“To jump into water and navigate a river in a swiftwater rescue is common. You get into the river and swim. You have to do it,” Branford said. “The fact these guys don’t understand that is disturbing. Making contact immediately with your victim is essential. It’s not about who is in charge. It’s about the safety of a 13-year-old girl. You are going to do everything in your power to insure the safety of your guest, and if that means in Idaho Springs you get arrested, well I guess we’ll just get arrested.”
The rescuer is guilty of the worst crime imaginable: making the government look bad.
And people wonder why sometimes people are robbed, beaten, or raped in public while other people nearby do nothing. Obviously, to help a victim of a beating or rape 10 feet away would be vigilante behavior and must not be tolerated.
Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on pri... (more)
If only the police actually were policing for profit! If only they had to serve their customers in order to make money! Instead they do it 'for the public good' and this is what we get.
Monopolies lead to worse service and higher costs, the government cannot be trusted with a monopoly over anything, let alone something as important as security.
Make policing an opt in service on the free-market and you'd have police who actually want to serve and protect instead of control freak parasites who want to bully and steal. - Chris, InfoLib
“No one knows the full ramifications of a government shutdown,” said Paterson. “It would create unimaginable chaos around the state and the greater metropolitan areas,” reports WCBS TV.
The legislature in the Empire State has failed to pa... (more)
BP Blocking Media Access? Great interview from New Orleans TV station w... (more)
How the New Wealth Taxes Will Hit You
posted 06/13/2010, 4:20 PM (Wall Street Journal) [Category: Economy] The health-care bill that Congress passed in March contained two surprising new taxes to help pay for the changes: an extra 0.9% levy on wages for couples earning more than $250,000 ($200,000 for singles) and a new 3.8% tax on investment income on those same people (technically, people with "adjusted gross incomes" above those amounts).
Each tax signals a radical change in policy. For workers, the extra 0.9% levy puts a progressive element in what used to be a totally flat tax. T... (more)
Listen to the BRILLIANT little girl explain to the ECONOMICALLY... (more)
In the Summer of 2010
posted 06/13/2010, 4:17 PM (Ron Holland) [Category: Economy] Are you ready for interesting times and an exodus from the United States? A possibly apocryphal ancient Chinese curse goes "May you live in interesting times." Those words may derive from an authentic Chinese proverb: "It is better to be a dog in a peaceful time than be a man in chaos."
Either way, the message is easy to understand for anyone living in the summer of 2010. As I look over at Lucky, my golden retriever whose only concerns are when do we eat and when do we... (more)
Bilderberg: sinister with a smile
posted 06/13/2010, 4:17 PM (The Guardian) [Category: Geopolitics] An extraordinary thing happened last weekend. The world's most secretive strategy group, Bilderberg, poked its nose out of the shadows and launched its own website: bilderbergmeetings.org. For an organisation that prefers to cordon the press a mile from its meetings, whose press relations policy to date has been to arrest, harass and search jou... (more)
Why Don't American Statists Move to North Korea?
posted 06/13/2010, 4:16 PM (Jacob G. Hornberger) [Category: Commentary] Except for the fact that the North Korean regime doesn’t kowtow to U.S. officials, my hunch is that American statists really don’t really object in principle to the North Korean way of life. After all, the North Koreans have simply taken liberal and conservative principles to their logical conclusion.
In North Korea, people believe that the job of the state is to take care of people. Isn’t that what American liberals and conservatives also believe? Isn’t that what Social Securit... (more)
Patterson told Fox News that some reporters covering state politics don’t know what they’re talking about and they’re working for publications he’s never heard of, so he wants to install a process that’ll help him and the general public figure out which reporters to trust.
Daniel Ellsberg fears a US hit on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
posted 06/13/2010, 4:16 PM (Raw Story) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Daniel Ellsberg, who gained fame when he leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 in hopes of ending the Vietnam War, told MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan on Friday that he not only sees a parallel between himself and the person who recently leaked a video of an assault by US forces on Iraqi civilians but also fears for the safety of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who published the video.
Army specialist Bradley Manning was recently arrested in the case, and according to reporter Philip Shenon... (more)
The oil blowout will mean more subsidies for the ethanol industry. That's bad news for consumers.
posted 06/13/2010, 4:15 PM (Slate Magazine) [Category: Commentary] The most disgusting aspect of the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico isn't the video images of oil-soaked birds or the incessant blather from pundits about what BP or the Obama administration should be doing to stem the flow of oil. Instead, it's the ugly spectacle of the corn-ethanol scammers doing all they can to capitalize on the disaster so that they can justify an expansion of the longest-running robbery of taxpayers in U.S. history.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is fond of saying, "You don't ever want a crisis to go to waste; it's an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid." Well, the Obama Administration certainly has not let the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizo... (more)
Housing Bubble Down Under
posted 06/13/2010, 4:14 PM (Mises Economics Blog) [Category: Economy] The Wall Street Journal reports that the median price for a home in major Australian cities just hit A$471,818 (US$394,661), a more than doubling of the median price since early 2002, reports the May 28th edition of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer.
“Revealed: The home loan that could save you a fortune,” writes Nick Gardner for Wall Street Journal: ... (more)
Defending the Speculator
posted 06/13/2010, 4:14 PM (Walter Block) [Category: Economy] "Kill the speculators!" is a cry made during every famine that has ever existed. Uttered by demagogues, who think that the speculator causes death through starvation by raising food prices, this cry is fervently supported by the masses of economic illiterates. This kind of thinking, or rather nonthinking, has allowed dictators to impose even the death penalty for traders in food who charge high prices during famines. And this is done without the feeblest of protests from those usually concerned ... (more)
“There’s no other way out but to print money,” Faber, the publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, said at a forum in Seoul today. “In the long run, all paper money will go exactly to its intrinsic value, which is zero.” Faber advised investors to protect themselves with assets such gold and silver. ... (more)
Suspect's mom: Son 'stupid kid,' not a terrorist
posted 06/13/2010, 4:12 PM (CNN) [Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions] New York (CNN) -- The mother of one of the two New Jersey men arrested last week at a New York airport allegedly on their way to fight with an al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia says the two men are guilty of stupidity -- but not of the sinister plan described by authorities.
"Anything makes him angry. But he's not a terrorist; he's a stupid kid," Nadia Alessa said of her U.S.-born son, Mahmood.
Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, New Jersey, and Carlos E... (more)
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…the heroic leaker Bradley Manning would be a free man today.
Obama’s approximately 25-member "Advisory Group" will soon be present in every aspect of Americans' lives.
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