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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:00:00 GMT

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"Which of Bush's policies would not make Jesus regurgitate the Last Supper?" -- Helen & Harry Highwater

Kevin Tuma - Marxist Balance - cartoon commentary on the "balanced ticket" of the democrat president/VP candidates. Hehe.

russmo.com - Sovereignty - cartoon commentary placing the concept of "Iraqi Soveignty" in its proper place. Hehe.

# Bhagdad before and after Iraq's "liberation". The images are from Independent Online's web site, but I couldn't find the article(s) that included them. The bottom picture appears to be about half a block back from the top one. Don't know a date for either photo. Both JPEGs are marked as being created by Photoshop 3.0. [lrtdiscuss]

# Teresa Hampton at Capitol Hill Blue - Cheney Faces Criminal Indictments - Dick Cheney may be on his way out of Washington. Couldn't happen to a nastier guy. [root]

# Doug Buchanan of Alaska Intech - Intellectual Technology - also at DougBuchanan.com. Recommended by Elias Alias. The web site appears to be an in-depth sales pitch for a training service. I haven't read the whole thing yet, but I intend to. Don't miss the links page. From the Introduction: [lrtdiscuss]

This technology and knowledge are not comparable to any on the market, or commonly utilized.

You will not find any internet website more valuable for advancing your mind's ability to promptly solve problems and achieve difficult goals. If you suggest otherwise, please be so kind as to inform Alaska Intech of that source so that its colleagues may question the conclusions of said source to thus advance the available knowledge and create the resulting benefit for others.

For a quantum advancement in efficiency, beyond what you can learn on your own from this site, Alaska Intech will offer a custom seminar to convey the knowledge of how to promptly resolve complex contradictions, and promptly achieve difficult or seemingly impossible goals of your interest. The related technology represents the future standard for efficient goal achievement.

No person will successfully get something for nothing. A cost of any benefit from this site is your expenditure of valuable time to read slowly and correlate the concepts offered in complex sentences and inter-dependent paragraphs. Your mind must synthesize varied concepts, easily done by reading slowly and thinking about the meaning of the words. No benefit can be offered by simplifying the sentences to attract a client, as do other consultants and think tanks, as you can readily verify. The concepts must be synthesized in your mind, whether from complex sentences associating the data within them, or separate simple sentence that your mind must more carefully associate.

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(Edited Excerpt: Related Concepts: A human mind functioning under the precepts of individual curiosity, unfettered by institutional preconceptions, may or may not be interested in this material, and if interested may derive benefit from investigation. In contrast, a mind functioning under the precepts of institutional concepts will consistently react against this material, and against the expression in this paragraph, thus avoiding serious investigation and any benefit. The reaction is explainable and intriguing. This material constitutes an identifiable category of knowledge. The phenomenon of those different reactions creates the inordinate value of this arena of knowledge because it is designed for the utility of institutional leaders who react as described and thus do not investigate it. That the material is not redesigned to mitigate the verifiably adverse initial reaction of the persons for whom it is designed, secures its value, and is the only known avenue to such inordinate utility as described below. It is only the uniquely perceptive institutional leaders or their staff who will therefore gain access to said value, as their own choice unrelated to the results of another person learning and utilizing the technology. The phenomenon in part explains why persons in institutional positions consistently create the contradictions they perceive as logical while the general public just shakes their head in amazement over such obvious illogicality. That most of the general public, inherently including the aforementioned institutional leaders, commonly create their own examples of illogicality within countless conceptual institutions, without their mind recognizing the alteration of positions and thus perceptions, again illuminates the value of this material.)

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Intellectual technology begins where the best institutional technology produces its net failing conclusion. Intellectual technology therefore constitutes a new arena of knowledge to the mind functioning within the institutional (organizational, governmental) context.

The common commercial arena is predicated on the concept that a resolution to a contradiction can be purchased. Consultants, lawyers and variously titled experts in specialized arenas of knowledge, and also the flawed use of money, are the related commodities. Concurrently, the institutional, organizational or governmental arena is predicated on the concept that a perceived resolution to a contradiction can be forced into existence, such as by effecting law or other forms of institutional force or deception. Armed police and armies are the more dramatic mechanisms, but lesser mechanisms are more often the effecting instruments. Both concepts of purchasing or forcing a solution are fatally flawed in relation to the functioning design of the human mind. The human mind's design, including yours and that of everyone else, is predicated on reasoning, that is, contradiction resolution process; not on force, deception or material acquisition. The mind is exclusively a reasoning device, constantly attempting to resolve each contradiction it identifies. Simply use the mind for its designed task. Force, deception and material gain present the human mind with only more contradictions it instinctively seeks to resolve, by design.

The address in the link I started this entry with is "think.ws". The ".ws" domain belongs to Somoa, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific. There is a story about repurposing ".ws" to mean "Web Site".

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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