February 2012
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Hawaiian libertarian: Just Anger? Justified Anger? →
…Our divorce system is a fucking vampire designed to suck the very life out of Father’s and little children whose homes get broken by it. You bet your ass I’m angered by it whenever I think about the toll of destruction it’s wreaked on so many friends and family over the years.
The tragedy of my cousins and Uncle were the impetus for awakening to the reality of the...
RedState: Get Ron Paul Off the Stage-Tom Woods-Lew... →
RedState tweets: “Why is Ron Paul allowed to Continue Participating in Debates?”
In other words, we need that debate stage to be full of people who are three millimeters away from each other ideologically. That’s all the choice you get, citizen!
So here’s what RedState is saying:…
“If a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he...”
– Mike Miller @LibertarianMike
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There is Nothing Smart About Smart Balance — The... →
Get a load of the catchy marketing slogan for Smart Balance:
“The buttery taste you crave in a delicious spread that supports healthy cholesterol levels.”
Let’s see. Why do you suppose folks crave that “buttery taste” anyway?
Because they need some Real Butter, that’s why!
Thanks to these Horror Stories of Stupidity and... →
Harold Wayne Hadley, Jr., 19, was arrested at a Mississippi junior college after he allegedly wrote a note on a piece of toilet paper on Tuesday, containing the word ‘bomb,’ according to Weirdnews.net. The note prompted 11 emergency agencies to respond to the school, but there was no bomb. Hadley and his family contend that he was only explaining the joy of flatulating in the library. “He was in...
Curing Cancer With Sugar? - The Paleo Network-The... →
I’ve seen two examples of cancer charities fundraising by selling sweets, chocolates and cakes, just in the last three days. It makes me so cross – and makes me realise how far we’ve yet to go in terms of nutritional understanding.
From what I understand there seem to be significant links between cancer and sugar. Apparently cancer cells require far more glucose than normal cells to grow,...
“It is possible to stop most drug addiction in the United States within a very...”
– Gore Vidal http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/allanmassie/100060829/will-anything-sensible-be-done-asked-gore-vidal-about-the-drug-war-40-years-ago-so-far-theres-no-sign/
Going to see Jagger and BB King tonight (I hope)
Google now facing class-action suit over Safari... →
A class-action complaint has now been filed against Google for its circumvention of Safari’s privacy features. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for Delaware, accuses Google of willfully violating of the Federal Wiretap Act, the Stored Electronic Communication Act, and the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Google was discovered to have been working its way around...
“Not all macronutrients are created equal”
– Beyond Paleo: Nourish Your Body
“[25] Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those...”
– Luke 22:25-27 (via libertymoot)
“We talk too much. Everybody wants to talk about everything all the time....”
– We Talk Too Much
I can never be accused of talking too much.
gmancasefile: TSA: Fail →
The entire TSA paradigm is flawed. It requires an impossibility for it to succeed. For the TSA model to work, every single possible means of causing danger to an aircraft or its passengers must be eliminated. This is an impossibility. While passengers are being frisked and digitally strip-searched a few dozen yards away, cooks and dish washers at the local concourse “Chili’s” are using and...
“The Division of Child-Citizen Development and Early Indoctrination at the...”
– Comrade Child: Your Lunchbox, Please | Free The Animal
“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other –...”
– Edward Abbey (via endprohibition)
Have we had our fill of water? | Society | The... →
When did we become so fearful of dehydration? Schoolchildren are encouraged to take bottles of water into classrooms and sip them throughout the day. Peer into most meeting rooms in the country and you will see bottles of water planted on the table in front of executives, as if they fear that the slightest dehydration will impair them in some way. At the gym, people replenish water as fast as...
Does Coffee Dehydrate You During Exercise? |... →
Caffeine does not dehydrate you or cause you to overheat
“I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
(via bookoasis)
Artificial hamburger meat successfully grown in... →
The test tube meat strips actually pulsate and twitch during their laboratory growth phase, by the way, and they’re ultimately ground up with strips of test tube fat grown in a similar way to produce a fatty hamburger-like substance.
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“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery
I really don't enjoy going to The White House...
…even though my job sometimes requires that I go. It is like a 3 hour ordeal just to go through the security sweep and through the gates, but I must say, the Secret Service Agents are the nicest, most polite people I have ever met. You can actually joke around with them, unlike your local stone faced, humorless neighborhood police officer.
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“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature...”
– Edward Jenner
FBI “Communities Against Terrorism” Suspicious... →
The following collection of 25 flyers produced by the FBI and the Department of Justice are distributed to local businesses in a variety of industries to promote suspicious activity reporting. The flyers are not released publicly, though several have been published in the past by news media and various law enforcement agencies around the country. We have compiled this collection from a number...
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» FDA’s New Claim: “Your Body Is a Drug—and We... →
In another outrageous power-grab, FDA says your own stem cells are drugs—and stem cell therapy is interstate commerce because it affects the bottom line of FDA-approved drugs in other states!
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Black Cat Hacks: FBI will shutdown the Internet on... →
blackcathacker:
The Internet could go dark for millions of users as early as March 8 because of a virus that has corrupted computers in more than 100 countries. Last year, authorities in Estonia apprehended six men believed responsible for creating a malicious computer script called the DNSChanger Trojan. Once set loose on the Web, the worm corrupted computers in upwards of 100 countries,...
Drug War Revolt in Central America « Drug WarRant →
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said Saturday he will propose legalizing drugs in Central America in an upcoming meeting with the region’s leaders.
Perez Molina said in a radio interview that his proposal would include decriminalizing the transportation of drugs through the area.
“I want to bring this discussion to the table,” he said. “It wouldn’t be a crime to...
What is the Christian Libertarian position on... →
The Christian libertarian recognizes the fundamental nature of self-ownership, which states simply that with respect to other human beings you own yourself. Thus, it is not right for me (or others) to claim ownership over your body by making laws telling you what you can and cannot do with it. I cannot initiate force against you. I may, Lord willing, use my personal influence to urge you to...
When law enforcement officers cross the line |... →
Geoffrey Asher just returned home from buying auto parts, and after coming out of a shed where he stored the parts, a sheriff’s deputy was pointing a gun at him.
He didn’t know the deputy had followed him for speeding, and officers didn’t have the right to arrest him, then break into his home to search for evidence of crimes they had no reason to believe he even committed.
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Off to The White House
12pm Appt.
Clovers are the enemy of competent drivers... →
You can learn to pick out Clovers by observing traffic. You will begin to notice patterns. The car that’s slowing – rather than accelerating – as it enters the merge ramp. Its “driver” inert – listening to the radio, staring emptily ahead… assuming other cars will just make room for him. The car ahead that brakes for no obvious reason – or whose “driver” seems incapable of not driving on the...
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“By many indicators, Greece is devolving into something unprecedented in modern...”
– Russell Shorto, from his February 19, 2012 New York Times article titled The Way Greeks Live Now.
Doug Casey: Is a US-Iran War Inevitable? →
Time to Stop Talking About Low-Fat, Say HSPH... →
They encouraged audience members to avoid “low-fat” terminology and thinking, since diets low in fat are often high in sodium and carbohydrates from sources such as white flour and rice, refined snacks, and sugary drinks. Instead, the panelists said, chefs should focus on cutting trans fats from their menus and educating consumers about seeking out healthy fats.
Monsanto's Harvest of Fear | Politics | Vanity... →
The Control of Nature
For centuries—millennia—farmers have saved seeds from season to season: they planted in the spring, harvested in the fall, then reclaimed and cleaned the seeds over the winter for re-planting the next spring. Monsanto has turned this ancient practice on its head.
Monsanto developed G.M. seeds that would resist its own herbicide, Roundup, offering farmers a convenient way...
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Pasta makes you fat...and NOT BACON?
adamantlypaleo:
Hmmm…seems interesting…
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1668916/pasta-not-bacon-makes-you-fat-but-how
And I DON’T have to count calories? I dunno, sounds kinda science like!
8 Reasons Why You Make Bad Food Choices | Mark's... →
1. You’re missing something from your diet and your ancient genes are misinterpreting the modern cravings.
There’s often a disconnect between what our animal bodies need or desire and what our human minds know is best. When the animal body perceives a deficiency, some nutrient lacking in the diet, like salt, it often develops a craving for that nutrient. 20,000 years ago, if you were...
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“Tyranny always begins with oppression of unpopular minorities. If we wait for...”
– Ron Paul (via tylermhowell)