Beast ID

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:00:00 GMT

From smith2004

With the Celseus scale, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100.

Simple.

Weather-wise, remember it this way:

30 is hot
20 is nice
10 is cool and
0 is ice.

From The Federalist:

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments." -- Benjamin Franklin

and:

"A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father's shop. He has no formal education. He owns no property of any kind. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father's shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside. Walking from place to place preaching all the while even though he is in no way an ordained minister he never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing -- the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place so he is interred in a borrowed tomb. End of story? No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who preached on street corners for only three years who left no written word has for 2000 years had a greater effect on the entire world than all the rulers, kings and emperors, all the conquerors, the generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who ever lived -- all put together. How do we explain that? ...Unless he really was what he said he was." -- Ronald Reagan

I'm sick as a dog today, as are my two kids. I'm only typing this because I needed a break from lying in bed all day and all night. Cough. Fever. Low energy. And my bones hurt. Ugh.

Teresa Bjork at The Iowa Farm Bureau - USDA creating national livestock ID system - we're next. [claire]

The National Food Animal Identification Task Force recommends that the USDA implement the plan in three phases:

Phase I -- All premises involved in livestock production, including farms, auction barns and processing facilities, will receive an ID number that is unique throughout the United States. The task force proposes that phase I begin in July 2004.
Phase II -- All livestock will receive unique individual ID numbers, beginning July 2005. In the case of pork and poultry, groups or lots will receive unique ID numbers. Animals will receive visible eartags featuring the ID numbers. Starting in July 2005, the system will use radio frequency identification devices (RFID) to electronically identify animals.
Phase III -- All animal movements will be tracked electronically. The reporting of interstate animal movements will begin in July 2005, while intrastate movement tracing will begin in July 2006.
...

What is it? U.S. livestock will receive an ID number that is unique throughout the United States. All premises involved in livestock production, including farms and packing plants, will also receive an ID number.

Why needed? An national ID system will allow U.S. animal health officials to trace back the origin of an animal disease outbreak within 48-hours of discovery.

Who has access to info? USDA will maintain the database and will only collect info for animal health purposes. The database is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

When will it begin? Premise ID could begin as soon as July 2004. The system will be phased in over two years.

Francis W. Porretto - When It Counts, Where Is It? - some thoughts on the McCain-Feingold abrogation of the first amendment. I said part of this, though not so eloquently, back when this excrement was passed in my piece entitled Traitors All. [geekwitha.45]

America is its Constitution. To attack the Constitution is to attack America. Therefore, as of today, the American people are under attack by the federal government of these United States, all three branches of which have colluded to amend the Constitution illegitimately.

Congress has a single chance to absolve itself: the immediate repeal of the McCain-Feingold Act. Failing this, every member of either House who voted for the Act is a criminal, guilty of treason on the simplest of grounds, and must be removed from office. Should a repeal measure be presented, every member of either House who votes against it should suffer the same consequences.

Lady Liberty at The Libertarian Enterprise - History Lessons - on the importance of restoring honor to society. [tle]

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Government doesn't work. Never did. Never will. Can't. But there are lots of good people. Love them.

-- Bill St. Clair

The Atlanta Declaration

Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

-- L. Neil Smith

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

-- L. Neil Smith

A Penalty Clause for the Bill of Rights

Any official, appointed or elected, at any level of government, who attempts, through legislative act or other means, to nullify, evade, or avoid the provisions of the first ten amendments to this Constitution, or of the Thirteenth Amendment, shall be summarily removed from office, and, upon conviction, deprived of all pay and benefits including pension, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

-- L. Neil Smith

Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

-- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report on gun control laws.

Who is a libertarian?

Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap")

"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."

-- L. Neil Smith

(Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP")

Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

-- L. Neil Smith

Concise

"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

-- Mike Vanderboegh

Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

-- L. Neil Smith

This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

-- Vin Suprynowicz

If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

-- Edward Abbey

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

-- Bill St. Clair