EJB 3.0

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:00:00 GMT

From highroad:

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this Land, it will be in the Guise of Fighting a Foreign Enemy." -- James Madison

From smith2004:

"A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that." -- Alan Ladd to Jean Arthur in the movie Shane, 1953

From lrtdiscuss:

"It may soon be time to say: 'I plead the second.'; are you ready?" -- Leonidas

# David Codrea - Open Letter to "Rabbi" Eric H. Yoffie, President, Union of American Hebrew Congregations - Mr. Codrea gives it, and good, to a Rabbi who preaches gun control in the same breath as "never again". What an idiot. I have only one argument with this essay. The First Million Mom March was made possible not only by taking away the guns of the victims, but by programming them to follow authority. The tyrant's own guns are easily turned back on him by a person who refuses to be a victim. That doesn't mean that you should allow him to take your guns in the first place. Not at all. If anyone attempts to do that, kill him, no matter which fancy uniform, funny hat, or shiny badge he happens to be wearing. [codrea]

# Evelyn Pringle at Sierra Times - David Ayoub MD - Thirmerosal Definite Cause Of Autsim - Ms. Pringle writes that Dr. Ayoub believes that mercury in vaccines causes mass autism in children. [sierra]

Ayoub was asked why government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, are working so hard to keep the truth about the mercury-autism link hidden. He says it is a long story, but the main reason is because if they admitted guilt, it would mean the government agencies, drug companies and medical organizations, "have taken part in the largest iatrogenic epidemic known to man."

The fallout over admission of causality would be unprecedented, Ayoub adds. The lost confidence in American medicine would likely cause people to turn to alternative methods of medicine, and a rise in deeper investigation might reveal the truth about other suppressions related to cancer therapy, hypertension Rx, or Atherosclerosis.

# Michael Gaddy at LewRockwell.com - A Breeding Ground For Tyrants - on the illegal, immoral, massacre being carried out every day in Iraq, compliments of your fascist government. [sierra]

The irritating sound of a ringing phone brought me roughly back to reality. I had been lost in the serenity of the snow-covered peaks of the La Plata and San Juan Mountains of Southern Colorado. At first, there was no immediate response to my hello. I thought it a call from a telemarketer, but after the pause, was delighted to hear the voice of a damn good soldier I have known for over two decades, who is on his second tour in Iraq. His response to my question of what was going on over there now, still assaults my conscience: "Well, this morning our unit went out and shot up a bunch of civilians and our commander is writing it up as a great military victory."

...

This nation, its political leadership and the vast majority of its religious leaders, have thrown away their moral compass and replaced it with a rabid nationalism unseen on the world stage since Germany in the 1930s. Torture and murder of hundreds of thousands are readily accepted, as long as it is done for the graven image called the State. Eventually, unless we take a different path, the number of those tortured and murdered will include those in this country who refuse to submit to the State as it pursues its "mission from God." The venom readily spews forth from the shills for the State now, building a hate and resentment in the masses for any who would challenge the official position of perpetual war for peace.

Since our nation and its civilian leaders have lost their ability to judge right from wrong, why should we expect anything different from our military?

# I learned yesterday about Java 5's Annotations and how they're being used by JBoss 4's Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 implementation and by Hibernate 3. The bottom line appears to be that XDoclet is no longer necessary for the EJB work I'm doing. Nice in the long run, but annoying right now since I spent lots of time learning to use XDoclet with EJBs. Normally I wouldn't work with alpha software, but the project I'm working on won't ship for at least a year, and by then EJB 3.0 should be the standard. From the JBoss EJB 3.0 page:

EJB 3.0 is a deep overhaul of the old EJB specification. Its goals are to simplify development, facilitate test driven development, and focus more on plain java objects (POJOs) rather than on complex APIs. The introduction of annotations into JDK 5.0 allowed the EJB 3.0 specification to completely remove dependencies on XML deployment descriptors, the biggest bane to EJB developers. This EJB 3.0 Preview Release is almost a complete implementaiton of the specification. We'll be releasing new versions about every 6 weeks until the final draft of the specification.

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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