Monthly Archives: June 2006

Quote of the day–Ron Paul

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The UN claims to serve human freedom and dignity, but gun control often serves as a gateway to tyranny. Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government.

Rep. Ron Paul, Texas
June 26, 2006
The Worldwide Gun Control Movment in Texas Straight Talk
Also: June 27, 2006
The Worldwide Gun Control Movement in The Sierra Times

More examples from the religion of peace

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I just finished listening to a book on tape, Hannibal: One Man Against Rome, and I can’t help but wonder if some of the methods the Romans used wouldn’t be effective in dealing with the “religion of peace” that does things like this:

After all the “religion of peace” appears to be stuck hundreds of years in the past.  Perhaps some ancient methods for dealing with insurrections would be effective.

Quote of the day–Jeff Cooper

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The passage of the Brady foolishness was a foregone conclusion in Washington – despite its blatant unconstitutionality – as soon as we lost the election of `92, thus it comes as no surprise. What is really awful is the unblushing profession that while the bill itself will do nothing at all, it is still necessary to “make a statement,” as if the legislators meant that they were going to do something. You and I will not be inconvenienced by any five day waiting period, since we already have our guns, as all proper members of the United States Militia must have. The idea that our lawmakers can profit from doing something silly, and admitting that it is silly, makes one more than ever doubtful about the merit of the democratic process. Alcibiades pointed out that it would never work, and that was some four-hundred years before Christ. Perhaps he was right after all. 

Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 1, No. 11
10 December 1993
[I don’t think it can seriously be claimed that the democratic process “will never work”.  It doesn’t work as well as we would like but it does work better than anything else that has ever been tried.  Unfortunately human nature is such that those that crave the power of government seldom have the strength of character to abide by the restrictions placed upon them by the same laws that give them their power.–Joe]

Sex with robots

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There once was a young man named Gene
who invented a screwing machine.
Concave and convex,
it served either sex,
and it played with itself in between.

Ho-hum.  This guy is worried about a “code of ethics” for robots:

THE race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a “code of ethics” for machines as they become more and more sophisticated.

Although the nightmare vision of a Terminator world controlled by machines may seem fanciful, scientists believe the boundaries for human-robot interaction must be set now — before super-intelligent robots develop beyond our control.

“There are two levels of priority,” said Gianmarco Verruggio, a roboticist at the Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation in Genoa, northern Italy, and chief architect of the guide, to be published next month. “We have to manage the ethics of the scientists making the robots and the artificial ethics inside the robots.”

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“Security, safety and sex are the big concerns,” said Henrik Christensen, a member of the Euron ethics group. How far should robots be allowed to influence people’s lives? How can accidents be avoided? Can deliberate harm be prevented? And what happens if robots turn out to be sexy?

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Other dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says Christensen. “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years,” he said. So should limits be set on the appearance, for example, of such robotic sex toys?

People have been having sex with machines for decades.  I’ve commented on this before:

Ethics for robots?  That’s a nice thought but futile.  If a market exists it will be met.  If whether it’s to wage war, perform assassinations, or brothels filled with mechanical sex machines there will be some to supply the programming to accomplish the task if there is enough money on the table for the task.  Asimov’s three laws will be simply commented out in the code.

Busy times at home, James goes to work

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The last few weeks have been very busy for me.  Barb came
to Seattle to visit, then I helped James move over and get an
apartment, then Barb and Xenia came over.  Xenia has a few pictures up (check out the new car James bought).  I’ll have some more pictures up before too long.

James starts work (orientation actually) tomorrow morning.  His
first job just out of college.  Barb, who handles all the medical
questions in the family, said James asked her about his appetite. 
He said he had a funny feeling in his stomach and didn’t feel like
eating.  Yeah, there’s a name for that condition.  It’s
called “butterflies”.

Interesting about the new car.  It’s a Toyota, which is the same
manufacturer as the first car Barb and I bought and he got it at the
same dealer we did.  We bought ours new (only one other car we
have bought was new when we got it) and James bought his new.  We
bought ours in 1976, James got his 30 years (minus a couple months)
later.  His cost about nine times as much and his starting salary
is 5.25 times as much as mine was the next fall.

Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton

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You know what they teach you in the military about what you use a handgun for?  You use it to fight your way to a rifle.

Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
[Greg may have picked this meme up from Clint Smith, but I first heard it from Greg.-Joe]

More proof

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Gun bans don’t work.  Not on an island such as the U.K.  And not in the workplace such as in this case. 
The prison guard wasn’t supposed to bring a gun to work with him but as
he probably wasn’t exactly an upstanding member of society (he was
accused of having sex with the female inmates) he didn’t obey the
rules.  As gun rights advocates have been saying for decades, if
you ban guns only the criminals will have guns.  This criminal,
unafraid of laws against sex with prisoners, and shooting at Federal
law enforcement officers, certainly wasn’t going to be concerned about
a law banning him from bring a gun to work.

It’s too bad the Fed had to die but at least this slimeball’s raping career is over.

Quote of the day–Abigail Adams

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Power, whether vested in the many or a few, is ever grasping, and, like the grave, cries, “Give, give!”

Abigail Adams
Revolutionary War patriot and wife of John Adams
[This is why we have the enumerated powers of the Constitution. 
This is supposed to limit the powers of both the many and the
few.  Sadly, these days the Constitution is almost entirely
ignored and the powers claimed by government have far exceeded the
limits imposed by that tattered document.–Joe]

Orwell must have written their playbook

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I just stumbled (with the help of Joel Rosenberg) onto something very interesting.  The bigoted “Gun Guys” (and their Orwellian named Freedom State Alliance umbrella organization) I mention far too frequently are supported by a $650,000 grant (over 18 months) from the Joyce Foundation.  This grant money is to Mark Karlin & Associates:

To support the continued efforts of its Freedom States Alliance, a
project to promote financial self-sufficiency and effective media,
public, and policy-maker education efforts among gun violence
prevention groups, especially those in Illinois and Wisconsin.

I have often wondered how, with such small memberships,
these anti-gun groups can afford to do what they do. Now we
know. I wish I could get $400K/year to run some pro-gun websites
and blog about gun rights.

To further emphasis their Orwellian nature read the Freedom States Alliance news release:

“But the energy we’re seeing from communities that are
rising up against the gun lobby is amazing.  Yes it will take time
to take back our country held hostage by gun violence, but if it’s one
thing Americans are good at, it’s fighting for our freedom. We’re here
to declare our freedom from gun violence and our Internet strategy is
going to carry that message like never before.”

“Fighting for freedom” by attempting to ban guns.  You can’t get much more Orwellian than that.

More Muslim extremists arrested

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It’s not that I have any great love for the repressive, socialist pit of Chicago but I am glad they arrested these threats to humanity before they blew up the Sears tower:

MIAMI — Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago’s Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., including the FBI office here, a federal law enforcement official said.

As part of the raids related to the arrests, FBI agents swarmed a warehouse in Miami’s Liberty City area, using a blowtorch to take off a metal door. One neighbor said the suspects had been sleeping in the warehouse while running what seemed to be a “military boot camp.”

The official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations. He spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt news conferences planned for Friday in Washington and Miami.

Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said in a statement that the investigation was an ongoing operation and that more details would be released Friday.

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The men slept in the warehouse, said Tashawn Rose, 29. “They would come out late at night and exercise. It seemed like a military boot camp that they were working on there. They would come out and stand guard.”

She talked to one of the men about a month ago: “They seemed brainwashed. They said they had given their lives to Allah.”

Just last Friday I talking to someone that grew up in Lebanan and he used the same phrase in regards to the Muslim extremists, “brainwashed”.

Darwin will take care of them

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These are not the usual sort of Darwin stories of people too stupid to live.  This is entirely different.  They people are too mentally whacked to have sex.

First this nut case from England:

Hunt, who made his fortune with his eponymous television fishing series, last month tearfully confessed to cheating on his wife in a tabloid newspaper interview and later on his radio station. Hunt said he paid up to $1000 a week for sex…

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“But there were no regular payments. There was a sum paid, when I handed over the notes and tape – a taped conversation, little love notes, Christmas wishes, notes to help me buy a car – I was asked to hand them over, which I did,” Ms Hood said.

“I was offered a sum (to end the relationship) but it wasn’t $50,000.”

She said she had been questioned by police and the prostitutes collective after the story broke and that the revelations had shattered her life.

However, she was happy to reveal intimate details of their mostly public encounters in which she remained clothed but he would strip naked.

“He would arrange to meet me – usually in a laneway – always somewhere public … I believe he got off on the fact that we might get caught,” she said. “I was to look him straight in the eyes and to breathe on him.

“I would tell him he was wonderful, then he would work himself into a state of excitement, shouting: ‘Oh my God, you are going to kill me; you’re going to give me a heart attack’. “He was affectionate, very touchy-feely leading up to this. Then he’d either, in the car or out of it, depending on how cold it was, fling off all his clothes. The more public, the greater the danger and the more exciting Rex apparently found it,” Ms Hood said.

So he paid large sums of money for sex but never got around to actually having sex–he just took his clothes off.

Next we have the entire nation of Japan that is dying off because having a relationship is “tiresome”:

MORE sex. That’s what one expert says is needed to solve Japan’s baby shortage.

“Japanese people simply aren’t having sex,” Dr Kunio Kitamura, director of the Japan Family Planning Association, was quoted as saying by the Japan Times, an English language daily.

An association survey of 936 people between the ages of 16 and 49 showed 31 per cent had not had sex for more than a month “for no particular reason” – a condition known as “sexless”.

“As much as subsidies and welfare programs are important, sexlessness is also a critical issue in this problem.”

Japan’s fertility rate – the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime – fell to an all-time low of 1.25 last year. Demographers say a rate of 2.1 is needed to keep a population from declining.

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44 per cent of the people who said they were not having much sex felt that having a relationship with the opposite sex was “very tiresome” or “tiresome”.

Their is a technical term used to describe the end point these sort of behaviors lead to–extinction.

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Protecting civilians from armed violence

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It’s already against the law to commit violent acts against innocent civilians.  More laws and/or treaties won’t help.  Allowing civilians to defend themselves is the only effective way for civilians to be protected.  Just the opposite of what the U.N. bigots are trying to accomplish:

Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) are pushing for a treaty to “protect civilians from armed violence.”

Those three groups — which have formed a coalition called the Control Arms Campaign — say their goal is to reduce arms proliferation and misuse — “and to convince governments to introduce global principles to regulate the transfers of weapons.” They are urging the United Nations to impose a “binding arms trade treaty.”

These guys want guns to remain in the hands of the governments.  And governments were the biggest perpetrators of violence against innocents in the last century and I expect they will be in this century too.  The right to keep and bear arms is an inalienable right.  It can only be infringed, not granted or denied.

Alan Gottlieb, of course, gets in right (in the same article):

Had it not been for America, all of Europe might be speaking German. Were America not the ‘great arsenal of democracy’ that President Franklin D. Roosevelt described in 1940, the world would be a far different place, and the sanctimonious bureaucrats at the U.N. might instead be working in labor camps.

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We have done much for the U.N., and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself.