PICARD: Worf. Klingon species. A warrior race. You too will be assimilated.
WORF: The Klingon Empire will never yield.
PICARD: Why do you resist? We only wish to raise quality of life for all species.
WORF: I like my species the way it is.
PICARD: A narrow vision. You will become one with the Borg. You will all become one with the Borg. The android, Data. Primitive artificial organism. You will be obsolete in the new order.
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"Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ...
Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement
of political freedom." -- Milton Friedman (1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system" Source: his 1962 book, Capitalism and Freedom
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Milton.Friedman.Quote.12C7
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), US civil rights leader
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Martin.Luther.King.Quote.8040
"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self." -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor ,Source: Essays
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Francis.Bacon.Quote.B67D
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist
Source: Maxims for Revolutionists, 1912
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Bernard.Shaw.Quote.06A4
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men.
It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
-- Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator
Source: An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society, 1937
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Walter.Lippmann.Quote.5A5E
"We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom,
on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." -- William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Source: Harper’s Magazine, June 1956
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Faulkner.Quote.AC57
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Organ Commerce
Abel had heart disease. Without a transplant he would not survive to guide his children into adulthood. He contracted with his friend Baker.
If Baker were to traumatically die, surgeons would transplant Baker's healthy heart into Abel. In return for the heart Abel promised to provide for the well-being of Mrs. Baker and the rearing to adulthood of the Baker couple's minor children.
When Baker died tragically, Mrs Baker directed surgeons to give her late husband's healthy heart to Abel. Abel proceeded to fulfill the contract, providing for the well-being of Mrs. Baker and the couple's minor children.
Carlisle filed a class action suit against Abel, Mrs. Baker, and Baker estate asking for relief from damage. Carlisle contended that the Abel/Baker contract excluded both him and all those on transplant waiting lists from proper consideration for disbursement of the healthy heart.
Does Baker own his heart ?
When the heart was removed, did the heart cease to belong to Baker ?
Did denying Carlisle the opportunity to bid on the heart constitute denial of right ?
Does Mrs. Baker own Baker's corpse ?
Did Abel/Baker/Mrs. Baker at any time engage in organ commerce ?
What damages, if any, did Carlisle suffer ?
What damages, if any, did Carlisle suffer ?
http://www.lifegift.org/
http://www.iaod.org/
http://www.lifegoeson.com/
http://www.lifepassiton.org/
http://www.donatelife.net/
http://organdonor.gov/
http://www.organtransplants.org/
Shouldn't Pistols Come In Pairs ?
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COMMODUS
I will make Rome the wonder of the ages. That is what Gracchus
and his friends don't understand.
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Which demographic is most likely to need, want and/or ask that decisions be made for them ?
A) aged 0 - 20 ; immature, young, inexperienced
B) aged 20-40 ; adult, strong
C) aged 40-60 ; mature, educated
D) aged 60-80 ; wise, weakening, frail
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The Food and Drug Administration is a bureaucracy which mandates for Americans which drugs they may use and in which manner. This practice is an insult to
A) every responsible, adult American
B) everyone who has graduated from a School of Medicine
C) both A and B
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