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Grasping at vaporware.

It does not have the drama of the Inchon landing or the sweep of the Union comeback in the summer of 1864. But the turnabout of American fortunes in Iraq over the past several months is of equal moment -- a war seemingly lost, now winnable. The violence in Iraq has been dramatically reduced. Political allegiances have been radically reversed. The revival of ordinary life in many cities is palpable. Something important is happening.

And what is the reaction of the war critics? Nancy Pelosi stoutly maintains her state of denial, saying this about the war just two weeks ago: "This is not working. . . . We must reverse it." A euphemism for "abandon the field," which is what every Democratic presidential candidate is promising, with variations only in how precipitous to make the retreat.

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I'm guessing that Army readiness is somewhere around twenty-five percent. The United States no longer has an army. How is this considered winning?

When you invade a territory against the wishes of the armed inhabitants, you will lose. This is basic stuff. No need to attend a war college to divine this truth.

It has been accounted that the cost of this misadventure is around two trillion dollars. I suspect that years from now, when all the figures have been added up, the final cost will be closer to ten trillion.

"We spent ten trillion dollars fixing things we broke while bumbling around looking for slickly marketed non-threats. And we destroyed the moral authority of the United States in the process, causing it to lose political authority and, thus, causing it to destroy itself. Strike up the band; we won!"

The economics of technology make it ever more possible for rice farmers and hut dwellers to lay an army low.

You walked in there. That you have risen to your knees after being flat on your backs is not a victory.

I love war. I love battle. I love the spirit of the contest. This Iraqi Misadventure was launched by those who know absolutely nothing about warfare.

Get back in your stall.

Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers.

In some cases, judges have granted the requests without requiring the government to demonstrate that there is probable cause to believe that a crime is taking place or that the inquiry will yield evidence of a crime. Privacy advocates fear such a practice may expose average Americans to a new level of government scrutiny of their daily lives.

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Some in my audience believe me on this point, others do not: The federal "government" acts wholly in and on behalf of moneyed interests. The government isn't for you. You have not had lawful government since at least 1913. (When organized monetary theft was legalized with the Federal Reserve Act.) The FBI, for example, acts for bankers who hate the Liberty Dollar because they cannot counterfeit it.

And this "fugitives and other criminal suspects" bit? That HR 1959 bill effectively makes political dissent illegal. That makes "criminals" out of any who would express political dissent like "maybe war isn't such a good idea." This cellphone tracking makes it possible to locate someone for easy snatching off the street.

The "government" can designate anyone a criminal.

"Drug traffickers! Baby eaters! Mother humpers and father rapers! ...And, uh, other criminal suspects, like, um... you."

The federal "government" operates exclusively in two modes:

1. As an instrument of coercion for the gain of an organized crime syndicate, while
2. Throwing a few bones to the people to make them think that it works for them.

Some would say, "Chris, you're silly. Aren't you being a little paranoid? You would allow your friends and family to track you by your cellphone... Why not the government? We're here to protect you... From the drugs. And the terriss."

Yeah, I've heard this argument before. Just a couple differences here: One, I can turn the tracking feature off and can also decide who among my circle may track me, and, two, my friends and family do not consider gang rape and waterboarding and (forced) cum eating to be appropriate behavior.

I am willing to give friends and family a key to my house. I would not extend the same privilege to the village troglodytes, who have demonstrated themselves unsuited for polite company.

Government employees have conducted themselves as animals. Let them stay in the barn. But do not EVER allow them into the house.

They're Demons!

An updated John Carpenter classic, "They Live."

They have substance eaters too, I guess.

British MEPs have reacted with outrage to a planned Euro-census which would demand details about every woman's sexual partners.

UK Independence Party MEP Derek Clark urged women to protest by claiming they are virgins or have 1,000 sexual partners if the proposal is approved.

The proposed new European Commission power to collect facts and figures on population and housing across the EU would go further than any national census, Mr Clark warned.

The information the Commission wants to be allowed to gather includes information on the "consensual unions" of all women in the EU.

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See, customers of those old-fashioned, uppity, fuddy-duddy "states" have to submit to all kinds of stupid stuff.

I'm looking over my agreement with USov. It says here:

"Should any United Sovereigns of America employee ever demand to know how many people you've fucked, you are within your rights to drive a fist right through their face. Then we'll fire that employee. Why do you have this right? Because we want your business. You could easily hire someone else in this new age of the absence of territorial jurisdiction. Thanks."

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Damien Rice

I just stumbled upon this guy the other day.

My first item for sale:

One white pair of jockey-style underwear, purchased as part of a 3-pak at the liquidation store. Yellow stain in front. Price: $10,000.

Please send a check to the PO box. I will sign the article upon request for an additional $5000.

I have seized upon a new revenue model.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before.

I will lovingly produce by my own hand physical objects that people can buy. People like to hold things in their hands and possess them and drain the very life force from them and trot them out at parties.

I will sign each work and it will come with a certificate of authenticity that reads:

THIS IS A CERTIFIED PIECE OF SHIT THAT CHRIS KING POP ICON PRODUCED. IT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF SELLING DRINKS TO PEOPLE WHO OTHERWISE WOULD ONLY EAT THE FREE PRETZELS AND FART.

PLEASE ENJOY YOUR NEW ACQUISITION.

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From on around 1984, if I remember correctly.

The ramshackle house and the junk in the yard reminds me of something I would see in Vermont. But it's beautiful in its way.

I would have been interested in this case five years ago.

But now it's moot.

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will determine whether the District of Columbia's strict firearms law violates the Constitution, a decision that will raise the politically and culturally divisive issue of gun control just in time for the 2008 elections.

The court's examination of the meaning of the Second Amendment for the first time in nearly 70 years carries broad implications for gun-control measures locally and across the country.

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Since there no longer is such a thing as territorial jurisdiction, any decision would apply only to members of the political unions in question. So you could have a member of PPU New York and PPU USov walking side-by-side down the street in any territory. The PPU New York member would be prohibited from carrying a sidearm whereas the USov member would have that right.

It's an interesting aspect of this New Political Landscape.

Some campaign slogans.

"There isn't a fluffy pen in Chris King Pop Icon's My Little Pony purse. Just another fist."

"My plan to get the Jews to shut the fuck up? Four words: Chris King Pop Icon."

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"There's no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard... only another fist."

The other Republican candidates may have more money and better poll numbers, but Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee isn’t worried about any of that. He is the only GOP contender who can claim support of the imposing force that is Chuck Norris.

In a new TV ad set to begin airing this week in Iowa, Huckabee appears alongside the action movie star and cult icon with a warning for voters.

“Chuck Norris doesn’t endorse. He tells America how it’s gonna be,” Huckabee says in the new ad.

After cleaning up the Lone Star state as “Walker: Texas Ranger,” and fighting terrorists in “Delta Force,” Norris is taking his roundhouse kicks to the campaign trail on Huckabee’s behalf. If Norris can turn Barry Gabrewski from bully victim to karate champion, he’s certainly a good “Sidekick” to have.

While Norris tells viewers Huckabee’s plans to “protect our 2nd Amendment rights” and “put the IRS out of business,” the candidate shares some insights about the movie star.

“My plan to secure the border? Two words: Chuck Norris,” Huckabee says.

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Come again? My robotic arms are too noisy for me to hear you.

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The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.

To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases.

Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.

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I suggest that we enact a special Bat Mitzvah Tax. What's that? Say you want to put on a disgusting spectacle of excess for your precious daughter. (Preferably with ten million dollars of embezzled money.) If your disgusting spectacle costs more than $500, you pay ten percent to compensate the military for the signing bonuses of veterans who can't complete their terms due to their artificial limbs, glass eyes, and colostomy bags.

I certainly hope no veteran has paid Dime One back. If I were to receive a such a letter, I would regard it as so out of line that it must be a clerical error of some sort. I would throw it in the trash where it belongs.

I want to have spoken my final cross word about Jews.

But here's what angers me:

You come home to find your girlfriend beaten unconscious and raped.

Your best friend, who is forever lamenting that everyone hates him and he doesn't know why, fingers someone. So you go completely apeshit on that someone. Your buddy is egging you on the whole way.

Well... Come to find out... It was your alleged best friend who did it.

So you can see why I would go completely apeshit on Jews. Right about now, all I can do when I even see a Jew is to roll my eyes.

Thanks for completely fucking up my relationships with Jews.

And you knew who it was... You somehow knew... You had your suspicions... You heard the whispers. You knew what your troglodyte nation was all about.

Will you redeem yourselves? I doubt it. But if you wanted to, you could start by scaling back on that disgusting spectacle known as the bat mitzvah (paid for with 10 mill in embezzled money) and buy that veteran a new fake leg. Or that veteran with a scar-tissue face and that amorphous hole where his mouth used to be? Buy him a new face so he can find himself a girlfriend.

I don't like bad blood. So I will forgive you. But it's gonna take some effort on my part. Forgive me if I seem angry sometimes.

So if the very notion of territorial jurisdiction was extinguished,

what is the practical result for the states' Lovingly Compiled Compendia of Shit-Caked Pieces of Paper?

Let's take this as an example: The State of Vermont says that bars within its territory may not permit smoking. (The State cannot perform its most basic functions, so it busies itself with flashy crowd-pleasers like this.) This prohibition exists despite the fact that neither the proprietor of the bar nor the patrons may have a problem with it.

In the absence of territory, the law has no effect.

The State's agents will likely try to enforce the law. I would imagine that the bar owner's PPU security will be successful in convincing the State's agents to go home without causing a scene.

"Yeah, that's a silly law anyway."

"Not to mention that you no longer have jurisdiction. There is a cost associated with not performing your assigned function, you know. Your customer is now ours. Goodbye."

And in the absence of territory (a component of the definition of a "state") the states become merely PPU's, operating on a similar moral footing with any other PPU's within the territory.

Let's do a comparison, using the State of Vermont (for no particular antagonistic reason) and United Sovereigns of America:



PPU of Vermont's Customers:

• Require permission to work.
• Require permission to travel.
• Pay yearly fees equal to income, sales, and property taxes.
• May not smoke in bars.
• May not grow the wonder crop and wonder food known as hemp.
• Get finger-fucked on demand.

USA's Customers:

• Require no man's permission to work.
• Require no man's permission to travel.
• Pay $5000 per year in fees.
• Can smoke in bars, if the proprietor permits it.
• Are free to do what they please, assuming that such action does not run counter to USA's guidelines or its Interoperability Agreements with other PPU's.
• Are free to drive a .45 round into the face of any who would finger-fuck them.

As you can imagine, the PPU's will siphon away the customers of the states until the states' only customers are the welfare recipients. This will cause budgetary problems. Bye bye, states.

There is a cost associated with not performing your assigned function.

"Chris! This PPU scheme is unworkable! We'll have lawlessness!"

What do you think we have now?

It's a new world, everyone. Wake up, open your eyes, and move forward. Yesterday is gone.

It would be an interesting exercise--

--for some enterprising economics student to calculate the amount of wealth stolen each year through fractional reserve banking.

It would go something like this: The amount of cash and savings and checkings deposits in Cootersville is ten million dollars. (We exclude real estate and stocks and bonds and the like because, despite the value of the currency in which they are traded, they will still retain their value.) If the money supply is increased (inflated) by five percent in a year, then it would seem that five hundred thousand dollars were stolen from the people of Cootersville by the Penny Shiners and their conspirators in "government."

It is difficult to calculate the theft because the Penny Shiners have made the M3 figure a big secret.

Just imagine: It's like the Russkies in 1950 driving tanks down the street and stealing five percent of the savings of Americans at gunpoint each year. Would you be outraged? Fractional reserve banking is just an elegant scheme of thievery. And it's less detectable by the common man than anything those nasty, ol' Russkies could dream up.

What would Americans' standard of living be like today if some foreign power had not been stealing a certain percentage of your wealth each year?

Betcha they'd take LIberty Dollars.

The Taj Mahal may have been built as a testament to love but some hard-headed business decisions are now holding sway at India's most famous monument. First among them is that the US dollar is no longer welcome.

With parts of the American economy in turmoil and the dollar rapidly losing its long-held position as the currency of choice, Indian authorities have calculated they are losing considerable sums of money by allowing foreign tourists to pay using greenbacks.

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Now you see why the FBI wants them out of business.

Have you sold your interest in that pig currency yet?

Buying gold coins is easy: Pick one: American Eagles, Canadian Maple Leafs, Krugerrands, Pandas, or even the Liberty Dollar. The price you will pay will be somewhere around three percent above the "spot price" of gold. Go here to check out the prevailing prices: kitco.com

And eventually the US "government" will make owning and trading in gold coins illegal. They'll say that the Terriss use gold coins. But what they're really doing is forbidding the use of gold coins so that their penny-shining masters' pig currency will still have some value. They'll try to seize your gold coins, so DO NOT keep them in a safe-deposit box.

The US "government" will brand you a terriss for owning coins. The proper response at that point is, "Please fuck off immediately."

Everything except the bars.

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Well at least someone's got balls around here.

John McCain often says on the campaign trail that he wants to take on the system in Washington. Usually, he's talking about congressional spending and pork-barrel projects. But he also wants to challenge the system of protection that forces presidents to live life in a bubble.

"It's my intention, if we win this nomination, to reject Secret Service," he said during one of his many conversations with reporters on his Straight Talk Express this weekend. "Why do I need it?"

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