Posted by haltse on November 19, 2006 – 9:23 am
Sausages affected by draconian trade laws – Britain – Times Online
The power to tax is the power to destroy, so is the power to define.
A SPICY sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards’ officers warned the manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon.
This is barking mad… A public that stupid will need to be protected from anything and everything that may confuse or alarm them.. Then again that’s the point.
So , so steal a quip from “Michael in chat“ what happens when they get to hot dogs?
Posted by haltse on November 19, 2006 – 12:20 am
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You scored as Friedrich Nietzsche. Well you’re an egotistical maniac, and you are so very iconoclastic that you probably are currently lost in a post-modern Jupiter, I mean jungle of self-definition. Don’t let it get you down though, someday, through a willful onslaught of reinterpretation of dated forms and ideas, you will strike on something that passes as remotely new, and people WILL be into it on the basis of how hip it is alone. Also, the average espresso drinker looks up to you.
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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83% |
| Sigmund Freud |
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67% |
| Hugh Hefner |
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58% |
| Dante Alighieri |
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58% |
| C.G. Jung |
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58% |
| Stephen Hawking |
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50% |
| Adolf Hitler |
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42% |
| Steven Morrissey |
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42% |
| O.J. Simpson |
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33% |
| Elvis Presley |
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33% |
| Jesus Christ |
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33% |
| Charles Manson |
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33% |
| Miyamoto Musashi |
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33% |
| Mother Teresa |
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8% |
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What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You?
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Posted by haltse on November 19, 2006 – 12:19 am
Center for a Stateless Society » What Makes Police Brutality Possible?
Let’s pierce the veil of mystification and see this case as what it is: a small group of ordinary people attacking another ordinary person while a much larger group of ordinary people stands “helplessly” by. The profession of the attackers is irrelevant; providers of police services don’t need to be organised as an agency with superior authority — a “government” — in order to do their jobs. We don’t believe in kings and emperors any more. Isn’t it time to outgrow the idea of government as such?
There’s some interesting questions asked.
Posted by haltse on November 18, 2006 – 2:28 pm
I’m fed up.
Where do you want to go? Nowhere, ok . Yet you’re fed up with going nowhere. I can’t help the kid was sick, I can’t help that work required my presence and I can’t help that I’m ill. All I can change is my attitude which is unlikely to move away from pissy in the near future ( a day of no food and sore sides can do that for one)
I’ve decided that for the record. Should I find myself with a serious illness that it’s NOT the reason that I’m in a bad mood and shouldn’t be dismissed as such, unless it’s a convenient escape 
Things that bug me.
That the majority of people in the US are happy to defend the tasing of a person for not showing an ID card within a state college. Random check , no papers, you have to leave, or what.. or when you do try to leave ( obviously they tasers dispute this ) they will zap you multiple times. This is the part that sickens me, you get hit with one and you can’t comply easily to any further demands leading the boneheads using them to see further “non compliance” where there is none, and just use them again and again.
Naturally this policy is for the safety of the students.
Update.. I think it’s linked.. but you have to wonder how humorless a society this will be when “harmless” infractions take place. Note I realise that the behaviour may not be appropriate just that it’s not remotely as serious as the actors involved would like to make it.
Naturally this is for the safety of the passengers.
Posted by haltse on November 17, 2006 – 7:03 pm
Impeach the American public by Butler Shaffer,
No, if anyone is to be impeached for the atrocities of this past semi-decade, it ought to be most members of the American public who should stand in the dock. The politicians and military leaders did no more than what politicians and military leaders always do: use as much violence to accomplish their ends as their victims will allow them to exercise. Like putting a bowlful of candy in front of children, mature adults ought to know what to expect when self-interested pursuits are not checked by an insistence upon the inviolability of the boundaries of others.
It’s pretty obvious by now that the change of power is so much window dressing. Realigning deckchairs on the Titanic if you will, but it’s still full stream war ahead.
Plus
The gun in the room by Stefan Molyneux
Most political debates really are that simple. People don’t get into violent debates about which restaurant is best because the state doesn’t impose one restaurant on everyone – and shoot those trying to set up competing restaurants. The truth is that I couldn’t care less about this woman’s views on education – just as she couldn’t care less about my views – but we are forced to debate because we are not allowed to hold opposing views without one of us getting shot. That was the essence of our debate, and as long as it remained unacknowledged, we weren’t going to get anywhere.
And that’s why it makes no difference re the libertarians electoral success ( seriously they used that term) All that money wasted on signs, campaigning could have gone to education. If people don’t get that numerical supremacy does not equal right . why bother:)
Posted by haltse on November 17, 2006 – 6:01 pm
This left me in a terribly anti social mode:) I’m not sure if it was the sandwich, the catching up of Dobhran’s illness to me or just bad luck but was viciously ill from about 1am through to 9am then just blinding headache and sore muscles / joints the remainder of the day. Starting to eat soup now, wonder how that’s going to go down, more importantly stay down.
Stress. So what about the meeting? Hard to say , it was really really hard to get there in rush hour, nearly impossible to park and well , and you can say it’s ironic, I can’t stand enclosed crowds. I was really going along to see what happens when the marketers try to co opt a movement and sell them back their own “rebellion”
Things that amused me. That there should be a best practices, codification , more like ossification, over organic communities .. Sure. I’ve often wondered if I get Cluetrain since most of those that approach me in that framework end up confusing me , and after reading Rageboy I think I am used to confusion. Anyway not a lot other than introductions, A few statements that had too many phrases starting with “the group needs”. Ended an hour earlier than planned too. I’ll head to the next one but mainly to see what happends when people that are tired of being sold to, are sold to:D
Also ‘ve hung around enough activists to know they don’t have the money, so it’s not money they are after.. nope the average marketing zombie wants your Brainzzzzz
Posted by haltse on November 17, 2006 – 8:12 am
Kid was ill
Work , dev was ill
home I started hurling up anything/ everything at 1am , then 3 then 5 then 7 and 8 so this crap that’s been dogging me all week is finally out in the open, on e the floor, on the bath, that kind of thing
attempt 6 to secure rest begins … now
Update:
No more eruptions. just painful limbs,joints and stomach, head and a weird stabbing pain in the right leg. Scratch another weekend:(
Posted by haltse on November 16, 2006 – 11:58 am
Jim Peron speaks about freedom ( real version not US psuedo variant) We were lucky enough to hear him deliver this live ( not at the recording) just prior to his leaving the US to work in Germany.
Posted by haltse on November 16, 2006 – 9:32 am
This sounds like fun
You have to wonder how many people stood around watching and wondered if we all jump these goons… Some day:)
LInk to the Cam video and commentary can be found here.
Posted by haltse on November 15, 2006 – 1:08 pm
Loretta Nall for Governor: No T.S.A….You Cannot Have My Tampons!
Animals song time…
in this dirty old part of the city
Where the sun refused to shine
People tell me there ain't no use in tryin...'
Spock! We .... Got ta get outofthis place.
In another annoying trend the people with “freedom isn’t free stickers” Damn you annoy me. It’s priceless, it’s inherent and you can’t give me jackshit other than cheap platitudes and regurgitating a life of pledging to suck on state cock for giving you that which you already possess, make that charging you for it. It’s a bit of a Kaiser Soze run around isn’t it, quite a trick.
Posted by haltse on November 14, 2006 – 11:52 pm
Man files claim against Mesa for reported Taser injuries
Brown, the backup officer, said in a report that Adams told him Pace was “hindering” his investigation. Brown said he also tried to stop Pace from walking away but was unsuccessful until he used his Taser gun.
Not obeying your masters. tsk tsk. yeah ok it’s dumb to harass a cop..why? They are likely to act in a totally disproportionate manner and crap like this happens.. Just lucky for him he wasn’t trying to pass a forged prescription.
And here’s more stunning fun!
Posted by haltse on November 14, 2006 – 11:24 pm
NYC schools cell phone ban earns parents ire – CNN.com
These all-out bans brought on by lifes minor inconveniences hint at thoughtless fascism,” said one parent in an e-mail.”These kids are students, not prisoners,” wrote another parent, whose daughter travels from their home in Brooklyn to school in Manhattan.
Yes it is, and yes they are.
Bloomberg argues that phones can help students cheat and waste time in class by playing games and sending text messages. On the more sinister side, he believes they help gangs organize criminal activity.
Yeah and schools , possibly, and this is a stretch bear with me, could teach kids how to write and equip them for ID theft so we should ban them too. Phones can also be used to call Bloomberg names So can blogs .. Asshole. Stop thinking about the devices rather than the intent behind them , you solve nothing taking away a tool , but you do end up looking like one. Theft by the state isn’t usually this naked:)
Posted by haltse on November 14, 2006 – 1:38 am
FamilyDigest.com – Your Baby is Vomiting
Amazingly it took a turn for the worse.. So far been really lucky in 14 months he’s barely sniffled, just one ER trip ( new parents etc) but tonight he’s catching up small illness on Sunday that looked like a one off now.. now he’s Linda Blair. 
so it’s day 2-3 all other signs look good but will see if I have to take him to dr in the am.
Posted by haltse on November 13, 2006 – 10:25 pm
Filed under rants, reality
“I just play one on tv.”
I’m feeling like the autho ra tah of Thomas tank
just 100% of one and totally out of the other.
Where memories are manufactured by consent
“not what I said” , “not what I meant”
Feeling like a tea-less Arthur Dent.
Vent!
Posted by haltse on November 12, 2006 – 11:27 pm
Find Freedom at www.FreedomsPhoenix.com
“She saw my name with zero votes by it. She came home and asked me if I had voted for myself or not. I told her I did,” said Wooten, owner of a local bar.
Fun story. He received no votes in his election even though he could at least count on one, his own. Still think that E voting adds up?
