https://libertyguys.org Online Journal of Liberty Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:17:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_602" align="alignnone" width="320" caption="Apparently Torture Isn't The Only Thing Lynndie England Ruined For Everybody"][/caption] The missus relayed a CNN report that a study commissioned by the Pentagon has recommended the military ban the use of tobacco entirely. As a never-smoker, who personally despises cigarette smoke and all of the things ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=600 [caption id="attachment_585" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Motley look, great band. Canada wins again!"][/caption] The Dears Money Babies on YouTube I don't usually look to musicians for economic illumination - (except maybe blues musicians - this IS a Depression, after all, and blues IS Depression Music) - ...but I just LOVE The Dears' "Money Babies"; Our money is ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=576 Why, when he opens his mouth, of course! This can be easily illustrated in the base of Berkley academic, Severin Borenstein in the latest issue of Technology Review. Speaking on the viabiliyty of solar power in regards to the market: Will the stimulus bill facilitate that ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=575 We have ridiculed taxpayer-paid campaign materials before, as have many others, so it probably shouldn't be a surprise that such attempts are made as to try to make them less obvious. Here, on a stretch of I-295 where commuters were just over being tortured by a reconstruction product, is one ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=570 I blame Bob Murphy for this. Ignore the simple, inadequate theories of the mechanics (but NOT the politics) of the WTC collapses, and pay attention to the rest - cuts from "Zeitgeist", "Loose Change", "Freedom To Fascism", and more, intercut with Alex Jones, John Taylor Gatto, and David Icke explaining ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=531 Not sure if anyone caught it but right after the judge spoke to Lew Rockwell on the most recent Freedom Watch, they turned over the camera to David Boaz from Cato who started off with this: “America is a lot more than the US ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=530 [caption id="attachment_523" align="aligncenter" width="636" caption="Two lovely and very talented women, Annie Clark (St. Vincent) and Shanti White (Santigold)"][/caption] Two women whose music I have admired for a while - St. Vincent's Annie Clark performs "Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood" from their new record "Actor", the time she spent in Sufjan ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=517 [caption id="attachment_510" align="aligncenter" width="609" caption="Just The First Step, Optimist."][/caption] Jim Babb links a news article on the roughly 700 New York City teachers currently being paid to do nothing while the district grinds through the often multi-year process required to fire them. This reminds us of the excellent graphic; "How Do ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=507 The Obamessiah seemingly sensibly and righteously indicates that the US should stay out of the current turmoil in Iran. We don't have a very good track record of staying out of Iran's business though; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2009/intell-090113-rferl01.htm While Obama, against all odds, continues to state this bafflingly sensible policy, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al have been ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=504 Going back and forth on music, downloading, and copyright on Postal Blowfish as I often do, I posted the following; ...Yes, what downloaders and blog-rippers are doing is technically illegal under monopoly-protecting copyright law. And yes, it quite often serves the interests of those who are "ripped off" despite the fact ... https://libertyguys.org/?p=503