George Peabody for Governor of Hawaii
From Quotes of the Day:
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. -- Albert Einstein
From Chuck Muth's News & Views:
Controversial New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli (D) is now running television ads apologizing for taking illegal cash and gifts from a campaign contributor. This is what I love about Washington, this is amazing to me. They take illegal money, and then they use that money to run ads to apologize for taking illegal money. -- Jay Leno
From an article about Johnny Carson in the July/August issue of the AARP's magazine, which I looked at yesterday morning in the dentist's office:
Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.and:
The Oscars are two hours of sparkling entertainment spread over four hours.
From The Federalist:
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. -- Edmund Burkeand:
Two WorldCom officials have been arrested and charged with fraud. It's just another case of booking the crooks for cooking the books. -- Lyn Nofziger
From kaba:
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaireand:
An ordinance which... makes the peaceful enjoyment of freedoms which the Constitution guarantees contingent upon the uncontrolled will of an official -- as by requiring a permit or license which may be granted or withheld in the discretion of such official -- is an unconstitutional censorship or prior restraint upon the enjoyment of those freedoms. And our decisions have made clear that a person faced with such an unconstitutional licensing law may ignore it and engage with impunity in the exercise of the right of free expression for which the law purports to require a license. -- SHUTTLESWORTH cv. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AL
Trijicon Reflex sights are on sale at Botach Tactical. The RX06/RX10 combination that I've been wanting for a long time now (12.5 MOA amber triangle reticle with M16 handle mount) costs $245 + $91 = $336. This is $33 cheaper than the lowest other price I could find on web last night, and $238 less than retail ($574). It's $131 cheaper than Botach's normal price ($365 + $102 = $467).
Charley Reese - Happy Birthday, Harry! - Harry Potter is fifteen. Mr. Reese likes J.K. Rowling's stories about him. So do I. Looking forward to the second movie (November) and the fifth book (next spring).
Potter's first book became a best seller by word of mouth, the best testimony a book can get. It also caused any number of British publishers to take yoga classes so they could learn to kick themselves in the rear end for having turned it down.
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Recently, I read the first four books (the fifth is due out in the spring) in sequence and found them entirely satisfying. Hey, but they're kids books. So what. A good story well told is a good story well told, no matter what the genre, and the Harry Potter books are a darn good story told darn well.
Brian Puckett at KeepAndBearArms.com - Justice Department Ignores Second Amendment Violations: Update on "Ashcroft" Petition - The Justice department finally responded to the 20,000 petitions that Citizens of America send to John Ashcroft. They include their most recent letter to Mr. Ashcroft and the response they received from James S. Reynolds, Chief of the Terrorism and Violent Crime Section. Summary: "We read your letter. We will continue to enforce all the gun laws." [kaba]
George Bush is supposed to be "pro-gun rights". Attorney General Ashcroft is supposed to be "pro-gun rights". They are saying things they believe gun owners want to hear, the things they believe will win our votes. But they are not doing anything to follow up on these mere words.
George Peabody for Governor of Hawaii 2002 -
a Bill of Rights enforcement libertarian. Good luck,
Mr. Peabody. [kaba]
If you don't like it that we have here in Hawaii a bunch of Fascist bureaucrats and politicians who support and conspire with the federal government's fanatical, anti-Second Amendment, gun-grabbing, slavery by taxation, big government is better police-state mentality, and you want to replace it with a governor and administration that will enforce the Bill of Rights and reduce government size and costs so that you can be a free and sovereign individual as God made you, then you have come to the right place. I appreciate your support. Aloha, and mahalo.
BBC News - Soldier toy disarmed at airport - LAX security does it again. They confiscated the two-inch plastic rifle from a GI Joe doll and made the owner pack the doll in her checked baggage. [smith2004]
Judy Powell, 55, from Walton on the Hill, Surrey, bought the GI Joe toy in Las Vegas and packed it in her hand luggage.
But security staff at Los Angeles International Airport refused to let Mrs Powell on board the plane with the replica rifle.
Mrs Powell had to put the gift - minus the rifle - in her suitcase so it could go in the aircraft's hold.
Mrs Powell said: "I was simply stunned when I realised they were serious.
"Security examined the toy as if it was going to shoot them and looked at the rifle."
Joseph Sobran - Niceness and the State - science has proven that we're wired to feel good when we're nice to each other, just like men are wired to feel good when viddying beautiful women. Conclusion: we don't need the state to coerce us into being nice to each other. Corollary: the state has known this for a long time and uses it to our detriment as a matter of course. [trt-ny]
The implications are anarchic. We don't need the state to force us to cooperate; we would do it spontaneously, without coercion. The force-system we call the state is worse than superfluous. It interferes with and frustrates the natural urge to cooperate; at worst, it embitters human relations. The paradigm of state-behavior -- massive organized force -- is war.
You might say that the state is parasitic on our innate need to cooperate. It makes us confuse obedience to force with social harmony. In fact, its greatest fiction is that it is itself the key to social harmony, as if we would all be shooting each other if the state weren’t there to force us to behave.
Nathan Cochrane at The Age - Copyright bill will create vigilantes: critics - if representative Howard Berman's bill, H.R. 5211, which "immunises copyright holders from civil litigation or criminal prosecution if they invade US PCs connected to the international P2P networks to take down their own copyrighted materials," is passed into law, "American movie, recording and software executives could be prohibited from entering Australia or extradited to face criminal charges." It would serve them right. Breaking into people's computers without a search warrant is a crime, no matter how Congress votes about it. The bill has only 3 cosponsors. This means it will likely die in committee. [script]
James Waddell at LewRockwell.com - The Blessing of Inequality - an oldy but goody. Some socialists complain about the growing "gap" between rich and poor. Mr. Waddell argues that this "gap" is good. It only means that the rich are getting richer at a faster rate than the poor. Poor in some parts of the world means not enough to eat and no roof over your head. In America, it often means you've got an apartment, a car, a TV, and three square meals a day. Sure, you've got less than the rich, but the "poor" in free countries are really pretty well off. And the only reason for this is because liberty allows the rich to create wealth, from which the poor may benefit. Free markets work. Income redistribution doesn't. End of story. [trt-ny]
NewsMax - Airport Screeners Order Mom to Drink Breast Milk - a Mom had three bottles of breast milk for feeding her 4-month-old baby on the airplane. She was forced to drink all three before being allowed to board. Guess she'll remember her Motherwear next time. [kaba]
Don Thompson of AP via The Fresno Bee - 'Bullet tax' amendment pulled from consideration this year - Kalifornians won't be paying five cents per round until at least 2004. Sanity wins, this time. [kaba]
