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The Nigerians Are Using Google Calendar

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:11:57 GMT <== Strange ==>

I received a notification from Google Calendar with an invitation to an event to receive 20% of $6.8 million. Smells just like the Nigerian email scams. And it was really from Google. I, of course, reported it as spam. Pasted below, typos, bad spacing, and all.

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cruzmelinda54@gmail.com
Description
My Last Wishs,

Greetings I am Melinda Cruz , I and my husband was brought up in a motherless babies home.that is why I decided to give them gift to help them see there is food in there house,widows around your country .
I am a widow suffering from illness my doctor said i will not live upto next mount. i am currently admitted in a private hospital here in cote d' Ivory,ask my doctor has said that i will not live upto next mount, I have some funds I inherited from my late loving husband.

The amount of US$6.800, 000.00 which he deposited in one of the Bank Here and I need a honest and God fearing person who have the feelings of human that can use this funds for God's work and 20% out of the total funds will be for your compensation for doing this work of God. Please if you would be able to use these funds for the God work kindly reply to me fast before u die.

That is why I want you or somebody you know to receive the gift of 6.8 million on my behalf since I can not come over as a result of my illness .I hope you will help me see that my last wishes come true before i die.

Yours sister in God

Melinda.

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I Will Never Call the Police

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:21:01 GMT <== Strange ==>

by Silver at The Mental Militia Forums (quoted with his permission)

I will never call the police. I have in the distant past, but never again.

There are multiple reasons.

1) Never talk to police. Period. Not. One. Word. You have the right to remain silent - use it. They should think you are mute or don't speak English when they let you go. If you don't talk to them, then you can't call them.

2) The police cannot defend you. You must defend yourself. Police arrive after the crime, generally long after.

3) I have renounced the use of violence to get what I want. The police are the state's agents of violence. Calling the police is initiating aggression against another person. If that other person is threatening or attacking you, defend yourself. If they are not threatening or attacking you, don't initiate violence against them by calling the police.

4) Police are criminals, hypocrites, bullies, and cowards. All of them, without exception. Every cop, without exception, is paid with stolen money. Every cop will happily assault and kidnap a mundane who knowingly receives stolen money, but they do it themselves all day, every day. No honest person consorts with or utilizes such vile criminals.

5) Police are above the law. They are free to assault, rob, kidnap, torture, and summarily execute anyone, for any reason, or no reason at all. They face essentially zero chance of any consequence more severe than a paid vacation. Calling them places you, your family, your pets, your friends, your neighbors, and completely innocent passerby in mortal danger.

A free society does not have police. A free man does not call police. I will never pass the chance to mock, ridicule, insult, denigrate, and delegitimize any cop, all cops, and the very idea of police. Police are a stupid government idea that like all such ideas do not produce what was promised, but grow like a cancer anyway. It will be a far better word when people point and laugh at the pathetic doughnut burners in their silly costumes instead of watching their entirely fictional heroism on MSM.

Calling police is an act of aggression and cowardice. Free men don't indulge in these behaviors. I was taught differently, but I was taught wrong. Now I've grown up and know better. I will never, ever, call the police.

Peace,

Silver

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Thinking About Hornets

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:16:59 GMT <== Strange ==>

Fred Reed at LewRockwell.com - Fred reads some robotics literature and learns how incredibly complicated is the behavior of the simplest of insects. Hehe. [lew]

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The Great Loompanics Unlimited Going Out of Business Sale

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:03:01 GMT <== Strange ==>

Mike Hoy at Loompanics Unlimited
http://www.loompanics.com/...

Cartoon artwork by Bob Crabb. Transcribed below. Happy trails, Mike! [clairefiles]

Announcing the Great
Loompanics Unlimited
Going Out of Business Sale

As our drama opens Loompanics President Mike Hoy is having a conversation with Miss Demeanor, the office cat...

"I hoped this day would never come, Missy, but we are going to have to close down Loompanics!!"

"Meow?"

"Well, sales have been steadily falling for several years, and we just can't keep the place going any longer!"

"Meow."

"Besides, I'm actually in my sixties now, and it's time for me to try my hand at something else!"

"Meow."

"While it's a sad day for us here, it means GOOD NEWS for our customers!! .. In order to clear out our inventory, we are offering everything we have for 50% off!!"

"This short sampler contains all the titles that we have added since our 2005 Main Catalog came out! For complete list of everything we have for sale, check out our website at www.loompanics.com, or you can still get a 2005 Main Catalog from us for $5.00!"

"Meow???"

"Oh, you and me are still going to be together, Miss Demeanor, irregardless!"

"Meow."

"I recommend our readers use this opportunity to try something new..."

"... Try some drug books, some alternative housing books, conspiracy books, sex books--see where something new will lead you!"

"Owning Loompanics has been the biggest thrill of my life--for 30 years I got to live my dream (and stick it to the man!). I want to thank everyone who made it possible! Our customers, authors, artists, reviewers, interviewers, vendors, and most of all, the super efficient Loompanics staff...

...And everyone who made it necessary! All the censors, prudes, prigs and pigs in the world, especially in the U.S.A..."

"Well, Miss Demeanor, it's time for you and me to waddle of into the sunset!"

"Meow."

[Click of key in lock]

[They walk off into the sunset, Mr. Hoy tipping his hat]

THANK YOU ONE AND ALL, FOR THIRTY FANTASTIC YEARS!

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Man pitches pixels, makes a million

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:54:07 GMT <== Strange ==>

Don Oldenburg at The Washington Post
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060112/NEWS06/601120423/1012

Alex Tewe made a web page with 1,000,000 blank pixels. Then he put them up for sale for a dollar apiece. He sold them all. Unfortunately, milliondollarhomepage.com loaded too slowly for me to wait for the entire grid. It seems that Mr. Tewe needs faster hosting. [root]

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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