Once again, health officals meddling with private contracts.

One of the ice cream parlors here in Columbia Missouri has been serving Cicada ice cream.   Sparkys (what its called) also sells Guiness Floats(I get these) and White Russians, so they aren't a traditional ice cream parlor.

They sold out of their first batch apparently within hours, but health officals here axed it.  And whats even worse, they have nothing on the books pertaining to cicadas.  So on top of interfering with private contract, they are doing whatever they want EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NOTHING IN THE FOOD CODE ABOUT IT.   They wanted to axe it because meat is supposed to be kept above a certain temperature, but do you think they treat bacon ice cream the same way?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13498461

holding somebody unlawfully is somewhat Orwellian, but holding somebody in what's described as a "positive behaviour unit"really does sound doubly Orwellian.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13709515

for those who don't know David Kelly was the man who compiled the dodgy dossier which the Blair government justified the invasion of Iraq upon.

I'm in little doubt that the security services assassinated Kelly & mocked up his suicide & I guess this government like the last doesn't want any inquest revealing it bumps people it fears

Anybody else think that Danko Jones and the Dalai Lama look a lot alike?

http://www.ausparty.org.au/

Former State National Party Minister Bob Katter is a bit of a maverick here in Australia. He was a former Minister to Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen, one of the longest serving Premiers in Queensland. After state politics Bob Katter took his protectionist policies to Canberra becoming the Member for Kennedy. He has a long pedigree in the National Party of Australia, and as a result of his independent style went rogue back in his early days in Canberra.

The reason I say this is he, has started a new political party, called the Australia Party. It's aim is to bring back trade protectionism into Australian economic policy. He does oppose the AGW carbon tax which has been proposed, however there is that little issue of freedom in trade.

What is everyone's opinion on how they see things unfolding in the U.S. over the next few years?  Are we going to have a slow, gradual decline where most of us accept a lower standard of living?  Will there be an economic catastrophe?  If so, will it lead to a complete loss of liberty or a rebirth of liberty?  Will secession of one or more states happen? I'm assuming, of course, that everybody who reads this think that DC cannot be reformed.

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So I'm having a discussion on some leftist forum and the guy I'm talking with has hit upon a very interesting tactic. He has begun simply pasting this same quote in every one of his responses:

"I do not like anyone stopping me from indulging my unchecked greed and malicious expoitative impulses..if I wanna use my natural advantages and position to exploit, hose, and use desperate workers, that's my business. Let me be a wolf, let me be myself...free, I was born free, and you gotta break a few eggs to make a freedom omelet" ...that's the argument you are making."

With all the talk by the mantra anarchists (a new term I've coined) of "putting people in cages", "men with guns ....", etc., I got to thinking.  Right now, the government has people in cages who, in my opinion, deserve to be in cages.  But if all of this caging is being funded by tax dollars, shouldn't we let everyone out.  After all, not everyone consenting to their tax dollars being used to cage these men and women?  What about the pacifist?

Back to the subject.  The State is doing legitimate things such as building roads, caging violent criminals, etc.  Should the consistent anarchist be agitating for the abolition of the judicial system?  Or should there be a correct order for the de-socialization of gov't enterprises?

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I *love* Penn Jilette. I've never seen his magic show but I am a big fan of Bullshit. Not to mention, at like 6'7" and 320-ish pounds, he has to be one of the sexiests Libertarians on the planet. Also, he has an awesome laugh.

He and Teller did a piece on high fructose corn syrup, ethanol and corn that I wanted to share. It's NSFW but wonderful in it's logic and delivery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZ5hzEWj4w

I play one Facebook game and it's started a thing where people can sell the "stuff" they accumulate. When you sell something you have to pay a 10% "coin fee". A tax right? Wrong! The instructions of the game say flat out that it's to keep too many coins from being in circulation. If there are too many coins ou tthere it will cause prices to go up.

http://superpokepets.com/spp/playground/topic?tid=9drGhDggsSu4dJShv5Mt6A...

So, why don't Bush, Obama, Bernake etc...understand this?

Here it is cut and copied incase you have to play the game to view the forum.

The Scottish National Party have for the first time now have a overall majority in the Scottish parliament.

The SNP want independence for Scotland & will no doubt use their majority in parliament to push for thi.

Scottish secession from the UK could be happening.

I ran across an article in USATODAY(the university I'm at provides them for free like I assume many others do) about the refusal to release photographs of the body or any actual proof.  Throughout the article, they refer to people who are skeptical as being conspiracy theorists. 

One of my friends brought up WWII after Hitler was pronounced dead.  Stalin wouldn't believe it until he saw the body and demanded some sort of proof.   UBL was pronounced dead and there is a refusal to release photograhs or show an uninterested 3rd party any evidence whatsoever.

http://progressivesforronpaul.blogspot.com/2011/04/open-letter-10-ways-f...

None of our troops are coming home. We will still be over there for some reason. *coughoilcough*

This is going to piss off the extremists and could cause (will likely cause) another terrorist attack.

This is just going to inflate the American military ego and things are going to get worse.

UBL was a bad person, and to be honest, the world is better off without him. I just worry about ramifications. And again, nothing will change.

Unfortunately, someone hit my parked car Friday night while I was asleep...the same day I picked the car up from the mechanics after having $822 worth of work done to the motor and the brakes. :( Anyway, you know the insurance is going to want to have a police report, so my mom called them. From hearing my mothers side of the conversation, they were trying to find every reason why a cop shouldn't have to come to my place. I was like, "Why do thye not want to come out here? There are two donut shops between the police station and here!?!" Nonetheless, we told the police that the insurance company told us not to drive the car and that they needed a police report. Someone was going to have to come out here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc&feature=player_embedded

Brilliant &even more brilliant then the first video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

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