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Even still, government does not and should not get involved in "trivial matters". If a private citizen doesn't get a refund he's entitled to, if he calls 911, police will arrive at McDonald's and arrest the citizen for making a nuissance call to 911.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29498350/

But if an off-duty law enforcment officer makes a mistake, believing he gave a $20 bill to a cashier when he only gave a $10, it is OK for him to threaten the cashier with arrest and assault the cashier with pepper spray if the cashier (a legal minor) asks the officer to wait 10 minutes for her mother to arrive and for her shift to end so they could sort it out.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/03/12/loc_court_orders_fired.html

(The entire incident was recorded on CCTV, and can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY9wbP_zZkI )

The key point is that the government will take up those matters that are of interest to the government (and the business contributors to past, present, and future political campaigns - but not ordinary citizens since such citizens rarely have the funds and influence to provide critical support during an election).

You're right, guns are the most dangerous mass murder tool. Thank god the psyco's haven't figured out there are other means of killing people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/05/14/loc_mahoney.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_Plaza_Hotel_arson#Fire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childers_Palace_Fire

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/09/09/sub_laclass.gif

I counted over a dozen separate compartments... what are you talking about?

There are only two compartments in a sub in the way that there is an inside and an outside... that's more one compartment really... but when I refer to compartments I mean the room in a sub and they can all be sealed water tight which means they can be sealed close enough to air tight as to not matter.

I recall the same things being said about America's voting system. Around 2004, there was this big hoopla that Bush was rigging the election, even the EU was asking to have oversight of the US elections. Bush won that election, fairly and by a landslide. The people who didn't see their candidate win didn't like it, and made a LOT of noise about it.

Being the libertarian that I am (my chosen candidates never win,) I can observe this kind of bullshit and call it for what it is, but in the case of the US I haven't seen any sufficient evidence of rigged elections. Some voter fraud here and there (which democrat supporters have done a lot of, ironically) but not enough to influence the results in any election in my opinion.

I don't know about Russia's system, but I'm not going to be so arrogant (as the EU was) to demand that America take oversight of their elections; if they have voter fraud, that's their problem. Much in the same, I think it is pretty arrogant of the Russians and Chinese to demand that the UN get regulatory powers over the internet.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/07/15/loc_anti-mask_laws_are.html check your facts at least a little. It is illegal to wear masks in many places in public in the USA.

Perhaps he's talking about the huge discrepancy between the exit polls and recorded vote in Ohio. Which is the state discussed in TFA. Well, maybe he's also thinking about some of the other anomalies in the 2000, 2002, 2004, and even the 2006 elections as well.

When a foreign country has even a minor discrepancy between the exit polls and the recorded vote, we insist the election was fraudulent and demand a new election. In the USA, however, we just don't release the exit polls, and say they were "flawed". In the 2004 elections in Ohio, for example, one county declared they had a terrorist threat and couldn't allow anyone but a select few (republican) vote counters to see the ballots. Of course, they can't tell you what the terrorist threat was, but they say that it was really, really serious. Nothing suspicious about that... Move along now, nothing to see here.

They are on their way out. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080515/BIZ/805150352

It is often the same perp:

The 19 burglaries occurred between May 2007 and January and were being investigated as a group because they followed a similar pattern. They occurred primarily in the Todt Hill and Grymes Hill neighborhoods between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m., and the thief or thieves stole mostly jewelry. Suspects, but No Arrests, in S.I. 'Ninja Burglaries'

Two Franklin men are jailed in Butler County on charges that they broke into 13 homes and stole guns, tools, electronics and jewelry over the past three months. Bradley Alcorn, 28, and Johnny Sorrell, 27, face charges of burglary and receiving stolen property involving daytime break-ins in Wayne and Madison townships when residents were away. Butler County Sheriff Rick Jones said detectives have received inquiries from police agencies in Warren, Preble and Montgomery counties, where similar burglaries were reported. Arrests made in burglaries

The cop wants to bring him down quickly.

Stories like this do not always have a happy ending:

It's wasn't jewelry, cash, or a car that took down some Central Fresno burglars, but rather a blanket. According to Deputies a caller reported three men in her Floradora Ave. home around 11 p.m. Monday night. The caller, a 16-year-old girl, said the men woke her, her brother, sister and niece up when they entered the home. She told police that she and her relatives had locked themselves into a back bedroom while the men were inside the home. 24-year-old Charles Williams, 23-year-old Jayson Sanderson, and 21-year-old Princeton Williams, were located near McKinley and Marks a short while later. One of them was found to be in possession of a blue blanket which had belonged to the victims, thus connecting the men to the crime. All three men were arrested and booked into the Fresno County Jail. Williams was also booked on parole violations. Blanket Leads To Burglary Arrests

Burglaries fall into patterns.

Thieves work in teams, buddies the same age. They will have criminal records. They will break into an occupied home. They may be running a quart low, but that won't make them any less dangerous.

I used to believe that my single vote couldn't possibly make a difference. Yet every couple months, I still hauled my ass over to the voting booths to vote on local issues, local representation, and a national leader, purely out of an interest in current events, rather than out of a desire to change how things worked or to right a wrong.

Every year, I would vote for the local school district levy, and every year it would fail. Ever since I first entered high school, I recognized how poorly the local public schools were doing: the books were falling apart, teachers were being laid off, extracurricular activities were being canceled, less teachers for classes meant more useless study hall periods, etc. For over ten years, the levies consistently failed, so the school failed to receive funding to support many of its most basic services.

During my senior year, I remember my homeroom adviser telling the class how the levy failed by a margin of only ~20-30 votes (I think it was). Since we were all of voting age, she said that if a single classroom of students would have just got off their asses and voted for the levy, it would have succeeded. That's a real, quantifiable number of people who could have made a change in a sea of tens of thousands of other voters.

Then the unthinkable happened. Last year, the levy passed by a margin of three votes. It was incredible, but then they issued a recount. After the recount, it still managed to pass by a margin of only TWO votes.

Of course, there were only tens of thousands voting, rather than tens of millions. And yes, one vote didn't really matter--two did. I wasn't necessarily one of those two votes, nor possibly anyone in my family.

But that didn't stop my younger brother from marching into class the next day, staring at his history teacher from across the room, and boldly proclaiming, "You have MY family to thank for your pay-raise. We accept cash only."

This isn't the Cincinnati Newspaper!

We don't even have 'open' elections anymore. No matter what the deal is with machines, punch ballots and the like the ballots will just be destroyed after a judge says not to.

Welcome back to the USSA!

Yeah, the National Enquirer of science. Wake me up when Science runs it. BTW, the article is only available to the suckers who'd pay for that drivel.

I can't find the current issue of Nature online, but here's a bittorrent link of the April 26th issue to give you an idea.

And The Enquirer is a freebie.

The funny thing is that the guy who plays Adam in one of their videos, has a website called Bedroom Acrobat

See Museum's 'Adam' clip gone, Actor's sexually explicit business found

Face it, this is happening simply because of Virginia Tech.

See, this is the problem. Nowhere in this country could you get "abortion on demand through the third trimester"; though it's up to the state to determine what restrictions to put in place, there's nowhere that an eight month-pregnant woman can go into a Planned Parenthood, say "I've changed my mind; abort it" and get an abortion. And I don't recall any Democrat congresscritters saying that they want to change that.

Furthermore, the first poll I googled up (Pew Research Center, 2000) shows that the majority of Americans think gun control is more important than gun owners' rights, 57-38. Again, I don't recall the Democrat platform saying anything about doing away with any immigration controls whatsoever, or wanting to disband the military. These are terrible positions, and I'd be first in line to criticize people to held them.

It's held as a revealed truth among right-wingers that Hillary Clinton is just to the left of Che Guevara. But it's just not so. She backed military action in Iraq and in Afghanistan. She's introduced legislation to increase the size of the Army. She's been active in social issues like seeking congressional hearings into GTA: San Andreas; she co-introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act along with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh.

Thanks for your concern, but given that you're not even attacking positions that the party actually holds, why on earth would the Democratic party want to move to the right? It's certainly not going to appease you or anyone like you. They could all stand on the southern border shooting Mexicans and you'd still claim they were far-left socialist radicals on immigration and gun control. It's rank nonsense, and utterly detached from the reality of the situation.

The gay issue seems a tricky one. (Even trickier given that you didn't exactly explain what you were talking about.) But consider that the Civil Rights Act was terribly unpopular in the south at the time. It was held, rightly in my opinion, that people have rights whether or not they belong to a currently-unpopular group. By your lights, we should have the state establish a religion, because that would probably pass popular muster as well. Heck, we should repeal the Civil Rights Act in those states where it's not widely supported, is that right?

Not only that, but he didn't even coin the phrase. Hell, even the Enquirer used that phrase in a headline in 2000. Of course, they didn't put a 80-teraflop chip into the puppy in the article in order to get it to perform aide tasks -- now that would have been innovative.

I have no idea why AOL would back out of hosting Al's video, since he is one of the most successful artists I know. He has been releasing albums for over two decades. He has 3 Grammy's, 3 Gold Albums, and 6 Platinum albums in the US.

He also has a fan base so loyal that tens of thousands will gather just to honor him with a collective chicken dance.

This "preponderance of evidence" is denying people due legal process. They haven't been convicted presumably because of the statute of limitations and yet are being declared sex offenders. Until you have convicted someone they are innocent and like it or not deserve all their constituional rights. I'm rather uncomfortable with retrying people in a civil court after being found innocent by a criminal court. The lower standards in civil courts make me uncomfortable in general. Heck even in criminal courts with their stricter standard of evidence there are mistakes where an innocent person is falsely convicted, even in some cases put on death row. A preponderance of evidence is just begging for trouble. I'd love it if someone under this new law (if it doesn't get stricken down) can get through siz years and appeal and have his name removed and then charge the state with unecessary harrasment.

Also you might read about sex offender laws in Kentucky. It was an interesting read from last month about a law restricting sex offenders from living within a 1000 feet of a school. I think it has a double jeopardy feel about it. The ACLU is on this one - the Ohio ACLU seems asleep on this latest development though.

A lot of posters have said this is just politicians crying "Won't someone please think about the children" but its not just politicians wanting to be seen as being tough but also the parents - if you read the article theres a feeling that "Sorry these laws are unfair but you shouldn't have done it." I dont think laws like this will ever go away as long as there are people who clamor "Keep us safe from terrorists/sex offenders/communists/atheists/witches/(boogey man) even if that deprives some of us of our rights."

I hope this law is found uncostituional but the solution is not passing laws and then having the ACLU fight for ages to get it declared unconstituional - its not passing them in the first place. I'm beginning to believe it my be worth having all bills pass through some intesive judicial review (no veto just a look over and a rubber stamp yes or a memo saying look at these bits a bit more) BEFORE actually being signed into law. This ought to be a much shorter proess than fighting the laws after they are passed. There is so much bad publicty to be had from opposing populist laws that its worth having another branch thats existence is mandated by the constituion be able to look at these laws and say "er... hold one one second."

No no no.
The Enquirer is a Cincinnati newspaper. You're thinking of the NATIONAL Enquirer.

Because administratively, these matters do not rise above the diocesan level. It comes down to either bad bishops or otherwise good bishops making bad decisions. There has been a lot of hysteria about this. The real facts are that there are only a handful of cases, it's not rampant as the media would have you believe. And secondly, almost all of the cases involved teenage boys, which seems to point not to pedophilia, but to homosexual attraction. Proactively preventing homosexuals from entering the seminaries will go a long way towards abating this. I personally know a priest who was defrocked and served jail time for a relationship he had with a 14-year old boy. In his case, he was involved in a relationship with the principal of his Catholic high school. He was going to be a priest, and he was told by this other priest that this is what priests do and that it was alright. When he went through seminary, there were many homosexuals, who kept things on the DL, so to speak, but it was known what was happening, and simply ignored. He understands that this was poor judgment to get involved with this boy, and he knew it was wrong, but he was conditioned to such an environment that encouraged these kinds of things.

OK, its unlikely to go away if you keep it around as an interesting cocktail conversation stuffer (I was once called a vampire in court!) and throw out an open challenge to Slashdot to find it. But, be that as it may, if you're OK with it I guess I'll steal the free karma for looking it up (and, yep, all I did was a whois followed by a couple of Google searches. You'll be happy to know that your name is reasonably clean, even when added to vampire, but only one Charles Perkins has ever showed up in News of the Odd. Watch those minor corraborative details, they're killers!).

Some high up manager said "We need to start focusing on building cars that people want to buy, and not just cars that fill our factories."

I was stunned at that quote, it really revealed how they were operating.

My mistake--it was a different (but stinky) plant.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/08/18/loc_st ink_in_air_as.html

My mistake--it was a different (but stinky) plant.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/08/18/loc_st ink_in_air_as.html

Nevertheless, cellphone providers are making LOTS of money from text/sms messages.

From an article on pizza coupons on your cellphone:
"In April, [Cincinnati}Bell's system handled 115 million text messages, or an average of about 278 per subscriber. The national average is about 30 per subscriber per month. And data such as text make up 10 percent of Bell's wireless service revenues, the second-highest percentage of any carrier in the country."

From an article last year http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/10/tem_te m1germ.html/:

A newly released study claims office workers are exposed to more germs from their phones and keyboards than would be found crawling on a toilet seat. A lot more.

According to the study, from researchers at the University of Arizona, phones have up to 25,127 germs per square inch, keyboards 3,295 per square inch and computer mice 1,676 per square inch.

The average toilet seat? Just 49 germs per square inch.

"Desks are really bacteria cafeterias," microbiologist Charles Gerba, who researched the study, told BBC News.

According to the section chief of the Ohio ARRL, problems are minimal.
(at the bottom of the article:) "Joe Phillips of Fairfield, the Ohio section chief for the American Radio Relay League, says that so far the Cinergy roll-out hasn't created the radio interference many ham radio operators had feared."

According to the study, from researchers at the University of Arizona, phones have up to 25,127 germs per square inch, keyboards 3,295 per square inch and computer mice 1,676 per square inch.

source here

Personally, I think the idea is good, though it has potential for abuse.
Once such example could be automated issuing of speeding tickets. There are some towns and villages that people know to be speed traps. Two examples of these from the news are New Rome and Macks Creek. I can picture a small town or village like one of these places investing in a pair of readers. Install them on the local highway, and calculate how much time a car should take to travel between these points. If a vehicle goes faster than this, it must be speeding. Use the database to find the driver's address, and send them a ticket. The bill does allow local law enforcement to access the database in Section 601.501 b.

As abusive as this may sound, though, it's nothing that couldn't be done with tracking license plates.

Not forgetting Powdered beer

Well, you're no doubt in good company.:) Took ages before I noticed, and even then only by luck.

Doesn't mean its still not false advertising. Our economic system is not supposed to work on the level of a 5 year old.

True enough, but "is not supposed to" and "doesn't" are sadly two very different concepts.:\ I just did some more looking. No idea how reliable the Cincinnati Enquirer is, but anyway... apparently the original ads had actual size increase promises. The article implies that they vanished after a few class-action suits got thrown at the company.

The greater 'success' of the Smilin' Bob ads leads me to believe that, blatantly dishonest and scummy as they are, they don't have any outright lies that a court or other ruling body can sieze upon. And that's a crying shame.

Um, new? Is this at all similar to what Cinergy (and probably others) has been experimenting with since March 2004?

As general information for any reader that doesn't know, masks on other than holidays are generally prohibited by law in many jurisdictions.

How broad the ordinances are and whether there are exceptions (i.e. as for Muslim women) also varies.

They seem to be susceptible to 1st amendment challenges, though.
Klan's old Kentucky haunts ban hoods in public
With a 'Hi-Oh, Silver!' ACLU Challenges Michigan Anti-Mask Law on Behalf of "Lone Ranger" Protesters
Anti-mask laws are spreading

Didn't think so. But that's *exactly* what would need to happen.

BPL will destroy the civilized world's ability to communicate with the disaster areas.

BPL (or BOPL) *is* in operation today. Right here, right now, in my city. Cinergy (Cincinnati) BOPL (Pops)

Now I admit I am not very active in the HAM community anymore, but from what I have heard it has not been much of an issue (yet) in the markets here that it is active in.

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I think it's a great idea, but there's just one issue that comes to my mind here:

All we seem to be doing these days is making things require electricity, when they never used to.

I'm not an environmental freak or anything, but it's shocking to see how much we're becoming dependent on electricity; even razors that don't currently require batteries will probably become battery operated, like this .

See how many wind-up watches there are these days; at the rate technology is progressing, your average picture frame could soon be battery powered.

I'm all for them challenging something they believe is wrong. But, when they challenged the 2000 Election and brought in front of the highest court of the land - they lost. Why? Because they wanted to count the votes differently in each county (a benefit to Gore), a violation of equal protection under the law. And when they lose a fair case in the supreme court, they yell that Bush "stole" the election. What's going to happen if the electoral college splits their vote 269/269 and the House has to pick the President? That's what the law says - are they going to claim once again that the President "stole" the election, even though he would've legally won the election?

Gore won that election, even in Florida.

Bzzzt! WRONG! Gore didn't win in Florida. Recounts sponsored by various news outlets showed that Bush won Florida by 500-something votes.

I was a Republican, but crossed over to the Democratic party after watching the Republican party steal the presidency.

Once again, the election was not stolen. And you're in a minority, actually. After the 2000 election, most shifts in voter registration were to the Republican party.

ven this election, several republicans funded by the GOP have been caught disposing of tens of thousands of valid democrat voter registrations in swing states, and rarely vice versa, probably a fraction of the total fraud going on.

So it's okay that the Democratic GOTV efforts are registering people such as Mary Poppins & Michael Jackson in Ohio. Hell, thousands of new voter registration cards (mostly democrat) have been returned as undeliverable in Ohio. I could also point to the 1960 election, which Democrats literally stole from Nixon with the Daley Coffin Voters in Chicago. I even heard something on TV yesterday about more registered voters than residents over the age of 18 in one state.

But I'm voting for him anyway

Last time I checked, douche bags caused disease.

Yes I do.

1998 Florida Mayoral race overturned because of massive voter fraud. This is only the most recent of a half dozen cases in Florida some of which resulted in convictions and/or invalidated elections. Lots of funs stuff... Deceased voters, vote buying, non-resident voters, ballot switching - the whole nine yards. (Gee I wonder if THAT could possibly explain the "intimidating" presence of Republican poll watchers and an attempt to purge the rolls of deceased, illegal and non-resident voters? NO it MUST be "suppression"). As it turns our there WERE still dead people that voted in 2000. The Miami Herald found André Alismé who died in 1997 among 144 other illegal voters after investigating only about a sixth of the precincts in Miami.

Forged absentee ballots in S. Dakota in 2002

Apparently some of the Democratic voting dead vote in primaries too.

Deceased voters still making it to the polls

Of course the 1960 Presidential election... Long past history but memories are long and political

And there is plenty of proof that this year may be a high-water mark for fraud... Fictional people registered to vote
Tons of registrations accumulated over months including many fraudulent ones with fictional names, dozens of the same name, forged signatures, dead people etc. all dumped on the county offices at the last minute to overload the checks to prevent fraud in Pennsylvania, Florida (and here), Colorado, Texas.

Can anyone reply to my post with a corresponding list of things Dems have done?

Sure:
-Republican forms get tossed in the trash but not Republican forms...
- Democratic registration for completely fictional people...
- Fraudulent, forged Democratic registrations as well dumping a full years worth of paperwork on the registrars lap in the last minute to ensure they weren't looked at and INTENTIONALLY putting down false information for Republicans or simply not turning them in.

- Texas Democrats who Gerrymandered in their redistricting efforts... (The recent successful Republican effort was tit for tat revenge for the 1990 redistricting that The Almanac for American Politics called "The most partisan redistricting in the '90 cycle in the nation." and "the shrewdest gerrymander" of it's time. A gerrymander that resulted in a house delegation that was 17 to 15 Democratic despite 56% of the voters at the polls voting for a Republican congressman.

- CBS (as partisan as Sinclair or Fox) doing it's traditional 60 Minutes week-before-the-election hit piece early this year using obvious forgeries and giving the Kerry campaign advanced notice so they could exploit it with their operation "Fortunate Son"

-Florida 1998 -- Massive voter fraud uncovered that eventually leads to the election being overturned. The efforts during the next cycle (2000) all efforts to prevent fraud demagogued as "disenfranchising black voters" by the EXACT same people who had perpetuated the fraud.

Can anyone reply to my post with a corresponding list of things Dems have done?

Sure:
-Republican forms get tossed in the trash but not Republican forms...
- Democratic registration for completely fictional people...
- Fraudulent, forged Democratic registrations as well dumping a full years worth of paperwork on the registrars lap in the last minute to ensure they weren't looked at and INTENTIONALLY putting down false information for Republicans or simply not turning them in.

- Texas Democrats who Gerrymandered in their redistricting efforts... (The recent successful Republican effort was tit for tat revenge for the 1990 redistricting that The Almanac for American Politics called "The most partisan redistricting in the '90 cycle in the nation." and "the shrewdest gerrymander" of it's time. A gerrymander that resulted in a house delegation that was 17 to 15 Democratic despite 56% of the voters at the polls voting for a Republican congressman.

- CBS (as partisan as Sinclair or Fox) doing it's traditional 60 Minutes week-before-the-election hit piece early this year using obvious forgeries and giving the Kerry campaign advanced notice so they could exploit it with their operation "Fortunate Son"

-Florida 1998 -- Massive voter fraud uncovered that eventually leads to the election being overturned. The efforts during the next cycle (2000) all efforts to prevent fraud demagogued as "disenfranchising black voters" by the EXACT same people who had perpetuated the fraud.

Via name_withheld from SensibleErection:
Colorado
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Florida
Tennessee
Michigan
West Virginia
Wisconsin

there vote truly is irrellevant if cast for Kerry in Massachussetts

Kerry supports amending the constitution to restrict rights of one group.

Republicans would like this to be a campaign to be a referendum on gay marriage, because apparently 56% of voters oppose gay marriage Wouldn't it be great to win the support of that 40% who say that they support gay marriage, while really illustrating the ideals of the libertarian party?

How can you get those votes? Do you plan to actively pursue them?

Thank you very much for running. I recognize that running as a 3rd party candidate is draining fiscally, physically and emotionally. I salute you for living up to the principles envisioned by our forefathers, and doing your part to contribute to the health of our country.

As for that, I haven't heard that argument from any conservatives

That's strange, because I can't think of a single conservative mouthpiece or media source who has not said something similar to the grandparent's posting. The following comes up in the first few pages of a Google search:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp ?ID=6317
The Hate America Left
Ben Johnson, columnist, FrontPageMagazine.com

http://anncoulter.com/columns/2002/070302.htm
Liberalism And Terrorism: Different Stages Of Same Disease
Ann Coulter, AnnCoulter.com

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/weekend_sites/080 904_081304/content/what_would_happen_if.guest.html
"For every eye that has to police the protesters, that's one eye less watching for terrorists. Do they care? No... You hate the president. You hate the country."
Rush Limbaugh Transcript, 8/12/2004

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/2/26 /124459.shtml
'Hate-America Leftists' Lead the Appeasement Movement
Wes Vernon, columnist NewsMax.com

http://www.americandaily.com/article/917
"People who hate America... these are John Kerry's constituents"
JB Williams, columnist, The American Daily

http://www.americandaily.com/article/2390
The Hate-America Crowd Speaks Its Mind
Doug Patton, columnist, The American Daily

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/07/04/loc_br onson4.html
Hate-America crowd has its own picnic
Cincinati Inquierer, columnist, Peter Bronson

http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2028797
"Why are people who hate America still living here?"

Bill Carthcart, WTOC 11, Savannah Georgia
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp 20040706.shtml

Michael Moore and the problem of American self-hatred
Dennis Prager, Townhall.com

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArti cle.asp?ID=14125
Hate-America Advocates
Jean Pearce, Frontpage Magazine

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2159
American Academics Who Hate America
Daniel Pipes, Capitalism Magazine

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArti cle.asp?ID=9298
A Hate-America Superhero
Joshua Elder, FrontPageMagazine.com

Those are different things -

1. Python
2. Benny Hill

There's no particular reason why you should like one just because it's authors are from the same geography as the other.

Otherwise if you like Matt Groening's cartoons, you'd have to like Tonya Harding's work too.

You make some good points, but I'll take up issue with some of them.

First, we need to persuade the Sheeple that (A) we are going to run out of fossil fuel...

Considering all the media hype that's gone into oil in the past year (and to a lesser extent, the past two years), I think this is common knowledge. If not yet, maybe $2.50 gas prices will... and seeing the recent decline of SUV sales, I think that message is getting through at least.

At the moment, to the average Merkin, it will sound amazingly ridiculous to "waste" a 100x100 mile area "just so some pinko environmentalist wackos can stop using oil". (I'm sorry, but that's how the right-leaning folks in this nation will interpret it.)

Among other things, people live in this 100x100 square mile area, you don't know what kind of an environmental effect covering it with algae would do to a desert, environmentalist wackos are generally limited to people that are a part of the A.L.F., and... have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, right-leaning folks (like me) are looking at the bottom line and think about how much money this would cost to actually do the things you said instead of talk about them? I am looking forward to owning my own house and installing a solar panel system. That is possible. 10,000 square miles of algae is just less possible, less feasable, and less economical.

"Poppycock; there's no way we could run out of fuel. God wouldn't let that happen to us!" It sounds like an anti-religion troll, but I seem to recall actually hearing rubbish like that from the far-right...

You're not the only one, I've heard this from people at church, too, and it bothers me to no end, considering we're supposed to take care of what we've been given.

When technology becomes economical, you'd be surprised at what happens.

Interestingly enough, you'd find that shrimp farms aren't all that great for the environment either...

But that was then, this is now: those laws have been struck down in the USA.

I'm assuming your link was to point out the link included in Katharine's comment. That was about the CPPA, a federal law. That does not preclude people from being jailed under state laws.

You are just one of many respondents who didn't follow state-of-the-law.

Perhaps those "many respondents" may be more aware than you think. If you had read the link I provided, you'd be aware that Ashcroft pledged to push for legislation making virtual porn illegal after the CPPA was overturned. It's not over yet, even at the federal level.

*BSD needs a new icon. Get rid of the devil. Use something like this, but without the clinton-era word balloon.

Here is an "Ask Slashdot" Question for a Saturday night. Who would you guess might lead America in to a new summer of love, whether they be musicians, poets, rebels or prophets. Who is the modern day Pete Seeger, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, Tom Hayden, George Carlin, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, CSN&Y or Bob Dylan.

Do you think this summer or next could be a new summer of love. America is entering an increasingly dark period much like it did in the 50's and 60's but maybe much worse, much darker this time around. Our government seems to be waging a war on drugs, a war on p2p, a war on imaginary WMD's, a war on privacy, a war on religion if its the wrong kind, a war on love, a war on freedom and democracy, war on everything. You have to figure they won't be able to build prison's fast enough to lock everyone up. Perhaps this is an indicator to that new career path we can all retrain for, one that can't be easily oursourced and seems to be a growth industry...prison gaurd. America now has the largest prison population per capita in the world, a title once held by the gulag's of the Soviet Union but now America reigns supreme.

A couple names that come to mind for the next Woodstock, a real Woodstock and not the decandent self indulgent festivals we've been doing lately:

- Michael Moore, OK sometimes he's a goof but he often hit the nail on the head no one else will hit.

- Rage Against the Machine

- Bruce Cockburn

- Peace Songs

Part of the problem is most of the musicians of today don't seem to really stand for anything and real talent seems to be increasingly rare. Musicians seem to mostly turn out formulas or beat, they sing about love but mostly as pop thats just rearranging the same empty words over and over again. There is plenty of hate and sex. Rap and hip hop don't really capture the same spirit, the peace loving rebellion of the sixties, the thoughtful message.

Of course maybe we can't capture that same magic again. For one thing the government has seen it happen once, and they've been to school on it so this time around they may smash it with an iron fist. Now they have computers to catalog us all and agencies with truly wicked tools to suppress dissent, and a willingness to keep building prisons. We are also such a lazy, spoiled culture, mesmerized by TV, alcohol, video games and the beloved buck. Could we really stand up against all the wrongness our government seems to be perpetrating everyday and at an accelerating pace. Could we all stand up sometime soon and tell those in charge enough is enough and turn the tide.

Stop killing people and doing things that make people want to kill us. Stop using bold faced lies to sucker us in to wars, stop promoting ruthless dictators, stop taxing working people in to poverty and giving all the money to the richest 1%, stop rewarding corporations for sending all our jobs to China. Stop trying to destroy all the people that are speaking the truth like Paul O'Neill, Richard Clark and Joe Wilson. Stop selling out our country and its government to the highest bidder. Stop the war on drugs and the war on p2p and locking up people who've never hurt anyone. Stop selling our elections and democracy to the highest bidder, the one who can mesmerize us with the most TV ads or engage in the dirtiest trick to steal an election and power. Stop taking tax money from working people and doling it out to corporations like you did in that sham Medicare prescription drug bill, the one you lied and cheated and bribed to pass. Stop congress from writing DMCA's and Patriot Acts that rob us of our rights, because they are working for corporations and not the people. Stop subjecting us to elections between Republican's and Democrat's where both choices are awful and undifferentiated so its pointle

Well, first we should correct one thing. Microsoft isn't the biggest company in the world. Perhaps they were the fastest growing, but in terms of size, IBM dwarfs them, and they're not the only one. Based on revenue, at least 46 other companies are bigger than Microsoft. IBM is #8, and of course, Walmart is #1. If you want to talk in terms of market cap, then GE is #1.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/01/12/loc_oh iodate0112.html

...since they have a habit of censoring just about everything under the sun.

The C stands for Censorship. After all of this, what's left to justify broadband? :)