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"I suspect that there are many, many others like me, who have searched for years for some way to make an effective contribution to the cause of human liberty. If you're one of them, this is your chance. This coming March (2007), at Beyond Ballots or Bullets, freedom seekers from across America will be meeting to work out a plan for achieving a free society. You're invited to attend, but even if you can't, you can help make it a success. As I mentioned in my previous article, we need solid information to guide our strategic planning. I need your help in collecting that information."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/horn/horn3.html
"Have so many ostensibly liberty-loving individuals forgotten the Non-Aggression Principle and the Zero Aggression Principle and their fundamental importance to any philosophy grounded in freedom? Are so many of us mired in concretes and specifics that we're unwilling—or unable—to conceptualize abstracts and general principles that, if we stick by them, should guide our specific actions?"
http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/archives/00000844.html
"San Diego Superior Court Judge William Nevitt, Jr. on Wednesday threw out a challenge to California's medical marijuana law, saying there was 'no positive conflict' between state and federal law. The ruling came against a lawsuit filed by San Diego County in February and later joined by San Bernardino and Merced counties. County officials in all three jurisdictions were hostile to Proposition 215 (the Compassionate Use Act) and SB 420, which set up a state Medical Marijuana Program (MMP) with a system of county-administered ID cards."
"Moving toward a truly free society requires that a wider cross-section of people understand the benefits of liberty. In discussing with others the case for freedom, we will inevitably come across various illiberal beliefs that prevent them from accepting our ideas. These beliefs must be challenged in order for freedom to be allowed to grow. To be able to challenge them effectively, though, we must first seek to understand them better."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/06/061203-3.htm
"The pieces fit together like this: This raid was conducted based on nothing more than a tip from Sheats, a convicted drug felon who was looking for leniency. For whatever reason, he sent police to Johnston's home. The narcotics officers then hid behind the anonymity courts afford to informants, and fabricated the stuff about the buy."
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027306.php#027306
"Cell phones are capable of providing more information about us and our whereabouts than we usually realize. We have long since known that cell phones can be used to track users' locations, but now the FBI has begun using them for eavesdropping—even when they are turned off."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061203-8343.html
"The botched Atlanta raid that ended in the shooting death of 88-year-old Kathryn Johnston was sad and tragic, but unfortunately, it was neither uncommon nor unpredictable."
http://reason.com/news/show/117095.html
"At the present time the principle arguments for marijuana prohibition consist of the residue of the previously discredited reasons as well as a frantic search for some kind of medical justification. This quest to prove cannabis harmful to health has reached a new level of absurdity with a study highlighted on the website World Science."
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/32531.html
"Must we allow the state to continue regulating and seizing from private interests, all while its criminality is protected under a banner of 'just compensation'? It is of course true that these private interests have a claim on what was taken from them, but their claim is against the guilty individuals — the politicians and bureaucrats — and not the taxpayers. A system in which taxpayers are increasingly taxed to warm over relations between the state and businesses is a plan for further statism. Big business might even clamor more loudly for regulations to squash its competition in undetectable ways, all while getting tax-funded checks from the state for its own more visible losses."
http://www.mises.org/story/2379
"These are indeed dangerous times. But if the state can’t protect us, what are we to do? It’s time to think about getting rid of the state. It is an albatross sucking up our wealth like a vacuum cleaner while leaving us vulnerable to those who wish to harm us."
"Kauffman’s book is a radical anti-state, anti-war declaration. These twin themes are not just mentioned on a few pages; they are found throughout the book. And because they are combined with a fair amount of American history and biography (including more about President Millard Fillmore than one would ever care to know) that won’t be found in the typical American history book, it is both an interesting and informative read."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance98.html
"It spreads until it destroys the body politic, just like cancer destroys the physical body. What starts out as a response to a 'wrongness,' gradually grows out of control, tainting and darkening everything it comes in contact with. Once it is established, there is no cure. The only way to beat it is to destroy it in some way."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle396-20061203-07.html
"Our vertically-structured world is collapsing into horizontal networks of alternative, autonomous, and spontaneous systems of order. It is, I believe, a desperate effort on the part of the 'old order' to forcibly resist its collapsing fate that is the underlying purpose of the 'war on terror.' The political establishment – well aware of the decentralist trends confronting it – has been busy trying to reinforce the crumbling walls of its citadels: ... In all aspects of their daily lives, more people are becoming aware of the irrelevance of political systems, other than as a danger to be avoided. Rather than attacking these state agencies of death and destruction, men and women are, in increasing numbers, walking away from their hallowed halls, in search of alternatives that serve their interests."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer149.html
"Workers are being aggressive towards each other? Slacking off? Stealing? Abusing sick days? Great! I’ve always felt the desk job environment is unnatural—even inhuman. What this news tells me is thousands of fellow human beings believe it’s unnatural and even inhuman, too."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002469.html
"According to Corey Bridges, the executive producer at Multiverse Network, who was in town for Flanvention, people had come to Burbank from all over the place, only to find when they arrived that the event had had the rug pulled out from under it. But never to be told they can't have what they want, the show's fans, known as 'browncoats,' scrambled and found a way to make it work."
http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6142354.html
"Most American troops will see this within the framework of counterinsurgency. But a minority will apply their new-found knowledge in a very different way. After they return to the U.S. and leave the military, they will take what they learned in Iraq back to the inner cities, to the ethnic groups, gangs, and other alternate loyalties they left when they joined the service. There, they will put their new knowledge to work, in wars with each other and wars against the American state."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lind12062006.html
"[T]he MCA retroactively decriminalized [torture, at] least such actions committed before the end of 2005. The act will make it almost impossible for victims of torture (or their survivors) to bring cases against perpetrators. The closest precedent for this blanket pardon comes not from American justice but from the amnesty laws Latin American regimes enacted to immunize military officials who carried out bloody crackdowns against leftists in the 1970s and 1980s."
http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/12/08/american-conservative-bushs-torturedictatorship-scandal/
"What is refreshing about the new British study is its understanding of the corporate media's belief in and protection of the benign reputation of Western governments and their 'positive motives' in Iraq, regardless of the demonstrable truth. Piers Robinson from the University of Manchester, who led the research team, says that the 'humanitarian rationale' became the main justification for the invasion of Iraq and was echoed by journalists."
http://www.antiwar.com/pilger/?articleid=10127
"This is a dirty story, about as dirty as it gets. It's a story of top government officials knowingly, deliberately, willingly countenancing a string of horrific murders – then punishing decent, law-abiding colleagues who tried to work through the proper channels in order to rectify the government's egregious complicity and ensure such barbarity wouldn't happen again. ... And no, this story did not take place in the vasty deeps of Putin's Kremlin, or in the seething violence of Baghdad's fissuring Green Zone government, or some failing state in the Horn of Africa – it happened, and is still happening, in the United States, in the government of George W. Bush, whose 'Drug War' minions, led by old-time cronies, stood by while one of their operatives took part in a series of gruesome murders by a Mexican drug lord." [Floyd links this Guardian story.]
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=946&Itemid=135
"It's not difficult to imagine how the irrepressible unease most people feel over being shadowed by a cop would be greatly magnified by the knowledge that the patrol car in question contained a patrolman who was a decorated former officer of the KGB. In his former occupation, the police officer now riding the anxious motorist's rear bumper served a stint managing 'detention facilities' for the masters of the Soviet gulag."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/
"Baker-Hamilton was a classic whore-panel in every sense. None were Middle East experts. None had logged serious time in Iraq, before or after the invasion. All of them had influential friends on both sides of the aisle all over Washington, parties in the future they wanted to keep getting invites to, ambitions yet to be realized. ... The Baker-Hamilton report is being praised for its cautious, sensible, bipartisan approach to the Iraq problem (Time magazine even called it 'genius') but ...it is a tacit recognition of this pass-the-buck dynamic in Washington. "
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12746550
"A couple of days after the public unveiling of the vaunted and eagerly-awaited report from the Iraq Study Group, it's beginning to [look] as if Junior, clueless as ever, is ready to rebuff Daddy's well-intentioned rescue attempt. Sure, he'll kick Rumsfeld over the side and participate in making him the scapegoat for everything he himself has done wrong. You don't climb the slippery political pole to the presidency – even from a position 100 yards ahead of most other contenders in a 200-yard climb – without developing a certain cold-blooded ruthlessness after all. But he'll stick with the policies that brought him to the brink, thank you very much."
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=10138
"To date the cost of Bush being wrong is 25,000 US casualties (dead and wounded) and approximately 650,000 dead Iraqis. No one knows how many have been wounded. How many more will die before America drowns in the shame of the blood that is being shed for no other reason than the American people were so stupid as to elect a president who cannot admit that he made a mistake?"
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts12092006.html
"The Military Commissions Act of 2006 further defies the Supreme Court's June decision by stripping all "enemy combatants" held in our prisons of habeas corpus rights to protest their conditions of confinement."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0650,hentoff,75255,2.html
"Passing through some suburbs about a half-hour north of Detroit, there is an old railroad track that has been converted to a hiking and biking trail. (In Detroit we measure distances in travel time.) You can probably guess that the track is about eight feet wide. It is crossed by Paint Creek and surrounded by wild brush, which houses rabbits, deer, foxes and turtles. It’s used by the entire spectrum of residents from dog walkers to professional cyclists, and it stretches for miles. Even though it crosses various 'municipalities,' it is in actual practice largely unregulated – a rarity to be sure. There are signs posted about cleaning up after your dog, but with or without them some people will do so, some won’t. In the nuts and bolts of living, order is not imposed from without."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana13.html
"We are rational animals and also passionate animals. We have a set of rational skills (not a general-purpose rationality) and a suite of emotions programmed into us by evolution because those skills and those emotions were useful to our hunter-gatherer ancestors."
http://www.biorationalinstitute.com/shownews.php?nid=2132
"Trade, on the surface, seems simple. You have something I want and I have something you want. So we trade and both of us are better off. Yet, the deepest power of trade is hidden. The unseen side of trade is its impact on how we use our time and the wages we earn. ... Trade, fundamentally, is about cooperation. Your skills allow me to leverage mine by specializing, making both of us better off. ... Our differences create the potential for specialization and the creation of wealth."
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2006/Robertsstandardofliving.html
"Courts, she says, are warming to the idea that people should own their DNA, whether or not it happens to be physically attached to them. The conflicts of interests here are hard to miss, and the perverse incentives highly disturbing: If patients have no say in the future uses of their tissue, doctors have little reason to be honest as they attempt to procure it. "
http://reason.com/news/show/117046.html
"Like all government regulation, small business is hurt the most by the minimum wage, and when they can not afford to provide jobs or are driven out of business, the unskilled poor suffer most of all. … The minimum wage is not the only law that should be repealed. Obstacles such as licenses, certifications, taxes, and red tape that prevent individuals from being self-employed or from entering certain careers should be removed. Businesses should be relieved of high taxes and burdensome regulations which, like the minimum wage, prevents them from expanding and hiring."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2014
"In this age of instant communication, the government can’t hide the truth – at least not for long. So, no matter that they have stopped publishing M-3 money supply numbers, recognition that we are between a rock and a hard place is spreading. Reckoning day is not far off. And when it comes, it will rush in faster and more brutally than almost anyone expects. The world’s financial picture will be redrawn from scratch, and a painful unwinding of the economic dislocations built up by decades of political pandering will begin."
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1165608957.php
"Legalization is the last thing on their minds. Just as there is big money for terrorists in the drug trade, there is big money, power, and prestige for government officials in continuing to fight this unwinnable war on drugs. While they rationalize failures, point fingers, call for more funding, and declare yet another 'crackdown,' the poppies are in full bloom and terrorists are using the profits to plan murders."
http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2007_01/mcpherson-heroin.html
"How long can this go on? No one really knows. ... Sooner or later, gold is going to break its 1980 highs in nominal terms. (This could easily happen in 2007.) After that, it will break its 1980 highs in inflation-adjusted terms — which will prove a much more noteworthy feat. It’s always been sort of assumed that the conditions in which gold does this would be very ugly. Equity markets will have crashed, all Hades will have broken loose, and so on. That could certainly still be the case. But it could also be that the Dow marches steadily higher along with gold, calm as a flat and glassy sea; if the fiction of prosperity is maintained, investors might be content to keep riding the merry-go-round, smiling like mildly sedated children."
http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/us-dollar-trash/2006/12/08/
"{A] permanent state of war or preparedness for war is optimal from the point of view of the ruling elite, especially one that controls a large and powerful state. Take the current US government as an example. It rules over a relatively populous, wealthy, and progressive economy from which it can extract ever larger boodles of loot without destroying the productive class. Nevertheless, it is subject to the real and abiding fear that sooner or later productive Americans will come to recognize the continually increasing burden of taxation, inflation, and regulation for what it really is — naked exploitation. So the US government, the most powerful mega-state in history, is driven by the very logic of the political relationship to pursue a policy of permanent war."
http://www.mises.org/story/2405
"So says the warden, the slaveowner, the dog trainer. And the tool here is US tax dollars. It is money forcibly collected from the wallets of you and me that these people play games with. And to what end? To elicit perfect compliance with every US wish. Who can deny that the US has occupied this country in the same way that the Soviets once occupied its satellite states? Let us hear no more about the grand 'humanitarian' mission of the Iraqi occupation. What is being sought here is to turn Iraq into a country of lobotomized automatons who obey orders."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/pavlovian-state.html
"U.S. troops will remain in Iraq, indefinitely, at some level, because the American elite think they can make hay of the situation one way or another. The war is all about -- is only about -- what the American elite feel is in their own best interest, how it aggrandizes their fortunes, flatters their prejudices, serves their needs. That's it. The rest is just bullshit and murder."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=951&Itemid=135
"I felt as though I were paying last respects to the Constitution of the United States. But there was none of the praise customarily given to the deceased. Rather, the bouquets were fulsomely shared round about among the nominee and the senators - all of the 'distinguished,' but none more distinguished than the Very Reverend John Warner, the gentleman from Virginia, chairman of the committee and presider at the wake. ... It was a sorry spectacle Tuesday, as pretentious, patrician manners trumped courage and vitiated the advise-and-consent prerogative carefully honed by the framers of our Constitution for the Senate."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120706J.shtml
"To understand American philanthropy, it is necessary to explore its historical foundations. When Europeans came to America, they often left behind countries where there was a strong central government, a dominant church, and a powerful aristocracy. America, on the other hand, was a young frontier society. It lacked a strong central government, an established aristocracy, and a state religion. It didn't take long for people in America to realize that if they wanted something done, they would have to do it themselves. ... How did Americans do it? The truth is that at the heart of American philanthropy is freedom."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=959
"While most analyses of the New Deal look at the various programs and policies that expanded government bureaucracies, the New Deal as we know it would not have been possible without the issuance of Executive Order 6102 in 1933. With Roosevelt’s signature, gold as legal money disappeared in the United States, paving the way for the government to engage in near-unconstrained debasement of the currency. Historians generally pass by EO 6102, but without it Roosevelt’s economic programs never would have gained traction." [The URL below links to part one of this essay, which contains a link to the second part.]
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0608d.asp
"The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois Confederacy, is the best example of a pre-colonial society based on mutual respect and cooperation among its members. Based on the Great Law of Peace, the Haudenosaunee is estimated by modern historians to date from approximately the 12th Century. It consists of six tribes (Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, Tuscarora and Cayuga) inhabiting most of upstate New York and parts of lower Ontario in Canada."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/bank/bank5.html
"But we live in a world created through this lie. A world that has spawned numerous other lies in the pursuit of war; we're living in the midst of such a lie right now. Do we stand idly by and ignore the lessons of Pearl Harbor or fight a government that has propped up its battles with falsehood and deception?"
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01285_day_infamy_indeed.html
"The draft is not at all about defending and protecting the country. It is about getting cannon fodder to fight in an immoral and unnecessary overseas war. How many young men who didn’t know where Vietnam was located would think of going there to kill or be killed unless they were forced to do so? A real invasion of American soil would necessitate, not the conscription of young men to fight, but the need for Americans of all ages to wait in line in order to get a chance to shoot the invaders. Every able-bodied man (and even some women) would fight without having to be coerced or threatened."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance97.html
"In the end, it doesn’t matter whether Iraq is having a civil war nor not. In either case that country is in a situation that the U.S. presence can only make worse. Why? Because the U.S. military is a foreign occupier, and it is perceived as such. Polls show that the Iraqis do not want American troops there. A strong majority says it’s okay to kill Americans. How can we justify even one more day there?"
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0612c.asp
"Congress [needs] to cut off funding for the war now, forcing a rapid pull out. The United States cannot win this war with existing forces or by adding tens of thousands of forces on a sustained basis (which the already stretched military does not have anyway), so we must stop allowing existing forces to die in vain. Although the odds are long that the president will agree, a senior Republican who the president trusts needs to bluntly tell him that he needs to rapidly pull the plug on the failed Iraq operation. That senior person is Condi Rice."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1863
"The still-incomplete database (it has several 'dark' periods) reveals that from October 4, 1965, to August 15, 1973, the United States dropped far more ordnance on Cambodia than was previously believed: 2,756,941 tons’ worth, dropped in 230,516 sorties on 113,716 sites. Just over 10 percent of this bombing was indiscriminate, with 3,580 of the sites listed as having 'unknown' targets and another 8,238 sites having no target listed at all. "
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=11571
"He was born Polish but he would become renowned for his English short stories and novels. His father, Apollo Korzeniowski, worked as a translator of English and French literature, so Joseph had a significant exposure to literature while still a boy."
http://www.online-literature.com/conrad/
"In 1919, Elzie Segar's work attracted the attention of King Features Syndicate. For them, he created 'The Five-Fifteen' in 1920 (renamed 'Sappo' in 1926) and 'The Thimble Theatre', published in the New York Journal. This series features the rail-thin Olive Oyl, her brother Castor and their friend Ham Gravy. Ten years later, the sailor Popeye was introduced to the comic, immediately becoming the star of the show and capturing a large, world-wide audience. "
http://lambiek.net/artists/s/segar.htm
"Initially turned down the role of 'Endora' in 'Bewitched' (1964), but reconsidered when Elizabeth Montgomery asked her in person, when they met in a department store. Moorehead joined the cast not expecting the show to last more than one season - let alone become a long-running hit." From the IMDb bio page, linked from main page below.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001547/
"As one of the few black men to host his own network television program, Wilson was an influential cultural figure in the 1970s. Comedians Robin Williams and Billy Crystal both made their broadcast television debuts on the Flip Wilson Show."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_Wilson
Biographical drama stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, Beatie Edney, Don Baker; based on writings of Gerry Conlon, directed by Jim Sheridan. “Taken from an autobiographical work of Gerry Conlon, the movie tells the story of people, who through no desire or intention, become involved with ‘terrorist events.’ Their lives and the lives of their families suffer profoundly as a result of government policy enabled by UK legislation which might seem quite familiar to many in America today.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/in_name_father_1993.htm
"Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game. Now that's shiny. … The universe of Firefly and its spinoff film, Serenity, featured everything from Old West-style towns to futuristic urban environments, gritty spaceships and pastoral retreats -- freedom fighters, oppressive government agents, smugglers, outlaws, mercenaries, trader, townsfolk, futuristic geishas and a race of corrupted humans known as the Reavers."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72263-0.html?tw=wn_index_9
"Stone: We’re always in favor of people downloading. Always. Reason: Why? Stone: It’s how a lot of people see the show. And it’s never hurt us. We’ve done nothing but been successful with the show. How could you ever get mad about somebody who wants to see your stuff? "
http://www.reason.com/news/show/116787.html
"Odd that DVD troubles would delay an audio podcast, but that's what happened - I finally decided to go on with the show despite a pesky machine that only played half of the movie clips I wanted to use…."
http://unclewarrensattic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=158229
"John Hodgman explains the process behind announcing a run for the presidency." If you like part one, it has a part two also.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=79117
"Mtumbe, a UDF fighter with over 14 years of demolitions experience and nearly three hours of administrative practice, said that members of the rebellion were so caught up in the bloodthirsty struggle for power that they lost sight of what it would mean to be in power in a country as terrible as Zambia."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56093
"While the coffee giant raised eyebrows in the restaurant and aerospace industries with its startling announcement, it stunned Wall Street with its plan to expand to over 11,000 lunar coffee houses by 2021. "
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6649
"1. Admit that the debacle in Iraq has become unmanageable and that you are powerless to do anything about it. Heck, face it, your entire reign has been an unmitigated disaster for everyone except some defense contractors and other fatcats." 12 steps in all, I suspect not altogether intended as humor, but nonetheless light-hearted.
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/12/program-to-fix-bush-presidency.html
"Call them Whole Earth Catalog libertarians, Santa Fe Institute libertarians, bOING bOING libertarians. They appreciate spontaneous order, entrepreneurship (many of them are entrepreneurs themselves), decentralization, free expression, and peace. The hard-core do-it-yourselfers among them (and the veterans of the New Left) also appreciate the widespread private ownership of guns." One can find the Liberaltarians article mentioned in this essay on this page at the Cato Institute web site.
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/117137.html
"[T]hese are highly complex empirical questions. They are not a political, ethical, or ideological questions. Thus the answers must be left to the scientific process, preferably untainted by government control. In the meantime, laymen committed to individual freedom have their own question to attend to: If potentially harmful manmade climate change is occurring, how can it be addressed without violating liberty? Our energy should be invested in answering that question."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=966&year=2006&month=12
"One of the best reading experiences I ever had came in the form of The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley. In her novel she chronicled the plight of the Norse people living in Greenland as the medieval warm period ended during the 14th century. As it grew colder each passing year fewer ships came to trade and food became more and more scarce. Life degenerated into an absolutely brutal struggle for survival."
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/32769.html
"It is blatant nonsense to try and switch the burden of proof to the owner, and ask him to prove that his title is good; for he can never prove the negative assertion that there is no flaw hidden in it somewhere out of sight. It is he who wants us to believe that there is one, who must spot the hidden flaw."
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2006/Jasaypropertyrights.html
"Stephen Hawking, the genius scientist living with Lou Gehrig's Disease, thinks humans will eventually colonize space, but that future will look more like TV series 'Firefly' and its movie spin-off, 'Serenity,' than the grand vision of Star Trek…."
http://www.syfyportal.com/news.php?id=3031
"These days, I am at best agnostic about poisoned Russians and other anti-Putin reporting. It is ridiculous for the mainstream to dismiss the idea of conspiracies in America, and then concoct their own conspiracy theories for events overseas. If it's possible over there, it's possible over here, and if it's impossible over here, why is it so plausible over there?"
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2006/12/criminal-gangs.html
"Incorrigible warhawks and hand-wringing sensible liberals both routinely dismiss calls for immediate withdrawal from Iraq with a wave of the hand and a grumble or two about the need for 'constructive suggestions.' If pressed on the topic they will point out that after American soldiers withdraw things may get very, very bad in Iraq."
http://radgeek.com/gt/2006/12/08/nation_building
"A girl only turns fifteen once, so we figured we would do it up right. We did, too. Violeta rushed around for two weeks negotiating for music and food and I invited everybody who needed to be invited and wrote lists of things everywhere and lost them, and Natalia, in the final throes of her fourteenth year, looked nervous. She had never had a monster party thrown in her honor. I guess it would weigh on anyone."
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