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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Congress again debates COICA. We know how this works. It fails. It fails again.It fails over and over. Then eventually it gets passed and we all suffer.

HEALTH CARE:

Food bill in Senate claims people don't own their own bodies and have no right to eat whatever food they choose.

"“Plaintiffs’ assertion of a “fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health, which includes what foods they do and do not choose to consume for themselves and their families” is similarly unavailing because plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish. In addition, courts have consistently refused to extrapolate a generalized right to “bodily and physical health” from the Supreme Court’s narrow substantive due process precedents regarding abortion, intimate relations, and the refusal of lifesaving medical treatment. See Glucksberg, 521 U.S. at 721 (warning that the fact “[t]hat many of the rights and liberties protected by the Due Process Clause sound in personal autonomy does not warrant the sweeping conclusion that any and all important, intimate, and personal decisions are so protected”);"

You can't make this stuff up.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Only a quarter of respondents to Scientific American poll think man is causing global warming. That's great news. The fraud's claim of consensus is pretty much destroyed.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Bulletproof cars in Mexico is another government-created economic bubble that people engage in just to survive government malfeasance.

POLICE STATE:

Captain Sully complains about the TSA tactics. It would be far more effective if Captain Sully, of all people, refused to submit.

More concern that supposed package bombs from Yemen that luckily do not explode are another false flag operation.

"Meanwhile, the TSA has lusted to photograph us naked since 2002. Taxpayers infuriated at such voyeurism forced the agency to postpone its wickedness until 2007. Even then, passengers continued resisting the technology everywhere the TSA tried to introduce it."

Now that failed cargo bombs, which couldn't possibly have been detected by the nude scanners, along with the underwear bomber whose bomb wouldn't have been detected either, are being used to justify them. TSA has captured zero terrorists.

Instead of abolishing the TSA, let's privatize it. If anybody would pay for it. If not, abolish it.

WAR:

I long ago ceased being surprised at anything our government did, but I'm still constantly bemused at stuff like this.

"Gen. David H. Petraeus, the coalition military commander in Afghanistan, warned Afghan officials Sunday that President Hamid Karzai's latest public criticism of U.S. strategy threatens to seriously undermine progress in the war and risks making Petraeus's own position "untenable," according to Afghan and U.S. officials.

Officials said Petraeus expressed "astonishment and disappointment" with Karzai's call, in a Saturday interview with The Washington Post, to "reduce military operations" and end U.S. Special Operations raids in southern Afghanistan that coalition officials said have killed or captured hundreds of Taliban commanders in recent months."

You can't make this stuff up. If somebody made a TV show, call it MASH in Afghanistan, and it put this stuff into the story-line, people simply wouldn't believe it. They'd change the channel because it was so absurd. US troops have been in Afghanistan for nine years killing Afghans to support the US government's gangster-puppet Karzai. Now the gangster-puppet is complaining US troops are killing too many Afghans. And Gen. Petraeus is unhappy that Karzai is pointing out his troops are killing so many Afghans. This might endanger his mission to kill many, many Afghans. This is insane. Our society is insane to put up with it. It's like the Keystone Cops killing Afghans to support Dr. Evil's plan to take over Afghanistan, and he in turn is unhappy about the killing. It's the most absurd comedy in the world, but it's not a movie. It's not fiction. It's not a comedy. They're killing real people. Maybe the absurdity of it is why it continues. Maybe Americans have tuned it out because of the absurdity and that enables the aristocrats to continue their massive murder campaign. I didn't see things this clearly a couple years ago. I thought US troops were saving American lives by killing Afghans. And Iraqis. And Somalis. And Venezuelans. And Philippians. I was an ignorant fool. Thanks to mises.org and lewrockwell.com, I'm a slightly less ignorant fool. What's sad is those troops think they're making us safer too.

MEDIA:

Not all of the accomplice press is criticizing TSA police state tactics.

"WaPo’s reporting here is disgusting. They not-so-subtly smear Meg McLain:

The Transportation Security Administration released security camera footage that appears to contradict at least some of her claims, as she is not handcuffed in the footage.

Knowing that Meg claimed that she was handcuffed only after some time and was detained for quite awhile, you would think a reporter would realize that the 13-minute video is not evidence one way or the other of whether Meg was handcuffed. At the end of the video, Meg is escorted off-screen. Turns out that there is another TSA video that shows Meg is in handcuffs. We won’t fly points out that the in the last 10 seconds of this video, Meg is being escorted in handcuffs from the security area."

The true role of the media is on display here: defender of the government.

LOCAL:

Government forced to reduce how much of our stolen money it gives to non-profits. That's a good thing. Non-profits would hardly exist without money stolen from us by the government. Tax breaks and subsidies create the non-profit market. But non-profits are almost never a successful business model because profits are how businesses measure the success of their products and services. Without that crucial piece of information, an organization can't create a top-notch product. I'm sure many will point to Newman's salad dressings as an example to refute my claim, but Newman's makes a profit on its salad dressing. It just gives most of that profit to charity afterward. That's not a typical non-profit business model.

It's a good thing for Mike Brown the NFL is cartelized.

"Sadly, without a doubt, it will be more of the same absurdity that made Mike Brown the fastest owner ever to 200 losses, and the slowest ever to 100 wins."

In a free market, Brown would have gone bankrupt long ago. Ten facts about Mike Brown's ineptitude.

MISC:

Is Google going to build a Shadowrun-style arcology? Not if they're smart.