Is this little guy trying to stand up or are the legs going out from under him? More importantly, does he represent:
a. The anti-gun lobby
b. The global warming death cult
c. The Stupid Party
d. The Evil Party
e. China’s economic future
f. America’s economic future
g. _______________?
Link the First:
So is the Garrity Rule why Cops who behave badly rarely ever see a jury from the defendants table?
Link the Second:
Really, seriously folks, crime is going down overall. Stop watching the news so much. But still carry your gun, it’s going down, not gone from the face of the Earth. That being said…
Link the Third:
Mexican Heroin is now delivered to your door buy non-violent delivery boys, whose service is followed up with a courtesy call. In a way, I’m glad to see the drug dealers learning to do things better. I don’t like the proliferation of hard drugs, but maybe this will be the straw that breaks the war on drugs (hard to squash a decentralized organization).
Not only is the country looking to show the world what free speech and transparency is all about, they stand to make a lot of money in the process (by attracting businesses who want to be free from excessive regulation, much the same way the Swiss, or Liechtenstein did). I hope to someday have a website hosted in Iceland.
Good for them! This will be worth watching.
From the website for the initiative:
“In recent months a group of local and international people has been working on an initiative here in Iceland to propose reforms in media- and freedom of expression law, with the goal of creating the best environment for publication in the world. The method has been to adopt the strongest protective laws that exist in the world, such as the Swedish press freedom law, the Belgian source- and communications protection law, the New York Libel Terrorism Protection law, and so on, and bundle them into a broad proposal.
As the freedom of expression is constantly eroded, with recent examples of a source secrecy ban in Ethiopia, a draconian data retention policy being enacted in Belarus, and even in supposed liberal democracies, laws such as the FRA law in Sweden, censorship lists in various countries including Australia, Sweden and Norway, and more than 300 secret gag orders in the United Kingdom, the need for a place where the right to know is guarded and the right to share knowledge is upheld becomes ever greater.
We have set up a website for this initiative, which is, while we finish the final cleanups and such, closed, but it will be open soon.
Until then I invite you to preview it. I hope that you will share the URL and credentials with trusted friends and contacts.
Our goal is to get public endorsements from a number of international organizations who believe this is generally a step in the right direction. We have already received a few endorsements, including from Wikileaks and Eva Joly. If your organization is willing to endorse the proposal, I request that you let me know via e-mail. If you have a
comment of some sort, please let me know.â€
Just shocked I tell you! I mean, who could have fore seen that schools would have an incentive to make their kids look better than they are?
and people will start to buy them and install them.
My fellow law school alum Alison Hayward is participating in a discussion of campaign finance laws — including of discussion of the recent Citizens United decision — on C-SPAN, starting at noon Eastern, nine Pacific, which is in just a few minutes. Check it out.
It’s equal or better result for less cost may be about to shine in American space exploration
Despite the shrieks you might have heard from a few special interests, the Obama administration’s budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration deserves strong approval from Republicans. The 2011 spending plan for the space agency does what is obvious to anyone who cares about man’s future in space and what presidential commissions have been recommending for nearly a decade.
The Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry in 2002 suggested that greater commercial activity in space was the proper way forward. The Aldridge Commission of 2004, headed by former Secretary of the Air Force Edward C. “Pete” Aldridge, made clear that the only way NASA could achieve success with President George W. Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration was to expand the space enterprise with greater use of commercial assets. Most recently, the Augustine Commission, headed by Norman R. Augustine, former chief executive of Lockheed Martin, made clear that commercial providers of space-launch services were a necessary part of maintaining space leadership for the United States.
NASA consistently ignored or rejected the advice provided to it by outside experts. The internal culture within the agency was actively hostile to commercial enterprise. A belief had grown from the days when the Apollo program landed humans on the moon that only NASA could do space well and therefore only NASA projects and programs were worthy. To his credit, former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin adopted a program to begin to access commercial companies for hauling cargo to the International Space Station. That program existed alongside the much larger effort to build a new generation of space vehicles designed to take us back to the moon. It has been under constant financial pressure because of the cost overruns in the moon mission, called Constellation.
With the new NASA budget, the leadership of the agency is attempting to refocus the manned space program along the lines that successive panels of experts have recommended. The space shuttle program, which was scheduled to end, largely for safety reasons, will be terminated as scheduled. The Constellation program also will be terminated, mostly because its ongoing costs cannot by absorbed within projected NASA budget limits. The International Space Station will have its life extended to at least 2020, thereby preserving a $100 billion laboratory asset that otherwise was due to be dumped in the Pacific Ocean by middecade. The budget also sets forth an aggressive program for having cargo and astronaut crews delivered to the space station by commercial providers.
Move over, gov’t.
Once again: If one standard is good, two must be great!
If he did it, he did it. It’s wrong. But it is ironic that one can politically manipulate the world economy over AGW and lose all the records you want without fear; but don’t you dare do it if you’re enforcing US immigration laws.
Hit those links.
The gun grabbers are at it again in Maryland. Next month, the state’s House Judiciary Committee will initiate hearings on legislation forcing firearms enthusiasts to register with the state government before they can exercise their Second Amendment rights.
The plan, drafted by Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, Baltimore Democrat, and Sen. Brian E. Frosh, Montgomery County Democrat, would mandate that citizens carry a special license while conducting any number of routine transactions involving a gun.
To obtain a gun license, a person must fill out a long application form, attend a comprehensive firearms safety course, pay a nonrefundable fee to the state and wait 30 days for the completion of a criminal background check. If all items are processed properly, the Maryland State Police would drop the license in the mail.
It would become a crime to go to a gun range and rent a firearm for a little target shooting without this license in hand. Out-of-state visitors who might want to keep up their skills while on vacation would be out of luck under the proposal because they would not even be allowed to apply for a state gun license.
The bill would make it a crime on par with murder, kidnapping, rape and extortion for a private party to sell his own gun to someone who has no license. It also would give police the authority to seize the e-mail, cell phone and other records of anyone merely suspected of selling or renting a gun in Maryland without a license. This is an extreme reaction to conduct that is perfectly legal in most states and should be a constitutional right anywhere in the Land of the Free.
The disease of D.C. is spreading like an STD. Per usual, we’re not even going to enjoy the screwing we’re all getting.
Found @ Daily Pundit
From a Co-worker (who heard it from a friend):
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. Then you sell the lemonade for a profit and use that profit to buy an assault rifle. Then you are ready if life makes the same mistake twice.
I LOL’d
