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"There still is a way to bring reality to the Bush administration. The public has the Internet. Is the antiwar movement well enough organized to collect via the Internet signatures on petitions for impeachment, perhaps one petition for each state? Millions of signatures would embarrass Bush before the world and embarrass our elected Representatives for their failure to act. If no one in Congress acted on the petitions, all the rhetoric about war for democracy would fall flat. It would be obvious that there is no democracy in America."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts128.html
"Surveys supposedly show that most tribal types detest Indian mascots and monikers, although many don't complain because, to their credit, they don't like being complainers. Not so with organizations run by people who make their living as professional complainers. (Such as the NCAA?) By self-proclaiming the PC position as morally superior, all opposing opinions, including sanity, are automatically wrong. But there is a way out of this perpetual PC idiocy."
http://www.freecannon.com/PCNameGame.htm
"The significance of this carefully documented ad in such a prestigious journal is huge. It seems like only yesterday that the Drug Czar was ridiculing Tod Mikuriya as a practitioner of 'Cheech and Chong medicine.' Now, plainly stated in JAMA by the world's third-largest pharmaceutical company, is the biological basis for how marijuana affects so many systems within the body."
http://www.counterpunch.org/gardner10152005.html
"Those who first saw her described a pretty young woman. Not refined. Not a lady. But a robust village girl in a full, floor-length skirt of red and white stripes, topped by a blue bodice. Around her throat was a necklace of tin stars. In her hair, a cluster of jaunty plumes. Her garb was old-fashioned, even then."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe051015.html
"64 year old Robert Davis was hit at least 4 times in the head last Saturday night as he stood outside a New Orleans bar near Bourbon Street. As he seemed to resist, flailing at his attackers, 4 officers 3 white and 1 light skinned dragged him to the ground and then kneed and punched him twice, leaving him with blood flowing from his arm into the gutter."
http://www.counterpunch.org/rajiva10112005.html
"Unlike Simpson, Holloway and Behl, Corrie was murdered by one state and ignored by another. Instead of scandalous sex, Corrie got killed for defending some poor Palestinian's humble home. What should have been a major story represented an embarrassment to two governments."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/herman/herman17.html
"You see, when political leaders jabber to the maximum about the need for people to die for something, what they really desire is to build their own power and advance their utopian nightmares -- all at the expense of others. Likewise, when an abusive family member or aggressive relationship partner tells his 'loved ones' the same thing, he's simply projecting his hopes and dreams onto them in a blatant and barbaric fashion."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/goodson/goodson1.html
"When the AIDS epidemic arose, pharmaceutical companies began to develop treatments. However, most AIDS patients couldn't wait the 14½ years that it then took to get through the regulatory red tape. A small group of concerned activists hired underground chemists to make the very drugs that we were working on. ... Indeed, the AIDS community demonstrated that lay individuals, working with concerned medical professionals, could manufacture, distribute, and test new therapies with a minimum of side effects!"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/ruwart2.html
"If we are successful in developing, implementing, and setting in motion a new system of the world based on individual liberty, private property secured with strong crypto, and free enterprise, if we are not betrayed in the early going, it should be possible to so organize the world that it becomes impossible for anyone to rule it with force, and to so secure property that it becomes impossible for anyone to steal very much of it."
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle340-20051009-05.html
"This historic event will be the first statewide convention on secession in the United States since North Carolina voted to secede from the Union on May 20, 1861."
http://www.counterpunch.org/vermont10102005.html
"The idea that America is 'good' and therefore need not show a decent respect to the opinions of mankind runs very deep among those now ruling Washington. Yet the Senate vote against Bush and the religious extremists is a sign that not all is lost in our great nation."
http://www.antiwar.com/utley/?articleid=7592
"[T]here is a lot of work that has to be done, largely before reaching the public's radar screen, to get things to a point where change currents are even noticeable much less dominant. And in my opinion, that work being done at that level is going well. We are making slow but discernible progress in the court of public opinion. If the currents are against us, the undercurrents run in our direction. Things are getting ready to change...."
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/407/optimism.shtml
"In 1967, a middle school history teacher found himself being asked the following kinds of questions by his students in regards to the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime during World War II. How could the German populace claim ignorance of the slaughter of the Jewish people? How could the townspeople, railroad conductors, teachers, doctors, etc., claim they knew nothing about concentration camps and human carnage? How can people who were neighbors and maybe even friends of the Jewish citizens say they weren't there when it happened? His answer was to try a social experiment with his students, unbeknownst to either the students or their parents."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/fields1.html
"An election in which numerous irregularities occurred was held, and the victor -- former Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiyev -- immediately declared that this augured the crushing of the 'counterrevolutionary' elements in the country. ... At one point he threatened to ask the U.S. to abandon its military base, but now it appears that Condoleezza Rice has dissuaded him, and the U.S. military presence may even expand. There isn't any real democracy in Kyrgyzstan, but there is, for the first time, a written agreement with the government to host a U.S. military base. And that, dear readers, is the real point."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7597
"Bush insistently believes that, as commander in chief, he i s the law, and neither Congress nor the courts have any right to interfere with his conduct in the war on terrorism. When there are adverse court decisions partially disagreeing with him, Bush grudgingly appears to back off briefly, but he continues to move in the courts to assure his supremacy."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0542,hentoff,68920,6.html
"President George W. Bush's temper tantrums are on the rise with White House insiders reporting increasing tongue-lashing of staffers, obscenity-filled outbursts and a leader driven to the edge by what he sees as party disloyalty and a country that no longer trusts him. Conservative backlash over his latest Supreme Court nominee may, in fact, have pushed the President over the edge."
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7509.shtml
"Antiwar crusader Cindy Sheehan recently told me that she thought the Democrats should be abandoned. 'I will not support a pro-war Democrat [in the upcoming elections]. … I regret supporting John Kerry in 2004,' she said. '[T]he movement gained nothing from his candidacy.' Later, in piece titled 'War-Hawk Republicans and Antiwar Democrats: What's the Difference?,' Sheehan wrote, 'I think if one is not speaking out right now against the killing in Iraq, one is supporting it.' Exactly."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jfrank.php?articleid=7563
"The most troubling thing about Bush's post-Katrina programs is that they reverse the trend put in motion by the welfare reform effort of the last decade. And unlike the case nine years ago, when Bill Clinton adopted small government under pressure from a Republican-controlled Congress, this time the Republicans control both the executive and legislative branches."
http://www.reason.com/hod/sd101405.shtml
"Recent years have witnessed one of the most heartening and exciting developments in human history: the prospect that hundreds of millions of people, particularly in China and India, will lead something that resembles a middle-class life. The standards of living of many people are rising to the point where they demand cars -- and hence petrol. Where and by whom is it written that Westerners should have preferential access to fuel?"
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/05/051015-12.htm
"Are U.S. fears that China wants to be a hegemonic power in Latin America justified? No, China is essentially seizing economic opportunities under a strategy that seeks to maintain current levels of growth. That strategy also explains why China spent $10 billion looking for oil in Africa last year. Although Beijing has a few political goals--such as luring the twelve Latin American countries that support Taiwan towards the 'one China' policy, Chinese presence in the region is economically motivated."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1586
"MIT Media Lab's Counter Intelligence Group, which develops innovative kitchen designs, has created a machine that makes dishes on demand and recycles them after diners have finished a meal. The dishes are made from food-grade, nontoxic acrylic wafers, which are shaped into cups, bowls and plates when heated, then resume their original wafer shape when they are reheated and pressed."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69113,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
"The policewomen were behaving the same as the rest of the looters, i.e. sauntering about in a leisurely manner, filling their carts with shoes, etc. -- and making no perceptible effort to stop anyone else from doing the same. This is far different from grabbing unattended rice, water, and medicine, in a quantity required to meet immediate needs in caring for injured or dying children or oldsters, while leaving a note offering to pay when the proprietor returns...."
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Oct-09-Sun-2005/opinion/3249237.html
"Meeting the immediate needs of the victims of natural disaster is one thing. Providing hundreds of millions of tax dollars in the form of outright grants, low-interest loans, and other aid devoted to helping finance a return to pre-storm normalcy is quite another. Shifting a large portion of the cost of recovery to the taxpayers will encourage people to rebuild who would not have chosen to do so if they instead shouldered the full cost themselves."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1585
"Sure enough, after former President Clinton signed .08 into law in 2000, drunk driving fatalities began to inch upward again -- after two decades of decline -- suggesting that the real drunk drivers were successfully avoiding the roadblocks. Thankfully, fatalities fell again last year, but that hardly proves MADD correct -- deaths continued to go up in those states that employ sobriety roadblocks."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5116
"Time to come clean, America: you do not in any way support troops by sending them to die for Halliburton and Bechtel's bottom line. This is analogous to sending your teenager out in a car with no brakes and bald tires, accompanied by a child rapist high on crystal meth, and calling that 'supporting' your children."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy20.html
"Word comes in from students in the Philadelphia area that recruiters at area high schools are warning them to enlist now, when they can pick the type of service they'd like to do, 'because there's a draft coming next year and then you'll have no choice.' It's an interesting come-on because the White House and Pentagon keep saying that there are no plans for a draft."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff10112005.html
"Plans released by Bush's people show that, like Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the government is not prepared to fight an outbreak of this magnitude. The money we donated to the government under the guise of taxation has been thrice spent on illegal wars and empire building. Nothing in the domestic coffers remains to save us... and that's what Bush's handlers want. They think only draconian rule will keep Dubya installed as leader."
"What distinguished the fascist variety of interventionism was its reliance on the idea of stability to justify extending state power. Big business and labor eagerly allied with the state to obtain stability against what Murray Rothbard called business fluctuations, the ups and downs of particular markets that result from shifting consumer demands. They naïvely thought that state power could supplant consumer sovereignty with their own producer sovereignty over their industries while maintaining the greater productivity of the division of labor."
http://www.mises.org/story/1935
"My point is not to attempt to build that case here, that has been done in a number of books, but to ask, why has this information, even as controversy, not made its way into American textbooks? I am less concerned with political correctness than with correct accuracy."
http://hnn.us/articles/16960.html
"Albert Jay Nock 10/13/1873-1945) was, no doubt, one of the greatest libertarians of the last century. He was the author of such classics as Our Enemy, The State, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (the first libertarian work that I read in high school--what an introduction to liberty that was!), Isaiah's Job, On Doing the Right Thing (which may have been a response to Pearl S. Buck) and numerous other works on history, philosophy, education, fine living, and living freely." Nock is one of my favorites.
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/2005/10/albert-jay-nock-albert-jay-nock.html
"The president's war on Iraq reflects why our nation's Founding Fathers opposed standing armies. Members of a professional army, who have vowed to obey the orders of the president, are unlikely to say no when the president orders them to attack another country."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0510c.asp
"Every one of the seven attacks on Cheney’s list was motivated by retaliation for U.S. interventionism. Al Qaeda perpetrated five out of the seven attacks. Although both the jingoistic Bush administration and the interventionist U.S. foreign policy establishment have an incentive to cloud al Qaeda’s motives for attacking the United States, bin Laden’s writings and media interviews indicate that his primary gripes are against U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf and U.S. backing of corrupt Arab rulers and Israel. "
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1584
"Fear boosts ratings and distracts attention. Dramatic televised 'terror threats' of varying color and intensity will continue as long as they work. Whether they're fabricated by the Bush administration or generated by the enemies our merciless smart bombs have created, and whether or not they have anything at all to do with al-Qaeda, the fact remains that we're fast becoming one nation under constant threat."
http://www.antiwar.com/whitehurst/?articleid=7562
"Although Röpke was a critic of the ethics of materialism, he did not embrace intervention as a means to suppress displays of consumerism. For example, Röpke rejected the possibility of categorizing goods into 'luxuries' and 'needs' because the exercise 'presupposes that bureaucracy knows better that he consumes what is good and useful.... In other words the government has the astonishing audacity to require of us that we should prefer its arbitrary list of priorities to our own'."
http://www.mises.org/content/roepke.asp
"Helen Hayes' career in entertainment surpasses most others in years as well as in achievements. She began acting at the age of five and didn't stop until she was 85. Helen is one of only two women to receive all four prestigious entertainment awards: a Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy."
http://www.helenhayes.com/about/biography.html
"Monk's unique piano style was largely perfected during his stint as the house pianist at Minton's in the early-to-mid 1940s, when he particpated in the famous after-hours 'cutting competitions' that featured most of the leading jazz solists of the day. The Minton's scene was crucial in the formulation of the bebop genre and it brought Monk into close contact and collaboration with other leading exponents of bebop including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson and John Coltrane."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk
"[D]irector Hal Ashby displays a style in [Harold and Maude] (H&M) that exudes wry humor, but this film is also both a love story and a story about ‘coming of age.’ Like one of Ashby’s other big hits Being There, H&M defies easy categorization.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/harold_maude_1971.htm
"Big Head Press announces plans to publish the first all-new novel-length story in nearly five years by award-winning sci-fi author L. Neil Smith, to be titled Roswell, Texas. Co-written by Wall Street Journal and National Review cartoonist “Baloo” (in his other identity as Rex F. May), and illustrated by Scott Bieser, the story concerns what happens when a special team of Texas Rangers races an array of spies, troops, and operatives of neighboring nations to the UFO crash site, and discover a truth even stranger than any of them could have imagined."
http://www.bigheadpress.com/TheTimeSink/?p=38
"Not exactly overlooked, but certainly drowned out, in a frenzy that included the release of the sixth Harry Potter book and the Michael Bay sci-fi thrill fest The Island was a slender novel, released a few months earlier, that disconcertingly combines elements of both J.K. Rowling's phenomenally popular series and Bay's latest film. That book is Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, and if it doesn't reach a Potter-sized audience, that won't be because it doesn't deserve one."
http://www.reason.com/0510/cr.mg.remains.shtml
Reuse, recycle, repeat
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0542,fiore,68899,9.html
"I went to see a movie that, like Dukes of Hazard was based on a TV show. The movie was called Serenity. Now, I've never seen the original Serenity series. In fact, I had never heard of it, and I write about this stuff, for the love of Pete." A Jackie Harvey "dissing" is a very positive event.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41606
"This has been a rich year for Feedback's favourite awards, the Ig Nobels, which honour achievements that make people laugh, then think. The awards were given out on 6 October in a ceremony at Harvard University sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research."
http://www.newscientist.com/backpage.ns?id=mg18825211.200
"A sudden and catastrophic upheaval in a government is, much like a major earthquake, unusual and unpredictable. The citizens affected by such an upheaval can be excused for reacting rather than acting. Preparations can be made, and precautions can be taken, but concrete plans are almost impossible to make under such circumstances. Fortunately, most governments change very, very slowly. But like a tropical storm building up power and speed to become a hurricane, such governments can slowly accrue power and authority until such time as the damage they can do to freedom can prove devastating. Just like a hurricane, however, there are warning signs well in advance of the height of the storm, and that means there's time to take some preventative action."
http://www.ladylibrty.com/our_view_archives/2005/storm-warning.html
"How did society lose sight of individual victims and slide into the groupthink of victimhood? Why did people allow themselves and their children to be stigmatized simply because they were male, white, or otherwise the member of a 'guilty' category? To some extent, the answer lies in the generosity that now pours toward Hurricane Katrina victims. When most people see genuine and undeserved suffering, they feel compassion and they want to help. That is almost a definition of decency. Consider once again the example of battered women. In the '70s, when decent people finally saw the extent of the problem and heard the anguished stories firsthand, they were outraged; they wanted to help. And without the compassion that the average person extends toward victims, little could have changed."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/1012.html
"Still another expression of therapism is the doctrine of 'emotional correctness.' According to its dictates, people who have suffered a tragedy are virtually required to dwell publicly on what they have undergone lest they be considered humanly inadequate. "
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12003074_1
"A study of about 4000 senior citizens of Chicago in the US showed that all of them lost some cognitive sharpness – such as memory and speed of thinking -- as the years passed. However, among those who ate fish once a week, the rate of cognitive decline was about 10% slower. And it was 13% slower among those who consumed at least two fish meals a week."
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8131
"Paternalist politicians treat us not like independent citizens but like servile subjects who can't wipe our noses, tie our shoes or feed our kids without the help of would-be philosopher kings like them. Of course, most of us are efficacious enough to live our own lives without their help. But by treating us like children they foster in many the moral habits and whining attitudes of children."
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/mediacenter/articles/ehudgins_rff-independence-breakfast.asp
"Children benefit when parents listen to them and validate what they say and how they feel. This is particularly true when discussing a negative event -- say the death of a grandparent. Resilience is nurtured when the child understands that negative events don't define the family history, Duke and Fivush said. Children also learn how to cope with the inevitable ups and downs of life."
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/family_meals_stories_boost_child_confidence_9070
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