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Today I was listening to the radio and I heard a NYC radio station advertising OTB. It was touting its bet by phone service with “internet betting coming soon”!

Then I see this!

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Subject: A bill to repeal the online gambling ban

Pressure on Congress works. People all over the Internet, including DC Downsizers, have been pressuring Congress to repeal the ban on transferring money to online gambling sites.

We’re starting to see a response.

Representative Barney Frank, the new chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has pledged to introduce legislation in the next couple of weeks to repeal the ban.

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Argh!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55383

Laws for you, not them
Posted: April 26, 2007
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND

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They pass laws with no intention of obeying them themselves. It happens every day in America – in city council chambers, in state legislatures and in the nation’s Capitol.

It’s too bad Corzine got hurt.

But it’s a good illustration of the way arrogant elected officials put themselves above the law.

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I think that the seat belt law should be repealed immediately. As well as speed limit, cell phone, and all the other “laws” (I object to calling what men do a “law”. Gravity, now there’s a law!) that are aimed at “us” and not “them”.

I’d allow in my court as an absolute defense that a diktat from some capitol or another was null and void if (1) the “leaders” didn’t have to obey it; (2) if it wasn’t uniformly enforced and universally enforced; and (3) there has to be a “victim” (i.e., a real flesh and blood person that gets hurt).

Now you know why I won’t be a judge!

1015 news today reported that “they’re beginning work on the Menlo Park trainstation … (insert big number of millions of dollars)… (long litany of improvements) … paid for mostly with Federal money”.

“FEDERAL MONEY”!!!

There ain’t no such thing.

It’s generally conceded that NJ PAYS far in excess of Federal Taxes than it receives back in Federal benefits. That in itself is a losing proposition!

So it’s money stolen from NEW JERSEY taxpayers. It’s THEIR money.

It’s also generally conceded that GOOFERMENT takes between one quarter and three quarters for itself — a handling fee — for its own expenses.

SO, we send double the amount to Washington for the privilege of getting half back for a train station.

Shouldn’t we have just done it our self and cut out the handling fee?

Better idea. Get the Gooferment out of mass transit entirely.

When McDonald’s improves its restaurant, I don’t pay them to do it. Do I?

Argh!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lelong5.html

Bloomberg’s World
by A.D Lelong

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Here is how Bloomie saves lives. On the exact same day he told rational people they were sick, we had a murder suicide in Queens. A 20-year-old man, with a history of mental disturbances, shot and killed his mother, his mother’s invalid boyfriend, and the boyfriend’s hired nurse. He then wounded a nephew, and turned the gun on himself. Before the incident, the mother three times tried to get the cops to do something, but they said she needed a court order. The victim’s sister said, “He was threatening to kill her, and she told the police everything. The police said we can’t do anything about it.”

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Or is it that any one could be a concealed weapons carrier. Exercising their (God Given, Inherent, Constitutionally protected) RIGHT to self defense.

Argh!

I like to have a partition of the hard drive for “my” data. Stuff I create and back up. Done it lots of times before. Tried it last night and now the pig won’t boot. Argh!

http://www.nbc10.com/news/12493692/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

McGreevey Teaches Ethics At University
POSTED: 8:24 am EDT April 19, 2007
UPDATED: 8:34 am EDT April 19, 2007

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UNION, N.J. — Former Gov. James E. McGreevey is teaching ethics, law and leadership at Kean University.

The Star-Ledger of Newark reported the nation’s first openly gay governor earns $17,500 and has been an executive in residence since Nov. 1.

When he was in office, McGreevey was often criticized for the appearance of ethical lapses.

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Is this some one’s idea of a joke?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=
D8OIIO1G1&show_article=1

N.J. Gov.’s SUV Went 91 Mph Before Crash
Apr 17 04:19 PM US/Eastern

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – The SUV carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed, Superintendent of State Police Col. Rick Fuentes said Tuesday.

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Yeah, five seconds before the crash. Like I believe that. Hearsay evidence on the 1015 radio show disputes that “modest” speed. The caller reported that the other driver in the crash said that “he looked to move over and then they were there”.

What is the top speed of that Suburban?

AND, the real question is why does the political class feel that they are above the laws that they impose on us?

The guv’s security detail is to prevent his assassination and kidnapping. By whom? The republicans? We know that Trenton is one big happy pork fest. For all their moral indignation with the “other side”, we know that the duopoly happily ensure that no one disturbs the feeding at the public trough!

No, I don’t believe their story. And, yes, I think it demonstrates the new “ruling class”.

Pitchforks and torches anyone?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lelong4.html

Imus and the Nappy-Headed Ho’s
by A.D Lelong

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But with Rev. Sharpton it’s different. He IS offended. Would he have been offended if Imus had called some Wisconsin women’s basketball team (assuming they were of Scandinavian descent) “Cheese headed Viking Amazons”? Would The Rev. Al Sharpton have been in high dudgeon had Imus referred to a Boston Jesuit College women’s basketball team by saying, “a bunch of freckled, whiskey drinking bricktop sluts”? I don’t think so. And most Americans of Norse or Irish decent wouldn’t have either. Maybe a couple church groups, here and there, but this would not have become a national hot issue.

What is really at issue here is that Sharpton is a professional race card player. It is his stock in trade. It is the only real vocation he ever had. It has made him good copy in the NYC and national media. He can get reporters to show up at a press conference. And he knows how to use the media to bully his victims.

Now I don’t begrudge a mountebank from earning his daily bread, but when I see Rev. Al talk about using the FCC to get Imus fired for doing his puerile shtick, this has serious ramifications for free speech. Sharpton said (and I’m paraphrasing) that we own the air waves and have a right to remove someone who abuses his position. Actually, “we” don’t own the air waves. There are no stock certificates in air wave frequencies. They have been usurped by the government starting with the Radio Act of 1912 after the Titanic sinking. Radio licenses are in effect government rented easements, like feudal lease-hold estates. They can be rescinded just like a king could revoke a writ of title from an earl. The radio stations own them as a peer owns his title.

The mere hint of a threat of losing a license terrifies ALL radio station license holders. And given that most license holders are corporations controlled by an unthinking collective of conformist non-intellectual executives, without regard to principle or rational thought, a Sharpton figure has a chilling effect on free expression by the talk-host employee. Sharpton has a radio show on a station here in NYC. Did he lose his time-slot when he referred to White business owners in Harlem as “white interlopers” after the Freddy’s department store fire on 125th street 12 years ago when a black gunman shot up and torched the store killing 8 in protest because the white owner did not hire enough blacks? Was Sharpton punished when he failed to distance himself from Jesse Jackson and his “Hymietown” remark? Or the Tawana Brawley hoax? Or when he called the Central Park jogger, beaten almost to death and brain damaged, a “whore”?

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I have a feeling that the whole Imus affair is going to have some interesting ramifications. Perhaps, the USA will wake up to the fact they are being manipulated.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard148.html

Tax Day
by Murray N. Rothbard

This unsigned editorial, written by Murray N. Rothbard, appeared in the April 15, 1969 issue of The Libertarian (soon to become The Libertarian Forum).

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April 15, that dread Income Tax day, is around again, and gives us a chance to ruminate on the nature of taxes and of the government itself.

The first great lesson to learn about taxation is that taxation is simply robbery. No more and no less. For what is “robbery”? Robbery is the taking of a man’s property by the use of violence or the threat thereof, and therefore without the victim’s consent. And yet what else is taxation?

Those who claim that taxation is, in some mystical sense, really “voluntary” should then have no qualms about getting rid of that vital feature of the law which says that failure to pay one’s taxes is criminal and subject to appropriate penalty.

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It’s humorous that the gang in the District of Corruption slide the due date to the 17th. Couldn’t have taxes due on Emancipation Day! Might as well as have it on Independence Day! Or, how about Election Day!! No secret why it’s 6 months away from election day. So people will forget. And, they do.

I’m crazed!

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

WRITEN FROM POV OF THE STATIST SOCIALIST MEDIA

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Islamist insurgents and Somali clan militias in Mogadishu clash with government forces, Ethiopian troops and African Union peacekeepers as casualties continue to mount months after the defeat of the Islamic Courts Union.

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What is the “government” but yet another gang of thugs claiming the mantle of “authority” to rule over others? Who made them the anointed? The UN! Please don’t make me laugh. Another gang of bad folks claiming to be out betters.