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"We need to make resources available. We need to use every means at our disposal to teach economics, raise public consciousness, instill an ethic of liberty, and draw constant attention to the reality that statism in all its forms is a destructive racket. ... In the final analysis, it is not self-interest but the ideas people hold about themselves and their government that will determine our political future."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/november-hope.html
"Approximately 6,000 Americans have refused to report for duty or deserted in order to avoid taking part in this war, or to avoid taking further part in it. Many have objected to the stop loss program that requires them to serve longer than they had agreed to. Others have objected to the rationale behind the war and the horrors that are part of it. Many are best able to support their families by avoiding military service that is poorly compensated. In the cases we know the most about, one motivation for desertion that is clearly absent is cowardice. While quiet desertion tends not to result in any penalty, public opposition and resistance often means prison."
http://www.blackcommentator.com/208/208_leave_the_army_swanson_think.html
"A coalition of U.S. peace groups is pressing ahead with plans for what it hopes will be a massive march on Washington Jan. 27, even though newly released documents show the antiwar community is under Pentagon surveillance."
http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=10085
"The free speech triumph of Lisa Jensen and Bill Trimarco may herald a less repressive climate, at least for some who dissent. Jensen and Trimarco of Loma Linda, Colorado, put up a Christmas wreath in the shape of a peace symbol on their house. For doing so, they were threatened by the Loma Linda Homeowners Association with a $25-a-day fine. ... When word got out, the homeowners association was besieged by negative reaction, including from Loma Linda residents and from families of Iraq War soldiers. On November 27, the association apologized to Jensen and Trimarco."
http://www.progressive.org/node/4255
"Today, about 80 percent of SWAT team deployments are for 'proactive drug enforcement,' according to the Cato Institute. 'The problem is that there's such a small margin of error - you're creating a violent situation, not defusing it,' says Radley Balko, a senior editor with Reason magazine who has written extensively about no-knock raids."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1129/p03s03-ussc.html
"Here's an interview with the informant, Alex White. Apparently he's been used in "dozens" of prior cases -- worth keeping in mind as police continue to try to undermine his reputation. Note that one anonymous police source alerted the reporter to an unsanctioned marijuana purchase that led to White's dismissal from the CI program. Of course, they let him right back on."
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027287.php#027287
"One analyst describes episodes of this sort, in which several police empty their clips into unarmed suspects, as 'contagious shooting'.... This type of behavior is predictable for Marines patrolling one of Baghdad's more turbulent neighborhoods. One would expect that a different mind-set would prevail for civilian police in American neighborhoods. One would expect this. One would be wrong."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2006/11/support-your-paramilitary-police.html
"Medical marijuana activist Dustin Costa was convicted in federal court last week and could now spend the rest of his life in prison. Costa’s was the first federal trial of a medical marijuana patient in three years, demonstrating that the feds remain willing to pervert justice and lie to jurors in order to undermine California’s medical marijuana law. The defense was prohibited from informing jurors that Costa is president of the Merced Patients Group and that his 908 plants were unquestionably intended for medical use."
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2006/nov/28/the_war_on_medical_marijuana_pat
"It is very true that on the global market there are parasite organizations, known as states, that exercise political monopoly over given territories and carve out a piece of the market that afterwards goes around by the name of national economy. These organizations then use their monopolistic powers on that given territory to extract revenue, regulate economic activities in the benefit of interest groups, subsidize what people in power consider worthy of being subsidized, and generally committing such a disruption of sound resource allocation that in some cases professionals need to go elsewhere in order to find a decent job."
http://www.mises.org/story/2371
"[T]o my way of thinking, the anarcho-this and anarcho-that folks are the lunatic fringe OF the lunatic fringe. Some of them are nice people (and some of them aren’t), but in their fetish for economics they’ve missed the point of what anarchy IS. Anarchy is not an economic system. It’s simply the absence of government, and that’s enough for me."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/11/remember-freedom-is-point.html
"Protesting at your local council regarding tax increases and other anti-liberty measures may persuade those who possess a distrust of the state to become a principled libertarian. At the least, it would direct some publicity to the libertarian cause."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle395-20061126-03.html
"The purpose of government is to allow those who run it to plunder those who don’t. As the great H.L. Mencken sagely observed, '[I]f experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. His very existence, indeed, is a standing subversion of the public good in every rational sense. He is not one who serves the common weal; he is simply one who preys upon the commonwealth' (from 'The Politician' in Prejudices: A Selection, edited by James T. Farrell). Not that it’s necessary to document this ancient truth, but the November issue of Washingtonian magazine provides spectacular proof of it in the form of a cover story...."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo116.html
"I would not lose any sleep if the Scots voted to repeal the 1707 act. Independence need not end the United Kingdom: Scotland and England shared a monarch before 1707, as Britain and Canada do today. Separation need be no more radical than the partial autonomy of a dozen European countries from their neighbours. Borders were not sealed or passports cancelled under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. If eastern Europe can handle partition, so can Britain."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1959454,00.html
"According to researchers, the free program has been constructed to let citizens of countries with restricted web access retrieve and display web pages from anywhere. The program, from The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab software, is called Psiphon and it will be released on Dec. 1."
http://www.newstarget.com/021196.html
"Feldman fails to provide a convincing argument that American withdrawal would lead to this result. In the current situation, various rival Iraqi groups---Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, etc. must deal with one another. Why would this change if there were no American troops present? Feldman assumes that American forces are holding the lid on an otherwise likely explosion of violence. Why assume this? Why would not the relevant groups negotiate mutually acceptable arrangements to share power?"
http://www.mises.org/story/2362
"In a powerful response to last year's Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London, voters approved nine state-ballot initiatives prohibiting the seizure of homes and businesses for private development. These initiatives — in Florida, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Michigan — won in a landslide, with a nationwide average of some 75 percent in favor. Louisiana passed a similar initiative in October."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6791
"We have become such 'good Americans' that we no longer have the moral imagination to picture what it might be like to be in a bureaucratic category that voids our human rights, be it 'enemy combatant' or 'illegal immigrant.' Thus, in the week before the election, hardly a ripple answered the latest decree from the Bush administration: Detainees held in CIA prisons were forbidden from telling their lawyers what methods of interrogation were used on them, presumably so they wouldn't give away any of the top-secret torture methods that we don't use."
http://www.slate.com/default.aspx?id=2154567
"In the U.S. meanwhile, Congress passed the Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in 1994, which defined vitamins, minerals and herbs as foods, therefore not to be regulated by pharmaceutical standards. The Codex Alimentarius would reverse all that. It would treat those dietary supplements not as foods, but as toxins."
http://www.caseyresearch.com/displayArchiveArticleWwnk.php?id=226
"That's what's truly scary about the Litvinenko story. Although something very twisted is clearly going on in Russian politics -- most likely a struggle over the 2008 succession that may yet become bloodier, but perhaps something as mundane as a gangland disagreement between political exiles -- the more serious issue is the use of a deadly radioactive material in a Western capital. In virtually every scenario you can imagine the Litvinenko story describes the misuse and misplacing of nuclear material. ... Think about it: While the U.S. was busy burning the national treasure digging for nonexistent nukes in the Iraqi desert, gobs of green glowing shit were making their way from Arzamas-16 to Piccadilly Square."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12674479
"The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA -- I've written about this one before) requires 'managed' VoIP operators to provide law enforcement agencies a point of interception so they can tap your VoIP calls. What's a 'managed' VoIP service? Packet8, Vonage, Comcast, and AT&T all certainly qualify, but does Skype? Yes, if you think of billing as management, now that there is SkypeOut and SkypeIn. And given the current management at the U.S. Department of Justice, 'managed' could mean pretty much anything."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061201_001274.html
"Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague. The true fate that awaits Bush is psychiatric incarceration. The president of the United States is so deep into denial that he is no longer among the sane."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts12022006.html
"The president of the United States is the only man on earth who can stop the waste of Iraq and American lives and treasure, but he’s made it clear – over and over – that he just isn’t buying it. Only just this morning I awoke to the news that the prez is not seeking a 'graceful exit' from Iraq – or, indeed, any kind of exit, Baker Commission or no Baker Commission."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10089
"[T]here are plenty of powers and authorities that could be used to monitor truly dangerous people. But what you see here, I think, is the insatiable appetite that has developed among certain leaders for controlling American society. We saw that with John Ashcroft not long after 9/11, when he said the critics were aiding and abetting the terrorists. There is this insatiable appetite that develops when you feed absolute power to people like Gingrich."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15951435/
"[M]any people believe that impeachment proceedings will be seen as "political" revenge for what the Republicans have done to the Democrats for the last 12 years or revenge for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Impeachment is not a political tool as used by the Republican Congress, but it is a Constitutional remedy for elected or appointed officials who are abusing their powers. If George has not abused his powers as president and commander in chief, then no president in history has. ... Bringing Articles of Impeachment against BushCo will not only bring resolution and justice to our nation and the world, but if this regime is made to be held accountable for their crimes and abuses of power, then future administrations may be slower to commit such blatant and belligerent crimes and the world will be a safer and more peaceful place."
http://www.blackcommentator.com/208/208_impeachment_proceedings_sheehan_guest.html
"In terms of raw explanatory power, the theory of evolution -- with its emphasis on competition, diversity, and natural selection -- gives more bang for the buck than any other. Many, in fact, view markets through the lens of evolution. Competition, natural selection, and rapid speciation are certainly in evidence. One could even say Wall Street is 'red in tooth and claw.' And as Eric Beinhocker recently reminded us, the markets are not just like an evolutionary system...the markets are an evolutionary system."
http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2006/20061129.html
"One thing that's long been known: The US leads the world in levels of charitable activity. The pattern runs from the rich, steeped in long tradition of philanthropy, to the poor. Those making $20,000 or less a year give away more, as a share of their income, than do higher income groups. Americans donate their time as well as money - some $150 billion worth annually (measured by using an estimated average value of $18.04 per hour)."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1127/p01s01-usec.html
"Medical schools in the United States are awash in cadavers. Yet, at the same time, there is a chronic shortage of organs for transplant patients, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people each year. Understanding why so many people donate bodies to medical schools holds lessons for how we should reform the laws governing organ donations."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112600820.html
"New research published in the journal Science suggests that cross-breeding domesticated wheat with wild wheat can re-activate a naturally occurring gene that increases levels of iron, zinc and protein."
http://www.newstarget.com/021185.html
"We have spent $1-trillion on the drug war since 1972 and we arrest 1.7-million people for nonviolent drug offenses every year. When you put a rapist in prison, another one doesn't get recruited to take his place, but that is precisely what happens in drug dealing. Take one guy off the streets and that becomes a job opportunity for someone else in the neighborhood."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/26/News/All_he_was_saying__gi.shtml
"Let's be clear what's happening here. American retailers want to purchase low-cost Vietnamese clothing because they believe their customers (you and I) will be happy to buy them when we see the items in the stores. The Vietnamese clothing makers want to sell their products to the American retailers. American consumers, ever on the lookout for bargains, would likely buy the low-cost Vietnamese clothing in large quantities. But it may not happen. Why? Because the government won't remove the barriers to this trade. And even if a bill "normalizing" trade is passed, it will contain provisions to authorize interference with this peaceful, constructive activity if domestic textile interests cry for help -- and even if they don't. In other words, the American consumer is low man on the totem pole. Yet the purpose of production is consumption, not the other way around. That's how Washington works."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=953
"Across the country, politicians are eager to draw magical circles of protection they claim will banish evil and keep children safe. It’s an easy, cheap way of opposing what everyone opposes and supporting what everyone supports. But the resulting crazy quilt of drug-free, gun-free, and molester-free zones is ineffective, sometimes counterproductive, and frequently unjust."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/116934.html
"Although bans on trade, investment, lending, travel, etc. can bite initially, smuggling and black markets are lucrative and, over time, become rampant. Over the long-term, the best that can be accomplished is to raise the prices paid by the target nation for the things it wants. Because sanctions use economic coercion to try to achieve political ends, attenuation of the economic pain through adaptation lessens the chance that sanctions will produce the desired political outcome."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1858
"In general, however, only when the ruling political elites conclude that their own personal interests—and, of course, the interests of the special-interest coalition that props them up financially—will suffer if the war is continued will they act decisively to end it on the best terms available. ... These characteristic stages of U.S. neo-imperialist war are not merely descriptive; they also reflect the political logic of the U.S. system of government."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1856
"I have seen families broken and torn apart by returned soldiers who could not escape the horrible visions of war and destruction that keep returning when they try to sleep. I have seen those who have tried to suppress those visions with alcohol and drugs and the heartache and human misery that brings. I have seen disabled soldiers whose families no longer want them because of their handicaps. There is no hell hot enough for those who use such sacrifices for their personal gain."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy29.html
"In a victimless crime, such as an illegal drug transaction, there is no complaining witness, no one with an interest in reporting the crime to the police. After all, the buyer and seller willingly participate in the transaction. Thus, the only way the police can detect the criminal activity is to set it up themselves or encourage informants. But the opportunity for corruption in these tactics is immense. "
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0612b.asp
"This complete and utter moral perversion -- like unto an act of sexual congress with the beasts of the field -- is now the conventional wisdom of the chattering classes, the 'public intellectuals,' and the powerful elites whom they so cravenly serve. This blood-flecked drivel -- a precise echo of the genocidal fury being voiced on what once was once considered the lunatic fringes of the far right -- is now at the heart of American political life."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=943&Itemid=135
"Lucretia embraced a strategy that Garrison called 'nonresistance'; evils such as women’s oppression were best remedied through 'moral suasion' — a combination of persuasion, education, and moral example. Unlike Stanton, Lucretia did not consider the vote to be pivotal to women’s rights."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0608f.asp
"The story of the Trail of Tears (1838-1839) continues to command attention and remain relevant because, from a variety of perspectives, its represents a turning point in history. Viewed as an event on the world stage, the Trail of Tears supplies one example of the ongoing phenomenon of ethnic cleansing."
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/32363.html
"Perhaps it has been so long that Americans have forgotten exactly what Hillarycare was. If so, it's worth reminding them. Under the Clinton plan, the government would have taken control of nearly one-seventh of the U.S. economy. It would have established the world's largest government program -- dwarfing even Social Security -- created a huge new bureaucracy and required massive tax increases."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6789
"The oldest known computer, a scientific conundrum for more than a century, did not yield its secrets easily. Only after the most recent innovations were employed, including a $500,000 imaging system constructed in situ, was the mystery of its 81 corroded and mineralized components solved."
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2006/11/imaging_the_ant.html
"[I]t is about the Washington establishmentarian desire to lay the psychological-linguistic groundwork for what is going to happen soon – and for those with connections in this White House, to come out on the 'right' side early and often. 'Bomb Iran' becomes legitimate to say, and thus to think and do, even as the Muravchik arguments, and those of a hundred others in key media outlets, remain illegitimate, illogical, and empty."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski167.html
"As miserable as the citizens of Eastern Europe were after U.S. officials delivered them into the clutches of the Soviet communists at the end of World War II, the issue of violent regime change properly lay with the Eastern Europeans, not with the U.S. government. They chose peaceful means, even though it took almost half a century to throw off the shackles of Soviet tyranny. Who is to say that Eastern Europeans would have been better off with a U.S. invasion that would have killed hundreds of thousands of them and left Eastern Europe a wasteland?"
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0612a.asp
"How many troops would it take to undo all those errors? The answer is either zero or an infinite number, because no quantity of troops can erase history. The argument that more troops in the beginning, combined with an ink blot strategy, might have made the Iraq venture a success does not mean that more troops could do the same thing now."
http://www.antiwar.com/lind/?articleid=10090
"The U.S. mission in Iraq has now lasted longer than America's involvement in World War II. That should be an occasion for sober reflection. In less than four years -- from 1941 to 1945 -- the United States and its allies managed to defeat two of the most powerful militaries in the world. By contrast, today, we are still mired in an endless conflict in a single small country after the same amount of time. Those who helped get America into the Iraq quagmire denounce any proposal for withdrawal as 'cut and run.' Now that we have passed the World War II milestone, we must demand that the hawks be specific about their strategy. Vacuous statements such as 'we will stand down when the Iraqis can stand up' or 'we must stay until the job is done' will not suffice."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6788
"Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726. Though it has often been mistakenly thought of as a children's book, it is a great satire of the times. Gulliver's Travels is a misanthropic anatomy of human nature; a sardonic looking-glass. It asks its readers to refute it, to deny that it has not adequately characterized human nature and society. Each of the 4 books has a different theme, but all are attempts to deflate human pride."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnathan_Swift
"Wiener had an extraordinarily wide range of interests and contributed to many areas in addition to those we have mentioned above including communication theory, cybernetics (a term he coined), quantum theory and during World War II he worked on gunfire control. It is probably this latter work which motivated his invention of the new area of cybernetics which he described in Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)."
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiener_Norbert.html
"Virginia Mayo's popularity as a musical comedy star as well as an accomplished dramatic actress and comedienne spans several generations of film and theatergoers."
http://www.virginiamayo.com/index.htm
"Epitomizing cool, class and soul, Lou's humanitarian efforts have won him more than honors, more even than a street named after him in Chicago, where South Wentworth Avenue is now Lou Rawls Drive. His work for the UNCF has been the joy of a man who never went to college but has since been awarded numerous honorary doctorates."
http://www.lourawls.com/rawlsbio.html
Science fiction action / adventure stars Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt, Richard O'Brien; screenplay by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, directed by Alex Proyas. “Like several other films released in the late 90’s, this movie suggests that appearances fundamentally differ from the underlying actuality. However, in its appearances this film offers extremely striking visuals, from the sets and costumes to the actors themselves.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/dark_city_1998.htm
"In a 2003 poll by German public television to choose the 'greatest Germans,' nearly everyone in the top 10 can be identified by last names alone. But at No. 4 -- behind Adenauer, Luther, and Marx -- are Sophie and Hans Scholl."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/11/30/a_spotlight_for_a_few_who_defied_nazis/
"The real life saga surrounding the planned movie adaptation of The Hobbit is becoming as intricate as the classic J.R.R. Tolkien tale itself. "
http://movies.ign.com/articles/748/748242p1.html
"It's 1943, and Hitler is in the midst of his genocidal war of aggression all across Europe. Meanwhile, in Munich, a college student opposed to the Fuhrer, Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch), is spearheading a secret resistance movement aimed at bringing down the Third Reich." I believe this film better than the reviewer, but at least they reviewed it.
http://www.upstagemagazine.com/articles/getarticle-new.php?ID=3914&wherefrom=mainpage
"The sweeping new law prohibits all living beings within state borders from being born with random genetic mutations that could make them better suited to evade predators, secure a mate, or, adapt to a changing environment. In addition, it bars any sexual reproduction, battles for survival, or instances of pure happenstance that might lead, after several generations, to a more well-adapted species or subspecies."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55807
"In order to seek out the most sanitized alternatives to that phrase, the president announced that he was launching an ambitious new mission called Operation Noble Euphemism."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6641
"Like schoolchildren, many political leaders also send letters to St. Nick each Christmas. This year, the United States Post Office has waived its tampering-with-the-mail law and allowed me to share a few."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002453.html
"In other words, if you ever want to get onto a commercial aircraft in the future, you must never do anything that will make you stand out from the herd. You must appear to be an interchangeable nonentity of the anthill. You must blend in with the sheet rock. "
http://www.freecannon.com/TerroristWhisperer.htm
"Changing someone's fundamental beliefs is an arduous task; convincing him that his tactics do not serve his own goals is child's play by comparison. If you find yourself in a discussion with an environmentalist, talk about how governments tore down traditional common law (and libertarian) principles about nuisance and trespassing so that the politically connected could get away with polluting other people's property. Point out that it is unowned or government-owned resources that are despoiled and depleted the fastest. If he's a socialist or collectivist anarchist, talk about how state privilege allows big business to grow to gargantuan size and get away with things that it never could without state backing, and how the unrestricted working of the market would counteract this."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/markley/markley2.html
"Criminologist Peter Kraska estimates that the number of SWAT team 'call-outs' soared past 40,000 in 2001 (the latest year for which figures are available) from about 3,000 in 1981. The vast majority are employed for routine police work -- such as serving drug warrants -- not the types of situations for which SWAT teams were originally established. And because drug policing often involves tips from confidential informants -- many of whom are drug dealers themselves, or convicts looking for leniency -- it's rife with bad information. As a result, hundreds of innocent families and civilians have been wrongly subjected to violent, forced-entry raids." Cato has this interactive map site also.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6651
"Consider two different security problems. In the first, you store your valuables in a safe in your basement. The threat is burglars, of course. But the safe is yours, and the house is yours, too. You control access to the safe, and probably have an alarm system. The second security problem is similar, but you store your valuables in someone else's safe. Even worse, it's someone you don't trust."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/separating_data.html
"Politics and law should not have a direct role in how people ought to live their lives. Politics should be concerned only with the limited ends of peace and security – politics and law should be separated from personal morality."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/06/061126-6.htm
"The fates answered some of our questions before we could even get in a little target practice. As is typical with gods, fates, and others of their tricksy ilk, the answers were as unpleasant as they were unpredictable. Actually, that's not quite fair. Magical powers weren't required -- merely the combination of the Young Curmudgeon and the 30th-cheapest alcoholic beverage. But what came next could have been executed by Loki, Coyote, or Murphy. "
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe061201.html
"A medicinal use of a hallucinogenic compound in mushrooms has been hailed in a UCLA study exploring the therapeutic effects of an active compound in the mushrooms called psilocybin. Although these mushrooms are illegal for general use, the drug based on some of its components has now been approved for medical experiments."
http://www.newstarget.com/021179.html
"Some of the gamma rays produced near the compact object collide with photons of ultraviolet light from the massive star and are converted into pairs of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, called positrons, he says. These collisions become more frequent as the compact object gets closer in its orbit to the massive star, removing more of the gamma rays and causing the periodic brightness dips seen from Earth, he says."
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn10677?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn10677
"Holiday gift-giving is a tradition that dates back roughly 2,006 years, to when the Three Wise Men went to Bethlehem with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh for the Baby Jesus. Of course the next day the Virgin Mary returned these items for store credit, because she was a low-income mother with a newborn, and as the old saying goes, 'You can't diaper a baby with frankincense'.'"
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/special_packages/gift_guide/16093643.htm
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