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Your prayers are needed at this time for Michael Badnarik.

Jessica,

I just received word that the President of the 2009 Continental Congress and 2004 Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, Michael Badnarik had a Heart Attack this morning and in an unconscious state. His condition is serious.

His Mother, Elaine, reported to me that Michael was in Madison, Wisconsin attending a hearing regarding a raw milk case. After the hearing he got in a car to go to lunch with friends, He then slumped over. His friends attempted CPR and contacted the paramedics. They attempted to revive him 3 times with no success. Upon the 4th attempt his heart was revived yet with erratic behavior.

He was taken by helicopter to Gunderson Lutheran Hospital CCU in Lacrosse, WI. Please do no call or visit the hospital, only family is allowed.

He has been fitted with a temporary pacemaker and a balloon pump to ease stress on his heart.

I have no further details at this time. Please watch your email box for an update.

Michael is a true asset and leader in our movement who works tirelessly and selflessly for freedom. Please pray for Michael at this time.

In Freedom,

Gary Franchi
National Director
Restore the Republic

Linked to me from: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=223891

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I suppose, every libertarian should be against any state invasion in any issues. But the worst kind of state invasion is when one state impose its colonial rule to another nation. Therefore, I guess, every true libertarian has to support the fair struggle of Pacific Unity League for independance. If you can't or don't wish go to NC, then you might support PUL by donation.

This large Pacific island was discovered by James Cook in 1774, and named Caledonia, the ancient name of Scotland, Cook's homeland. Favorable island climatic conditions and fertile soil had attracted the interest of European colonizers - traders, planters and missionaries. In 1853 France announced the island its colony. Then within 30 years the French government had deported many convicted criminals to New Caledonia.

The struggle for independence of the Kanak people, indigenous people of New Caledonia, has a long and glorious history. A new stage of this struggle began in 1985 when “Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front”, led by the outstanding son of the Kanak people Jean-Marie Tjibaou, started its activity. FLNKS had advocated the establishment of an independent Kanak state. The events on the Ouvéa Island in 1988 became culmination of the struggle. FLNKS fighters had taken hostage 27 French gendarmes and judge and demanded immediate independence. The French colonial authorities sent a special commando unit. As a result of bloody clashes, the rebels were forced to let gendarmes off. Jean-Marie Tjibaou was assassinated. But the colonizers realized that they can not longer maintain their dominance in the previous form and made some concessions.

According to the Matignon (1988) and Nouméa (1998) Accord, New Caledonia

Just a couple of things about last night:

Positives:

Tony Romo. Once again he played an outstanding game. Made the plays with his feet when necessary and was lights out with his arm. I think last night he proved that he is the franchise and true leader on the team, and because of him they pulled out a huge win.

Felix Jones. Clearly was the best back of the night with props to Marion Barber for some good runs in key moments.

Demarcus Ware. If he doesn't play then we would have had hardly any defence. What a great game from a great player.

Anthony Spencer. Big game. Made key sacks when they needed him to come up big. IF he and demarcus don't play we lose because our defence sucks.

Keith Brooking. He has quietly been solid through every game this year.

Honourable mention Jason Witten, Miles Austin, Patrick Crayton, Mike Jenkins, John Phillips

Now last night they won a good one against a team that had been lights out up until now, but there were negatives on the night. I'll just point them out for everyone to see what needs to be worked on.

Roy Williams. Had an ok game, but the drop over the middle was key and could have cost us the game. The ball was right in his hands but since he is afraid of the hits over the middle then he dropped it. I won't harp on it too much because he did make a few good plays as well.

Flozell Adams. Time is up buddy. Too many missed blocks tonight. I don't think he can play anymore and I think his time has run it's course.

Bobby Carpenter. I can't for the life of me understand why he is on the field. He is slow and f's up pretty much every play. I wish they would bench him.

Nick Folk. I've said it before but how many kicks are they going to allow him to miss. That missed field goal could have cost us the game. I know it didn't, but thats only because the defence came up huge. Once again a miss in a key situation. Prediction, not only do we see him on the field next week, but I bet we'll see him miss a key kick.

Anyways, enough about that. A little anticdote before I leave. I was watching the game with members of my family who were all Cowboys fans. Before the game they were all chirping about how the Cowboys couldn't or wouldn't win this game, however I was shutting them down with facts about how they need and will win. I believed they could do it, and they did. I guess what I am saying is, on some days, like when we were children, it just feels good to believe in the unknown. Some days, just make you realize how great it is to be a fan of the Dallas Cowboys. How great it is to live and die with this team every year for the past 25 years since i was 3 years old. Well friends that day for me was yesterday and into today. HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone,

I am setting up a group dinner for about 15 people for the last weekend of January. We're all staying at the Riviera and it would be great to find a place within 1 mile, the closer the better. I've been trying to research places online but it's hard to get a sense of what the seating/menu is like. I am from Phoenix and so I know how touristy the strip (and the food) can be, so if anyone knows of some good places I'd be much obliged. We're looking to spend approximately $15-20 a person (not including alcohol) and for a place that's vegetarian friendly. Here are some options we are considering:

Terrace Point Cafe
Thai Pepper
Firefly
First
Grand Lux Cafe
Lagasse's

Thanks to anyone who responds!

someone please tell me this is a joke

http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/Share_the_Sacrifice_Act_of_2010.pdf

thanks to alobar

TIME Magazine officially sucks.

The TIME Person of the Year for 2009 is...Ben Bernanke. Ben fucking Bernanke.

I missed it because I usually don't give a whit who is or isn't TIME's Person of the Year, considering my continual process of "waking up" and realizing these rags for what they are...but seriously?

But Bernanke also knows the economy would be much, much worse if the Fed had not taken such extreme measures to stop the panic. There's a vast difference between 10% and 25% unemployment, between anemic and negative growth. He wishes Americans understood that he helped save the irresponsible giants of Wall Street only to protect ordinary folks on Main Street. He knows better than anyone how financial crises spiral into global disasters, how the grass gets crushed when elephants fall. "We came very, very close to a depression ... The markets were in anaphylactic shock," he told TIME during one of three extended interviews. "I'm not happy with where we are, but it's a lot better than where we could be."

Yeah right. As if anything else needs to be said, I turn only to the first page of Mish's Global Economic Analysis, which reads: "Seven Banks Fail, 140 YTD total, Sheila Bair 'prepared to handle an ever-larger number of bank failures next year'".

Uh-huh.

I have no idea what to say, other than the obvious: the editors of TIME are twats.

Couple’s tax transfer runs afoul of assessor

But the county assessor’s office denied their request because its appraisers believe the Seylers sold their house for more than it was really worth. The county believes the couple owe more than $5,500 in property taxes rather than the $2,000 they had planned on.

The definition of the value of something is the price that is actually paid for it. The arrogance of government thinking that it can set a value in some manner other than that. This is a fundamental problem with giving the government so much power just because we want to get "free" stuff from other people.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/44912.html

It seems Peter needs to spend some more time w/ Ron Paul. The golden boy may know what he's talking about w/ economics but be on the PRO-PREEMPTIVE WAR bus, directly against the US constitutional mandate to 'keep out of it' so to speak. Send him a message to show your dismay/disapproval, wish to re-educate etc.
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Schiff just defended PREEMPTIVE WAR! He gave an example using the false claim that “If Iran was making a nuclear weapon as they are supposedly doing…,” then stated “I’d ask the Iranians to let our inspectors in, then if they didn’t we’d blow them up.”
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We have already written about the difficult fate of the Pacific state of Nauru after independence. It would be very unpleasant if another jewel of the Pacific - Solomon Islands, repeated the same mistakes.

Solomon Islands achieved independence from Britain in 1978. This state with a population of over half million people consists nearly a thousand islands, whose total area is 28 thousand square km. A very significant part of the Solomon Islands population continues living in the conditions of traditional society, preserving its tribal and community structures. This is largely due to the fact that European colonizers settled on the Solomon Islands later than on the other Oceania archipelagos since they were given hard rebuff their activity. Only in the 60s years of the XIX century, the European traders, planters and missionaries succeeded a firm foothold on the islands.

Since 1870, European slave traders and recruiters started to deliver the Solomon Islands inhabitants for working to the plantations in the Australian province of Queensland. The islanders were sold also to work on plantations in Fiji, New Caledonia and Samoa. While the islanders put up armed resistance, the slave traders were mercilessly killing those who resist or those who tried to flee. They staged bloody punitive expeditions and burned villages. The thousands islanders were dead of poor conditions and diseases on the plantations.

The legacy of the dark period Anglo-Australian colonization is a lopsided economy based on exports such goods as tropical timber, fish, copra and cocoa. But even this undeveloped economy has been undermined as a result of tribal conflict in 1999-2003.

In fact, the country has only just regained its economy. The state is now at the crossroads.

Solomon Islands, like Nauru, are rich in mineral resources. There are explored deposits of lead, zinc, nickel, gold, bauxite and phosphates. But the only

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Why?
Well, for one, in January they are raising the fares AGAIN. It's going to be $5.00 for a day pass. FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS. As if $4.00 wasn't ludicrous enough, they have to add an extra dollar.
Just paying the one way fare every day isn't a feasible option for me or a lot of people, since a lot of us have to take more than one bus to get back and forth from our destination(s).
I happen to be a college student, and yet college students/ID's aren't eligible for reduced fare, which is a load of bullshit to me. What college student has that kind of money? I've been using my old high school ID from last year for the past few months but now more and more drivers are noticing the date on it, I can't get away with using it for much longer.
Paying $4.00 every day for a bus pass for a month is almost $80(!) When it goes up to $5.00, it will be close to $100 a month just to ride the bus. I think it's cheaper for gas.
Granted, the 30 day passes are much more reasonable, even though they're going to be raised 10 bucks as well next month.
But if I had a reliable person to go to for rides to school every day and everywhere else I need to and/or want to go, I would seriously consider boycotting the public transit of Las Vegas. For many of us in this city, this is the only method we have of getting around, and it's already crappy enough with the scheduling and the bizarre routing without having to pay ludicrous amounts for daily bus fare, it's as if they're in a conspiracy to make life hell for every person that doesn't have a car.

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I posted before asking about piercing shops in Vegas, now Im back again. This time about tattoos.

I have one tat, but I got it while in college in Reno. So I'd like to ask you guys about your Las Vegas tattoo experiences. Good places, places to avoid, etc.

For now what I want is just some simple lettering, but I do want to eventually add more to it, so Id like to also know about artists that do good custom work, mainly with flowers, chest pieces and good coloring and shading. That's further down the road though.

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