RANT: We need to “liberate” drugs

Monday, August 10, 2009

Don’t give in to the state
Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed

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“Libertarians who fight for marijuana rights should never compromise on rights. They should never meekly beg to be legalized and taxed and regulated. They should never give in to the state. It’s the state, after all, who’s in the wrong, so make the state give in to you. That means demanding your rights as free and sovereign individuals, long and loud and persistently. And when the state finally comes around, offering to compromise its position by legalizing and taxing and regulating medical marijuana, take it. But never take it as an end, only as a step. Then keep demanding your freedom, long and loud and persistently.” (08/02/09)

http://tinyurl.com/nvfp78

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The gooferment has no role in drugs. Other than to screw things up. Non-violent drug “offenders” should be pardoned.

Let’s shut down the FDA. All they do is slow stuff down on its way to market. Killing sick people in the process. And, making everything more expensive.

Argh!

And think of all the youngsters hurt or killed by impure “illegal” drugs. If they are going to take drugs, and I hope they don’t, let’s make sure they have pure “safe” ones. I think WalMart can put all the drug dealers out of business. Remember the gang wars of Prohibition? Coke and Pepsi. Bud and Miller. No shooting. Just competition.

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RANT: Traffic lights and global warming

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Driving to a doctor’s appointment today, I missed EVERY light. Argh! Leaving aside the cop making an illegal left, that exasperates me. Almost as much as state gooferment cars. In missing every light, I had ample opportunity to observe that I was sitting at intersections, with traffic queueing up behind me, with no cross traffic. Argh!

If Stamford U can make a car that drives itself, can’t we have a “smart” traffic light?

No traffic to use the cycle, free it. Allow the direction with traffic to go. Seems obvious that a lot of gas is being wasted. No wonder folks speed up to get through on the yellow. Or even, on the edge of red. The technology is archaic.

But what would you expect from the gooferment. Roadways are essentially the same as the Fifties. Sure there’s more standardization, but that is not necessarily good. For example, NJ’s jughandles are a specific solution to the high density of traffic. But, that makes no sense in sparsely settle areas. But, even the jughandle has been eliminated or overwhelmed by volume.

See there is a fundamental flaw in the meme. Laws don’t prevent anything. Give me the good old Law of Gravity. You can’t break it if you tried. We need to privatize the roads. Like Professor Block has written. Then we’d get some innovation in roads. Wouldn’t you like to ride on the FedEx expressway or the UPS highway? Bet you the speed limit would high and enforced.

And, just maybe I wouldn’t miss every light.

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RANT: Gooferment Flood Insurance

Saturday, August 8, 2009

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/08/07/flood-insurance-mend-it-or-end-it-but-dont-just-extend-it/

Flood Insurance: Mend It or End It, But Don’t Just Extend It
Posted by Mark A. Calabria

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Before leaving for the August recess, the House of Representatives passed a bill (HR3139) to extend the authority for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) until March 2010. The program was set to expire on Oct. 1, 2009. The bill now goes to the Senate. Instead of taking up HR3139, the Senate should insist on real reforms to the NFIP, rather then a blanket extension.

Since Hurricane Katrina, the NFIP has operated under a deficit of close to $17 billion, which had to be borrowed from the Treasury in order to pay claims. Under the NFIP’s current structure, it cannot even make the interest payments on its borrowing; these losses will ultimately hit the taxpayer.

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In one instance, a house in Houston this is valued at around $100,000 received over $800,000 in flood insurance claims over a 20-year period, before it was finally destroyed.

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At the very least, we, te taxpayer, should only be forced to insure something once.

And, what exactly is the gooferment doing in the “insurance business” any way?

Argh!

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RANT: Healthcare ideas; that don’t require a takeover

Monday, August 3, 2009

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RANT: Sheepke are suckers

Monday, August 3, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/07/forget-tea-parties-wherere-pitchforks.html

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We will continue to need significant public spending to get us out of this mess

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SORRY, buzzz, incorrect thinking.

The gooferment can’t get us out of this mess, that THEY put us into. (Sweetheart deals for their pals on Wall Street. See CRA, Freddie, Fannie, FED, FTC, etc, etc! Oiled by “contributions” to Dodd, Barney, and others.)

The gooferment has completely corrupted our concept of money. The stuff they are printing ain’t “money”. It’s toilet paper. And, just look at the value of the dollar over time or in international trade and you can see the result.

They will get us out of this mess by inflating the currency. It’s the only tool they have. Screw the savers, those on fixed income, and anyone holding “dollars”. Inflation rewards their friends and gives them more “money” to spend.

In actuality, the only way to get out of this mess is to do the hard work. Cut the gooferment down to a size we can afford (about 25% of what it is now). Free individuals and small biz from regulations desinged to protect the “players” (i.e., those supposedly regualted). Cut taxes.

But they won’t do that. The politicians, the congress crtiters, and the bureaucrats like things just the way they are.

Sheeple are suckers!

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RANT: Who pays the 800$ next year?

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Stimulus-Funds-Give-Texas-Teachers-a-Raise.html

Stimulus Funds Give Texas Teachers a Raise Texas teachers will get $800 raises thanks to stimulus funds
Updated 11:30 AM CDT, Sat, Jul 25, 2009

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Teachers across the state of Texas will soon get raises, thanks to $2 billion in stimulus funds approved by the Department of Education.

Texas teachers are expected to receive a minimum raise of $800.

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Stimulus my ass!

I wuz, we wuz, robbed!

Bet those teachers are all members of the teacher’s union!

This is a payoff to Democratic voters.

And in case the dumb shumck politicians, skipped economics, what will they do next year. All these raises will have to be paid for next year by who? Give yourself a gold star if you answered “the taxpayers of Texas”!

It’s an unfunded mandate.

Just like the minimum wage increase is an increase for government workers and union members.

Sheeple!

How stupid can you be?

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RANT: Obama-care for the old = suicide or murder

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/07/25/government-health-care-trade-offs-death-or-treatment/

Government Health Care Trade-Offs: Death or Treatment?
Posted by Doug Bandow

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Uwe Reinhardt has made the argument that health care rationing is health care rationing. It’s inevitable, so there’s no big deal about the government exerting more control. I argued earlier that this ignores the question 0f who is doing the rationing, us or the government? Since resources are finite but desires are infinite, we all engage in “rationing” in most every aspect of our lives. But we do so based on our needs, wants, wishes, and dreams, not those of politicians or bureaucrats.

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… all for the common good!

Why do I think that the politicians will get a different “health care plan”?

And, could this be a way to quicken the collection of death taxes?

Argh!

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RANT: Mayo Clinic doesn’t like Obama-care aka Clinton-care

Friday, July 24, 2009

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/21/mayo-clinic-calls-house-plan-bad-medicine/?feat=home_cube_position1

Mayo Clinic calls House plan bad medicine

Obama loses support on reform

By Christina Bellantoni (Contact) and Jennifer Haberkorn (Contact)

Originally published 04:45 a.m., July 21, 2009, updated 01:39 p.m., July 21, 2009

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A world-renowned clinic that President Obama held up as an example of good medicine said Monday that the American people would be “losers” under the House’s health care proposal, joining the growing chorus of critics the Obama administration is trying to fend off as the debate intensifies from Capitol Hill to Main Street.

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How many people need to tell the American People that this is a disaster for them to wake up and call their congress critters on the carpet. And it’s not a “red” one they should be on.

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RANT: Biden, Economics, and just shaking my head

Thursday, July 16, 2009

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51162

Home » News » Politics
CNSNews.com
Joe Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’
Thursday, July 16, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

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Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.

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With economics like this, I pity Posterity who will have to endure and clean up this mess.

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RANT: Found a working power plug.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

MCBa sucks without free wifi or free power.

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