Topic: politics (my fav. vice)

TerrorBall and The politics of Cowardice. Nice. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704130904574644651587677752.html

Think privatizing the Jails is a good idea? How's this for an argument against: http://boingboing.net/2009/02/02/judges-jailed-for-ta.html

Ron Paul 91) NO 92) NO 93) NO 94-97) YES My City prop A) NO

I may have to stop watching Frontline, lest I be driven to patronize Eli Lilly. If you have a high tolerance for the depressing you should watch this episode: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/whenkidsgetlife/view/ It's funny there was a ballot prop in CA a number of years back that gave prosecutors the independent power to try children as adults. I voted that year specifically to vote against that proposition. It passed 66 to 33 % (of course). Another interesting thing is my continued belief that parenticide should not be punished as harshly as a normal murder (I mean, jeesh, if someone is going to kill someone, I'd think that their parents are probably, ipso facto, deserving).

This holds even more true if you are a libertarian. All libs should be registered republican this Election and then go back for the next one.
Ron Paul Girl - Register Now! - Her site is livfilms.com

I used to argue that Fascism ala Germany or China's Cultural revolution, was something which could happen just about anywhere, given not so unlikely changes in the culture/political climate. Now, though, I think I may be coming around to the (nice and racist) idea that, in fact, Germans - like Walt Disney and Mayor Quimby's nephew - simply have the evil gene.... http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/139 2 quotes if you don't want to read the whole thing: "a court in the Westphalian county of Gütersloh sentenced a couple to imprisonent, six days for the mother followed by six days for the father, because the parents had refused to let their children attend a Christmas school play" "politician Ute Schäfer ... stated that the obligation to attend a government approved school follows from the “right of a child to free education and maturation.” "

John stossel doesn't exactly inspire confidence for some reason I can't quite put my finger on (Maybe it is his tv-magazine tendency to make statements I know he can't back up, or maybe it is just the mustache), but when you are right, you are right.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA pretty much sums it up.

Man sentenced to death for defending his home and daughter during a home invasion. (url updated)

as usual Michael Kinsey hits it on the nose: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090901829.html?sub=AR

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200501%5CNAT20050113c.html

This makes me almost embarassed to be a Cal grad. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2004-05-19/feature.html

O.k. Not exactly, but close: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world_business/view/82132/1/.html The WTO ruled that the US cotton subsidies encouraged over-production and "dumping". For a back story see below It is amusing that John Birchers and other conservative anti-(world)-government and anti-tax-and-spend types like me owe a debt of thanks to the WTO for at least TRYING (the US will probably appeal) to stop one of the more egregious wastes of U.S. taxpayer money. As does the rest of the world. If you haven't read my original post below already you really should. update: http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=asIENZsIZdcs&refer=latin_america

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ordinary/view/

These guys are awesome.

what exactly is the controversy over reproductive cloning?

O.k., I try not to put too much computer-geek stuff on this site, but this is an exception... Have you ever given a fake physical or E mail address to a registrar when registering a domain name? I have. Some dumb ass congressman from Texas thinks

The following essay was written by George Orwell after WWII, it is remarkably apropos to the capture of Saddam. http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/revengesour.html

Arguably the single biggest waste of taxpayer money is farm subsidies. These subsidies enumerated in the much discussed "farm bill" amount to ~100 Billion dollars. Recently The Economist has reported that one

You have to be an idiot or a lawyer to think that the interstate commerce clause gives congress constitutional authority to legislate regarding domestic violence. www.cyberessays.com/Politics/82.htm [EOT]

I'm o.k. with the Lust. And i can't exactly cast the first stone as far as avarice goes, but, I've still got some puritanism in me, i'm afraid and it bothers me when someone runs a bank into the ground at taxpayer expense and gets 2 million for, what exactly? (no really, someone tell me.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3240756.stm

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20031105/ts_washpost/a64780_2003nov4

I was recently reading in slate (http://www.slate.com) some moron saying that there are "strong arguments on each side" of the issue of whether or not the right to keep and bear arms is an individual or a collective right.

Asscroft is evidently against a person's right to kill himself. And, like all Federal Do-gooders with no respect for individuals or the legislative choices of Individual States, he thinks he should intervene and prosecute/jail those that are obeying their own local laws and conscience. Much like "Judicial Activism", this is exactly the type of thing that gets conservatives riled, but only when they disagree with the nature of the interference/activism, not when they agree...

Perhaps the American Civil Liberties Union wouldn't have such a bad reputation among conservatives if it stuck to defending civil liberties instead of attacking ones they (i.e. the left) aren't fond of...