He still has no executive experience. And, he is a Big Government Democrat. (A duplication in terms.) I think all the candidates with the exception of Ron Paul are socialists. Not one of the others seeks to reduce the size of the government. With out being nasty, these candidates are just more of the same stuff. (I leave it to the imagination what kind of stuff I think they are full of.)

IMHO All you really need to ask is one question. How does the candidate stand on gun control? It’s the litmus test of freedom and liberty. If they are for gun control, then they want to be able to control the people. If they are against it, then they trust the people.

As I see it, there are either of two memes: (1) people are basically good; or (2) people are basically bad. If they are good, then we only need a small government to protect our freedoms from force or fraud. If they are bad, then we want a small weak government because when bad people get in control of it we will be oppressed.

Either way, we need a much much smaller government. I’ve been working for a number of years and the government has continually taxed me heavily for services that I neither want, nor asked for. When the taxes are confiscatory, rebellion is the only answer.

Over the years, the government has become adept at hiding how much we are paying. I’ve seen estimates between 40% and 100%+. (The hundred per centers attempt to calculate the inflation tax paid by anyone holding dollars or things denominated in dollars. Hence your savings are being silently confiscated!) Even if we take a low number like 50%, when I say some one takes from me by threat of force (Taxes are NOT voluntary!) half of my production, am I not half a slave?

When Biden recants his Big Government voting record, then we can have another conversation. Until then, I’m immune to their siren songs of how good it will be if we just get the right people in office.

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http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1948234.ece

Armed for first day of school

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Hundreds of thousands of students had their first day of school on Monday. Some of them had to learn to carry guns and be prepared to shoot — polar bears.

Students on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard aren’t allowed to leave their village without a shotgun and ammunition. That’s because hungry polar bears can be behind every swing on the island.

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Now that’s common sense. Don’t we here have two legged varmints that need a suitable discouragement device?

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertBluey/2007/08/19/veterans%e2%80%99_groups_prepare_for_battle_on_capitol_hill

Veterans’ Groups Prepare for Battle on Capitol Hill
By Robert Bluey
Sunday, August 19, 2007

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While not every veteran will follow the same route as Emanuel, the goal is to motivate as many as possible to become engaged in the political process, either by writing about their war experience or voicing their views to members of Congress.

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Now while I personally think these “Wars” — on “terror”, on “drugs”, in Iraq, in Afganistan, and in a myriad of other venues — are lost, I want my fellow vets to step up and speak up. I maintain we haven’t been in a Constitutional War since World War 2. Nor have we be in a War of national defense since 1812. War is too important to be left to these chicken sh … ahh, hawk REMFs. I never personally experienced “hot fire” but just having been exposed to the chance I might changed me. Changed from a Hollywood John Wayne Fort Apache Back to Batan starry eyed kid to a mature confirmed libertarian. When the invaders hit the US of A, then I’m a hawk. Till then I’m a porcupine. And, I want every combat vet or near combat vet to tell these congress critters that we are not going to take their “barbara streisand” any more. Bring the troops home and make good on the promise of medical care for our fellow vets who were wounded without a lot of administrative red tape.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/08/free_speech_and_the_university.html

August 17, 2007
Free speech and the University of Maryland
Thomas Lifson

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The mind boggles. A student buying food in the student union at UMD wearing a shirt saying “I stand for Israel” is denied service by a clerk who says, “Your shirt offends me, I won’t ring you up.” So was free speech defended on campus?

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I know a UofM alum. I wonder what he thinks of this story. All too often, we forget that these “schools” are extensions of the gooferment and subject to the same Constitutional restrictions as any other part of the gooferment.

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeGallagher/
2007/08/17/churches_have_no_business_harboring_illegals

Churches have no business harboring illegals
By Mike Gallagher
Friday, August 17, 2007

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What happens when a criminal who seeks and receives sanctuary in a church in order to escape prosecution eventually leaves the church?

Good-bye, sanctuary.

Hello, real world.

The soap opera of a woman named Elvira who repeatedly snuck into our country in order to take a job and defy immigration laws is like an episode right out of “The Twilight Zone.” Somehow, she managed to find herself at the doorstep of some Methodist Church in Chicago.

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Sorry, I grew up on Robin Hood movie where the Church gave sanctuary from the King and the pueblo Franciscan gave sanctuary to the poor Mexican peasants. If an escaping slave in pre-Civil War America took refuge in a Church, then shouldn’t the practice of sanctuary have protected him.

If fact, imho, the First Amendment renders the gooferment impotent when it comes to Churches. Churches generically including all Houses of Worship. Just as we’ll free a hundred guilty men to keep one innocent man from being wrongly convicted, so to we will suspend our pursuits of “evil doers” when Houses of Worship are involved.

Now, let’s examine the validity of “immigration law”. Working within the historical perspective of Dred Scott, not every law is to be obeyed. On what Constitutional basis does Congress derive the power to regulate immigration. Seems from my reading that it is a topic that was left with the individual States.

Now let’s think about stray cats and the Statue of Liberty. If you feed stray cats, then don’t be surprised when you are overrun by freeloaders. One of the problems I have with soup kitchens feeding the “homeless” is that it encourages more “homeless”. The Statue of Liberty states America’s willingness to accept ALL yearning to be free. And, willing to work to earn their keep. So immigration law is to prevent freeloading immigrants. But, I object to freeloading natives just as much. So if we eliminate welfare, free medical care, and free education, then we can also eliminate the concept of “illegal immigrant”. I envision the “immigration fence” replaced with a red carpet that says “Welcome to America”, right this way for your free physical, and “do you need any directions?”. We make the operator of the plane or boat responsible for the return trip of the sick or criminals. And open up the Golden Door.

America can be the shining city again.

Sorry, Mike Gallagher, I think your wrong about sanctuary. The conservative big gooferment statists are as wrong as the liberal big gooferment statists. It’s only with a return to the Original Intent will we find the energy that made America a once great nation. Gooferment only makes all of us poorer and less free.

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http://www.gazette.com/opinion/county_25986___article.html/sick_time.ht

Unarmed lawmaker mugged by reality
– Colorado Springs Gazette (Second article)

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The Colorado Springs Gazette writes: “We wouldnt wish getting mugged on anyone; being the victim of a violent crime is a terrifying experience. But we do hope other anti-firearms legislators can learn from DeBoses experience and realize that people have a right to defend themselves and their loved ones. In a free society, the government shouldnt prevent them from doing so.”

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The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed.

Dead Old white Guys were pretty smart!

Too bad we’re so dumb. The police are just the clean up squad. By definition, they can’t arrive until after trouble starts. Like the bumper sticker says “Dial 911 and die!”.

It is ironic when the anti-gun legislator wishes he had a gun. Usually the “elite” vote themselves special privileges. Wonder how he felt being part of the serf class?

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http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070813/EDITORIAL/108130006/1013

Bearing arms
Scott McPherson
August 13, 2007

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Scott McPherson of the Future of Freedom Foundation writes: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms is an important and integral part of what it means to be an American. In fact, it could be said to represent the most important and integral part of being an American. When our ancestors followed the example of half the state governments and included a “right to arms” provision in the Federal Bill of Rights, they unapologetically and irrefutably established a nation of free and autonomous individuals.”

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Hopefully, we can get control of the government without using the final “check” in the Constitution’s “Checks and Balances”. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem unavoidable.

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http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/13/commentary/lashinsky_atlas.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007081406url

Why is America falling apart? Ask Ayn Rand
Collapsing bridges, flooded subways, trapped miners: our recent disasters recall a novel from a half century ago. Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky explores the nation’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ moment.
FORTUNE Magazine
By Adam Lashinsky, Fortune senior writer
August 14 2007: 6:16 AM EDT

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As for the political leadership, infrastructure spending is one of those rare instances where President Bush’s take is spot-on correct, though his words likely won’t be heeded because he is so unpopular and divisive. (The immigration debate, where the president has been pragmatic and right from the beginning, also comes to mind.) Asked if gasoline taxes should be raised to pay for infrastructure improvements, the president chastised Congress for favoring attention-getting new projects over boring maintenance needs.

He’s right. Liberals like Chuck Schumer agree. “Routine but important things like maintenance always get shortchanged because it’s nice for somebody to cut a ribbon for a new structure,” Schumer recently told the New York Times.

Today’s Randians, of course, have an answer to our woes: Privatize everything. No way a bridge falls if a profit-seeking company, properly incentivized, had been charged with maintaining it, goes the argument. That, however, is dangerous thinking. There are certain things the market just can’t be trusted to handle. Imagine that bridge-maintenance company having to cut expenses this quarter by delaying work for just a few days. Imagine how the CEO might feel if the stock would drop if he couldn’t make the quarter.

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Of course, the CEO of the bridge maintenance company might delay maintenance for a profit. But, I’ll bet a dollar that the insurance company and the Board of Directors, and their insurance companies, will be all over his ass!

If there is a one thing that insurance companies know, it that collecting premiums is much more profitable than paying claims.

And, auditors usually report directly to the Audit Committee of the BoD. All they have to do is whisper that there is a problem and everyone is running around like their shorts are on fire to solve it.

So, I’d suggest that we would all be far safer if the gooferment got out of planning, operating, and maintaining anything.

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http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle430-20070812-04.html

The Problem with Conservatives
by Sean Gangol

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It reminded me of the reasons why I chose Libertarianism, instead of becoming a die-hard conservative. If you truly want to live in a free society, you must have tolerance for things you don’t like. You may not like abortion, drugs or homosexuality, but these are things you have to co-exist with if you want to live free. If you are the type that want control over other people’s bodies or if you want to treat a certain group of people like secondary citizens, then a police state is the only place you belong.

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Sounds reasonable to me.

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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/08/12/zimbabwes_horrors/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Jeff+Jacoby+columns

Zimbabwe’s horrors By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | August 12, 2007

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NO ONE is surprised when a Roman Catholic bishop condemns the violence of war. But when was the last time you heard of one pleading for a military invasion?

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No, sorry, it’s not up to the taxpayers to fund a “nation building” exercise. As we learned in Iraq, you can’t build a nation without using force. And, you become the bad guy

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http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3188

New Jersey State Police Seeking to Enact Further Firearms Restrictions by Regulation
Monday, August 06, 2007

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Please Mail Your Comments in Today!

The New Jersey State Police recently issued new rule proposals for the regulation of firearms, magazines, and retailers in the Garden State. If approved, these regulations will have the rule of law without ever being debated by our legislators in Trenton, turning thousands of unsuspecting citizens into felons!

The proposal would do the following: It would require law-abiding gun owners to surrender or pay to render their “large capacity” magazines permanently blocked. Possession of a temporarily blocked “large capacity” magazine would be a crime. Certain semi-automatic shotguns and handguns would be classified as “assault firearms” because of cosmetic features, which have not been named in any statute enacted by the New Jersey Legislature. Another proposal seeks to harass lawful owners and retailers of “assault firearms” by requiring that licensed dealers who accept an “assault firearm” and/or machine gun from a citizen for transfer, resale, or repair must notify the Superintendent of the State Police within 48 hours. Also, all firearms sold by retailers would be mandated to be secured by steel cable. Finally, the proposal forces those placing handguns on consignment to produce a new permit to retake possession of the handgun.

Law-abiding firearm owners have until Friday, August 17 to voice their opposition to the new rules and the Superintendent needs to hear from you today! Public comments will only be accepted by mail.

STAND UP AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
PLEASE MAIL YOUR COMMENTS IN TODAY!

Please cut and paste the below letter onto a new page, date, sign, and mail to the listed address:

Date:

Colonel Joseph R. Fuentes, Superintendent
New Jersey State Police
PO Box 7068
West Trenton, New Jersey 08638

Attn: Firearms Investigation Unit
Re: Comments to PRN 2007-199

Dear Colonel Fuentes:

As a law-abiding New Jersey firearm owner, I respectfully object to, and urge you to not to implement certain proposed changes to the New Jersey Administrative Code set forth in your Rule Proposal dated June 18, 2007. These proposed changes would unilaterally turn thousands of honest citizens into criminals. Furthermore, it would impose this legal jeopardy in the complete absence of legislative intent, debate, and open discussion.

For many years, numerous state authorities have issued formal written advice to law abiding citizens, licensed firearm dealers, and police officers around the state permitting temporary blocking of magazines. Thousands of people have relied upon that advice by purchasing, possessing, transferring, transporting, and selling temporarily blocked magazines. These people would be forced to either surrender their private property with no compensation or pay to render their magazines permanently blocked. Rule proposal 13:54-1.2 will make thousands of unsuspecting, law-abiding firearm owners who are unaware of this dramatic reversal into felons by classifying a temporarily blocked magazine as a “large capacity magazine.

Also, under 13:54-1.2, certain semi-automatic shotguns, the most “commonly used firearm” by New Jersey sportsmen and semi-automatic pistols with common features, would be classified as “assault firearms” even though some of the supposedly undesirable shotgun features are particularly helpful to disabled shooters. Many of the supposedly undesirable features listed have not been identified in any statute passed by the New Jersey Legislature and are tantamount to new legislation even though legislating is beyond the scope of the executive branch.

Rule proposal 13:54-5.1 Section (c) assumes illegal activity without probable cause upon the firearm owner and forces the retailer to delay sometimes needed repair by mandating that licensed dealers who accept an “assault firearm” and/or machine gun from a citizen for transfer, resale, or repair notify the Superintendent within 48 hours. Delaying repairs pending approval by the Superintendent of Police will only add to greater expense and unjustified inconvenience for the firearm owner and lost business for the retailer.

New Jersey already mandates some of the toughest security measures for firearm retailers in the country. Additions to rule 13:54-6.5 would impose significant financial impacts upon retail firearm dealers by requiring dealers whose firearms are on display to secure firearms by a steel cable. Cabled firearms are more likely to “dry-fire” as the cable rests on the triggers of the firearms. Dry-firing can be particularly harmful to shotguns and antique firearms causing damage to the firing pins and actions of the firearms. Securing firearms by steel cables could also result in deep scrapes and permanent damage of those firearms and force retailers to sell the items for significantly less than the suggested retail value.

Rule proposal 13:54-3.20 forces those who place firearms on consignment to produce a new permit to purchase a handgun even though they may have dropped off the firearm as early as one day previously. This will place a new unnecessary burden on licensing authorities to reissue permits. This proposed regulation could redirect what is currently a safe and legal commerce to the black market.

I object to these proposals and urge you not to implement them.

Sincerely,

P.S.: How do you rationalize these rules with the Second Amendment to the US Constitution?

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Argh!

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http://www.survivalblog.com/2007/08/jims_quote_of_the_day_533.html

Jim’s Quote of the Day:

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“The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” – George Orwell

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There ought a be a law. Oh yeah, there was … … the Second Amendment!

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http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3190

Missouri Cities Take Aim at Your Second Amendment Rights and Hunting Heritage!
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

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On August 2, in a speedy and quiet manner, the City of Maryland Heights enacted a far-reaching, ominous ordinance that bans all discharge of firearms within the city limits. In taking this draconian swipe at law-abiding gun owners, the City Council has effectively stripped gun owners of their ability to sport shoot, hunt and defend themselves and their loved ones from a violent attack! That’s right, under the new ordinance, even the discharge of a firearm in self-defense is banned in Maryland Heights!

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What kind of stupidity is this?

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http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle429-20070805-03.html

This Hurricane Season
by Sean Gangol

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Yes, George deserves his share of the blame. However people seemed to forget that the local governments didn’t handle the emergences any better. The mayor of New Orleans is the one I blame the most. The man acted surprised when his city ended up underwater. Gee, who would ever think that a city that was built below sea level would be prone to flooding? I remember going to New Orleans ten years ago and hearing the locals dread the day that the big one would hit. Apparently the locals have known for a long time that New Orleans was destined to be hit with a catastrophic hurricane. So why is it that a city official never thought to plan ahead for a disaster like Katrina?

Then there were members of the New Orleans’ PD that showed compassion for their citizens by going door to door confiscating legally owned firearms. Of course they had to take the guns out of the hands of law-biding citizens; so that they could protect the officers that participated in the looting.

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When one plans your personal recovery effort, where you cache your weapons is a critical choice. Considering how the gooferment quickly confiscates them, you should have some spares put away.

Remember the Jews being rounded up and sent to the camps.

Can’t happen here? Have you forgotten the Japanese Internment, Katrina, and all the other demonstrations of the gooferment’s SOP.

Yup, I believe deep in my heart, that if each Jewish family had a gun when the storm trooper broke in and just killed the first thug, the Nazis would have run out of thugs very quickly.

So to, here in the new USAMERIKA, there will come a time when they will be coming. How will you meet them? As docile as a sheep, or like a porcupine?

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Arrests at the IRS office

The FreeStaters are taking on the IRS and Homeland Security. No First Amendment Rights in Federal Buildings? That’s news to me. And, I bet it would shock most lawyers.

—–Original Message—–
From: Luddite
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 9:46 PM
Subject: Guns or Butter?

That is the question, isn’t it right now? Money to spend on guns for the war, or money to spend on repairing a weak infrastructure? We probably can’t afford both, since we can’t afford what we spend now!

***My Response***

Not only can’t we afford the guns, or the butter. The financial house is rotten to the core! There are so many chickens coming home to roost, it’s hard to itemize them all. Let’s take a few big hitters:

* The money has no backing hence we have institutionalized inflation that jacks costs, taxes, and gooferment salaries.

* The Chinese and Japanese are send us stuff for green pix of dead presidents.

* Social security trust fund.

* Medicare/Medicaid/The drug benefit.

* Unfunded liabilities like gooferment pensions.

* Gooferment education making us globally uncompetitive.

* Laws, regulation, and diktats that make entrepreneurial activity near impossible.

* A large portion of the population with an entitlement mentality.

* The phony drug war.

* Multi-generation welfare “farmers”.

* Rich people gaming the system to capture “benefits’.

* Fascism where regulators and those regulators conspire to screw the people, consumers, and the country.

Did I overlook anything?

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Upon reflection, perhaps I wasn’t strident enough. Just about any one of these things would kill an empire. But, again as they say in football, “after further review”, it’s our paradigms and memes that are going to kill us. And kill off the American experiment. And where do we get those? From Gooferment Education!

Gooferment is in “education” up to its nose. There seems to be a federal rule about everything. And, what has it done for us? Created minds full of mush. That’s probably our biggest obstacle to a solution. We are creating people, half of whom might vote in elections, who haven’t learned the basics. In the one size fits all education system, doesn’t ever pretend to attempt to maximize output. Genius or dullard, both get the same “education”. No wonder people revolt.

In today’s global economy, we can’t afford to waste a single brain. I’ve laughed when Iran had the fashion police. They are putting half their brain power on hold. Bad for them; good for us. We should encourage them to propagate that idea around the world. Meanwhile, we need to allow all our people the freedom and liberty to outperform the world.

And, that starts with education. It’s too important to be left tot he gooferment.

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http://www.smallgovernmentact.org

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COMING SOON! The 2008 Ballot Initiative to END the Massachusetts Income Tax

We nearly did it in 2002, winning 45.3% of the vote! We came so close!

The state constitution required us to sit out two election cycles before trying it again. We did, and now the 2008 election year is upon us. We’re gunna run “End the Income Tax” again in 2008!

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Carla is going to make another run at killing the income tax. Hope she succeeds. I urge anyone living in Taxachusetts to join her.

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You Choose ’08 Spotlight: Ron Paul on the IRS

You have to like any candidate that wants to nuke the IRS and the income tax. I’d like to see a stake through the heart on this engine of Big Gooferment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/washington/06nsa.html?ei=5065&en=4e05f95a4b60ac78&ex=1187064000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=printtiny

August 6, 2007
Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping
By JAMES RISEN

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 — President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government’s authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants.

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Wave good bye to the Fourth Amendment.

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https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/

Since New Jersey is a solidly Democratic state, it frustrating not to be able to add to the momentum. By the time, primary time comes the issue will be decided. And, in any event, the likelyhood of out voting all the socialists here is next to nil.

So what can a NuJerzeeeian to do?

(1) Put my money where my mouth is. So, I’m making monthly contributions. Nag everyone I know to support Ron Paul by doing the same thing.

(2) Point out the good things that Ron Paul stands for and his track record.

(3) Vote up the Ron Paul message on all the various sites.

Miss anything?

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http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1185942106132290.xml&coll=1url

Black bears getting grisly across state
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
BY FRED J. AUN
For the Star-Ledger

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Scary incidents involving black bears keep happening across North Jersey even as the Corzine Administration continues to say hunting is not a valid way to stop them.

*** AND ***

Despite these close calls, the DEP’s commissioner, who canceled the 2006 bear hunt, remains steadfast in her position that non-lethal methods of bear control must prove to be failures before a tried-and-true means of wildlife population control — hunting — will be allowed.

Commissioner Lisa Jackson … …

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Does the Commissioner go to prison WHEN someone get seriously hurt or worse?

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http://www.dayzerothemovie.com/

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Drafted … Thirty days to report for duty.

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So why do we still have the draft law still on the books? Didn’t the 16th free the slaves?

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http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_14.15.html

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[4] Department of Health Proposes New Records System

On June 26, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed to establish the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Patient Treatment and Tracking Records System. The goal of this new records system is to collect individual health data from people receiving medical care provided by NDMS. The NDMS is a joint effort between HHS, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Veteran’s Administration to provide additional resources to supplement the public health and health care actions local and state governments provide during emergencies. Under the proposal, all persons treated by NDMS medical staff may have their health data recorded and placed into a record system. This would include demographic information as well as data regarding patient diagnosis, treatment, and location. This data may be obtained from the individual patients, their physicians, or by access to the health records of patients.

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Err, no thanks. And, what if I chose not to wnat to pay for it! Why the local version of the “Sherriff of Notingham” will come down and make me.

Argh!

Where’s Robin Hood when you need him?

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National Right to Life Convention

May I call your attention to what I think is an excellent video about right to life. Note that we as a nation have to have a discussion about this very important moral issue. While I came down solidly on the “Life” side, I am also a little L libertarian. So, I’m not going to force anyone to do anything. We are going to have a discussion, (it’s already going on), and people will do what is right. NO gooferment involvement!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QL3RVO0&show_article=1

Cops: Man, 93, Shoots Violent Robber
Jul 27 02:46 PM US/Eastern

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EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) – An elderly man beaten unconscious by an assailant wielding a soda can awoke and shot the man during an attempted robbery, police said.

Willie Lee Hill, 93, told police he saw the robber while in his bedroom Wednesday night. Hill confronted the man and was struck at least 50 times, police said. He was knocked unconscious.

Covered in blood, Hill regained consciousness a short time later and pulled a .38-caliber handgun on his attacker. The suspect, Douglas B. Williams Jr., saw the gun and charged the man, who fired a bullet that struck Williams in the throat, police said.

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My only criticism is that the old gent didn’t clean up the gene pool while he was at it. When you’re in that situation, you just empty the gun at the bad guy.

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