2011 Dallas Bike Plan

DallasBikePlan.org

I attended the Dallas Bike Plan meeting last night. 

They asked for input via written suggestions and also gave each participant four votes to paste across a dozen or so goals that were written on the wall.  Overall I give them kudos for reaching out.  A few ideas popped into my head during the festivities and I'm sharing them with you.  I do not believe any of them were on the goal list created by the City.

In no particular order -

1)  Eliminate zoning.  This will promote community.  More people will cycle if they feel "community".

2) Don't waste money printing the "How To Fix A Flat Tire" flyer.

3) Bridges should be built suitable for automobiles, bicycles and pedestrians.

4) Encourage private businesses, private roads, neighborhoods to be bike friendly.  Private citizens can do in a month what government cannot do across years.  Let individual neighborhoods decide how bike friendly they want to be.  If they want designated bike lanes, provide designated bike lanes - If they want to prohibit cycling, allow it.

5) Sell DART - Yes, privatize it.  DART will be much more receptive to the customer if they have to live or die by the customer.  Let a private DART decide whether to offer services to cyclists and at what price point.  (While your at it, sell the Dallas Zoo and the radio station.  Your job is infrastructure not entertainment.)

6) EVERYONE should be allowed to use the roadways AND everyone should be responsible for their actions (and any damage they cause) while using the common roadway.

7) Clean up litter on the roads.  Cycling, and driving, works best when the gutter is not a litter receptacle.

8) Enforce the traffic signals.

9) Make Dallas streets the best engineered, best constructed, sturdiest, most reliable roadways in Texas.  Germany's Autobahn has no more accidents than the USA's Interstate Highways but traffic moves much faster.  Why ? - because they are twice as thick, better designed, stronger, more durable.

10) Stop creating city owned bike parking.  Bike parking is the responsibility of business owners who desire customers.  Your job is to help bikes move.  Abandon the education aspect also.  The private sector already has that covered.  You're wasting resources that could be used to aid bike movement.

11) Remove the plant boxes from the Central Expressway bridges.  Who's idea was it to use the walkway/bikeway as a garden ?

12) Get the parked cards out of the roadway.  I ride to work daily past privately owned cars parked/ taking up space in the road.  Have private citizens store their belongings on their private property, not on common property.  Business owners will provide for their customers - it's not the City's job.  Use the streets for transportation instead of automobile storage and cyclists will have much more room to ride.  Roads are for movement.

13) Remove the damn parking meters at City Hall.  Cool Hand Luke was cutting parking meters in 1967 - Get some technology.

14) Don't spend twenty minutes at the beginning of the presentation patting yourselves on the back.  This wasn't the awards banquet.

15) Remove Dallas Parks Department from this exercise.  Let the transportation department handle transportation and the Parks Department handle entertainment.  Better yet, sell the parks to the highest bidder.  Private industry will give customers what they want much better than government can ever do it.

16) Why do all the road surfaces serve as access points to the sewage system ?  Put the manholes somewhere else other than the middle of the street.


My favorite is #12.

Wealth Redistribution To FARMERS ? I Thought They Were Republicans !

Farm Subsidy Database
find out which farmer you're paying a salary to

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http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2010/05/15b-in-farm-subsidies-for-texas-last-year-see-heat-map-of/1275059082.column

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"Self-defense isn't just a right, it's a duty," said attorney Joel Brodsky. "If this man is prosecuted for saving his own life it's not just a travesty, it's justice turned inside out."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/26/year-old-chicago-man-kills-armed-home-invader/ 

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It is the law-abiding, good citizens, not the criminals, who are disarmed by gun bans.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/05/25/john-lott-kingston-jamaica-murder-gun-ban-violence-chicago-washington/

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"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have...
a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers."
-- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Adams.Quote.9C15


"Our republic and its press will rise and fall together." -- Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher after whom the Pulitzer Prize was named.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joseph.Pulitzer.Quote.73EA


"Truth never damages a cause that is just." -- Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mohandas.Gandhi.Quote.CFB3

"No government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society." -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Daniel.Webster.Quote.D812


"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
-- Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mohandas.Gandhi.Quote.4502


"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use -- of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."
-- Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), US Senator, Attorney General, Source: 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of Justice, 1964
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Kennedy.Quote.08A1


 

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High Point, Texas

"Without alienation, there can be no politics." -- Arthur Miller





High Point, Texas

Rancher Brice was tired. Spent. 
He decided to Let Go.

The next morning He drove into the old town and loaded his pickup with bottled drinks, snacks, and sunscreen.  He drove to his property and parked the pickup visibly at the middle of his property on a high point close to the migrant trails.  He stood in the back of the pickup scanning the scrub for movement. Brice called in the language of the Southern People encouraging them to come to him without fear. 
"I have water and supplies." 

For several days no travelers would approach but only run away and hide.  Sometimes he heard hidden, muffled voices. 
"We cannot trust the Northerners, We must stay hidden until we reach Safety." 
"We need water, He might help us." 
"Do you think he might be the man we were told to meet?" 
For several days none of the travelers dared approach the pickup but the Rancher remained patient.

Near the end of the first day of the second week on the high point, a young, sun-darkened man step boldly out of hiding and approached the truck. 
Brice spoke first, in the language of the southern people,
"Good evening, my friend.  Would you like some water for your journey?"
"Yes. My family is thirsty. I have no money to pay you."
"Come out of hiding, You are my guests."
A woman stepped from hiding to stand at her husbands side. Rancher Brice smiled at her obvious pregnancy, thinking of his own Grandchildren.
"I have plenty of water for both of you.  Are you a strong worker ?" he asked the man.
"I am a strong and reliable worker.  I must support my family."
Brice realized that he was being blessed so he asked the couple and child to join his estate. 

The next morning, Mirta began assisting at the homestead.  Her first task was to pack lunch for two. Tony guided an old cow pony, Rum Raisin, into the trailer attached to the pickup. 

As they drove to High Point the Rancher explained to Tony,
"You will ride horseback so that you may explore quietly.  Your job is to find other Southerners and guide them to the high point."
"What if I am unable to find them or unable to convince them to follow me to the high point?" asked Tony.
"You'll find them. Rum Raisin will find them.  Do your best to convince them that We mean them no harm but if they will not follow you at least show them the direction towards the highway.  I will remain at the pickup looking and listening."

The Rancher provided Tony with water, a compass, a hand drawn map of the area and a telephone.  Tony only glanced at the map once.  Rum Raisin knew the territory like the back of his hoof. 

For several days Tony was unsuccessful at finding any migrants.  They remained patient.  One day at high sun Brice spotted Tony through the binoculars leading a small group of Men towards the pickup.  The men drank and ate purchases bought with currency from two different governments and were resting in the shade of the small trees as the satisfied Rancher drove home that day.

The next morning a cairn stood nearly twice as tall as a man at the very peak of the high point. 

Over the next few days, Brice hammered together a small shed while Tony explored.  Almost every time Tony brought travelers to the high point, they would help with the small construction project.

Brice's purchasing list expanded - soda, beer, first aid supplies, socks, undergarments, and hats.  Some of the migrants asked for charity but most were willing to trade for their needs.  The Rancher kept his prices reasonable, adjusted his ware selection to the desires of the customer, was kind to the needy and soon few of his customers were hiding shyly in the brush but directly approaching.  After a few weeks He noticed that some of his customers traveled South instead of North and some approached without Tony and Rum Raisin.

One afternoon a small group of men approached the Rancher at the shed.
"We would like some refreshment but we have no money. I am an experienced builder.  Let me erect a sturdy structure here at High Point and you will be a prosperous man with a store, not a peddler selling from a shack." 

The Rancher telephoned a fellow merchant and that evening a truckload of building supplies was delivered to High Point.  Each morning for several days another load would arrive and the men would build.

Soon the cairn was a small monument by the front porch of a two-story building. A store and restaurant with upstairs living quarters became the prominent feature on High Point.  The builders installed air conditioners, plumbing, electric appliances, bathroom fixtures, a security system, restaurant equipment and Mirta's new furniture.

It would be weeks before the Rancher would discover that his new friend the Builder was not a migrant. 
"I heard from business associates what you were doing here at High Point and realized that you could use my skills. Now that the construction is complete my men and I must go.  We have other tasks to perform but I will be back to visit. High Point will continue to grow."

Tony discontinued the now unnecessary horseback searches and began helping the steady stream of customers at the store. The Rancher busied himself buying new merchandise for resell and overseeing the construction of a workshop at High Point.  He attempted to oversee further improvements to Mirta's apartment but was promptly reassigned by the new Mother.

One day a Surveyor approached Brice in the old town's bank.  "I can survey the land at High Point.  I'm sure you will be wanting to eventually create homestead plots and to pave roads."  The Surveying crew followed Brice back to High Point that day to begin the work.

Brice was able to negotiate excellent contracts with energy and water sellers who appreciated the labor supply available to install the infrastructure. The same crew was retained by the civil engineer Brice hired to construct the north-south road.

Mirta's new assistant designed and built an irrigated vegetable garden behind the store.  Flowers were planted at the front entrance.  Rum Raisin was replaced by a Ranch pickup and an All-Terrain vehicle but the horse wasn't out to pasture for long.  He began giving rides to the visiting children and appeared on the packaging for Tony's new "Secret Recipe"(Tony's Grandmother) homemade ice cream.

The restaurant grew in popularity so the cook and food servers became full time employees.  Brice hung a large print of the High Point survey in the store.  Within days a stranger approached asking about property.  A few days later a wide-load truck delivered the underground fuel tanks for the first automobile service station.  The second station had its grand opening on the same day ground was broken for the east-west road.

Travelers came to High Point for a visit and stayed.  High Point was prosperous, friendly, and safe. Several new family houses were built along the roads and Brice had his foreman construct an additional bunkhouse close to High Point because many of his ranch hands spent their leisure time there.  Over the years, many of the young ranch hands left the ranch to pursue opportunities in High Point.  One of them adopted the moniker "The Cowboy Realtor".

High Point's new hardware store expanded into energy and farming machinery after less than a year in business.  The housewife who sold home baked treats from her front porch franchised a satellite in the old town.  She bought so much grain that her business expanded into brewing and distilling.  

Ely was the first child born in High Point and would become the first to graduate from High Point Academy.  He celebrated his fifth birthday by riding Rum Raisin into the restaurant.  None of the customers complained, they were too busy cheering the young cowboy, but Mirta saw to it that Ely didn't teach this stunt to his little sister Luz.

Brice and the Mrs. moved from their house to make a new home at High Point.  "It's time for me to step down as ranch manager.  I've got other duties.  My kid's can run the ranch." 

Mirta's father claimed he moved to High Point to retire but he never lacked a project.  He and Brice became fast friends and spent hours counseling the adults in their businesses and challenging the minds of the ever expanding supply of youngsters.  They spent a lot of time teaching the kids about Joy.

Ely moved back to High Point after Veterinary College to take care of the ranch animals and the town's pets.  Luz became the first High Pointer to begin school at High Point Academy, graduate and earn a college degree without leaving town. 

Brice died old and full of years having seen a barren hilltop become a prosperous community.  Mrs. Brice had his favorite saying engraved as an epitaph - "Politics are a lousy way to get things done."











 















































 

The Difference Between Libertarianism And Socialism

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community. — David Boaz 

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One of the problems with being a libertarian is that people expect you to have answers to all the questions they may come up with and there is a temptation to try to satisfy them.  If you admit that you don't have all the answers, then they reject the answer you do have.
The thing about the political scene is that politicians give the impression that they have all the answers - that's what we have to compete with in public discourse. -- Sam Grove
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." -- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mark.Twain.Quote.C620


"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth;  to know the worst; and to provide for it." -- Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Patrick.Henry.Quote.8CC2


"Your silence gives consent." -- Plato (429-347 BC)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Plato.Quote.C50C


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It was government that forced Woolworth's and other establishments to exclude blacks in the first place. Jim Crow was imposed by the state, often through police power and over the objection of local businesses, and backed by courts that refused to enforce the 14th Amendment. The Civil Rights Act rightly aimed to uproot not just public discrimination, but private discrimination that government malice had entrenched.

 http://www.jeffjacoby.com/7469/rand-paul-and-the-right-to-be-odious 

http://www.ronandjoe.com/cheese/mousepads/mousepads_noshirtnoshoes.html

http://www.wellsphere.com/general-medicine-article/no-shoes-no-service-even-for-babies/764352

Ergogenic Aids - Not Just For High School Football Players

For Officer Boyce of the Dallas Police Department.  

Maybe if you take some testosterone you'll have as much as your partner.

Texas high school steroid testing survives budget cuts.  

Police not being blood tested for hormone replacement.

 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/051910dnspohssteroids.2ad019a.html

 http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/Fort-Worth-police-chief-promotes-hormone-therapy-94796859.html


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"'Roid rage ?  Not at all.  Cops NEED extra hormones. ( to be sufficiently aggressive to shoot 7 year old girls.) "
http://detnews.com/article/20100516/METRO/5160325/Detroit-Police-shoot-7-year-old-girl-in-house-search

"Dallas Cops, Please raid my club and FRISK ME."

"Yes, Sir, You said some high school athletes might be trying to enhance their performance.  That's illegal.  I'll contact the Texas legislature, the Texas Department of Education, the U.S. DEA, Rick Perry, and the police of Fort Worth, Arlington, and Dallas.  No child should be able to get away with this crime."

"Would you get into the back of my squad car, PLEASE."

"Do you know what will happen if you go to prison ?  Let me show you."

http://thesuss.blogspot.com/2009/06/real-suckers-so-sad-what-they-call-real.html


http://media.photobucket.com/image/COPS%20ARE%20PUSSIES/jauggernaut989/CopsArePussies.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/musclemasterryker/4196118256/

http://media.photobucket.com/image/RONNIE%20COLEMAN%20POLICE/flvegan/attachment.jpg

http://www.jeffsmusclestudio.com/police_mltrymuscle.html

Memorial Day 2010

Memorial Day 2010

Crew 713 - The Men Who Flew The Irishman's Shanty
                                  A Documentary Film by Alex Mena



http://crew713.com/          Be sure to watch the trailer



Nemesio Mena served his country in the U S Army Air Force during WWII and in the U S Air Force during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. He passed away on December 27, 2007. Inspired by his father's love of God, Country and Family, Alex has dedicated this film to his father, the crew he served with and all the men who served in the 492nd Bomb Group.

Back row, left to right...
•	Nemesio Mena, radio operator
•	Gildo Gregory, engineer
•	Eugene Snavely, 492nd BG commander
•	Gerald Edwards, tail gunner
•	Charles Crowley, bombardier
•	Edward Picard, right waist gunner
•	Emmitt Coomer, nose gunner

Front row, left to right...
•	Thomas Chaffee, navigator
•	David O'Sullivan, pilot
•	Peter Leri, co-pilot
•	John McCarthy, left waist gunner

Walter Williams On Minimum Wage Cruelty

Every daring dismissal of what we have already been is a conscious invitation to realize who we are yet to be. -- Guy Finley

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"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778) Political philosopher, educationist and essayist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jean-Jacques.Rousseau.Quote.1EBF


"Man is condemned to be free." -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Source: Existentialism and Humanism
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jean-Paul.Sartre.Quote.7D75


"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.2DCA

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 http://www.cooking-outdoors.com/sunday-morning-comix-may-23-2010


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Walter Williams For President 

Dr. Williams serves on the faculty of George Mason University as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and is the author of More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well.
 

Williams on Minimum Wage cruelty
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/05/26/minimum_wage_cruelty_update


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A Question For Rachel Maddow

http://www.yaliberty.org/posts/a-question-for-rachel-maddow

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2010/05/question-for-rachel-maddow.html

By Wesley Messamore
May 21, 2010

Watching Rachel Maddow attack Rand Paul with a typical, predictable, closed-minded, and intentionally dense line of questioning: "Should restaurant owners be allowed to discriminate against racial minorities? Yes or no, please," I have a question of my own for her.

Rachel, should black restaurant owners be forced to serve white nationalists? Hmm? Say David Duke walked into a black restaurant and wanted to be served. Does the black restaurant owner have a right to say, "Mmm... no thanks, we'd rather not serve you"? Or does David Duke have a right to be served by the black restaurant owner? Yes or no, please.

It's interesting -- to be consistent, Maddow would practically have to say that Duke has a right to the black restaurant owner's labor, which is dangerously close to advocating something akin to slavery. Yes or no, Maddow?

Let's use another example: if Fred Phelps (that's the God Hates Fags guy) walked into a gay bar and demanded to be served a drink, would Maddow support the right of the restaurant owner or bartender to refuse to serve him? Yes or no, please.

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"Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...
Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting." -- Albert Camus
(1913-1960) Author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Albert.Camus.Quote.5892


"Today's problems cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Albert.Einstein.Quote.1007


"Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men." -- Fredrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Fredrich.August.von.Hayek.Quote.BD3D

LNC Chair Endorsement Letter

                                                                            May 24, 2010

After spending several years in various County level Libertarian Party executive positions, I am now simply a civilian, having handed off my executive duties to others so that LP Dallas County will proceed with fresh ideas for electing Libertarian politicians. 

Each of the current candidates for LNC Chair brings to the table experience, integrity, even disciples.  They each have a record of devotion.  Many of my fellow libertarians have spoken regarding the candidates, expressing praise, anger and even fear.  Our principles are steadfast - The next LNC Chair will be a valiant and responsible steward.

As a lay member of the LP, I am enthusiastic and confident, but I know this, something you all know -- We need help.  I do not write these words as a critic but as a coach  - and a player.

Look within yourselves, vote with your spirit and accept the challenges ahead.

I am in the trenches for the Libertarian Party.

Looking forward to working harder and working smarter, I endorse John Jay Myers for Libertarian National Committee Chair.

http://www.johnjaymyers.com/lnc 

               

               TimLebsack

                Dallas, Texas

                                                       John Jay Myers



http://gigibowman.wordpress.com/
         

Bunch Of Quotations

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
-- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) Journalist, author
Source: The Paper (Richard Kluger), 1986
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/A..J..Liebling.Quote.61CE


"America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation." -- Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) Historian and author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.Commager.Quote.CC01


"The pretence is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely." -- J. A. Stormer Author
Source: Taken from his updated book, NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/J..A..Stormer.Quote.3988

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"It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement." -- Estienne de la Boétie
(1530-1563) French judge, writer, political philosopher
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Estienne.de.la.Boétie.Quote.A96C


"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
-- George Santayana  (1863-1952) Spanish-born philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Santayana.Quote.60E0


"Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian." -- Heywood Hale Broun (1918-2001) American sportswriter, commentator, and actor
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Heywood.Broun.Quote.01C6

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I Now Pronounce You Husband, Wife and Government

As a young lad, I asked an adult why an engaged couple needed a marriage license.

"They need to be checked for diseases."












HT: The Humble Libertarian

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day !

My drawing skills are not what they should be, so I'm settling for a copy/paste.

 

Tarrant County Medical Examiner Ruled It A Homicide

The unseen seed of every success -- of every great work of art, and every light that has ever helped illuminate the human journey -- began with someone being open to a new possibility in life and saying "Yes" to it... regardless of personal cost. -- Guy Finley


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Maybe it would be best to stay out of Arizona, especially if you're a cop.

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/051910dnmettaser.15e8fd1b.html




http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/fort-worth-makes-record-breaking-2000000-settlement-offer-in-cop-taser-killing-of-michael-jacobs

Even though Michael Jacob’s death was clearly murder — the Tarrant County Medical Examiner ruled it a homicide — the Fort Worth Police Department cleared the police officers after their internal investigation.  And, a Tarrant County Grand Jury did not issue an indictment against the cops.

The City paid.  The cops didn’t.

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Yes, egos are at work in markets.  But egos are no less at work in the public sector.  The big difference is that the egos at work in markets spend their own money and deal with other people consensually.  The egos at work in government spend other people’s money and deal with other people at gunpoint. -- Don Boudreaux


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"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work." -- L. Neil Smith American writer
Source: The Probability Broach
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/L..Neil.Smith.Quote.2616


"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Oscar.Wilde.Quote.20D9

"Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid." -- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.68B3

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"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
-- Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Aristotle.Quote.699C


"Men prefer to believe what they prefer to be true." -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Francis.Bacon.Quote.AE55


"A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it." -- Senator Sam Erving
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Sam.Erving.Quote.E96


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http://everybodydrawmohammedday.wordpress.com/

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Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices. -- David Harsanyi

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“Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.”
Wayne Dyer

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John Jay Myers Makes Ron Paul Look Like A Yes Man

http://www.johnjaymyers.com/

Mr. Myers, what would you do about the banks ?
Mr. Myers, what about the car companies ?
What is your plan for government health care ?
What about helping out the insurance companies by forcing everyone to buy insurance?
Mr. Myers, should gay marriage be legal or illegal ?
What about the War on drugs ?
The federal reserve ?
Should we deploy 20,000 or 60,000 more troops to Afghanistan?
Department of transportation ?
Department of energy ?
Agriculture? Commerce? Education ?
Income tax ?
Patriot Act ?
Social security ? medicaid ? medicare?

Ask these questions and more

Join the Dallas County Libertarians and others for a Liber-Tea!

There  will be free hot dogs, music (Eddie Allen will kick off the night), fun and who knows what else! The  event is free of charge, but many of the sponsors will be accepting  donations.

Saturday May 22nd from 6:00-9:00 (with more fun later)

                            John Jay Myers' House / ClearSky24.com
                                  4440 Lawnview Ave
                                   Dallas, TX 75227
                                     469 939 7141

Meet and learn more about freedom loving candidates from the Dallas  area, regardless of party affiliation. We are lining up great speakers  now, (don't forget the music and fun!)

What this event is about:
- Ending the Wars & supporting the troops
- Ending the corporatism in Washington
- Ending the ties to banks
- Washington Ending the war on drugs
- Obeying the Constitution
- Promoting freedom for all Americans to be able to live their lives as  they please, free from as much government intervention as possible.

Come out and grab a hot dog, learn about freedom and have a good  time! If you want to support any of the candidates or groups.... bring  your check book!

See you there!

The #1 Economic Fallacy

Bob sees that Tom is selling oranges.

Bob to Tom: "What is your price for oranges ?"

Tom: "One shekel per orange."

Bob: "Agreed. Give me ten oranges, here is ten shekels for you."

Whereupon Bob delivers to Tom ten shekels and Tom delivers to Bob ten oranges.

The common belief - Bob's wealth has lessened by 10 shekels.

The economic truth - Bob's wealth has increased. IN-EFFIN-CREASED (He prefers ten oranges to ten shekels. Likewise, Tom's wealth has increased.)

The fortunes that the sellers amassed were not a deduction from the buyers' wealth. Buyers and sellers both gained from these transactions or the transactions wouldn't have continued. 

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=534232


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                                   Thank you, Google Alerts.

I have no idea who Emily Lebsack is, whether she is the photographer or the subject,

but if a woman from Wyoming travels to Oakland, California for a college degree and this is the result -- Happy, Happy.

Mills College - Oakland, California

Uncle Tim has worn the graduation robe twice and I don't recall anyone like this hovering near the ceremony. 


If UTD is anything like Mills College ? - Nephew Josh, study hard but also enjoy your college years.


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             Shakespeare in the Courts
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2010/05/18/caught_in_the_act_juveniles_sentenced_to_shakespeare/?page=1 


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                    Bears may shit in the woods but not hunters

Anna Dunbar, regional director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's Waco office - Outhouses of this sort are "strictly prohibited."
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/if-a-hunters-gotta-go-whats-wrong-with-693602.html





http://americanhiking.chattablogs.com/archives/063487.html

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Standing Up To Totalitarian Islam

"It is the greatest inequality to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Aristotle.Quote.4DCC


"We clamour for equality chiefly in areas where we cannot ourselves hope to obtain excellence." -- Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American author, philosopher, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Eric.Hoffer.Quote.010F


"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." -- Norman Mailer
(1923-2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Norman.Mailer.Quote.939D




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The Poet Versus the Prophet

On standing up to totalitarian Islam

Mark Goldblatt | May 14, 2010

http://www.amazon.com/Sloth-Mark-Goldblatt/dp/0975976060/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274126747&sr=1-2

 Learn more about the Tears of Allah.

Click here to save Jesus because he really needs our help.

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I cooked this on the propane grill Sunday night. 

Awesome !  Highly Recommended.


Spatchcock chicken




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"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions." -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Gilbert.Keith.Chesterton.Quote.D443


"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government;
but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing." -- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) British author, economist, philosopher
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Herbert.Spencer.Quote.2770


"The less government we have the better -- the fewer laws and the less confided power.
The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character,
the growth of the individual." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ralph.Waldo.Emerson.Quote.AFE5



 
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David Brown, Do Dallas Cops Do This ?

"Stop resisting, stop resisting"




http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=7440841






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http://reason.com/

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Everything I build is a prototype. -- Tim Lebsack

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What Could Be More Practical Than Advocating A Solution That Works?

 Isn’t it rational to support something that is workable, as compared to supporting something that is inherently defective?

When a paradigm is inherently defective, the only right and rational course of action is to call for its replacement with a new paradigm, especially one that works. Freedom and the free market work. Statism doesn’t and can’t.

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"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -- H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.72F5


"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." -- Jim Morrison,  (1943-1971) Musician
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jim.Morrison.Quote.589C


"Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects." -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi, (1828-1910) Russian writer 1893
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Leo.Tolstoi.Quote.4D0A


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 http://stores.dennisprager.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=ME106

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It is the kerf of the cuts that adds strength to the structure. -- Tim Lebsack 

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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Abraham.Lincoln.Quote.3E0D


"Only the mediocre are always at their best." -- Alan Jay Lerner
(1918-1986) American lyricist and librettist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Alan.Jay.Lerner.Quote.AC1D


"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." -- Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edmund.Burke.Quote.24B3

Meaningful Property Tax Relief - Texas Rum - FlameDisk

"Once 'our people' get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being 'our people'." -- M. Stanton Evans, (1934- ) American journalist, author, educator and political activist   http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Evans.Quote.42DE

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My humble distillery is located in a sleepy little town along the shores of Galveston Bay in San Leon, Texas. 

 http://www.railean.com/Home%20Page.html

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http://www.flamedisk.com/

 No more propane or charcoal ?

I'll give it a try but at $18 each I'm thinking it's a bit pricey. It will be good for tailgating if only to save the trouble of transporting the charcoal to the party.

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Alright, George Bailey, you’ve got your wish. The public schools were never invented. 

http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/eliminate-public-schools/

Obama v. Free Speech / Stupid Cops

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
Jimmy Durante 


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We never thought of free speech as a problem before, but apparently the president does.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=532832 

Barack's New Clothes.

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More Stupidity From The Cops - Tasering Inconvenient People 

The officer won praise from city police commissioner Charles Ramsey, who said the cop "acted appropriately. I support him 100 percent." The cop was in line with department policy, Ramsey said, because "he was attempting to make an arrest and the male was attempting to flee."

Really? Hitting a delinquent with a potentially fatal 50,000-volt burst of electricity even though he poses no physical danger to anyone and has zero chance of escaping? Maybe the commissioner should read the directions from the Taser manufacturer, which say the devices are meant to "incapacitate dangerous, combative or high-risk subjects."

http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/10/meeting-stupidity-with-stupidi 

Wanton indulgence of anger usually ends up compounding foolishness with lunacy.

see more here

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