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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” is a concept taught in American schools as a fundamental truth that all people are deserving of respect and life and prosperity. Why then is Ian Freeman in prison for the next 100 days?
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Here’s the video! I still think this is an over-reaction by the gooferment. Like Gandhi, Ian is showing them up for what they are. A gang writ large.
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http://monochromementality.com/index.php/blog/show/90-days-in-prison-for-refusing-to-stand.html
90 days in prison for refusing to stand
Monochrome Mentality
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Today, Ian appeared at their trial and intended only on calling the damaged person making a complaint against him. He never got that far, it seems. In keeping with the doctrine of “all men created equal”, Ian Freeman refused to stand for the man called “Judge”. It would be considered rude to refuse a hand extended to you in greeting, yet this man called “Judge” did not greet Ian by standing. Instead, he decided that Ian’s refusal to stand was somehow and offense, and then proceeded to instruct some other men to arrest him. They ushered him off to a separate room for the supposed “trial”.
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In this private back room, the man called “Judge” convicted Ian of three counts of “contempt of court” (why shouldn’t an ethical person be contemptuous of men using violence and threats to tell other men what they’re allowed to store their property?) and sentenced him to 90 days in prison with fines with an additional 10 days in the cage for refusal to give the government people some of his money.
Welcome to the United Socialist States of America. The government people own your property. They dictate to you what you can do on your own land. You no longer have to hurt someone to have the government people turn against and hurt you. You have no right to confront your accuser. There no longer need even be an accuser, no injured party. You have no right to a public trial. “We will use force against you” the government people are saying “if you don’t obey us.”
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Clearly, Ian picked his line in the sand. The gang that called itself “government” struck back. They can’t have any one pulling back the curtain and showing them up for what they really are. Thugs!
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/roots2.html
Constitutional Dead Letters by Roger Roots
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The list enumerated below, to paraphrase the dead-lettered Ninth Amendment, should not be considered all-inclusive, and there are, no doubt, other dead-lettered constitutional provisions I have neglected to identify.
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This fellow goes thru and creates an impressive list of the “lost” Constitutional protections.
Scary and sad!
Seems like Lysander Spooner had it right: “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
Time for secession? Which state will be the first to go? California, Vermont, Texas, Michigan? One thing is for sure, it will fall apart. Especially as times get tough. Americans are no longer that hardy stock that conquered the West. We’ve divided into the “producers” and the “takers”. And, while we may not be on Robinson Crusoe’s island, the impact of too many takers can be seen.
What happens when the “producers” stop producing?
Where do the Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Unemployment, and Government pay & “benefit” checks of all forms come from?
No wonder “urban youth discouragement devices” (aka guns) are selling well!
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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2008/11/vanishing-republicans-of-south.html
Friday, November 07, 2008
The vanishing Republicans of South Brunswick
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I’ve heard some rumors that there are Republicans living in South Brunswick.
Yes, according to these rumors, there are actual, died-in-the-wool members of the Grand Old Party going about their business, meeting at Pierre’s and going through the electoral motions.
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I am at a loss as to how the Republicans can turn this around, how they can remake themselves so they offer a reasonable alternative, an opposing voice at a time of Democratic control. This year’s candidates, for instance, were the best the party has had to offer in years and still they barely registered. Part of it was a lack of message — it’s not enough to say a different voice is needed. You still have to explain what that voice would say and how it might have an impact on council business. That was never offered.
But still, it is difficult for me to understand how candidates for Township Council can manage to get so few votes in a year of record turnout. It just boggles my mind.
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Posted by Hank Kalet at 1:25 PM
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Libertarian at 08824 said…
Why bother? The people of South Brunswick are content with the chains of the status quo. They have drunk the progressive Democratic kool aid. They must love the high taxes, “fat” bureaucrats, and the Jersey corrupt system. The sheeple are just “free riders” on a waste of effort. Until there is some indication of life, or some minimal support of Liberty in the sheeple, why bang your head against the wall?
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Before the current Democratic / Republican duopoly came across the land, Republicans were the party of smaller government and the Democrats were the party of individual liberty. Now it’s a disgrace. No difference. The politicians, aided and abetted by the Teachers Union, the Trial Lawyers, and the Unions, have figured out how to feather their own nest, while rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies.
They don’t want anything to disturb the status quo. Just try to get third party on the ballot in New Jersey. What a joke. “They”, the entrenched power elite, make the rules to prevent any change. The sheeple don’t get that the game is rigged. Take for example, school budgets! When the activists in town actually can mount a defeat of the bloated school budgets, there are six levels of appeal that will over ride the will of the people.
Property tax reform? It’ll come when no one can afford to own a home in New Jersey. Ethics reform? When the people refuse to speak to any elected official in any party, caucus, or pact with a corrupt official. State pension reform? When taxpayers, who don’t have a pension, refuse to endow the bureaucrats with a plush lifetime pensions and healthcare. Education reform? When senior citizens refuse to fork over their meager social security to “educate” other people’s children; not that it is “education” to pay unionized teachers to babysit bored children. And on. And on.
The only way to upset the applecart is to have a revolt. Gandhi showed how to do it. Just don’t cooperate. As this country gets more severely divided into producers and drones, eventually the producers will say “why bother”! When they stop producing, there would not be anything for the drones to take. Why do you think there is the continual drain of people out of New Jersey?
No, when my fellow sheeple are ready to lie down in the streets to prevent the schools from opening, storm the municipal building to stop them from stealing any more of our money, and march on Trenton to drive the thieves from the Golden Dome, I’ll be right there with them.
Till then, I object to you castigating “Republicans” who are just being realists.
See you at the demonstrations.
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FROM FACEBOOK
Scott did not believe a worse president than Jimmy Carter could be elected, but was proven wrong. 7:50am
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Kevin Edward Kline at 9:43am November 7
So you’re the guy who was stealing my yard signs!
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Scott Moore at 9:59am November 7
No. I was the guy stocking up on gunns and ammo and getting a concealed permit license, and now quitely await armeggedon.
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Kevin Edward Kline at 10:30am November 7
We’ve elected a worse president than Carter. He’s called “W” and he betrayed every major tenet of the conservative movement. History will show the worst presidents of the 20th century as: Harding, Hoover, Nixon, Carter, and W.
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John Reinke at 12:47pm November 7
Well, imho, we need a few decades to properly evaluate the “worst” label. I believe Carter was merely incompetent; not evil. Bush was another incompetent big G socialist. Over the last five years, as I have learned more, experienced more, I’d suggest that “worst” has to be Lincoln. With Wilson and FDR close behind. In my “dimensions”, W isn’t … Read Moreclose and O get his four or eight years to attempt to lower the bar. Luckily, America is pretty tough and seems to be immune to mismanagement. Again, imho, shaking my head. BTW as a gun owner, I don’t think you can stand against the armed thugs of gooferment. You have to gather your neighbors and be Gandhi like. Lay down peacefully in front of them and confront them that way. Bottom line, like Gandhi said, you can’t control 300M people who just refuse to cooperate. Of course, a little French style night time resistance may be just what they need to hurry them along. Think the movie “Red Dawn”, “Casablanca”, or the OSS in Europe during WW2. Peace!
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I clearly think that Lincoln, a tool of the Norther mercantilists, was clearly the “worst”. He started the War of Norther Aggression aka the Second American Revolution aka the “Civil” War. Essential a tax war! In the desire to favor the North over the South.
Slavery was a smokescreen!
It wasn’t about slavery. The rest of the world, for the most part, eliminated slavery peacefully. At the time of the war, there had been plans to buy all the slaves and free them. It was a labor model that was unsustainable. And, Lincoln allowed Sherman’s March to the Sea. War on the civilian population.
Now, runner’s up in my mind: Wilson, who campaigned on peace, and immediately led us into WW1 which set the table for WW2. FDR, who maneuvered us into WW2 via Pearl Harbor and entrenched Socialistic Big Government. Truman who dropped the A-bomb on civilians.
Far behind were the incompetents — Carter and Bush43! The liars — Bush41 (“No new taxes”) and Clinton (“I did not have sex with that woman”) And, the fellows who tried — Eisenhower (Identified the Military Industrial complex) and Regan (Couldn’t control the Congressional spending).
We have to allow O his four or eight years to make his mark. He might be able to slip under the bar, but he’s going to have to really try to get to the bottom of my list. Now he has established his political credentials in my mind by the lies on Infanticide, Public Campaign Financing, and his continual mincing of words. So we’ll have to see how he does in following through.
It’s hard to imagine him getting to the bottom of the list.
Sex with a Republican? Nah, that’s not even close.
And, he has inspired a generation of minority children with the idea that they CAN grow up and be President. That will be a hard positive to overcome. If he does NOTHING else. That’s enough to put him well above all these other names.
Getting to the bottom will require a heroic effort!
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http://execunet.blogspot.com/2008/11/mike-for-president.html
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Mike for President
Dave Opton
Norwalk, Connecticut
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Anyway, what caught my eye was not just the subject which I found of immediate interest, but after reading it, I was pleased to see that he too was pounding the drum on one of the subjects about which readers of this blog will recognize as one about which I have pretty strong feelings – read public education.
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Sorry, but I don’t expect the Teacher’s Union to allow any fundamental shift in “education” policy.
If we have any hope, it will be from parents refusing, or being unable, to pay for “education” that doesn’t have an ROI. If we have any hope, it will be the children realizing that the “eduction” being offered them is a time waster and the strike out on their own. If we have any hope, it will be from the pre-College students refusing to take on the debt load for an education that doesn’t have an ROI.
In short, not a lot of hope.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=9299280
Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages
Posted: Nov 5, 2008 03:38 PM
Updated: Nov 5, 2008 11:03 PM
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A former spokesman for the Obama campaign said 375 people were hired as part of the Vote Corps program and said people signed up to work three-hour shifts at a time. Three hours of canvassing got workers a $30 pre-paid Visa card.
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I’m sure that TAXES were paid on ll these GIFT cards! Wouldn’t want to be SLEFISH?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/11/how_stupid_is_senator_menendez.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7FJX5QiCrw
November 04, 2008
How stupid is Senator Menendez?
Larrey Anderson
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Either he is stupid or he is intentionally confusing the difference between the income tax and capital gains taxes.
Watch this interview of Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, by Neil Cavuto on FOX news.
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Well, we have Lautenberg too.
<Just shaking my head!>
I don’t think we have ANYTHING to worry about. There won’t be any tax cuts period.
Then sheeple have been fooled again.
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Posted by reinkefj
Hidden Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry
By P.J. Gladnick (Bio | Archive)
November 2, 2008 – 07:26 ET
Imagine if John McCain had whispered somewhere that he was willing to bankrupt a major industry? Would this declaration not immediately be front page news? Well, Barack Obama actually flat out told the San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate) that he was willing to see the coal industry go bankrupt in a January 17, 2008 interview. The result? Nothing. This audio interview has been hidden from the public…until now.
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Interesting how everything is coming out now!
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Obama Vows To Create ‘Civilian National Security Force’…
Obama Civilian Security
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http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G1798
Frédéric Bastiat
The Law
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The Results of Legal Plunder
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
What are the consequences of such a perversion? It would require volumes to describe them all. Thus we must content ourselves with pointing out the most striking.
In the first place, it erases from everyone’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice.
No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them.
The nature of law is to maintain justice. This is so much the case that, in the minds of the people, law and justice are one and the same thing. There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because law makes them so. Thus, in order to make plunder appear just and sacred to many consciences, it is only necessary for the law to decree and sanction it. Slavery, restrictions, and monopoly find defenders not only among those who profit from them but also among those who suffer from them.
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Bottom line: Our current system is flawed by politicians who use the gooferment to enrich their friends, punish their enemies, and feather their own nests in the process.
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RESPONDING TO A NOTE ABOUT HD TV!
I’m not sure I see the great value in the gooferment forcing HD on everyone. Like Bastiat taught, look for the hidden costs. In this case, a whole load of TVs are rendered obsolete before their useful life has end. Unless a box is added on whose cost is “defrayed” by a gooferment coupon. No inefficiency there! It induces meaningless consumerism, as folks, who may have better uses for their money, are induced / forced to upgrade. If HD was “such a great idea”, then folks would migrate to it without the force of gooferment guns pointed at their heads. Argh! A pox on all the politicians. See what you started. :-)
p.s., don’t forget about all the green costs as all those “old” TVs get tossed in landfills planet wide. Yeah, the gooferment is the ecology’s friend. With “friends” like that who needs enemies!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lifetrekcoaching.com/current/index.html
PROVISION #588 (10/26/08): PROBABLY NO GOD?
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Did that title get your attention? If so then the campaign to put secularist posters on the sides of British buses may achieve its intended result. But I think the posters miss the mark. The problem is not with God; the problem is with parochial ideas of God. That’s what Abraham Lincoln had to say in his Second Inaugural Address (reprinted below). It is also what I understand to be the true nature of here, now, and forever. God is no Judge; God is Understanding.
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People love to find someone or something to blame. It’s called scapegoating, and we do it to God just as much as we do it to other people and things. But I stand with Lincoln. There are no simple answers as to who or what is to blame. There are no good guys or bad guys; there are only people who are seeking to meet their needs as best they know how. We can respect each other for that and, if we choose to do so, we can learn to understand the Understanding that what would make life more wonderful for us all.
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I like the “Provisions” as thought-provoking.
Unfortunately, citing Lincoln, throws me into a tizzy.
I am from the school of thought that the Second American Revolution, aka what the winners call the “Civil War”, aka what the losers call the “Wr of Northern Aggression”, was about taxes. Not slavery.
The Industrial North wanted to prosper at the expense of the Agrarian South.
Lincoln was not the heroic figure portrayed by the media as “freeing the slaves”. He was a venial politician that was in the pockets of the railroads. He had no interest in slavery, except as it appealed to his base.
The world, for the most part, eliminated slavery peacefully.
He waged war on the civilian population, which up to that point was unheard of.
The vaunted Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the areas he didn’t control. What happened to the ones in areas he did control.
No, a poor example distracts me from the point of the Provision, i.e., our mistaken notion of God.
AND, Lincoln converted the “United States of America” into the empire of the USA. The States forever were lost in terms of a check on the power of the Federal Government.
In the pantheon of Presidents, Lincoln has to rank at the bottom, or close to it.
His competition for the bottom might be FDR for removing us from the Gold Standard, or Truman for Hiroshima / Nagasaki.
Upon reflection, Lincoln gets nudged out by Wilson. He campaigned on “Peace” and immediately got us into WW1. WW1’s “peace settlement” led to WW2. And, Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act which created the exact thing that Andrew Jackson killed. An engine of debt and inflation.
Sigh, please give us more ineffective and merely corrupt politicians. The “idealists” kill us and Liberty.
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Posted by reinkefj
>If this isn’t proof that it’s not “what you do”, but “who you know and who you
>do it for” I don’t know what is.
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>See, it’s basically 2,500 helpless infants saved vs. a questionable analysis of
>a “disputed” fact – I would generally consider it NO CONTEST. But then it takes
>politicians and geniuses to pass out Nobel Awards.
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You really have to shake your head and wonder. We allow the media to over use the terms “hero” and such. You have to really admire the GIANT set of stones some folks have. I hope all my challenges are little ones. It is amazing when I read the stories of the “Righteous among the Nations”, you have to wonder if these folks were NUTS! With death wish or something. I doubt that I’d have the stones to do such. Probably all I’d have is BB’s. Unless there is a size called AAs. One can only hope that this never happens again. Or, it does, not here. Sighm fjohn
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A Lady Named Irena
There recently was a death of a 98 year old lady named Irena.
During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.
She had an ulterior motive…
She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, (being German).
Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack, (for larger kids).
She also had a dog in the back, which she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.
The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
She was caught, and the Nazi’s broke both her legs, and arms, and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out, and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.
After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it, and reunited the family.
Most, of course, had been gassed.
Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes, or adopted.
Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize….
She LOST.
Al Gore won, for doing a slide show on Global Warming!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sendler.asp
snopes.com: Irena Sendler
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http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78921
What if ‘SNL’ mocked Michelle Obama?
Posted: October 23, 2008 7:17 pm Eastern
Pat Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the Reform Party’s candidate in 2000. He is also a founder and editor of The American Conservative. Now a political analyst for MSNBC and a syndicated columnist, he served three presidents in the White House, was a founding panelist of three national TV shows, and is the author of seven books.
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Can one imagine “Saturday Night Live” doing weekly send-ups of Michelle Obama and her “I’ve never been proud” of my country, this “just downright mean” America, using a black comedienne to mimic and mock her voice and accent?
“Saturday Night Live” would be facing hate-crime charges.
How do we know? When the New Yorker ran a cartoon of Michelle in an Angela-Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder, New Yorker editors had to go on national television to swear they were not mocking Michelle, but the conservatives who have so caricatured Michelle and the Messiah.
Is there a media double standard? You betcha.
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The Media was once the American People’s “guardian of the truth”. How far they have fallen. They are now nothing more than cheerleaders for Socialism! Why should we be surprised? The “education industry” has been taken over by Communists. The “business model” is Fascist anyway. It was intended to make cannon fodder and factory workers to led by “the elite”. It has succeeded beyond its designer’s wildest expectations.
Where there is no vision, the people perish?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/joe-the-outlaw.html
Joe the Outlaw by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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But the New York Times did some digging and discovered – horror – that Joe is doing plumbing without a proper business license. How dare he call himself a plumber! A license is required by Toledo, not just one license for a partnership but for everyone who is called a plumber. Joe has not taken the training courses, is not a member of the union, and cannot legally call himself a plumber.
The press reports on this were explosive, with reporters speaking as if they had caught this guy red-handed and completely discredited him. But what about the complete absurdity of the idea that you have to have a license in order to have the right to fix someone else’s sink? This is Soviet like, but deeply entrenched in American professional life.
The idea of licensing is that it assures quality standards. But this is just a cover used by guilds since the Middle Ages. The real goal of licensing is to create a professional cartel. Fewer providers means higher wages for those with licenses. It is all about boosting income by restricting competition. This is of course a violation of human rights because it impinges on the fundamental freedom of association.
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Lew got this online before I could, And, of course, did it much better than I could. But, this is what I first thought when the press ‘discovered’ the outlaw.
A more important scandal would have been if they could have found an unhappy customer of Joe’s. That would have been a scoop.
Since it’s a successful plumbing business, I’m reasonably sure they would find one. (Well, there’s always one.)
Funny, how the ‘bad’ plumbers always seem to have licenses?
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http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/10/16/dealing-with-poverty-closer-to-home-wendys-list/
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To Easton Ellsworth who has labored mightily to bring us Blog Action Day 2008 and poke and prod us to participate, and to all my blogging colleagues who have posted about poverty and about what can be and is being done about it, my admiration and my thanks.
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I heard the clarion call all bloggers to much ado about nothing. And, I ignored it as “drivel” at best; socialism at worst.
Not that anyone cares, but here’s why!
Sigh, seems so obvious to me.
“Poverty” is a industry here in the USA. There are folks who are deriving a lot of earnings, moral superiority, and kudos that they don’t deserve. Like the United Way CEO that earns megabucks. Like all the paid gooferment employees, that earn a healthy chunk of change now and in their future retirement, for their “public service”.
Don’t make me barf!
First, poverty, the industry is despicable. To be truly poor is a terrible human condition. But, not having stuff, isn’t being poor. Go to Africa, where folks die of starvation. Or, disease from not having clean water. Where their gooferment really does kill them. Or, they have massive inflation of money.
That’s true poverty.
Any time any one talks about “poverty” here in the USA, I am instantly reminded of the TV interview of this shell of a fellow waiting on line in some African community to get an application for a green card. The interviewer asked the fellow why he wanted to come to the USA. He responded immediately “You have fat poor people.”
I think that sums it up. We need folks like him. I’d have given him a green card just for that service to our country.
See the “poverty industry” wants us to think that the bottom ten, twenty five, or fifty percent is “poor”.
Sorry!
They aren’t. Not by that fellow’s metric.
And, their situation is USUALLY either due to their own mistakes or the gooferment.
So, that’s why I think all the blogging would do a bit of good. The problem is defined wrong!
I happily contribute to Homefront New Jersey, where a very underpaid lady, make a nickel in to six pennies, as she helps single moms (mostly) move off welfare and onto their own two feet. That’s progress.
We should be striking at the heart of the problem but that is the misconceptions and gooferment welfare. Good luck doing that.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
On Oct 10, 2008, at 10:08 PM, P wrote:
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From: “Chuck & Joyce”
Date: October 10, 2008 7:18:54 PM EDT
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Fw: Our failed economy
Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn’t make money running a whore house and selling booze?
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TO WHICH I REPLIED:
the economy hasn’t failed. we’ve failed to keep our politicians in line with what the dead old white guys outlined as the proper role of gooferment. at our own peril. anyone who votes for an incumbent this year is part of the problem. even if the incumbent had NOTHING to do with it or did nothing bad, they were: (1) tacitly complicit; (2) too stupid to realize what was coming down the road; OR (3) ineffective to stop it. Look at how many times Ron Paul was the lone voice “no”! No on the war. No on taxes. No on Fannie and Freddie. No on the Fed. Sigh. Best gooferment money can buy. Sorry. It wasn’t an economy failure; it was a political failure. We may become the next hyperinflation — like present day Rhodesia, Argentina of the 70s, or Germany of the 1930s. We know how well those all worked out. Gold coins may be needed. The Dead Old White Guys told us that was money. But we didn’t listen as FDR and Nixon fooled us. The 1913 FED started to procession to where we are today. Spinning out of control. Does no good to be right when the commonweal goes over the cliff taking us all to perdition. Argh. It’s all socialism and the elite in their hubris have led us there. Now where is my pitchfork and torch!
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Warning! Don’t stick your fingers in the Libertarian’s cage and poke or prod them. They can snap back. Us little L libertarians are very frustrated. No amount of warning “Here comes The Cliff” has done any good. All we get are dumb looks as people ask “Who’s Cliff?” Guess you know now. Welcome to what Mises, Hayek, Rothfarb, and all the “Austrian School” economists have been warning about!
Don’t blame me. I supported Ron Paul!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/03/1489413.aspx
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Tucked into pages 262 and 263 of the bill, for example, are provisions that will aid the manufacturers of “certain wooden arrows designed for use by children.” The bill will exempt the arrows from an excise tax of 39 cents. There are also tax breaks for race-track owners, for rum imported from Puerto Rico, for worsted wool makers, Hollywood film and television production companies and on and on.
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Maybe this will be a wake up call to Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians (GRIP)?
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/fairfax3.html
No More Help, Please by Stephen Fairfax
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My so-called representative voted for the Billionaire Bailout. It’s easy to understand why; he’s collected $732,629 from the Securities & Investment industry alone. My firm has paid far more than that in taxes, but taxes don’t buy congressional votes the way campaign contributions do. The 7 Massachusetts “representatives” who voted for the Billionaire Bailout have collectively gathered more than $11,785,000 from investment, banking, real estate, law, lobbying, and building industries. No wonder they support the Billionaire Bailout despite overwhelming public opposition.
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You really couldn’t have forgotten the three rules of politics: (1) feather your own nest; (2) reward your friends; and (3) punish your enemies.
The Bailout does all three! But not for thee or me.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76645
ELECTION 2008
VP debate moderator Ifill releasing pro-Obama book
Focuses on blacks who are ‘forging a bold new path to political power’
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Let’s at least pretend to be unbiased!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/09/24/a_political_solution_part_ii
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Thomas Sowell :: Townhall.com Columnist
A Political “Solution”: Part II
by Thomas Sowell
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Estimates of how much money a government program will cost are notoriously unreliable. Estimates of the cost of the current bailout in the financial markets run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and some say it may reach or exceed a trillion.
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Estimates are always wrong. In this case, we have no idea of the liability the congress critters are signing your children up for!
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/26/walmart-shutting-dow.html
Boing Boing – A directory of wonderful things
Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection — only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans
Posted by Cory Doctorow, September 26, 2008 8:34 PM
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Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they’re repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out about, if you’ve changed email addresses or if you’re not a very technical person), your music will no longer be playable after October 9th.
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That’s why I’d never buy anything with a DRM in it. I learned this lesson early and had it reinforced by Yahoo buying Real who bought whatever it was that I liked.
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Posted by reinkefj
What a joke.
RU was playing Morgan State. Not a big game by any means. But, SNY left live coverage of that for the Mets “post game” show, where they couldn’t show any of the game highlights. So they spent the better part of a hour TALKING about it. Talked it to death! How dumb!
Sorry RU, you deserved better!
They rejoined it with 2:57 left in the SECOND quarter with the score 35 zip. Game was over.
Why bother?
Just shows you the level of respect SNY has for its viewers.
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http://www.centerforsmallgovernment.com/
BELIEVE 15% OF WHAT YOU SEE IN THE BOSTON GLOBE
By Carla Howell
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Our mothers told us, “Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.” But when it comes to government spending articles in the Globe, perhaps we should only believe 15% of what we see.
Governor Patrick recklessly ratified a $2.55 billion spending increase for plush government pensions — boosting an already bloated government pension cash cow. While most private sector workers and taxpayers have NO employee pension.
But the newspapers made it look like Governor Patrick bravely vetoed a $3 billion govenrment employee pension increase.
I pride myself in spotting bias, inaccuracies and deception in news coverage that pertains to government budgets. Sadly, I find it in almost every single one I read.
Unless I read too fast — and don’t take the time to read the fine print. Which I did last week. The Boston Globe ran a story with the headline “Patrick rejects pension increase…Benefit could have cost state billions.” The second paragraph states, “Fiscal watchdogs had warned that the benefit could cost the state more than $3 billion over the next 20 years.”
I concluded from this that Governor Patrick vetoed the entire $3 billion government employee pension expansion, which he had previously supported.
A few days before this story, a Globe editorial advised the governor to veto this one – hinting that letting the bill stand could incite voter anger and affect the November election. It seemed to be a thinly veiled warning that a veto was necessary to stop Question 1 to End the Income Tax from winning.
I helped give legs to the story by mentioning in a media interview last week that Patrick’s $3B veto was a sign that Question 1 to End the Income Tax is already having an impact on government spending.
Then I saw a letter to the editor in the Globe penned by a careful reader who pointed out that Gov. Patrick did not veto the entire $3B
government employee pension increase as the Globe’s headline suggests. Rather, he vetoed only 15% of the increase – and let 85% of the increase stand.
I should know better than to ignore the fine print of a news article about government budgets. Mea culpa.
Upon rereading the article, I can’t vouch for what percentage was actually vetoed without doing research. But 15% seems to be in the
ballpark.
So it’s possible our initiative already helped to stop $450 million in new state spending, but not the $3B I’d hoped (at least not as a result
of this particular veto).
Please use my oversight as a reminder of how much care it takes to avoid falling for claims that a politician cut government spending – when he
actually increased government spending.
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Like Star Trek and their Prime Directive, the Doctor’s Hippocratic Oath, and the old Gallo ad “We serve no wine before its time”, politicians have an a similar canard. I don’t know who came up with it, but I first heard it from a troublemaker, Jim Gearhart, at the local radio station 101.5.
“Politicians are ALWAYS: feathering their own nest, rewarding their friends, or punishing their enemies.”
Carla would be well advised to remember that. In her “mistake”, she forgot that the paper was reporting on a “politician”. Vetoing a public pension bill would be that political directive. So by definition, the report was EITHER biased or just honestly wrong! Guess I’m jaundiced, it was a deliberate cover up to give the Guv good press and a handout to the trough feeders.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
You have to admire the power of sarcasm! National energy policy should be imho: nukes; natural gas in cities transport, drill, defeat nimby, and empower the free market to solve the “problem”. One created by the gooferment I might add! Argh!
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