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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:00:00 GMT
From The Federalist:
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot." -- Horace Greeley
and:
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves." -- D. H. Lawrence
and:
"President Bush woke up this morning, saw his shadow and now--six more weeks of vacation!" -- Jay Leno

# John de Rosier at The Albany (NY) Times Union - Found on President Bush'es Ranch - cartoon commentary on Bush'es opinion of "Camp Casey". Hehe.

# Walter Williams at Human Events - Security or Hysteria? Don't Cower to the Enemy, Kill Him - on the destruction of liberty in Amerika in the name of sekurity. Americans didn't used to respond to threats this way. We shouldn't now. Any cop who demands to search your person or your bag or your car without a proper warrant deserves to be shot dead on the spot (my words, not Mr. Williams'). [nicki]

# John Innes at The Scotsman - See-through 'freedom bags' offered to Tube commuters - you just can't make this stuff up. London subway riders are being encouraged to carry their possessions in transparent bags so that other riders and the sekurity goons can more easily tell that nothing they're carrying is potentially dangerous. I don't know any curse words loud enough. [codrea]

# Gary G. Kohls at LewRockwell.com - The Hidden Costs of War - turning people into ruthless killers does not a peaceful society make. [lew]

# Helen & Harry Highwater at Unknown News - Fuck you, George W. Bush - up the ass. With a chain saw. Thup thup thup thup thup. Ooh, that's gotta hurt... [unknown]

So yeah, I mutter obscenities and scream obscenities. Fuck you, George W. Bush. I hope this so-called President is arrested, and forced to face justice for his crimes against humanity. But assuming that's impossible, I sincerely hope he lives a long life, cursed by burning, painful penile and testicular cancer, constant diarrhea and rectal itch, and ceaseless nightmares of the last screams of American and Iraqi children and adults he brought to their deaths.

Yes indeed -- Fuck you, George W. Bush, and fuck the pig-farm you pretend is a "ranch." Fuck your bosses Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rice, fuck your staff, fuck your family, and fuck your sagebrush and fuck your chauffeur.

# Thomas Sowell at TownHall.com - An oil 'crisis'? and part II - is the world headed for an oil crisis? Not at all, unless governments try to control the situation and cause it, as they always do, to get worse. [trt-ny]

The last time we had price controls on gasoline, we had long lines of cars at filling stations, these lines sometimes stretching around the block, with motorists sitting in those lines for hours.

That nonsense ended almost overnight when President Ronald Reagan, ignoring the cries of liberal politicians and the liberal media, got rid of price controls with a stroke of the pen.

What happened is what usually happens when government restrictions are ended: There was more production of oil. In fact the 1980s became known as the era of an "oil glut" and gasoline prices declined.

Today production is being held back, not by price controls, but by political hysteria whenever anyone suggests actually producing more oil ourselves. Organized nature cults go ballistic at the thought that we might drill for oil in some remote part of Alaska that 99 percent of Americans will never see, including 99 percent of the nature cultists.

# Butler Shaffer at LewRockwell.com - To What Is Cindy a Threat? - has she perhaps reminded the war mongers that they already know what they are doing is wrong, badly wrong? Is that perhaps why they rant so hard against one woman asking, simply, "Why did my son die?" [smith2004]

As we better understand the nature of complexity and the decentralized systems implicit therein, we may finally bring an end to the soulless and destructive machinery of state violence, and rediscover the humane sentiments that may allow us to walk away from war, torture, genocide, and other acts of repression. The world of politics divides us into groups with allegedly conflicting interests. But, as Pastor Niemoller's words remind us, the way of peace and liberty lies in breaking down these contrived barriers and discovering what the statists hope we never learn, namely, the common interests we have in protecting one another from the state. Let us retain such thoughts as we contemplate -- and join in -- Cindy Sheehan's stand on behalf of all humanity.

# Wiki News - Dance party broken up by police in Utah, USA - lots of info and links about the nazi attack on Saturday on attendees of an outdoor party outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The county sheriff's office released a statement.

# Joel on Software - Wiki for Joel on Software translations? - Joel asked for recommendations on which wiki to use. He got lots of them. It's an incredibly large space these days, with lots of good choices. [joel]

# Apache Friends - XAMPP - Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, & Perl, in an easy-to-install package for Linux, Windows, MacOSX, or Solaris. Worked great on my Windows laptop, except I forgot that I already had a MySQL installation with a non-default root password, so I had to reconfigure a few PHP scripts. I installed MediaWiki and DokuWiki in no time flat.

# JHotDraw "is a Java GUI framework for technical and structured Graphics." I probably still need a paint program, and I'll need to add save/restore to this one, and translation to GIF or JPEG, but there are users of it who have possibly done bits of that. And I can probably use wiki server-side code for uploads. It comes with a couple of example Applets and applications.

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