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"Karen O'Keefe, legislative analyst for the project, said Tuesday the study is not meant to show a causal link between medical marijuana laws and teen use, but to debunk arguments of those who contended the availability of medical marijuana would increase pot use by teens. "
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Sep-21-Wed-2005/news/27242384.html
"As a Libertarian, I tend to be skeptical of government regulation. Internet pornography is an enormous, profitable industry (which happens to provide the government with massive amounts of tax money) and I strongly support the rights of those who choose to engage in production, distribution, and consumption of pornography that does not inherently violate the rights of others. In principle, I also value the rights of those who do not wish to be exposed to such content, but I have very little faith in the government's capacity to effectively shield the innocent without violating the rights of consenting consumers."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html
"'Jonathan Magbie's agonizing death was completely unnecessary,' said Aaron Houston, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. 'The jail and hospital officials who were negligent must be held accountable, but Congress also bears a major share of responsibility for this tragedy'."
http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr20050920.html
"America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside. We've long had things arranged in such a way that our public exterior is always shimmering and clean.... For most of the uglier things that are under the surface -- the bitterness, the rancor, the greed, the selfishness, the loneliness, the isolation we feel from each other, our inability to communicate and empathize -- we've found ways to keep these things out of sight. ... We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done. But what happens when we stop getting the job done? What are we left with then?" Long, but well worth the time.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7661196?rnd=1127485026973&has-player=true
"Let's pause to reflect: our all-wise and all-benevolent government has brought about a situation in which people with long-term pain have little choice but to suffer because their doctors live under a reign of terror. When was the last time you heard your compassionate president, senator, or representative mention that?"
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0506b.asp
"The rebuilt communities do not have to resemble penitentiaries or other forms of government housing. There are architects and developers who have made it a specialty to work with limited-income communities to design and build what people want." Calling Howard Roark.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051003/vonhoffman
"Anarchist libertarians understand and agree that laws and judgments are essential for social order. They do not agree that a monopoly provider of these services is needed. Such a single provider, a State, makes no sense according to Hume's own goal, because it, being strong and attracting the violent men to its powers, devours freedom, property, justice, the family, and weakens civil society."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff26.html
"The only way humans can get along is by operating from the basis of 'if you don't hurt me, I won't hurt you'--government violates this with every single thing it does. … Every single thing government does, it does because people somehow believe that wearing the funny hat of government absolves its agents of obeying basic ethical principles."
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle337-20050918-06.html
"Yet, just like the abused spouse who wishes to believe in her husband despite endless betrayals and beatings, the non-root-striking columnists keep returning to a dependence on government. After blaming government for not doing enough quickly enough in New Orleans, the very same columnists, along with people in general, demanded that government rebuild the city no matter the cost. (Of course, government never hesitates to increase its spending.)"
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/bylund/bylund3.html
"As with all human relationships, it comes down to 'Freedom is the answer, what is the question?' Unfortunately, when we interact with others, especially those who work for the State, or who work for large bureaucratic organizations, Freedom is usually not the answer. However, in our personal relationships, those with our friends, with our spouses, and especially those with our children, we have a choice. When we are the ones supplying the answers we can insure that they are consistent with Freedom." Although this item has a blog posting date earlier than the period, it was in the most recent "Carnival of Liberty" which was in the period.
http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/archives/00000480.html
"We believe that, of the options open to those who would dissent from the actions and institutions of a government grown too big and unwieldy and its handmaiden corporate sponsors grown too powerful and corrupt, the only comprehensive and practical one is some form of separatism."
http://www.counterpunch.org/sale09242005.html
"The government is not your friend. As we have seen in New Orleans, government agents will evict you from your home, steal your property, threaten you, arrest you, and in general treat you like scum for the crime of surviving without government aid. "
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle337-20050918-05.html
"The Padilla doctrine is a back-door attempt by the Pentagon to sabotage America's federal criminal-justice system. The doctrine threatens to destroy the centuries-old rights and guarantees. It is impossible to overstate its ominous and dangerous implications. And while many Americans lie blissfully unaware of the implications of the Padilla doctrine, there is no doubt that U.S. officials, especially those in the Pentagon, are fully aware of such implications, which is undoubtedly why Pentagon officials have been fighting tooth and nail to prevail in the Padilla case for some three years." By the time the Padilla case comes before SCOTUS, SCOTUS may have significantly changed in its composition from the time of the writing of this article. The risk is great.
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0506a.asp
"The swirling debates about the nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States have obscured a deeper fault line in the selection and confirmation of the nine distant determiners of our fundamental rights and liberties. Bringing a sharp light on the ignorance of most present high court justices about actual life in the streets...."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0538,hentoff,67940,6.html
"Because of this kind of persecution of those who don't conform to the neocon notion of 'patriotism,' all of us who fight media manipulation of news and the ongoing occupation are in danger. If four ordinary parents are not allowed to make a somewhat graphic display of their objections to the war, then how can we assume that to write of the blundering mistakes and deceit of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld is not an invitation for a knock on the door, an arrest, a trial?"
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/saavedra.php?articleid=7310
"When he ran for president in 2000 and again in 2004, George W. Bush told voters hundreds of times, in describing tax dollars, words to the effect that: 'It's your money, not the federal government's!' As a candidate, he attacked the Nanny State. What happened to him? He has become a president who second-guesses a mayor on the safety of his city's streets, who presumes the Constitution lets him force taxpayers to re-build uninsured private homes, and who has proposed the biggest federal give-away of cash and land to private persons in history. This isn't compassionate conservatism. It is unconstitutional big government truly out of control."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/napolitano1.html
"Control of the framing of the issues of public discourse is only possible if aided by the silence and the active complicity of an intimidated and fearful media. In Iraq, misrepresentation by the media of the staged celebrations at the toppling of Saddam's statue reinforced the unrealistic prewar 'they'll welcome us with flowers' mindset."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/frey.php?articleid=7326
"The corruption of Lula's government, therefore, should be seen more as a symptom than a cause. Ranting about corruption without removing the causes will only generate further frustration. Brazilians impeached President Collor de Mello in the 1990s but failed to change a system that ensured a party like Lula's would fall into the same trap years later."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1574
"I'm sure that what really wakes the big boys up in the middle of the night, sweating and screaming, is a vision of a future in which the average home's garbage disposal and trash compactor feed directly into a device that manufactures all the petroleum an individual family needs. So the answer isn't regulation, at all.... It is deregulation, which will allow exactly that sort of 'nightmare' vision to come true for the big oil companies, while giving individuals, families, and communities some genuine energy independence."
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle337-20050918-02.html
"How much freedom do I believe should be tolerated? As long as a family dispute is being handled peacefully and involves only consenting adults, then everyone else should mind their own business."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0921.html
"[P]eople do not need a government agency to coordinate meaningful relief for the victims. They have done so efficiently and effectively without oversight by a bureaucrat at FEMA. A demand for food, clothing, and shelter has been met by a supply. That's how markets work. In economic terms, this un-directed, un-managed response is called 'spontaneous order.' It's a classic concept unfolding in the aftermath of the storm."
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=8368
"Cobell has devoted most of her life to this issue. She travels between Washington and her home near Glacier National Park in Montana 40 weeks a year. Cobell admits she is not absolutely certain of the total amount owed to Native Americans, but only because she isn't certain precisely how much land the 300 to 500 thousand plaintiffs in her action actually own."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon101.htm
"The main complaint about jury duty is its huge waste of juror time. But with juror services essentially costless to judges and lawyers, it makes sense to waste their time, just like anything else with a virtually zero price. If jurors were paid the value of their time, they would be far more effectively utilized, since court systems would finally have appropriate incentives to do so."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/galles2.html
"New Orleans' problems -- both with respect to the storm and with respect to race and class -- were created by government. The considerable poverty was created by decades of a federal welfare system that offered perverse incentives when it comes to building families and stability. The crime and destitution come from, among other things, a drug war that makes the violent drug trade exponentially more lucrative to people with dim prospects than more legitimate means of making a living. It is government policies that created a system ruled by heartbreaking mores and devastating values, where criminality and failure are lauded, while legitimate achievement is viewed with suspicion."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170069,00.html
"So what we have here is a clear instance of a foreign power attempting to fabricate a terrorist attack. Why else would the soldiers be dressed as Arabs if not to frame them? Why have a car laden with explosives if you don't plan to use them for destructive purposes? Iraq is headed towards civil war, and this operation was meant to accelerate the process by killing people and blaming others. Nothing more, nothing less."
"According to news reports, at Ted Forstmann's annual meeting of movers and shakers last weekend, US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, predicted that US troops will soon enter into Syria. Simultaneously, the Bush administration is desperately trying to orchestrate a case that it can use to attack Iran."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09202005.html
"In the Bizarro World universe we've been thrust into ever since 9/11/01 -- when the force of the explosion that brought down the World Trade Center pushed us into an alternate and cruelly inverted reality -- lies are truth, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and the function of government (and much of our media) is to keep everyone in almost total ignorance of what is really going on. Because, you see, ignorance is strength."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7335
"Surely it must indeed be God's Work, their oh-so-concerned expressions tell us, to rid the city of the impoverished hangers-on, the people too cantankerous to depart, the young and careless, the queer, the odd and similar trash! (Were you wondering why the Feds were so slow to proffer help, even to express concern, compared to their usual performance before the cameras when disaster strikes? Is it clearer now?)"
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle337-20050918-04.html
"What do I mean by this? A clear division exists between cultures who have a state and class division and those who don't. West Coast societies had status hierarchy and slaves, but this should not be equated with the power hierarchies and slave economies of Classical Greece or the Roman Empire. What separates the two systems is the possession of, or lack of, coercive power. There is a difference between a status hierarchy and a power hierarchy."
http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/two-errors.html
"Skousen lauds monetarists Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz for their 'empirical' explanation of the Great Depression, who pin responsibility for it on the government's monetary policies, not the free market. Skousen admits that 'the Vienna school blamed government, too, for the Great Depression, but did so in a qualitative way without relying on empirical evidence; Friedman and Schwartz told the story in a way that convinced many non-believers'."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/smith/smith3.html
"If you take the time to investigate, you will always find this pattern. The rich and influential avoid combat. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton do not send young men to Iraq. The editors at magazines that support the war, National Review for example, didn't fight. They are happy to let you go, though. The reason for the All Volunteer military was to let the smart and rich avoid service and instead send kids from middle-class and blue-collar families. It works."
http://fredoneverything.net/GoingToWar.shtml
"In short, regrettably, neither Afghanistan nor Iraq is yet ready for democracy. Experts on the democratization of countries speak of a democratic culture being required before genuinely democratic institutions and processes can take hold. Afghanistan and Iraq, like South Vietnam in the 1960s and early 1970s, have not developed such a culture."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1572
"The reality is that the Mahdi Army, SCIRI, and all the other Muslim party-backed militias are part of the elected government of Iraq: their representatives sit in the National Assembly, where they have a majority when they vote as a bloc. They aren't 'insurgents' -- they're supposed to be our allies! As they stand up, George W. Bush tells us, America will stand down. So how are they suddenly 'insurgents'?"
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7366
"Actress" seems inadequate to describe Greta Garbo, I had originally labeled this entry: film legend. This site has a large amount of information on Garbo, but the timeline seemed closest to a biography. IMDb also has a fair amount of Garbo information.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/timeline.htm
"Because of the popularity of the Rochester character, some newspapers reportedly listed the show as The Eddie Anderson Show. Anderson was as responsible as Benny for the show's tremendous success across so many segments of American society, and the relationship between Anderson and Benny became more complex and intimate as the years went by."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Anderson
"In late 1933, Hans joined the Hitler Youth. He was attracted by their apparently high ideals. However, disappointed by the reality of National Socialism, he sought contact with the 'Jugendbewegung' (Youth Movement). ... Their interest was focused particularly on those books Goebbels had ordered to be burned."
http://www.jlrweb.com/whiterose/hans.html
"With a likeable heroine and hero, superb supporting performances and great music from Meredith Wilson of Music Man fame, The Unsinkable Molly Brown satisfies in a way few other musicals do: it celebrates the common people of America."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/molly_brown_1964.htm
"I never got to see Harold and Maude in the theaters. It was released in 1971, and I was a bit too young. So, it wasn't until the advent of the VCR that I was exposed to director Hal Ashby's masterpiece. Since then, I have watched it dozens of times and have introduced it to many, many friends. If you cross my threshold and I find out you're a 'virgin,' expect to be buttonholed for the entire 91-minute running time."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/18/Columns/A_cure_for_the_box_of.shtml
"By the movie's end, neither side is ultimately and beyond a shadow of a doubt vanquished. Laura Linney's character is still an agnostic, although one gets the impression she is now at least as open to faith as she is to unbelief. Similarly, all of the strange events that occur during the possession/exorcism sequences (told in dramatic flashbacks) have possible naturalistic explanations. But the skeptical filmgoer, like Linney's character, is left with reasons to doubt his own lack of faith. He is reminded that if one is truly agnostic, one should at least be balanced in his agnosticism: there are valid reasons to wonder whether the Faith could be true just as there are valid reasons to suspect it could be false." I haven't seen this film, but it sounds like maybe I should for several reasons. I've liked Laura Linney in so many roles and this is said elsewhere to be perhaps her best performance yet.
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/nowicki_emily_rose.htm
"S. 1718, also known as the Preservation Of Public Lands Of America Act, authorized a shift of $138 billion from the federal Medicare fund to a massive landscaping effort that, over the next five years, will transform Yellowstone National Park into a luxury private golf estate."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40762
Flash animated cartoon
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0539,fiore,68161,9.html
"The vice president, who emerged from his underground lair two weeks ago for a series of high-profile photo opportunities, made the surprising announcement at a press briefing in the White House. 'I’m untanned, but I'm rested and ready,' said Mr. Cheney, squinting at the daylight as he spoke to the White House press corps."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1220
"Most people would not defend the idea that fictional characters or imaginary friends have rights in any normal sense. They do not possess life and cannot possess rights. So what relevance does this discussion have for affairs that matter in our actual world? In today's world are there any fictional or imaginary entities which are thought by many people to have rights? There are."
http://endervidualism.com/tomender/llp_in_that_order.htm
"The journey from autocratic despotism to elective despotism is neither far nor rewarding. We can hope that the conviction 'I should have a say in who governs me' will metamorphose into 'I should be free to run my own life,' but there is nothing automatic about it.."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0505b.asp
"I like the term 'paleoliberal' because it puts 'paleoconservatism' in some context. Paleoconservatives, though they have some libertarian leanings here and there, are not nearly as clearly libertarian as a paleoliberal would be, since conservatives in the old days were never as libertarian as the classical liberals were."
http://www.bkmarcus.com/blog/2005/09/paleoliberalism.html
"There are times when I wonder if schools have wound up turning many minds off of good, wholesome music at an early age. There's plenty of good rock music and hip hop music out there, but it's a rare event to find youngsters who listen to anything other than those two primarily pop genres."
http://freemanlc.blogspot.com/2005/09/slime-from-schools-and-videos.html
"It is possible that in the night-watchman world of the Jetsons, the government didn't have the means to propagate a threat. Or maybe the Jetsons' world is even more advanced than we've thought: the state doesn't bother with scaring people because it knows that no one would believe the propaganda in any case."
http://www.mises.org/story/1920
"It is one of the core principles of fascism, that all 'positive' social impulses must be exercised through the state, or through the state's designated and approved institutions. ... Libertarians have been using the whole sorry example of the Katrina disaster and aftermath to point out the folly of trusting government to take care of you. And I think this talk is getting picked up by socialists, and it really has them worried. If people generally wake up to the idea that government can only be counted on to take care of itself, the jig will be up for the socialists."
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