Alan C.

911 dispatcher suspended, woman shot while waiting for police What do you suppose would happen if this had been a private company?

Reporter To Obama: How Does It Feel To Be A Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who's About To Attack Syria? He is concerned about children and innocent civilians being subjected to gas. What about the children and innocent civilians he subjected to drone strikes? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWTDUyuPJSg

Thousands of Unsold Federal Buildings Held Up by Red Tape Your tax dollars at work.

Test 'reveals Facebook, Twitter and Google snoop on emails': Study of net giants spurs new privacy concerns

I belong to a gym. I usually lift weights for about an hour and then I do 30 mins of cardio on an elliptical. I go at least 5 days per week.

Pentagon Labels Founding Fathers, Conservatives as Extremists The Southern Poverty Law Center is an agitprop organization which uses character assassination, poison-the-well, race-baiting, and smear tactics against people who oppose the State. It's the modern equivalent of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Also see Racial Racketeering for Fun and Profit by Thomas DiLorenzo.

The fundamental problem with IP is that it confers a State-granted property right over a person by another person. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtfP4KxBYcM#t=22m44s Begins at the 22m:44s mark.

India Bans All Gold Coin Imports, Increases Capital Controls

The amusing irony here is that we were taught that crime, gangs, and shootings were commonplace during the so-called "Wild West" because of a lack of government, even though there is no evidence for it in the historical record. The so-called "Wild West" exists only in movies and TV. We're told that crime, gangs, and shootings will ensue without the State, yet they run amok in places where the State has become an overgrown weed and extinguished any semblance of the market.

He was trespassing and creating a nuisance. Unfortunately, the State has displaced the market leaving people with few options.

33 Shocking Facts Which Show How Badly The Economy Has Tanked Since Obama Became President Recommended read.

Study: Welfare pays more than work in most states

Police: When cable TV breaks, a 911 call is bad The sad irony is that, for many people, losing TV really is an emergency. My brother recently got a job in a tech support call center. During training, they listened to some "hall of shame" calls where customers would scream on the phone, make demands and threats, and shout profanities. Years ago, I recall a radio talk show in which a guy called in to talk about death threats that he had received from people whose cable tv had been disconnected due to lack of payment.

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Looting was mostly absent in Japan after the 2011 tsunami.

Square Fined $507K In Florida For Operating A Mobile Payment Service Without A Money Transmitter License

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KseRuyAjlHY#t=49m23s Begins at the 49m23s mark.

If the person you're trying to reason with is really that thick then it's probably a waste of time.

The fallacious reasoning that I keep seeing in these discussions goes like this: "I have no choice but to pay taxes. I also have no choice but to provide assurances to others with whom I may wish to associate. I'm being coerced in both instances. Therefore, there is no moral distinction between the two."Requiring assurances from others is not aggression, deprivation, or expropriation and to suggest otherwise is highly misleading.

Without market exchange and division of labor, society reverts to that of chimps and apes. A society in which "some members get to pick what they want and others just get told what to do" is a centrally planned society. Sure, our pre-human ancestors could've survived, but in far fewer numbers and under grinding subsistence. That is, in fact, how they lived. Homo-sapien has enjoyed prosperity and abundance for only a fraction of 1% of the total time that homo-sapien has existed.

Taxes and DROs have nothing to do with each other. What do taxes have to do with private arbitration, insurance, bonds, protection plans, Underwriters Labs, Consumer Reports, certifications, or seller/buyer ratings on Amazon, Newegg, eBay, and GameTZ? A tax is a State-granted privilege conferred to a special class of individuals to expropriate others with legal impunity.

As oil becomes more scarce, the price will increase to reflect that scarcity making alternatives financially lucrative. If the State imposes price controls on oil then it will become unprofitable to refine crude and the supply will disappear. The concept of "peak oil" was coined by people who don't understand economics. Poverty results from an absence of productivity; not peak oil. The recession was caused by cheap credit from the Federal Reserve; not the price of oil.

7Gbps transmissions up to a mile will boost wireless Internet coverage

A DRO is not a firm; it's a model, and you're not forced to join. People with whom you wish to associate may want you to show good standing with a reputation system. In addition, they may want you to agree to third-party arbitration in the event of a disagreement. We already have access to these mechanisms.

Huckabee: Muslims are ‘uncorked animals’ after praying to Allah Who is a greater threat: fanatical Muslims or the Christian United States? Huckabee previously said that whomever (Manning) leaked diplomatic cables to Wikileaks should be executed.