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Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes
palegray.net writes "A December 6th article in Nature explores the relationship between a specific gene and those of us prone to repeatedly making the same mistakes. From the article: "Drug addicts, alcoholics and compulsive gamblers are known to be more likely than other people to have this genetic mutation ..." The gene results in the development of fewer D2 receptors in the brain, a condition which the study has shown leads to a lessened ability to learn from experience." So no complaining about dupes and typos: it's genetic!
Almost all of them are unconstitutional.
No, actually ALL WEAPON LAWS are unconstitutional. The second amendment was among the most hotly debated at its time, the tyrants Hamilton and Washington (among others) wanted no such thing, and Madison watered the amendments down with easy to misconstrue language (especially over time as meanings of words changed).
What you can't forget is that there are NO qualifiers for "the right of the people SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED", period. Plus, a "militia" is any group of men older than 16 and younger than 60, of sound body and mind. They provide their own arms (any and all, not just guns) and their own training. Women with military experience could also be considered if able to handle the stress and willing to go the distance. THIS is what militia meant. Not the 1900's National Guard. That came almost 130 years later, which means it could not POSSIBLY have been what the 2nd amendment intended.
Regulation does not refer to today's bureaucratic paper pushing and prohibitions. They refer to organized into units, equipped with the equivalent of the military's arms, and commanded by an officer.
The same thing can be said of "congress shall make no law" in the first amendment... thus implying that any other bureaucracy can fuck the citizens as it pleases so long as it isn't Congress doing the fucking, and yet, the entire sheeple herd screams bloody murder the moment any group tries to infringe upon the vaunted separation of church and state, even though it was only the separation of church and CONGRESS expressly written into the amendment itself.
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
Actually I think, and I'm not alone on this... that if Ron Paul wins, he'll basically just drag everyone back into the system for awhile longer, and lull them into complacency until the system (cage) built around them will be unbreakable by any means available. If Ron Paul does NOT win, a lot of conservatives (the small government folks, not the tyrannokrats of today) will probably blow a gasket and start a revolution.
If I get wind of it coming down, I'm getting on my boat and shoving off long before the bullets fly where I live. I plan to be living overseas at the time, because the end result will either be a total fascism (government commits total biochemical genocide of the "affected regions", which might explain why George Bush reopened the biochemical warfare laboratories in Maryland a few years back) or a total religious theocracy after the libertarians are killed off and the "conservatives" who didn't fight come out of the woodwork to reestablish their previous order.
Violent revolution never solves anything, because it is merely a REVOLT, not a revolution (change of existing order), just like it didn't solve anything in 1776. Sure, we got a fantastic form of free people's government a decentralized federation governed by the loose and hard argued Articles of Confederation. THAT was a truly free people's government, it also didn't last long, as in 1791 a new revolution overthrew the recently freed states. Not enough at the time were enlightened enough to carry on, so a new tyranny was shortly established, bringing back the centralized government that the tyranny lovers adore. In fact, if one does the proper research (visit the library of Congress and dig it up while you're at it), one can discover that the Committee on Style decided to strike out "and his title shall be *his Excellency*" from the description of the president, because it sounded too obviously like royalty. Afterwards in the 1850-1870 period, the new imperial presidency consolidated its power by conquering the South when it tried to exercise its supposedly guaranteed right to secede from the Union. Their ancestors should've read the fine print.
Ron will serve as merely a damper to get the tyranny built to its gills in armor and hardware, and then Ron will either retire or BE retired, depending on whether he's a useful sucker or in on the scam. Regardless, I have low expectations for a "nation of freedom" because freedom is where authoritarian worship ISN'T! Sadly, nowadays, that's very few places at all, and most are remarkably inhospitable to life. Every time pioneers and freemen tame a wilderness, the sheeple follow and bring their collectivist policies with them, until eventually the freemen and pioneers flee elsewhere. The time for the pioneers to make a stand and resist the infiltration of the collectivists was some 200 years ago.
When they failed to follow through on their success in 1776, and failed completely in the 1850's, when, after the Wyoming, Johnston County War, the US Congress can declare "the wild west over", we already know that tyranny lived in America, long before we were born. It only took another 120 years for the people to begin coming to that same conclusion each on his or her own.
I don't know how this will end, but I know how it began. That much I'm clear on. The rest, I cannot make any bets, its all too fuzzy with potential, but little of it any good. So I'll do what any good man can. Live life one day at a time, hope for the best, and be prepared for the worst. That and bitch around on slashdot to see if there are any other students of this mess living out here in the great wild west.
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler