Archive for September, 2008
I received the following email. If only I could bait these scam artists like I bait the 419ers.
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
DEAR AMERICAN:
I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.
I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.
I AM WORKING WITH MR. PHIL GRAM, LOBBYIST FOR UBS, WHO WILL BE MY REPLACEMENT AS MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY IN JANUARY. AS A SENATOR, YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS THE LEADER OF THE AMERICAN BANKING DEREGULATION MOVEMENT IN THE 1990S. THIS TRANSACTIN IS 100% SAFE.
THIS IS A MATTER OF GREAT URGENCY. WE NEED A BLANK CHECK. WE NEED THE FUNDS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WE CANNOT DIRECTLY TRANSFER THESE FUNDS IN THE NAMES OF OUR CLOSE FRIENDS BECAUSE WE ARE CONSTANTLY UNDER SURVEILLANCE. MY FAMILY LAWYER ADVISED ME THAT I SHOULD LOOK FOR A RELIABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY PERSON WHO WILL ACT AS A NEXT OF KIN SO THE FUNDS CAN BE TRANSFERRED.
PLEASE REPLY WITH ALL OF YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, IRA AND COLLEGE FUND ACCOUNT NUMBERS AND THOSE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN TO <mailto:WALLSTREETBAILOUT@
TREASURY.GOV>WALLSTREETBAILOUT @TREASURY.GOV SO THAT WE MAY TRANSFER YOUR COMMISSION FOR THIS TRANSACTION. AFTER I RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION, I WILL RESPOND WITH DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT SAFEGUARDS THAT WILL BE USED TO PROTECT THE FUNDS. YOURS FAITHFULLY MINISTER OF TREASURY PAULSON
While driving a friend home from a late night study session, I almost ran over a puppy. I don’t know how old this puppy is, but it is in pretty bad shape. He is dehydrated and obviously malnourished.
My friend and I named him Glycine (the smallest amino acid) because he is really small.
It is still too early for any stores to be open, but as soon as one opens I will go there and get some puppy food, and I’ll try to get my hands on a lactated ringer so that I can rehydrate him. Right now he is drinking water and chewing on some beef jerky, because that’s really all I have for him.
How long before my mother reads this and calls? What will she say?
I know I shouldn’t get a dog, but…what am I supposed to do? Leave it out there and let it die???
Obama’s National Service Program will require schools to make high-school and even middle-school students perform 50 hours of service each year or forgo federal financial aid.
This shows precisely why we will never win until we have destroyed the philosophy of altruism. Those that hold service as an ideal are either terribly misguided, or, as Ayn Rand put it,
It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
This is also a wonderful argument against federal financing of education. Politicians can’t resist using it to dictate to schools how they will operate, and schools can’t resist taking the money. It is a recipe for disaster.
This is a really awesome video. It is from Break the Matrix. You can view their page for this video here.
It is no secret that Bob Barr used to be one of the most vile, cruel and insidious drug warriors in America. Thankfully, he is no longer such a man. He has realized the error of his ways, and has publicly called for an end to this policy.
He has written an op-ed at the Huffington Post titled “Federal Drug War Rethought.” He makes all the right arguments, and does so in a dispassionate and intellectually honest way. This is think kind of communication we need in the libertarian movement. Take a principled stand and thoroughly explain it in a persuasive manner.
There are a lot of individuals who remain leery of Barr for his past support of the drug war. They are right to have their reservations, but let us reflect upon the utility of permanently branding an individual as a drug warrior.
Almost everyone in power today is a drug warrior. Sure, we’d like to throw the rascals out, tar and feather them and drive them into exile. However, this will impede our ultimate goal: to win minds and achieve lasting changes in policy. When drug warriors realize the error of their ways and display the courage necessary to openly condemn this hideous violation of our most basic right to our own lives, we ought to welcome them with open arms. They can become our allies, and with their alliegance we can more quickly effect the changes that are so necessary.
I’ll be the first to say: I have reservations about Barr. However, he is saying what needs to be said. He is making both the moral and practical argument for freedom. These arguments need to be heard, and Barr has been and will continue to attract an audience for these views. That is why I continue to support him.
This is an AWESOME picture! I think I’ll have to have it made into a poster and framed. Perhaps I can even get her to autograph it….
A 65 MPG diesel car, across the pond, reportedly can’t make it over here, to the US market. Our government doesn’t want us to have it. Isn’t that swell?
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Ron Paul just finished his speech–one of the best political speeches that I have ever seen. He has inspired and ignited the freedom movement in way so few ever thought possible.
The biggest lesson I took from this: we are in the midst of an ideological battle. No army, government or political party is capable of blocking our ideas. We will prevail, because our ideas are consistent with reason.
Whenever our ideas come head to head with the ideas of tyranny and statism, we win. They have nothing on us. We have reason and truth, they have empty rhetoric and lies. I am very inspired today, and very hopeful for the future prospects of this movement. It is a movement to which I am thoroughly committed, and for which I will fight tirelessly for the rest of my life.
We live in exciting times. I am very grateful to Dr. Paul for putting so much passion into this movement. Freedom is on the horizon for America. Yes, things will get worse before they get better…but they will get better.
Thank you, Dr. Paul. You have assumed your place among the most important American heroes ever.