Healthcare reform - executive summary

We're going to pass a health care plan
written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it,
passed by a Congress that hasn't read it; but exempts themselves from it,
signed by a president that also hasn't read it, and; who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes,
over seen by a surgeon general who is obese,
and financed by a country that's nearly broke.

What possibly could go wrong?

Porkulous bill passes

The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon: How Taxpayers Finance Fantasy Wars

Source: TomDispatch.com - Chalmers Johnson

Like much of the rest of the world, Americans know that the U.S. automotive industry is in the grips of what may be a fatal decline. Unless it receives emergency financing and undergoes significant reform, it is undoubtedly headed for the graveyard in which many American industries are already buried, including those that made televisions and other consumer electronics, many types of scientific and medical equipment, machine tools, textiles, and much earth-moving equipment -- and that's to name only the most obvious candidates. They all lost their competitiveness to newly emerging economies that were able to outpace them in innovative design, price, quality, service, and fuel economy, among other things.

Read the entire piece

US unmaned aerial vehicle attacks Pakistan

U.S. Drone Strikes With Deadly Accuracy
The Strike Was One of the Deepest Inside Pakistan Since Missile Attacks Began Years Ago (Read the piece here)
By NICK SCHIFRIN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 19, 2008
My opinion: I am shocked and dismayed that our government wages yet another undeclared war, now against Pakistan.
And I hear no outcry from our congress or the media. I am not impressed by our technological superiority when there is no moral authority to govern its use. Shame!

The Second American Revolution

Ron Paul On This Weekend’s Global Financial Summit

Nader /Baldwin Debate on CSPAN

If you missed this, here's your chance. I'm voting for Baldwin.

The Secret Government

John Stossel's Politically incorrect guide to politics

Part 2,Part 3,Part 4,Part 5,Part 6

Who voted yes, and who voted NO.

This NYTimes map presents a good breakdown of the Republican (red) and Democrat (blue) votes against the bailout (sellout) bill. The representatives that voted for the bill are represented in gray.
To see more detail click here.

I urge you to actively campaign against those who voted for the sellout bill in the coming election.

But check this out! The FED is going to bail them out anyway.

Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression.

The Fed increased its existing currency swaps with foreign central banks by $330 billion to $620 billion to make more dollars available worldwide. The Term Auction Facility, the Fed's emergency loan program, will expand by $300 billion to $450 billion. The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are among the participating authorities.

The Fed's expansion of liquidity, the biggest since credit markets seized up last year, came hours before the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry. The crisis is reverberating through the global economy, causing stocks to plunge and forcing European governments to rescue four banks over the past two days alone.

Get ready for hyperinflation.

Elitist?

At the risk of repeating myself, Please don't waste your vote on either the D or the R candidate. Neither one will respect their oath of office. Both are significantly flawed to serve as President.

Lew Rockwell interview with Bill Moyers

If you find this interesting, watch part 2. Watch Part 3

If you enjoy Lew Rockwell here is his web site www.lewrockwell.com
You might also enjoy the Ludwig von Mises site /www.mises.org

Election 2008 - Who to vote for??

Let's see; there's Obama; NO!, then there's McCain; NO! Most of America stops thinking right about here. But there are other choices. If you are searching for someone worthy of your endorsement, here are a couple you probably don't know much about. Chuck Baldwin is a man of principle. Maybe him...

Then there's Bob Barr.


Please, do us all a favor. Before you throw away your precious vote on some bonehead that doesn't represent you, break out of the herd and think for yourself. Stop listening the the mainstream propaganda mill and get some information.

Take a look at what the Libertarians stand for. www.lp.org.
Read what the Constitution party is all about www.constitutionparty.com.

While you're at it, take the World's Smallest Political Quiz to see who agrees with you.

Why school choice could never work

Baseless searches - Yup that's Okay

The Washington Post Published: August 1st, 2008 01:00 AM
WASHINGTON – Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.
Officials may share copies of the laptop’s contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two Homeland Security agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“The policies … are truly alarming,” said Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., who is probing the government’s border search practices. He said he intends to introduce legislation soon that would require reasonable suspicion for border searches, as well as prohibit profiling on race, religion or national origin.

Officials said that the newly disclosed policies – which apply to anyone entering the country, including U.S. citizens – are reasonable and necessary to prevent terrorism. Officials said such practices have long been in place but were disclosed last month because of public interest.

Civil liberties and business travel groups have pressed the government to disclose its procedures as an increasing number of international travelers have reported that their laptops, cell phones and other digital devices have been taken and their contents examined.

The policies state that officers can “review and analyze information” in the traveler’s laptop “absent individualized suspicion,” and that the laptops and other devices are to be returned “in a reasonable period of time.”

The policies cover “any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form,” including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover “all papers and other written documentation,” including books and pamphlets.

Reasonable measures must be taken to protect business information and attorney-client privileged material, the policies say, but there is no specific mention of the handling of personal data such as medical and financial records.

When a review is completed and no probable cause exists to keep the information, any copies of the data must be destroyed. But the documents specify that there is no limitation on authorities keeping written notes about the materials.

“They’re saying they can rifle through all the information in a traveler’s laptop without having a smidgen of evidence that the traveler is breaking the law,” said Greg Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Notably, he said, the policies “don’t establish any criteria for whose computer can be searched.”

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff wrote in an opinion piece published last month in USA Today that “the most dangerous contraband is often contained in laptop computers or other electronic devices.” Searches have uncovered “violent jihadist materials” as well as images of child pornography, he wrote.

In April, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the government’s power to conduct searches of an international traveler’s laptop without suspicion of wrongdoing.

Opinion: Is anyone paying attention? Read the 4th amendment!!

The History of WA Ferries

Bob Barr on Faux Snooze Sunday

Central Command Chief Resigns

Source: Wired
Tuesday March 11, Admiral William Fallon, commander of US Central Command, turned in his resignation, and Defense Secretary Gates has accepted it. The press, previously hypnotized by the Spitzer scandal, is furiously spinning to find out more. But early speculation will almost certainly center around this interview with Esquire's Tom Barnett, in which the Admiral was portrayed as bucking the White House's push for a showdown with Iran.Read more