They are despicable barely-human pieces of government filth. Nazis. Liars.

Read all about the injustice of the “Lodi Terrorist Cell” here.

This shit stresses me out.

What the Hell is this, East Germany?

Pevious post on the subject here.

Update: Raimondo’s take.

There are a million WordPress Widgets and plugins (I haven’t widgetized the theme yet, but I’m getting around to it) that can add all kinds of crazy features to this site. What I’m wondering is, what features would you like to see? Live Chat? More Newsfeeds in the sidebar? Random Quotes? Spyware infections? (just kidding. I’d neeeeevvveerr….do that).
Drop a comment if you have any ideas, and I’ll give them some consideration.

They’ve done it again. Excellent.

“WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for government employees to file lawsuits claiming they were retaliated against for going public with allegations of official misconduct.”

Read it over at Yahoo News

Boy, is it ever a hell of a thing to want the Rockefellers to win.

Especially after reading Palast’s new book.

I am always amazed when I read Rothbard. I wonder if he and Bill Hicks are pals in the pretend after-life.

Here is just one choice cut out of an incredible article about the great Harry Elmer Barnes:

“One of Barnes’ most important contributions to Cold War Revisionism came in the spring of 1958, when he published what is still the best single article on what might be called “Hiroshima Revisionism” – the real reasons for dropping the A-bombs on Japan. Barnes was here the only writer – and, remarkably, remains the only writer to this day – to make use of the highly significant MacArthur memorandum to F.D.R. of January 20, 1945. This forty-page memorandum explicitly set forth the terms of an authentic Japanese peace offer which were virtually identical with the final surrender terms that we accepted from the Japanese seven months later – at the cost of countless needlessly expended lives, Japanese and American alike. The proffered terms included: complete surrender of all Japanese forces and arms; occupation of Japan and its possessions by Allied troops under American direction; Japanese relinquishment of all territory gained during the war, as well as Manchuria, Korea, and Formosa; regulation of Japanese industry to prohibit any production of war implements; release of all prisoners of war and surrender of any war criminals so designated by the United States.

This MacArthur memorandum, the details of which were later fully confirmed by the general, was leaked in strict confidence to Walter Trohan of the Chicago Tribune by Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to the President, who was alarmed lest Roosevelt might fail to follow through on the Japanese proposal, which proved to be the case. As soon as the war with Japan was ended, Trohan was free to publish these revelations, which completely established the American knowledge of what were later to be fully acceptable Japanese peace terms. And yet, apart from Harry Barnes, no Hiroshima Revisionist to date has made use of them. They are equally indispensable to those who have presumed to write on the last year of the war between the United States and Japan and on Roosevelt’s conduct at the Yalta Conference, but they have been ignored by all such writers to the present time. Nothing has annoyed Barnes more than the timidity or dull-wittedness of those historians who call themselves Revisionists but have consistently and deliberately refused to make use of the MacArthur memorandum after Barnes had not only repeatedly called their attention to it but had also furnished several of them with copies and all the related documentation required fully to authenticate it.”

My apologies to anyone who’s ever heard me say that the Japanese had been trying to surrender since May. It was January.

If the world even survives that long, the historians of future courts in other places will surely not forget this.

I thought I should explain some things about leaving comments here. We always welcome just about any comment from anyone, because we post here to discuss issues. We have, however, been receiving at least 2 dozen spam comments per day. These spammers create scripts that automate the process of sending comments, including filling out form info - email, URI, name etc.
One way to combat the spam is to restrict who can leave comments to registered users. I will not take that step, because it restricts the discussion at the same time. The option I’m left with is setting up various filters that screen comments based on variable criteria. A filter is like a bouncer outside a club. Before you can get past him, he applies rules, such as a minimum age, that you must pass. I have set up several different layers of filters to try to get rid of spam, some of them are quite harsh. For example, there are a list of blacklisted words that result in a comment being deleted automatically before it ever appears. There is a much longer list of phrases and words that result in comments being held in a moderation queue that I check at least once per day. Third, I’m using the “akismet” plugin, which has proven much more effective than the other filters. On many occasions, these filters have held legitimate comments in a queue, and there is even a possibility that they have deleted legitimate comments (although probably not). Bottom line: If you have posted a comment that has not immediately appeared on the site, it will before the end of the day.
We have also deleted some comments based on bigoted or offensive content. We reserve the option to do so in the future as well.
In the interests of full disclosure, here is the list of blacklisted words:
casino, blackjack, carisoprodol, cyclen, cyclobenzaprine, cialis, coolcoolhu, coolhu, discreetordering, fioricet, holdem, holdempoker, holdemsoftware, levitra, poker, poze, tramadol, zolus, valeofglamorganconservatives, ultram, vioxx, xanax, tamiflu, phentermine, adipex, hydrocodone, ambien, tramadol, fioricet

Mr. Lif wrote a song about it.

When I sold my sticker company and my 600 something stickers, I also gave up control of the stickers and site. The time honored classic “I wish I could go back in time to murder Woodrow Wilson,” was removed by the current owner based upon some really crappy advice or something.

Well, now I’m selling stickers again. And I can have back all the ones that were too much for ol’ Rick.

So here goes one of the old greats - now with improved jpg. of a time machine.