Thursday, January 20, 2011

Ron Paul Comments On Congress Reading The Constitution

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A nation built on a foundation of individual rights and the pursuit of happiness should celebrate success, not punish it. -- Yaron Brook and Don Watkins

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My comment at
Thomas Sowell: Budget Crisis Rhetoric: Part II

Tim Wrote: 0 minutes ago (12:31 PM)

Mr. Sowell is correct.
This problem was caused by the cooperation of Democrats and Republicans, the two political parties destroying our Union.

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Please, God, tell me that I'm a prototype. -- Tim Lebsack

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Obama Conducts The Choir

The gulf between this man's words and his actions is staggering

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"Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency.... Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens. ...
A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency....from, at least, the Civil War in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency."
-- Senate Report, 93rd Congress
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Senate.Report,.93rd.Congress.Quote.F19A

"Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the
continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States. Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the
powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2010."
-- Barack Hussein Obama
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Barack.Hussein.Obama.Quote.77FE

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Government Free Marriage

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* 197 miles

* 15,000 runners

* 30th Anniversary

* 4,100 volunteers

* August 26-27, 2011

* Largest Relay in the World!

* Incredible Adventure with Unbeatable Scenery

* Fundraise for Charity of Choice: American Cancer Society

* From majestic Mt. Hood to beautiful Pacific Ocean in Seaside

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

LP Texas 2011 Legislative Agenda

Freedom is not created, which means it cannot be destroyed any more than the onset of night destroys the light of the sun; and we are never "nearer" this true freedom than when we remember the truth of this fact in the middle of some fear. -- Guy Finley

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Libertarian Party of Texas

2011 Legislative Agenda

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"The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government’s involvement at all."
-- Lew Rockwell
[Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.] (1944- ) Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lew.Rockwell.Quote.7ADC

"The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation
of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery."
-- Albert Jay Nock
(1870-1945)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Albert.Jay.Nock.Quote.7AFA

After the 16th Amendment was ratified, an income tax was imposed starting in 1913 with rates ranging from 1 percent to 7 percent with the top rate applying only to incomes in excess of $500,000. By 1916 that top rate had risen to 15 percent, on income in excess of $2,000,000. The top rate exceeded 90 percent at its peak in the early 1950s. The first 1040 form -- instructions and all -- took up only four pages. Today there are some 4,000 pages of tax forms and instructions. American workers and business are forced to spend more than 5.4 billion man-hours every year figuring out their taxes. Since those hours could be put to a more productive use, and almost surely would be in the absence of today’s incomprehensible tax code, the result is a large dead-weight output loss of some $200 billion each year. ... The IRS now has more enforcement personnel than the EPA, BATF, OSHA, FDA, and DEA combined. With its 115,000-man workforce, it has the power to search the property and financial documents of American citizens without a search warrant and to seize property from American citizens without a trial. It routinely does both. Economist James L. Payne has written a most revealing analysis of the IRS, a 1993 book entitled Costly Returns. He arrives at a stunning conclusion, the total cost to collect our federal taxes, including the effects on the economy as a whole adds up to an amazing 65 percent of all the tax dollars received annually. The U.S. tax system, says Payne, has produced hundreds of thousands of victims of erroneous IRS penalties, liens, levies, and tax advice. In answering taxpayer questions, for example, the IRS telephone information service has in previous years given about one-third of all callers -- as many as 8.5 million Americans -- the wrong answers to their questions. A 1987 General Accounting Office study found that 47 percent of a random sample of IRS correspondence -- including demands for payments -- contained errors. Incredibly a GAO audit of the IRS in 1993 found widespread evidence of financial malfeasance and gross negligence at the agency. The IRS could not account for 64 percent of its congressional appropriation!
-- Dr. Lawrence W. Reed
(1953-) President of the Foundation for Economic Education
Source: Taxes and Tyranny, THE UNREPORTED NEWS, August 27, 1995.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lawrence.Reed.Quote.0498

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
-- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.David.Thoreau.Quote.EE62

The Billion Dollar Mistake and Liquified Polar Bear Cub Fur

I'm old. I remember when that actor from "Dallas" made the Coffee-Mate commercial.

Albertsons brand Half & Half
7.2 cents per ounce

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Liquified Polar Bear Cub Fur

8.7 cents per ounce

http://www.nestle.ca/NR/rdonlyres/39E4788A-CE5F-4327-AA9D-3C28AB418783/0/200086CM_FV_Eng.jpg

Bonus: Food is healthy, Artificial crap is not.

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[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit
if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.
-- Charley Reese
(1937- ) Columnist
Source: Don’t sacrifice justice to law, CONSERVATIVE CHRONICLE, May 1, 1996.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Charley.Reese.Quote.79F0

"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."
-- Harlan F. Stone
12th Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court
Source: US Supreme Court 1941
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Harlan.Stone.Quote.124A

"The Jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy."
-- John Jay
(1745-1829) first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, First President of the united States after the American Revolution - preceding George Washington, one of three men most responsible for the US Constitution
1789
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Jay.Quote.FF8C

"We recognize, as appellants urge, the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by the judge, and contrary to the evidence. This is a power that must exist as long as we adhere to the general verdict in criminal cases, for the courts cannot search the minds of the jurors to find the basis upon which they judge. If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic of passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision."
-- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Maryland
Source: US vs Moylan, 417 F 2d 1002, 1006 (1969)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/U.S..Court.of.Appeals.for.the.District.of.Maryland.Quote.E7D7

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Why-Barnes-Noble-Is-Thumping-usnews-2623028754.html?x=0

tim_lebsacka second ago

No mention of Border's "Billion Dollar Mistake"???
Way back in the early 90's, Borders #32 in Dallas was selling books internationally via internet, then Corporate closed the operation, stole the idea and sat on it for years. Meanwhile, internet retailing exploded.
Goodbye, Borders. Everyone gets what they deserve.