Larry Darby, the white supremacist Alabama Democrat who keeps trying to associate himself with the Libertarian Party, has really gone off the deep end. From The Birmingham News:
Darby is running on a nine-point platform to restore state sovereignty. Under his plan, the state would gradually divest itself of the federal government, beginning with the National […]
From Hammer Of Truth
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This Dick Clark is billed as “America’s oldest teenager,” but this Dick Clark has a pretty youthful appearance, too. The latter Clark is running for Alabama State House District 79 on the Libertarian ticket. He’s already secured enough ballot petitions in his district to run for office, no matter the outcome of the […]
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The radio host warned gubernatorial candidate Sue Jeffers that it was a question every politician had trouble with. Ready?
“Are you a dog or a cat person?”
“A dog person,” Jeffers replied. Immediately bells and whistles started going off.
“Did I get it wrong?” she asked.
The host laughed. “No,” he said. “You’re just the first candidate that’s given […]
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Here’s a recent interview of Kevin Zeese worth taking the time to watch. Zeese is the Libertarian, Green and Populist candidate for U.S. Senate from Maryland. Here’s the interview description from Zeese’s website:
Kevin Zeese spent a day in Salisbury, MD last week. Among the events he participated in was appearing on a local […]
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Here’s a cool release from the Wisconsin LP:
21-year-old Libertarian Jacob Burns became the youngest member of the Wisconsin State Elections Board on May 17, 2006.
In his very first meeting, Burns fought for all Wisconsin citizens. Some actions performed included:
* voted in favor of the rule allowing the interchangeability of identification for voters registering on election […]
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It was a stormy night. A guy was driving in some mountains when his car broke down. He parked it by a tree and walked down the highway looking for help. A headlight started to approach him from behind. He turned back and noticed a car coming forward very slowly. He walked up to it, opened the door, and sat on the passenger’s seat. Then he suddenly noticed that there was no driver, but the car was moving
Before he could decide what to do, a sharp turn appeared a few feet ahead and it looked like the car would go over a cliff. The guy trembled in fright, but a pale hand came in from the open window and turned the steering wheel. When the car finished turning around the curve, the hand withdrew. At every turn, the ghostly hand would come in and guide the wheels of the car to safety.
The guy could not believe it. As soon as he saw the lights of a truck stop by the road, he jumped out and ran into a bar, pale, wet, trembling, and telling everybody about his creepy, supernatural experience. Then two young men dripping in mud came into the bar. One saw the guy and said, “Hey, that’s the idiot that got into our car while we were pushing it.”
From Adam Smith Institute
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A quite startlingly odd idea is proposed by a French politician. No, really, worse than usual. The Guardian
” target=”new”>reports, M. Lamassoure seems to be under the misapprehension that it is countries that talk to each other:
“Exchanges between countries have ballooned, so everyone would understand that the money to finance the EU should come from the benefits engendered by the EU.” “Huh? I hate to break this to Mr. Lamassoure but countries neither communicate with each other nor ‘exchange’ with each other; companies and people do.”What is in fact far more worrying is that he’s deliberately comparing it to the Tobin Tax:
The French MEP said the explosion in electronic traffic, including cross-border trade, was a huge source of wealth and “perhaps it would be technically easy and even politically possible to impose a very tiny tax on these millions and billions of operations - like the proposed Tobin tax.”The pendant who also writes here)
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This is somewhat old news, but you might be interested in the many ways the next generation of advanced motion sensors are being exploited. On the second page there are links to the very amusing (if somewhat useless) “MacSabre” hack which utilises the SMS (sudden motion sensor) in Apple’s new laptops to make them sound like a light sabre.
Wired News, 30 May 2006 — Making the iPod More Sensitive
From Adam Smith Institute
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It should come as no great surprise that the baby boomers (born between 1945 and 1963) are shunning the conventional idea of retirement. Sarah Womack reports in the Telegraph that many of them want to and expect to continue working after they reach 65. Their leisure activities go beyond the woolly cardigan and carpet slippers of their parents, and extend into adventure sports and exotic trips. The story emerges from a new survey of 50-69 year-olds by Heyday, an organization for older people. Some facts:
Forty-six percent of people aged 50-69 have thought of “packing it in” and living abroad, a figure that rises to 50 percent among men.
The amounts of money being spent on places in the sun is helped by the fact that the over-50s hold 80 percent of the country’s wealth. More than 80 percent of them own their own homes and half do not have a mortgage.
One in 10 of those polled said they intended never to retire, and 40 percent said work gave them structure and mental stimulation. A third said it helped keep them fit and socially engaged, and they actually liked working.
Yes, quite. People don’t just have longer lives, but longer active lives. Commentators will probably laugh at the idea that people expected to work for four and a half decades, then do nothing for a further couple of decades. Quite apart from the economics of it, few seem to want to.Fifty-eight percent of those working full-time planned to work part-time after retiring from their full-time role.
The notion of retirement stems very much from an industrial society where people worked in factories doing hard physical work. When the Welfare State was introduced in 1948, the average worker quit at 65 and keeled over in the garden two years later. A post-industrial society should not be surprised to find itself confronted by post-industrial patterns of ‘retirement.’
From Adam Smith Institute
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I was invited to this afternoon’s Unity08 teleconference, but have had no time to write about it. Fortunately, others have provided their perspectives on the tele-meeting. Therefore, my report is pretty much boils down to:
What he said.
What he said squared.
From Hammer Of Truth
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