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From grabbe:
Q: What does a blonde put behind her ears to make her more attractive?
A: Her ankles.
Another young lovely from Mr. Grabbe. Unh... Unh...
Studio 220 Collective at Lousville IMC - Mt. Adams Arrests Video - amateur videos of Cincinatti cops pepper spraying and dragging away protesters who did nothing but stand there and talk to them.
Louisville IMC - June 2 Mt. Adams police brutality rally after main March for Justice rally. Here are compiled first-hand and second-hand reports of brutality of police arrests and jail guards. Also, many photo links for arrests. - the police dragged a peaceful woman away, pinned her face down on the ground, lifted her head, and sprayed pepper spray in her eyes and mouth. These pigs are not human. They are lower than slugs.
Uri Dowbenko at Sierra Times - The Book G.W. Bush Doesn't Want You to Read - Lt. Cmdr. Al Martin, a former officer in Naval Intelligence, has written an expose on Iran-Contra. Guess what. It never ended, and the folks responsible are back in power. Are you surprised? I'm not. [sierra]
The book's premise is simple. Organized crime -- actually a white-collar crime syndicate comprised of government bureaucrats, military officers, intelligence officers and con men or "beltway bandits" -- has in essence taken over the US Government.
The so-called public sector has been privatized to such an extent that the US Government is basically an empty shell. Instead, the fraudsters (government contractors and their ilk) continue to feed at the government trough, supportedby US taxpayer largesse.
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In one of his early columns published online at Al Martin Raw (www.almartinraw.com), he wrote, "You have to look at the entire Bush Family in this context -- as if the entire family ran a corporation called "Frauds-R-Us. Each member of the family, George Sr.,George Jr., Neil, Jeb, Prescott, Wally, etc.,have their own specialty of fraud."
BBC News - Last Adams book planned - The last works of Douglas Adams, an unfinished novel, The Salmon of Doubt and a screenplay for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, will be published later this year. Yay! [/.]
Ashley Gardiner at politechbot - Australian cops nab Jim Bell-quoting online anarchist - Mathew Stephen Taylor, aka proffr, has been arrested. Can't say I'm surprised. The Herald Sun printed this story here. [politechbot]
There's a new issue of The Libertarian Enterprise, "D-2":
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Letter from Scott Cattanach - evidence of the depravity of
Project Exile supporters.
...Launched in response to an alarming increase in murders, Project Exile's premise was simple: Make gun crimes a federal offense and punish criminals with swift prosecutions and stiff sentences. "To us," says Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney James Comey, "gun possession itself is a crime of violence."
First, let me describe the commercials that we saw. They played all of them, and in these commercials they make a deliberate point of suggesting that if you are sent to Federal prison under Project Exile, prison rape will be an expected part of your future. - Letter from TJC - would allow so-called "smart guns" to be marketed if they passed a stringent safety test. Hehe. Letter from Tom Wright - Saf-T-Hammer, the new owner of the company formerly known as Smith & Wesson, is a publicly traded corporation. A little creative stock-holder activity could change it's direction.
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What, Me Radical? by L. Neil Smith - Man, it's nice to see so many new
essays from L. Neil! I'm a big fan, in case you hadn't
noticed. Comments on being called a "radical" for the ideas in
Lever Action by the teacher of one of his daughter's friends.
Simple mechanical necessity declares that if you have principles you want others to follow, then you'd damn well better express them unambiguously and follow them yourself. That's all I've ever done. It's all I'll ever do. And I guess that's what makes me a "radical".
There are two new articles in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- Senate decides law need not apply to
judges - Nevada's constitution doesn't allow elected officeholders
to receive the pay raises they vote for themselves until they're
reelected. In their infinite wisdom, they've decided that this doesn't
apply to judges.
For starters, these 30 percent raises, to $140,000 per year, are outrageously excessive. Even if the long-suffering jurists have to eat cold cereal for supper for a few years between such pay hikes, how many of the taxpayers who foot the bill for these whopping salaries have seen their own paychecks jump by 65 percent in the past six years?
Yes, I said 65 percent. Just six years ago, Supreme Court justices in Nevada were pulling down $85,000 per year ... and there seemed to be no shortage of candidates for the office. (I was tempted to add "qualified," but since the first qualification would have to be quoting the 9th and 10th Amendments from memory, maybe we'd better just leave that for another day.) In 1995, the Legislature boosted that rate of pay to $107,600. - Competition, low prices make the wheels fall
off - For some reason, legislatures think that taxi and limousine
commpanies need more regulation than other companies. Vin gets a quote
from Nevada Sen. O'Donnell explaining the wisdom of this and extends
it to an explanation of why the supermarket industry needs
regulation. Be careful, Vin, they might take you seriously.
Why? Because when you have a proliferation of supermarkets and restaurants in a state the profit margins go down, and it's a purely economic situation in that as the profit margins go down, the first place these guys cut is in cleanliness, healthfulness, and throwing out the bad food at the end of the day instead of heating up the spoiled leftovers, throwing on a sprig of fresh parsley, and serving the rancid remains to unsuspecting customers again tomorrow.
Rick Green at The Hartford Courant - Forced Apology Sparks Debate - Tristan Kading, a 15-year-old Stonington, CT high school student said some discouraging words about McDonalds at a mandatory attendence event sponsored by the company. He was forced to choose between a public apology or suspension. I have a mixed opinion on this one, so I didn't write a letter to the principal. It appears to me that Mr. Kading volunteered for a mock interview, but didn't carry through on his side of the bargain. Hence, I didn't write a letter to the principal. Unknown News provided his name and email, however, if you feel differently, and I verified it on the Stonington Public School web page. His name is Dr. Stephen Murphy. His email is drmurphy@stoningtonhigh.org. [unknown]
A representative from the company then asked for volunteers for mock job interviews. After one student made a juvenile remark in his interview and was told to sit down, Kading volunteered.
"She asked me about myself, and I said I hate large corporations like McDonald's," he said. "She said that won't get you a job at McDonald's.
"She says `Give me back the mike,' and I said I would not want to work for a company that falsely advertises its French fries," Kading said, referring to a recent controversy in which McDonald's revealed that it uses beef flavoring in its French fries.
Kading's comments drew loud applause and high fives from his friends, but administrators quickly removed him from the room, telling the group that he was "an embarrassment to the school." He then met with Principal Stephen Murphy. Fearful that he would be suspended, and at Murphy's urging, Kading agreed to read the apology over the intercom.
Sunday People UK - Six Held as Cops Go on a New Tech Drugs-Bust - the future is now. UK cops are now using drug sniffing machines outside of clubs. By simply wiping your clothing they can detect minute quanities of exstacy, cannabis, and likely other substances. [unknown]
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - Religious Liberty Thwarted by the Supreme Court - Good commentary on the recent Supreme Court decision to let stand a lower court ruling banning a stone containing the ten commandments from outside an Elkhart, Indiana city building. I was an ACLU member for a couple of years. I like their support of the first amendment. Their insistence on atheism and their denial of the second amendment made it impossible for me to continue to support them.
The First amendment (or any other constitutional provision) must be strictly construed to reflect the intent of the Founding Fathers. The language is clear- Congress simply is prohibited from passing laws establishing religion or prohibiting the free exercise of religion. There certainly is no mention of any "separation of church and state", although Supreme Court jurisprudence over the decades constantly asserts this mystical doctrine.
Doreen Carvajal at the New York Times via FreeRepublic - Marketing 'Narnia' Without a Christian Lion - Harper Collins now owns the pulishing rights to The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. They're downplaying the big-time Christian themes in the stories. I loved these as a child, but didn't notice the Christian themes. Not till I re-read them as an adult did I notice the spiritual element. [lew]
