http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0503g.asp
Professor Williams does Economics in ten lessons.
You get a whiz thru an interesting area. And, you’ll come out the other side, looking for the flaw in every politician’s argument.
LIBERTY: Economics is about choices. It’s nice to have some.
Monday, October 30, 2006
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TECHNOLOGY: HUDDLE has a typo!
Sunday, October 29, 2006http://www.gohuddle.com/pricing.asp
choosing the right package for you
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Manage multiple huddles form your homepage
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Not inspiring when you have a typo on a features / pricing page.
I have typos, often lots of them, but I’m not trying to separate you from your money!
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LIBERTY: a scary video
Sunday, October 29, 2006
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LIBERTY: Micro-Finance as opposed to gubamint handouts
Saturday, October 28, 2006http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=348
Micro-Finance: A Way Out of Poverty
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow in Economics
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Since those early beginnings, Yunus and the Grameen Bank have financed literally millions of small projects. A $50 loan allows a woman to buy chickens so she can sell eggs. As the chickens multiply, she has more eggs to sell. Eventually she can sell the chicks as well. The New York Times reported on one woman in India who started with a $50 loan and a 20-chicken farm. She now has $2,000 in borrowing power, a huge sum for her community. Overall, 98 percent of loans are repaid.
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No gubamint! How could it possibly succeed?
Freedom. Honesty is inherent in the human condition. It’s in the genes.
We can beat poverty!
There will still be poor people, but there will be prosperous poor people.
And, no government overhead. No government graft. Just peaceful markets.
LIBERTY: Air America is a campaign finance law end run
Friday, October 27, 2006http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20061025-092624-1737r.htm
Special treatment for Air America
By John R. Lott Jr. and Bradley A. Smith
Published October 26, 2006
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When is a campaign donation not a campaign donation? Apparently if you spend the money to run a radio program instead of paying for campaign ads that run on that same program. Just look at Air America. With $41 million in losses since 2004, and $9.8 million owed just to Robert Glaser, RealNetworks chairman, Democrats who bankrolled this “company” weren’t so much investors as campaign contributors. The losses are seen as simple business ineptitude,but Air America effectively, and perhaps intentionally, cleverly avoided the campaign finance limits which Democrats had worked so hard to pass.
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First Amendment? Gone. Courtesy of McCain Feingold.
Keep all that dirty money out of campaigns. Except for incumbents and friends of incumbents.
My rule: No vote for incumbents. No votes for Big Gubamint candidates. Small Government! All the time; no exceptions.
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LIBERTY: A libertarian columnist hasn’t produced anything for a while
Thursday, October 26, 2006http://www.reviewjournal.com/columnists/suprynowicz.html
Is he an enemy combatant?
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LIBERTY: Muslim cleric’s claim that women are ‘uncovered meat’. What a hoot!
Thursday, October 26, 2006http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/
news.html?in_article_id=412697&in_page_id=1770
Outrage as Muslim cleric likens women to ‘uncovered meat’
By RICHARD SHEARS Last updated at 16:10pm on 26th October 2006
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A Muslim cleric’s claim that women who do not wear the veil are like ‘uncovered meat’ who attract sexual predators sparked outrage around Australia yesterday.
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This one is a real corker.
Now, anyone is entitled to believe whatever they want. And, I’ll defend their right to be wrong, unpopular, and dumb. Having said that, let’s take a gander at what he said.
(1) Men are incapable of self-control.
(2) Women are so attractive that men are powerless.
(3) And, in his world, women are better off locked up at home.
That’s my translation.
In my world, men universally respect women for the valuable things they do that we can’t do, can’t do well, or are not in someway suited to do.
Bear children. Comfort children. Clean up after children.
(I recognize that men don’t clean like women do.)
Those are valuable. Even more so, if all the women are locked up at home, we have just cut the labor available by 50%. And, some of that is a very SMART 50%.
The Intelligent Designer made men and women attractively different. It works best as an equal partnership imho.
AND, if you believe this cleric, the certainly you want to arm all the “uncovered meat” with a nice girly gun like the 380 so they can protect themselves from all those men with uncontrollable urges.
Only a man could come up with a hoot like this. Women have too much common sense.
And, by the way, where are all the leftist women’s libbers? If this guy was a republicrat or democan, then they’d be screaming for his head on a pike.
Do we detect some different standards here?
You just have to love it. Freedom isn’t free. And certainly not without rebutal.
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TECHNOLOGY: FIREFOX2 (FFX2) needs a Google Web Accelerator plug in update
Thursday, October 26, 2006Hmmm, Google lagging behind the tech curve?
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LIBERTY: Get the gubamint out of the marriage business
Thursday, October 26, 2006http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061025/D8KVS3P00.html
NJ Court Stops Short of Gay Marriage OK
Oct 25, 3:58 PM (ET) By GEOFF MULVIHILL
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey’s Supreme Court opened the door to gay marriage Wednesday, ruling that homosexuals are entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals, but leaving it to lawmakers to legalize same-sex unions.
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I think the issue is about the WRONG question entirely.
Once again the politicians, and judges are really nothing more than unelected politicians, have once again succeeded in misdirecting us.
WHY is the gubamint involved in marriage at all?
Marriage “regulation” stems from the racist past when busy bodies want to prevent black men from marrying white women.
The Constitutional State has no business in anyone’s “marriage”. Gay, straight, or Irish / Italian.
This is the proper role for Churches.
The various laws and tax code “giving” benefits to “married people” is just wrong.
SO, let’s focus on the correct issue. Get the gubamint out of the marriage business. Period!
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LIBERTY: The FTL boys hit the gubamint skools as why we’re apathetic
Wednesday, October 25, 2006http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=8549.0
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The real problem with school is not that it is a monopoly, controlled by the unions, or funded by a gang of violent thugs.
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On the contrary, the whole concept of a government funded and run system of public education comes to us from pre-WW1 Germany where the purpose was to train young men to be good soldiers (i.e., cannon fodder). I remember some specific points from somewhere about: discipline; answering to bells; and separation from their families. In the USA, it was championed by avowed socialists who saw it as a way of getting the country to adopt socialism.
It worked.
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The idea that most kids need anything more than the basic skills of reading, writing, and dealing with money is crazy, and even these skills are not best taught by schools Students should be free to learn what they want to learn, based on the opportunities and responsibilities which their parents provide.
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Agreed. But where do they learn all the skills prized by the state like conformity and obedience to the enlightened? Where do they learn contempt for their parent’s religious beliefs? When do they learn the state’s religion — relativistic secular humanism? Where do they learn violence? Where do they learn that they are just powerless cogs?
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I wish I had been taught: political principles, Libertarianism, non-violence, practical economics (financial independence), the Bible (not religion), the science of health (not medicine or biology), committed relationships (not sex-education), gardening, solar power, biodiesel, building, computer programming, practical design (not art), etc.
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I’d throw in: Individual self-reliance, Independent inter-dependence, and the teaching of the meme’s: Christ, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Churchill, Mother Teresa, and perhaps Harry Browne.
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2. The second is that kids are entitled to an education.
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There is no “right” to an education. And there is certainly no “right” that makes me pay for it.
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Want to deregulate the schools? Let students choose teachers, and teachers compete for students. The one thing that would do the most good for education, is to make the whole thing voluntary. Make no student attend any class they didn’t want to attend, and make no teacher teach any student that they didn’t want to teach.
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Repeal mandatory attendance laws.
I wrote a transition plan that says it would take us 40 years to kill the gubamint’s skools.
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If a teacher didn’t have any students, they wouldn’t get paid.
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Sounds right to me.
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