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Archive for February, 2008

After reading the arguments against and for self-described “Millionaire Republican“, infomercial scamdicapping pseudo-libertarian presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root, I have done the only thing I can do when faced with evidence of that level and type.
I acted quickly and decisively in appointing Root as the new King of Frickintardistan, a highly revered position previously held [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report.The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less [...]

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Attorneys, always looking to make the most money possible for the least work possible, have found a new way to make even more money: hiring foreign outsourcing firms rather than paying real paralegals. The Florida Bar has, astoundingly, even approved this action.
Yet, whatever happened to “the best interests of the client”?
Foreign outsourcing is [...]

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“Dog The Bounty Hunter” is back in production, and will be returning soon to a television near you.
I suspect a lot of people won’t be watching anymore though. Some people won’t watch due to his profanity-laced tirade against his son’s African-American girlfriend, which was the cause for his show being suspended in the first [...]

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I suspect there is a LOT of false reporting of child abuse during child custody cases. Unless there is a law which makes it a crime to make a false abuse report, people will continue to do so in order to gain an advantage for child custody.
I also believe that fathers nationwide are treated [...]

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For those of you with an extra $24.5 million in change hidden in your sofa cushions, Michael Jackson’s “Neverland Ranch” goes on the auction block next month.
Along with the ranch comes his merry-go-round, carnival rides, locomotives, sculptures, and even the curtains and the bath tubs are up for grabs. They don’t say anything in [...]

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I went to the Unitarian Jihad website, and the name I was assigned was
The Shotgun of Warm Humanitarianism
Considering that I am a humanist libertarian (which is a very strange combination, I’ll admit) that is actually a pretty good description of me.
This is pretty freaky though, considering that they don’t ask for any information at all. [...]

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I watch a lot of movies, since I have for years subscribed to all the premium movie channels. I thought I’d make a list of a few really good movies which most people have probably never seen or even heard of before.
Secondhand Lions (starring Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, and Michael Caine) [...]

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A 15-year-old girl committed suicide after having sexual relationship with a 27-year-old man she met online. Her family is suing MySpace, for allegedly failing to protect their daughter from a child sexual predator.
Shades of Megan Meier?
Before you start screaming for the blood of MySpace, you might want to keep reading.
At the age of 14, [...]

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PEORIA — Benjamin Sargent died with his eyes open, fists clenched and strapped into a car seat after eight days without food or water, authorities say.The 5-month-old was dropped off at his parents’ house on Feb. 4, wearing a bright-blue snowsuit and strapped into his car seat. Eight days later, he was found in the [...]

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There has been a discussion over at Third Party Watch, regarding whether Daniel Imperato should be listed as a Libertarian on the official Libertarian Party website. Among other statements by Stephen Gordon, owner of TPW, he didn’t call the media to cover a Libertarian presidential candidate debate, due to the participation of Mr. Imperato.
Just [...]

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When a woman in Florida recently changed the battery in her little boy’s Elmo toy (which learns the child’s name and institutes it into the comments the doll makes) she quickly realized the doll should have been named “Chucky” as it repeatedly said “Kill James!”
No, I’m not making this up.  See and hear it for [...]

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As regular readers of this blog are aware, I’m a fan and regular reader of the Stupid Evil Bastard blog (though I rarely comment there, he is in my blogroll and he almost always has something interesting to say).
Today, he posted a blog asking everyone to wish his mom a happy 73rd birthday on her [...]

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As those who read my blog are aware, I usually watch the American Idol auditions, simply because they’re amusing. I sometimes watch the show itself, but I have decided I will never watch the show itself again, because it turns out that after last season’s controversy, with Sanjaya Malakar staying far longer than the [...]

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I’m a little worried if debris is being tracked over both the Atlantic and the Pacific. It seems like when they blew it up, they may have caused quite another problem. Hopefully it will not hit land, because even a football-size piece of debris (right now they’re saying that’s the largest piece) falling [...]

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By now, the entire world knows the story of Lori Drew and Megan Meier; Megan committed suicide after being hoaxed by an adult on MySpace. In case you haven’t heard about this for some reason, perhaps because you have been living with aboriginal folks in some far-flung area, my previous entires are here, here, [...]

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The Family Watchdog website has an interactive map, wherein you can enter your street, town, and state, and a map will appear showing not only the location of registered sex offfenders in your area, but also aliases, photos, the nature of their conviction, and their sentence. It includes convicted sex offenders who have relocated [...]

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WHEREAS the government of the United States should return to its historical libertarian tradition of avoiding entangling alliances, foreign quarrels, and military adventures and;
WHEREAS the armed forces of the United States have invaded Iraq, a foreign nation that neither directly attacked nor imminently threatened to attack the United States and;
WHEREAS the injustice and imprudence of [...]

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I ran across this proposed law at DownsizeDC. I absolutely agree that no member of Congress should ever vote to pass any bill they haven’t actually read in its entirety, yet it happens all the time. Worse, far too often special interest items are inserted at the last minute. The truth is [...]

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I had heard about this, but seeing really is believing.
In Tampa (Hillsborough County, Florida) a quadriplegic man named Brian Sterner was arrested for a traffic violation (I’m not sure what the violation was, since they didn’t say, but obviously the guy wasn’t a violent felon or anything like that). An incredibly stupid cop [...]

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. military may try within days to shoot down a failed satellite using a missile launched from a Navy ship, officials announced Thursday.

A Delta II rocket lifts off in December, carrying a reconnaissance satellite that failed hours later.

Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, [...]

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Apparently a guy named Jerry Keene from Welch, WV decided to rob a store. He sent his gal pal, Elizabeth Blankenship, in first to case the joint. When she came back out and apparently gave him the okay, he hatched his diabolical plan.
He entered the Hillbilly Market (no, I didn’t make that up [...]

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I love beagles. I never had one until recently, but I will definitely have another eventually.
My beagle, Li’l Bit, is an ancient short-legged beagle. I got her a couple of years ago when some horrible person abandoned her near a busy intersection, and someone who saw her and knew that I take in [...]

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Libertarian Troll Bingo

I realize many libertarians won’t see the humor in this. However, I do find it humorous, since I have actually seen libertarians make such asinine statements completely out of nowhere.   If you have trouble reading it, click here; if you still have trouble reading it, move your mouse over the board (it should show [...]

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Kidnappers told, “We won’t press charges if Jesus is returned unharmed”.

Hat tip Stupid Evil Bastard

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I just ran across a website called “Project Vote Smart“. This site gathers information from various candidates for office, so you can view it all in one place, and even very easily compare the candidates if you open them up in side-by-side tabs on your browser.
It is very interesting to see the “political courage [...]

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According to ElfNinosUncle, today is the third anniversary of the day Vice President Richard Cheney shot someone in the face during a hunting trip, after mistaking a 78-year-old Republican male for a Quayle quail.
Here is the original Daily Show episode on the event, for your amusement.

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I find it impossible to believe that anyone would simply accept this explanation. Yet apparently, many did. I also find it difficult to believe that this was not an intentional shenanigan intended to influence the outcome of an election, especially given Chicago’s long reputation for corruption.
My question is, why didn’t these people just [...]

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Photo: Reuters

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Scientific American takes a look at the research into AIDS, a decade after President Clinton set a goal to find a vaccine within ten years:
Global spending for HIV vaccine research increased from $186 million in 1997 to $759 million in 2005, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. The IAVI helped to move [...]

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In the quest to produce infants without inherited diseases, scientists experiment with incorporating a third parent.
(LONDON)—British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases.
Though the preliminary research has raised [...]

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According to a new study, maternal stress during early pregnancy results in significantly higher risk of the child later developing schizophrenia.
The study group consisted of 1.38 million births recorded in Denmark, from 1973 to 1995. Children were followed from age 10 until their death, their departure from Denmark, the onset of schizophrenia or the end [...]

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