POLITICAL: Take only “Local” campaign conributions and publish them

Friday, July 23, 2010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100715/ap_on_bi_ge/us_investment_banker_fraud_1

Ex-Clinton fundraiser gets 12 years in prison
Thu Jul 15, 11:04 am ET

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NEW YORK – A wealthy Manhattan investment banker who was once a top fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton and other big-name Democrats has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for bank fraud.

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So why isn’t there any penalty for the political beneficiary of this “crime”?

There has to be a better way.

I haven’t heard anything better than restricting candidates from accepting money from outside the district that they seek to represent and “publishing” all sources of any funds or in kind services. That way we’d at least know who’s buying what politician and how much influence they are likely to exert on some politician. Simple, effective and efficient. No diktats or bureaucrats required. Call it the “Honest Politician” pledge. And, it up to the politician to demonstrate compliance. Maybe we can setup the “Honest Politician Society™” to preserve the standard and sue politicians who make the claim but don’t follow the principles.

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QUOTES: “our guy” versus “their guy”

Friday, July 23, 2010

“The Constitution is intended to shield us from the government, and if we lower that shield because “our guy” is in the White House, you’ll be left without protection when “their guy” gets the White House the next time around.”

— The Pacific Legal Foundation’s Tim Sandefur

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Sex offender” isn’t what you think it is

Thursday, July 22, 2010

http://www.causes.com/causes/425080?m=9e4cc0c7&recruiter_id=20524961

Don’t Allow Registered Sex Offenders on Facebook!!!

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The cause now has 3,848,276 members.

Their mission: Get Facebook to block registered sex offenders from joining Facebook

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I know a “good guy” who’s a “registered sex offender” for drunkenly urinating on a tree. As usual for the Gooferment, they can’t find their butt with both hands. That diktat needs some tuning. Besides if RSOs are so dangerous, why don’t we keep them locked up? End the drug war, pardon all the non-violent drug offenders, and there will be pleanty of room for the RSOs.

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JOBSEARCH: Adjusting expectations

Thursday, July 22, 2010

http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/case-study-the-maltese-expat/

Case Study: The Maltese Expat
by Simon Black
July 15, 2010
Bath, England

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Here’s what’s most intriguing about her, though… she’s always worked. Even as a 70-year old widow in Malta, she still has a job. In her own words Emma says, “I’m a war baby. My generation doesn’t think that anyone owes us anything, doesn’t think that it’s other people’s responsibility to take care of us.”

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That’s a generational difference: the past generation (No one owes us anything), the current generation (We expect the good life with little effort.), and the future generation (We’re entitled to the good life.)

Argh

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FUN: Cheap Ford meets Homicide Bomber

Thursday, July 22, 2010

FROM LUDDITE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q51hVC0Lgwg

Very funny.

Some inventor somewhere should be working on a force field that would protect the innocent from a homicide bomber.

One has to wonder how a whole religion, let alone one single individual, can be distorted into killing.

But the video was stunning in its honesty.

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PLINKY: The Worst Teacher I Ever Had

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Ahh, to be back in that much simpler time, with no worries, no demands, and the parties.

Has to be Doctor Zia. Not only was his spoken “Engrish” so bad, bordering on unintelligible, but his marking strategy was insane. His exams were one question — right or wrong — no partial credit — no credit for showing the correct method — just 100% or a Big Fat Goose Egg. No one ever took him twice voluntarily. And his slogan “U Ingineer, wrong sign, bridge fall down, no partial credit.” is immortalized in Jasper legend. Anyone who was on the receiving end of that aphorism ever forgets it. I certainly won’t.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: What opportunities are forever lost

Thursday, July 22, 2010

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/signs-stimulus/story?id=11163180

Signs of the Stimulus
Some Call it Transparency, Others Another Example of Government Waste
By JONATHAN KARL and GREGORY SIMMONS
July 14, 2010

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As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting “The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and reminding passers-by that the program is “Putting America Back to Work.”

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So why are we surprised that the politicians and bureaucrats waste our money?

Every time I see one of those signs, I think: “Now where is the broken window?” What worthwhile project has been crowded out by this boondoggle. It could have been the cure for cancer or as something as a toy that gives joy to a child or as nice as some taxpayer taking his family to the beach today or as trivial as buying oneself and extra slice of pizza.

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The parable of the broken window was created by Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas (That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen) to illuminate the notion of hidden costs associated with destroying property of others.

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QUOTES: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

“These are times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine, from his essay “The Crisis”

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Perhaps, he should have written that “There are times in EACH generation that try men’s souls.”? Seems like we are being presented with ours. With politicians and bureaucrats that are as any as those that served King George!

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FUN: A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

http://www.myjokemail.com/jokes/lexophiles-lovers-of-words/

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Lexophiles (Lovers of Words)

1. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.

2. A will is a dead giveaway.

3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

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I’ll have to create a new section on the blog for these pithy bits of wisdom.

I never heard some of these.

Zen-like

They all key off a double play on the words.

I can’t imagine how one would go about building one. Are they just discovered?

run — diarrhea / law versus diktat / table to be able place to eat versus some thing one looks up a value / medicine med a sin medium sin me dicin e

argh!

Not as easy as it looks and it looks hard!

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GUNS: Gun control should be about hitting what you aim at

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/ayoob28.1.html

CCW
by Massad Ayoob

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Having spent most of my life in New Hampshire, which issued carry permits regularly since long before this old man was born and reportedly was the lowest-crime state in the union last year – and now owning a home in Florida, which caused all manner of angst amongst the lightweights when it made carry permits readily available in the late ‘80s – I can testify that when good people carry guns, the streets don’t run red with blood. Quite the reverse, in fact.

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“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” —- Robert A. Heinlein

Remember that “gun control” was instituted so that balck could not defend themselves from the KKK.

So, it’s really about “victim disarmament”!

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