Archive for February 18th, 2007
In case you don’t know, New York is a closed primary state.
Libertarians and Constitutionalists need to jump ship.
If you are a Libertarian or Constitutionalist and you live in a state that has closed primaries you need to join (if only temporarily) the Republican Party so you can vote for Ron Paul. He was, after all, the 1988 Libertarian Party nominee for the Presidency and he is now reaching for it again, this time with the possible support of a “major” party and a greater chance. The primaries are going to be the biggest hurdle for his campaign and he needs your support now more than ever, especially since he will be up against the likes of John McCain and Rudy Giuliani.
If he does make it through the primaries, he will easily be elected as the next President of the United States. With the backing of Libertarians, Constitutionalists and Republicans there will be no way for the Democratic nominee to come out on top.
So here is the trick: Swallow your pride and join the Republican Party. Then we might just end up with a Libertarian President, or at least the closest thing we’ve had in the past 220 years.
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AUSTIN — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers.
Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs.
“What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in they couldn’t get rid of people that they thought weren’t any good?” he asked to loud applause during an education reform conference.
“Not really great ones because if you’re really smart you go, ‘I can’t win.’”
Source: Apple CEO Jobs attacks teacher unions | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
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Whoa! Whatever happened to alms for the poor?
A Catholic priest from the Norwood neighbourhood of Bronx, New York, has been charged with selling absolution via an account on eBay, the popular online auction website. The priest, Father Augustine Butler, allegedly offered “Complete absolution for all sins, past, present and future” at a starting bid of $250. Nearly 2,440 eBay users took Mr. Butler up on his “limited supply” offer before church authorities were apprised of the transgression.
Read it all: Priest Caught Selling Absolution on eBay - U.S. - Avant News
In case you missed the excellent series of articles on Global Warming by Thomas Sowell, the links for the 3 part series follow.
- Global Hot Air
by Thomas Sowell
The political left’s favorite argument is that there is no argument. Their current crusade is to turn “global warming” into one of those things that supposedly no honest and decent person can disagree about, as they have already done with “diversity” and “open space.” - Global Hot Air: Part II
by Thomas Sowell
Propaganda campaigns often acquire a life of their own. Politicians who have hitched their wagons to the star of “global warming” cannot admit any doubts on their part, or permit any doubts by others from becoming part of a public debate. - Global Hot Air: Part III
by Thomas Sowell
If you take the mainstream media seriously, you might think that every important scientist believes that “global warming” poses a great threat, and that we need to make drastic changes in the way we live, in order to avoid catastrophes to the environment, to various species, and to ourselves.
The rice farmers in Ron Paul’s district asked him for some government “help.” Paul’s response was predictable.
He believes, with more stubbornness than evidence, that the federal government is a government of strictly enumerated powers, and nowhere in the Constitution’s enumeration (Article I, Section 8) can he find any reference to rice. So there.
Ron Paul will be in New Hampshire on April 4 to kick off his run for the Republican Presidential ballot.
Paul will unfurl his banner emblazoned with James Madison’s Federalist Paper No. 45: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.” Paul, who really believes in limited government, will infiltrate that confabulation of sedate candidates in order, he says, to find out “how many real Republicans are left.” This could be entertaining, meaning embarrassing.
Even the pictures hanging on the walls in Ron Paul’s office represent the principles he abides by.
Most congressional offices are decorated with photos of representatives gripping and grinning with presidents and other eminences. Paul, who thinks the presidency has swollen to anticonstitutional proportions, has photos of two Austrian School economists, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, who warned against what Hayek called “the fatal conceit” of governments thinking they can allocate wealth and opportunity more reasonably than can markets. Paul’s office has a picture of one president—Grover Cleveland, the conservative Democrat who asked, “What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?”
George Will sums up the article with an important observation that sums up the reason why the United States needs Ron Paul as the next President.
Paul is not only a cheerful anachronism but a useful one. He forces us to consider the continuing relevance of some old arguments, and he reminds us that much of the reverence for the Founders is more rhetorical than operational.
Read it all: Will: What the Founding Fathers Really Intended - Newsweek George F. Will - MSNBC.com
A mother of 3, whose husband is serving his 3rd tour in Iraq, is convicted of a felony and sentenced to 2 years in prison for throwing a large drink cup with ice at another car.
To the locals, it’s the “McMissile” case.
And like the name, the details of it spill forth like a bad joke: A woman is driving north on Interstate 95. Three kids squirm in the back seat, and her sister, six months pregnant and having early contractions, sits in the front. The stress starts to simmer. Traffic slows, then crawls, then creeps. More stress. A car cuts in front of her, then scoots away. A short time later, it darts in again. She can no longer take it. She veers onto the shoulder and speeds up. Wham! She tosses a large McDonald’s cup filled with ice into the other car.
Read it all: ‘McMissile’ Moment Lands Mom in Jail - washingtonpost.com
This is plan “B” which is to be followed after airport security fails to keep a hijacker from boarding your plane.
A fast-thinking pilot, with the help of passengers, fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man down so travelers could pounce on him, Spanish officials said Friday.
A lone gunman brandishing two pistols hijacked the Air Mauritania Boeing 737, carrying 71 passengers and a crew of eight, Thursday evening shortly after it took off from the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott for Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, with a planned stopover in Nouadhibou in northern Mauritania.
Speaking to the gunman during the hijacking, the pilot realized the man did not speak French. So he used the plane’s public address system to warn the passengers in French of the ploy he was going to try: brake hard upon landing, then speed up abruptly. The idea was to catch the hijacker off balance, and have crew members and men sitting in the front rows of the plane jump on him, the Spanish official said.
The pilot also warned women and children to move to the back of the plane in preparation for the subterfuge, the official said.
It worked. The man was standing in the middle aisle when the pilot carried out his maneuver, and he fell to the floor, dropping one of his two 7mm pistols. Flight attendants then threw boiling water from a coffee machine in his face and at his chest, and some 10 people jumped on the man and beat him, the Spanish official said.
Source: NIGERIAN TRIBUNE - News
