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If You Hate Taxes . . .

Found at the excellent blog What Would Jack Do?:

If you’re a conservative who hates taxes, please do the following.

Do not use Medicare.
Do not use Social Security
Do not become a member of the US military, who are paid with tax dollars.
Do not ask the National Guard to help you after a disaster.
Do not call 911 when you get hurt.

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"There are a number of people here [at Liberty Forum] who have been going to Tea Parties and have been turned off by all the nationalism," he said, "agreeing that [Republicans] all want a piece of it. The question is, how do we reach those people?"

Perhaps the better question is, how do you prevent those people from allowing what was a genuine grass-roots opposition to the Republican mainstream platform to become part of the Republican mainstream platform?

A 7-foot tall marijuana plant grew in plain sight on a busy street all summer long until police finally figured it out and destroyed it.

"'I don't know if somebody was watering this thing every day or what was going on, but it was a nice-looking marijuana plant,' [the Orem cop] says.

"He doesn't think it got to be 7 feet tall because people were intentionally turning a blind eye to the pot in their midst."

Blue Dog Democrats and Decline to State voters are swaying California toward Ron Paul

There is a new revolution happening in California, and this time it is not coming from the Left or the Right, but from the Center. The people are adopting new identities: the “Decline to State” and “Blue Republicans”.

These two groups, both inclined toward the Center or toward candidates outside of the mainstream, are poised to have a big impact upon California’s upcoming primary.

http://youtu.be/WSTN4CPIXvA

POST MILLS, Vt. – Does a 25-foot-tall, 122-foot-long dinosaur need a permit to avoid extinction?

That's the unlikely dilemma posed by "Vermontasaurus," a whimsical sculpture thrown together with scrap wood by a Vermont man. The oddity now faces opposition from neighbors and regulatory challenges from government entities that he fears could force him to dismantle it.

10 years after 9/11 many Americans are still utterly baffled why "they" hate "us"? President Bush said they hate our freedoms. But analysts who offered more in depth answers were decried as blaming America.

To answer this question we need another approach. So, what happens if you we reverse the roles? In this thought experiment East becomes West, Muslim becomes Christian, and oil will become unobtainium, the fictional mineral from the movie Avatar.

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US ~ (FL) miaminewtimes.com - Adams is an exemplary cop if his personnel record is any indication... But he says the state's largest police department has become a menace, regularly abusing and humiliating the people it's sworn to protect -- and then lying about it. "They're supposed to be my brothers in blue," he says, struggling to keep his voice audible as his eyes become soggy. "But they're not my brothers -- not when they're treating people like this...

This is a video (out now) and book (coming soon) on the production cycle, from extraction to disposal. The video is simple and cartoonish and obviously made to reach kids. Would love for the FTL guys to watch it and spend a segment or two commenting on it as it comtains some truth, and some not-so-truths.

Some particularly appalling quotes from the video are, "it's the government's job to watch out for us and to take care of us..that's their job."

"Extraction is a fancy word for natural resource exploitation, which is a fancy word for trashing the planet", according to the video.