INTERESTING: Terrorists are not greatest threat

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/colin-powell-te.html

Colin Powell: Terrorists are not greatest threat to nation

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Powellingq In an interview with GQ magazine that’s scheduled to be put online here at 11 a.m. ET, former secretary of State and one-time potential presidential candidate Colin Powell has this to say about terrorism and the threat it poses to the USA:

“What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves. So what is the great threat we are facing?”

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OK, let’s get back to the America of our forefathers. (1) Honest money. (2) End gooferment welfare. (3) End the phony “War on Drugs”. (4) End gooferment education. In my lifetime, please.

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INTERESTING: Everett doing better

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=301474

ESPN is reporting that the fellow who was badly hurt this weekend, in a clean football play, is doing better. Silent prayers answered!

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GUNS: 95-Year-Old Woman Beaten In Manhattan; I’m not shocked

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_253224943.html

Sep 10, 2007 11:57 pm US/Eastern
SHOCK: 95-Year-Old Woman Beaten In Manhattan
Police Say Robbery Was Motive, Have Suspect On Tape
Hazel Sanchez
Reporting

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(CBS) NEW YORK It’s happened again, an elderly woman has been beaten over a lousy purse. This time, the victim is 95 years old.

Police on Monday were looking for a man they say beat and robbed the woman right outside her 17th floor apartment. The incident happened around 2:15 p.m. at the East River Co-op on the Lower East Side.

The victim’s friends are shocked by the attack.

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I’m shocked.

Casablanca-style

<<< And, I am shocked, shocked, SHOCKED to find there is gambling going on at Rick’s cafe. Now where are MY winnings. ;-) >>>

I’m shocked that in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Yauk Titty that anyone would be surprised that the law of the jungle abounds. The strong take from the weak. Kill or be killed. Streets running with blood.

That’s the liberal paradise.

Even if you are the Good Samaritan passing one of these assaults, you have to have a death wish to become involved.

That’s where the War on Drugs and Gun Control gets you.

The war on drugs makes sick people turn to crime to afford their fix. And Gun Control disarms all the law abiding and turns them into victims.

Now visualize a Libertarian America. The drug addict would be able to buy their fix for modest sums. (Estimates say that MJ would be profitable at a penny a cigarette. Heroin would be akin to cough syrup; five bucks a bottle.) Charitable organizations would be offering drug treatment programs. Crime would be zero. Criminals would have to guess which victims were unarmed and do it in such a way that avoids a Good Samaritan. Criminals that guess wrong are “retired” from the business. We’d all be a lot better off and a lot safer.

So I’m shocked that more people don’t see that the meme of gooferment force just makes us all worse off.

Even a 95 year old can be trusted to defend themselves from the jackals in human form.

Just sprinkle a few sheep dogs among the sheep and crime will be very unprofitable. End the war on drugs and there’s no need for it either.

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INTERESTING: claims of Pats spying on Jets

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3012989

Sources: Camera confiscated after claims of Pats spying on Jets
By Chris Mortensen ESPN.com
Updated: September 10, 2007, 6:39 PM ET

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NFL security confiscated a video camera and its tape from a New England Patriots employee on the team’s sideline during Sunday’s game against the Jets in a suspected spying incident, sources said.

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I’m surprised at this. And, I thought I was un-surprise-able!

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POLITICAL: Gooferment is the problem

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle434-20070909-01.html

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Indeed, government-run schools are an excellent example of what would happen if this craxy idea by Mr. Perez were allowed to go forward. If the government were in the business of selling guns and ammo in the same way, and to the same extent, that it is in the business of providing “public” schooling to children, we should see the same level of quality—next to none—and the same sort of lazy, indolent, and rude teachers and administrators clamoring for more money, as well as all the other features of poor performance and inadequate preparation that we find from schools.

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Yup, the last thing we need is the gooferment with a monopoly on anything.

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RANT: United States creates new drugs; no thanks to the gooferment

Monday, September 10, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/04/no_health_care?page=2

No “Health Care”?
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

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People who are urging us to follow other countries that control the prices of medications seem uninterested in the fact that those countries depend on the United States to create new drugs, after they destroyed incentives to do so in their own countries.

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HillaryCare, EdwardsCare, Medicare … … it’s all the same trash.

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GUNS: Sure throw another gun law on the pile

Monday, September 10, 2007

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070910/D8RINT7O1.html

Cleveland Mayor: Ban Guns for Under 21
Sep 10, 1:26 PM (ET)

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CLEVELAND (AP) – Cleveland’s mayor called on the state Monday to create a new law that would prohibit anyone under age 21 from possessing a firearm.

Mayor Frank Jackson’s proposal followed the shooting death last week of a 12-year-old girl who was hit by a stray bullet as she walked to a corner store. He noted that police statistics from 2004 to 2006 show 70 percent of those arrested for crimes involving firearms were under 28.

Under Ohio law, no one under 18 is permitted to purchase a firearm. A person must be at least 21 to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

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And like a giant non sequiteur, how this helps the situation is unclear to me? Am I missing something?

End the pseudo drug war, and just like Prohibition, the collateral damage will end. We don’t see Bud and Miller shooting it out over who will sell their wares on what corner.

We have had a the “War on Drugs” for several decades now. It’s don a lot of good. We have more people in jail, more drug addiction, more shoot outs, and less treatment.

Let’s have the gooferment leave it to the marketplace to solve the problem. The gooferment should just walk away from the problem. Wonder what all the drug dealers will do when you can buy your drugs at the corner store for pennies. Best estimates that I have seen, say that MaryJane will be akin to tobacco. Other drugs will be akin to aspirin. That’s the way it was in the early 1900s. It would be a real laff to see the Columbian Drug cartel lined up against WalMart.

And, we won’t have young adults, who should know better, dead from drugs adulterated with poisons or of unknown strength.

Drug addiction is a medical problem.

Gun violence is due to the “drug prohibition” we have stupidly allowed the gooferment to enforce.

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STATE: NC gets on a legally binding organ donation plan

Monday, September 10, 2007

http://lifesharers.blogspot.com/2007/09/legally-binding-organ-donation.html

Saturday, September 08, 2007
“Legally binding” organ donation?

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North Carolina will soon become the 45th state to make signing up to be an organ donor legally binding, according to a story in the Charlotte Observer. http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/268591.html

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Seems like a “sin” to deny another of God’s children a chance to live by being “stupid” or vain or superstitious. Imagine arriving at the Pearly gates, where there’s a big queue, and being greeted by a big Purple EZPASS like sign that says “Express Lane for Organ Donors”? :-) As if there is such a thing as a Pearly Gate. More likely Minnie Pearle saying “Howdeee”. And, I have to laff at my older relatives who believed that they’d need all their parts in the after life. To steal Marv Alpert’s line, “if there is a next time”.

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MONEY: Money conveys information if not crowded out by gooferment noise

Monday, September 10, 2007

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle433-20070902-06.html

Thoughts About Money and Other Things
by L. Neil Smith

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Here’s why: the information that money conveys is called “price”—a word, in the study of economics, with a technical definition. Each of us contributes to the pool of that information whenever he buys something—or refrains from buying it—in the marketplace, as long as the marketplace, and the choices we all make, remain free and uncoerced.

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I think this is an important attribute of money that is often overlooked. (I know when I took economics I don’t think I heard this concept.)

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USA: The gooferement kills private rail

Sunday, September 9, 2007

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle433-20070902-05.html

 

Of Rails and Liberty
by Daniel G. Jennings
Jdangjenn@aol.com

Credit The Libertarian Enterprise

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Once upon a time, America had an efficient, cost effective transportation system technology that adequately served the needs of virtually all citizens. This transportation system utilized cutting edge high technology and didn’t run on imported energy sources like oil. Best of all this transportation was almost entirely owned and operated by private enterprise and developed without government money.

The year was 1910 and the transportation system was electric powered rail. Back in 1910 residents of most American urban areas could take an electric powered trolley car to work for about five cents. Private developers were expanding what we would call light rail networks to suburban and rural areas. Plans were even afoot for high speed electric powered trains that connected major cities similar to the Japanese and French bullet trains.

So what happened to this transportation system? Government and politicians got to work that’s happened. The politicians didn’t like rail because it was an efficient privately owned and operated transportation system that they couldn’t control. So they looked around for an alternative and found one: the automobile.

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Interesting?

Gooferment creates the problem. Then, “solves” it.

Argh!

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