Jerusalem doggie DNA database to trace poo offenders
Amusing.
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Looks like species can invade other areas without people bringing them there…I have no intention of reviving a certain annoying thread, but what do ya know.
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LOL, yeah, I’m sure people had NOTHING to do with floating docks, right?
“certain annoying thread”, LOL give me a break!
LOL, yeah, I’m sure only stuff that humans create is capable of floating, right?
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LOL, yeah, I’m sure only stuff that humans create is capable of floating, right?
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Do you have a point?
Did you?
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Did you?
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Yes. My point is that saying this,
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Looks like species can invade other areas without people bringing them there
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whilst linking to a story almost entirely about a large floating dock (human built) washing up in Oregon is stupid.
EPA power grab to regulate ditches, gullies on private property# ‘Proof’ Links Flame, Stuxnet Super Cyber Weapons: Researchers
From reddit, I had to post it, thought you would appreciate the humour. I didn’t post the pic because it was too big.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/uwlxc/one_of_my_patients_in_the_er_handed_me_this_when/
Still Voting For ‘Mitt Romney’?
Lawsuit: TSA Claims It Can Lie To The Public
Mitt Romney: Sen. Paul Is A Leader In The Effort To Scale Back The Size Of Government
Penny Freeman, former staffer in tears over Ron Paul betrayals
Rand Paul’s endorsement of Mitt Romney explained
Adam Kokesh Voices Concern Over Direction of Paul Inc
An Appeal to Ron Paul, on Mitt Romney
Ron Paul, John Boehner and Endorsements
When Murray Rothbard Endorsed George Bush
Ron Paul is Becoming Something More Important Than President
Why Rand Was Right to Endorse Romney
Pseudo-Science Masquerading as Science
Leon Panetta: Macho Renaissance man
Romney keeps secrets _ unless law says he can’t
Must-Watch: O’Donnell on Romney and War
Obama thinks “the private sector is doing fine” & you’re a moron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4FTQvwRrWc
I decided to include the two things Tom Woods talks about in his video…
Here is where I woke up from my snooze durring the 07 debates - Ron Paul vs the annoying Giuliani:
(Remind me never to move to South Carolina)
And that picture of the college kid hugging Ron Paul 
An extremely interesting talk by David Friedman:
According to van Notten, there are oaths In Somali law; the strongest oath is you swear 50 times on your wives (that is, that you will be divorced if you are found to have been lying). I have long suspected the theory he mentions about religious belief playing a role in acting as a kind of “reputation verification/lie detection” device.
One of the most notable features of religious practice is the fact that most of the major religions require weekly - or even more frequent - attendance in person to the temple/church/synagogue/whatever. What is the purpose of this? I think it’s a “bare minimum” kind of reputation verification. By showing up every week, you are voluntarily imposing on yourself a kind of standard of decency in non-obvious ways. Usually, you have to get up early. You usually dress well. While this is all justified in the name of appearing before God, the fact is that you are appearing in front of other people and having regular dealing with them, even if it has no commercial aspect. The same “game theoretic” dynamics for repeated-dealings suddenly kick in. If you’re a rude person and you operate a roach motel in a tourist trap, your customers are captives of your ill hospitality and have little or no recourse. Each new customer gets screwed and then moves on never to return again but you get away with it because there are always more where the last ones came from.
Church is the opposite of this situation and it’s a situation that is entered into voluntarily. It forces you to be polite and friendly to the people around you, to have enough initiative and discipline to be able to show up for a 9am service dressed in your Sunday best and showered/shaved/etc. Often, there is food involved after the service and I would be interested to see if the evolutionary psychologists have identified eating together as a sign of “bonding” or unity.
Anyway, I’m pointing this out only to say that I don’t think that belief in a fictional being (such as Yahweh or Elohim) is requisite for this kind of mechanism to work. I think that the agnostic aspects of religious practice and belief could be fully functional in contributing to social order even without the central dogmas and delusions that are used by the priesthood to enforce orthodoxy.
Clayton -
A dog is being killed for thought crime in N. Ireland
The ‘Rodney Dangerfield’ of laws: Idling limits (aka one more bullshit law agents of the State can use whenever they feel like making your life hell)
Crazy shit, dude!
http://archive.suite101.com/article.cfm/frontier_theory/10037
In this never-before-seen video, Rothbard gives a tribute to his mentor in Austrian economics, Ludwig von Mises, at a Libertarian Party convention in Pennsylvania in 1984. Rothbard discusses Mises’s work and life, and the growing popularization of his ideas in the United States.
CNN cancels John King’s evening show
Former ‘Goodfellas’ gangster Henry Hill dies in LA
US Anti-Doping Agency charges Armstrong
State Department Pays $6,600 per Kindle for 2,500 Kindles
On the Murray Rothbard-Rand Paul Supposed Endorsement Connection
Endless Wars, Endless U.S. Interventions
The Atrocity That’s Never Discussed
Sherk and Zywicki: Obama’s United Auto Workers Bailout
Murray Rothbard Gives a Tribute to Ludwig von Mises
Why Are We Spending So Much To Lock Up Elderly Prisoners Who Pose Little Threat?
Ethiopia criminalises Skype
From the article:
Headline should read: Path-Breaking 3rd-World Dictatorship Leads the Way on Internet Accountability
I wonder how much foreign aid that government gets.