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November
05 , 2007 Stupid
people tricks: iPhone
users beat Apple meddling — again Today more than ever, patently unfair contracts between companies and their customers can be worked around. Mama's Note: I'd like to understand why ANYONE ever bought the things in the first place, since the attitude of the company was well known. Apple has been doing this kind of crap for many long years, so I really don't feel sorry for all the folks who lost their data or had other problems when they tried to install non-system software. That's just dumb and if Apple voids their warranty over it, they have it coming for buying Apple's junk to start with. (Read the rest here)
Bogus
Cell Phone Fire Warning Email From the 16th Century on, Americans have been subjected to a wide variety of scams and bunco schemes. Most have something to do with money, a lot (especially those originating in DC, Denver, Pierre, Cheyenne, etc.) have something to do with money AND power – especially power expressed in money. The Great Tulip Panic in the 1630s, the Mississippi Bubble, the original Ponzi scheme, Social Security, modern “eminent domain/economic development” projects, and the plethora of Nigerian scams all have this in common. But sometimes, it seems that the only reason for a scam is sheer malevolence and nothing more. This is just such a situation: the “Shell E-Mail” scam. Government will not protect us from these sorts of things; police and law enforcement agencies ignore them (or promote their own version – been called by the Police Benevolence Association or the State Sheriffs League lately?); often there is no law against them. (No, Virginia, you CAN’T make everything that is bad or wrong or evil against the law.) We, as free people, must be aware and alert, and ready to take action to protect ourselves and our loved ones, castles, other property, and community against such things. Not all threats can be met by cold iron in your hand. (Read the rest here)
Mosul
Dam: Engineering a Water WMD In the spring of 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom military intelligence officers worried that Saddam would order Mosul Dam demolished to send a water weapon of mass destruction against US mechanized forces then traveling up the river valley toward Baghdad. There were also fears that the dam, built on a dubious gypsum foundation, was in imminent danger of collapse. On April 24, a couple of weeks after the Battle of Baghdad, Lt. Col. Mark Holt, the deputy commander and "dam wizard" of the 130th Engineer Battalion, inspected the facility and pronounced it fit for operations. On May 5, Engineering News Record published a reassuringly titled Iraqi Dam Has Experts On Edge Until Inspection Eases Fears. (Read the rest here)
Failures
of Welfare Reform - Reign of Terror (Part Three) Through various frauds, abuses of funding systems, and blatant violations of the very federal laws that funded promises of marriage protection and incentives, responsible fatherhood, and safe families, our states unleashed a reign of terror on marriage and against parents in general. In “Part One” of this series we outlined how although the big money comes from the programs under welfare reform, abuses of our domestic violence laws allow for maximum returns on the states’ efforts, all done under the guise of protecting women from abuse and the “best interest of the child.” The revelation “Part Two” of the series brought us is that our state governments don’t care who pays child support as long as someone does, even if the responsibility was erroneously assigned to them. This has now gone on unchecked for over a decade, and the states are not the only guilty parties. Given the state of family law today, maybe it is time to ask Congress what their “sense of” the results welfare reform has had on protecting marriage, the family and specifically fatherhood and what do they plan to do next? (Read the rest here)
Bad-Girl
Culture Goes Chic Retailers can barely keep pace with the demand, USA Today reports, as sweet young things flock to buy bad-girl costumes and temporary tattoos. Ricky's NYC, a chain of beauty stores, is devoting a seasonal section to this profitable niche. Most of us, of course, are appalled by lip-glossed celebrities who turn their legal escapades into just another photo-op. But we shouldn't claim to be surprised. "Rehab Reject" outerwear is only the latest example of a growing trend of evincing ridicule and disdain for traditional notions of law and order. How did this come about? (Read the rest here)
The
Death of Common Sense Common sense is what people in common would agree: that which they sense in common as their common natural understanding. Some use the phrase to refer to beliefs or propositions that in their opinion they consider would in most people's experience be prudent and of sound judgment, without dependence upon esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what is believed to be knowledge held by people "in common", (NOTE: excerpt taken from Wikipedia) So where is the common sense in the following examples? Where is the strict compliance to our sacred constitutional principles that stand between us and enslavement? Constitutional principles that we hold in common, as the bed rock of our commons sense. (Read the rest here) [See editor's note]
From
The Archives US scientists have uncovered substantial evidence that politics damages the human brain in a privately funded, quietly conducted independent study. Government researchers vehemently disagree, and have now begun extensive studies of lab rats to demonstrate the benign effects of political activity on the brain - but their findings so far have proved largely inconclusive. "Some rats exhibit early signs of confusion, such as appearing to be blind and falling into ditches, and tend to become aggressive, such as stealing but rationalizing it's okay because they call it taxes, but they all quickly learned to pull the lever when they found they could vote themselves cheese from the public pantry," remarked Dr. Sherman Peabody, the scientist in charge of the tax-funded project. "Any assertion that politics impedes one's ability to think intelligently sounds like a vast left-brained conspiracy theory. Or maybe right-brained. I'm not sure. Sometimes I can't tell my right hand from my left hand. Often, one doesn't know what the other is doing, either. Dr. Ninevah has the same problem." (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation President Bush has been a busy man. Even though the quagmire in Iraq threatens to worsen as Turkey prepares to invade the Kurdish north, Bush has time to undertake the arduous task of preventing World War III and begin the transition to democracy in Cuba. How does he do it?! The president is on a sticky wicket in northern Iraq. The Kurds have longed to unite with their brethren in Turkey, Iran, and Syria to form independent Kurdistan. The big powers, the United States included, have never been crazy about the idea. But that hasn't stopped American presidents from posing as champions of their cause -- until it's inconvenient. That's what it is now. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Since the end of April 2001, the US dollar price of a troy ounce of gold has risen from US$264 to US$747 as of October 1, 2007 (Fig. 1) (November 1 spot is $783); in that period, gold has even "outperformed" the US stock market. To put it in less pleasant terms: the exchange value of the US dollar vis-à-vis gold — the world's ultimate, freely chosen means of payment — has fallen considerably in the time span under review. Why, after years of the market's neglect of gold, is the paper money price of gold now on the rise? Would it be too far-fetched to assume that it could reflect market agents' growing concern about a forthcoming great inflation of government controlled paper money? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles The
Dream That Was America – or – Moscow on the Potomac In America, the common man had enforceable rights, even where the government was concerned. Americans were not the property of the state. You could travel where you wished, and most of the time the government didn't care about what you were doing. Americans could say what they wished, engage in whatever peaceful political activities they wished, with no fear of violent reprisal. Americans did not disappear into gulags. If the government accused you of illegal activities, it had to give you a day in court and prove its case before a jury of your peers. Sure, America had its problems; virtually everyone admitted that. But we were still the "land of the free," and our institutions and daily lives backed that claim to a high degree, certainly in comparison to the Soviet Union. This is the dream that was America versus the nightmare that was the Soviet Union. Now, fast-forward in time. As I write this, fewer than twenty years have passed since the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War specter lifted. The Soviet Union is gone, and America...well, if you had told us in the 1970s or 1980s what America would be like today, and where it seems to be heading, I don't think we would have believed you. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Inexorable
march toward war with Iran? What ARE they smoking back there at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? The very idea is dumb as a fencepost and best left to the biggest pied piper of what passes for neo-conservative thought, Norman Podhoretz. Yet both President George W. Bush and his able assistant, Vice President Darth Cheney, are marching to that tune and humming along lustily. There is no crisis here, and no earthly reason to manufacture one on short notice, except for the fact that in under 15 months the Bush administration will pass ignominiously into history. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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