Veronica Mars

I started watching Veronica Mars when I found them filming in downtown San Diego (I thought they were going to start filming "Renegade" again) and let's be honest, she's totally my type. Witty, smart, well-written, sort of like Buffy meets Nancy Drew meets JB Fletcher. Check out the big brain on her.

Pat Buchanon is Wrong

His latest column links the VT shooter to the influx of immigrants to the United States:

What happened in Blacksburg cannot be divorced from what's been
happening to America since the immigration act brought tens of millions of
strangers to these shores, even as the old bonds of national community began to
disintegrate and dissolve in the social revolutions of the 1960s...Before 1970,
we were a people, a community, a country. Students would have said aloud of Cho:
"Who is this guy? What's the matter with him?" .

See, this is where he loses me, when he makes his point about the inherent flaw of having a "gun free zone" I'm with him. But what Pat fails to note is that one of his instructors demanded that Cho be removed from the class she taught because of the red flags he was waving (the violent imagery in his writings, for example). It's not even mentioned. Also, Cho had a record of sending threatening and harassing emails to women. So yes, the people around him were wondering what was wrong with him. No one who could do anything about it did anything about it. That was the problem.

70 Percent of Praise is Sarcastic

Report: 70 Percent Of All Praise Sarcastic

Sesame Streets

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Martin Scorsese directed "Sesame Street"? No, well fuck you. Fuck you and your mother:

Freedom to Fascism

We are on the road to complete tyranny unless the citizens of this country wake up:

And Justice for All

More links.

Welcome to America-

www.paynoincometax.com

www.givemeliberty.org

http://triallogs.blogspot.com/

The Great Communicator

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments' programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth."

Ronald Wilson Reagan gave this speech in 1964 stumping for Barry Goldwater. He talks about the dangers of appeasement, largesse of government, Social Security, the stripping away of private property rights. Sixteen years later, he would be elected president.

I'd vote for him now if I could. Watch and listen to one of our greatest presidents here

The Trial of the Century

Whether you believe that there is no law that makes anyone liable to pay income taxes or not, it's fascinating listening to the audioblog entries regarding Irwin Schiff's criminal trial. The man is representing himself and is fighting for his life. He has both the judge and the prosecution as his adversaries. All of the entries are based on observations from the peanut gallery (an MSM blackout is in effect). But it seems as if Irwin is able to get his message out and the jury is listening.

Today's entries deal with among other things, the testimony of the IRS agent who signed off on taking one hundred percent of Irwin's social security check. The IRS agent based his authority for his action on a specific code section. That code section (which the agent read out loud in court) specifically limits the amount that can be levied to fifteen percent. The response to that fact by the judge and the IRS agent is telling. For more, listen here: http://triallogs.blogspot.com/

Irwin Schiff

Today, jury selection began in the criminal trial of Irwin Schiff. A patriot who has spent his entire life showing that there is no law that makes an individual liable for the payment of income tax or a tax protestor whose arguments have gotten him sent to jail? Well, both statements are true. The author of the book "The Federal Mafia: How the government illegally imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes" has detailed his experiences with over the past few years with the government and the justice system. His website www.paynoincometax.com has a timeline and every single motion that he has filed with the court. www.irwinschiff.blogspot.com is an audio blog that will give daily updates with regards to the trial.

Irwin, I wish you the best and I hope you kick the governments ass.

The largest freakin zit in the whole world

This is amazing, try to watch the entire video without throwing up

Joe Bannister

What happens when you swear an oath to uphold the law in the service of an organization who acts like it is above it? Ex-IRS agent Joe Bannister was a CPA who decided to try public service by working for the IRS. Research that he did on his own led him to believe that the income tax is enforced illegally. Going to his superiors with his research led to an invitation for his resignation a week later. The story isn't over, the government has gone after him for vocalizing the research that he has done. This week is the first week of his trial. Read the story here

I hope Joe kicks their ass.

Update 6/23/05: Joe Bannister acquitted. Read full story and links here

My Pick for Chief Justice

Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything—and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

Justice Clarence Thomas in his dissent in Gonzales v Raich (03-1454)

Here's another quote from his dissent:

If the majority is to be taken seriously, the Federal Government may now regulate quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States. This makes a mockery of Madison’s assurance to the people of New York that the "powers delegated" to the Federal Government are "few and defined," while those of the States are "numerous and indefinite."

Just for recognizing that the federal government is actually limited by the Constitution sold me. Now, if only there were a strict constructionist majority on the Supreme Court. . .

Another Step

William Wallace Lear has taken another small step forward in exposing the income tax in this country for the fraud that it is. Read his story here.

I think that the income tax here in the United States will come down like the Berlin Wall. I don't know if anyone will see it coming; but when it happens, it will be a watershed moment. Let's pray that it comes sooner rather than later.

Bob Schultz and his group We the People seem to be making some good progress in trying to get the government accountable to the Constitution.

For anyone out there who wants to see what other people think about all of these tax protestors, check out quatloos.com.

Everything I need to know I Iearned in 8th Grade

Look how much "progress" we've made in 100 hundred years. Click on this link to see the 8th grade FINAL EXAM from an elementary school in Kansas in 1895. No wonder it was so rare for people to go to college back then. I wonder how many people graduating from college over the next few months would fare in taking this exam.

Lets hear it for government schools.

Cameron Diaz

This site The Best Page in the Universe has a funny take on Cameron Diaz and her show on MTV called "Trippin". His criticism is right on about the show:

Of course, having a show in which the hosts prattle on and on about conservation and environmental causes, it makes you wonder how they're able to do it without sounding like giant hypocrites as they fly around on helicopters and jets, all while using enough electricity to power a small city. Simply put: they can't, but that doesn't stop them from trying.

The way they try to avoid this nagging ideological contradiction is by stating: "Trippin' has offset all the pollution created from energy use in making the show, to ensure that it would not contribute to global warming." They supposedly do this by buying "clean air credits." Great idea assholes, so instead of owning up to your shitty ideals and not polluting, you pay someone else not to pollute. Maybe we should all try to pay someone off every time we want to do something that might inconvenience us. I was going to go on a diet, but it's too hard, so I'm going to pay someone else to diet for me. I was going to do a show about community service, but doing the actual work was too inconvenient, so I'm going to pay someone to do it for me. Eat shit you elitist morons.

Classic.

The Nuclear Option

If everything holds to true to form, the filibuster in the Senate Judiciary committee that has been going on over certain judicial nominees is going to end this week. It's about time. What is the point of having a majority if you are not going to exercise the associated power that comes with it?

UporDownvote.com has been following the circus with the Judiciary Committee over the past four plus years.

Newsmax gives a breakdown of the procedure here

That Shooting on TV

In the City of Long Beach, police officers are on video shooting a man to death this week. You can get the story here. That the guy died is terrible, but I always wonder about the circumstances that put someone in a position to get shot by the police. Chris Rock put out an informative video a few years back that everyone should watch so situations like this are minimized.

I love the 90's

It's hard to believe that President Clinton was in office over 10 years ago and we still can't get him out of the spotlight.

Robert Novak published a column this week that talks about an Independent Counsel that was convened back in the mid-nineties to investigate then Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros. The still unreleased report from Independent Counsel David Barrett supposedly has evidence that Secretary Cisneros was able to get a tax fraud investigation transferred from a regional office to Washington DC, where it was squashed. To me that seems to be business as usual. The thing that piqued my interest about the report is what Mr. Barrett was able to find out since his investigation is the first of the IRS with subpoena power. You can read Novak's column here.

Thomas Sowell

One of my favorite writers, Dr. Thomas Sowell is coming out with a new book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals: And Other Cultural and Ethnic Issues" as such; he's on C-Span (he rarely is on TV). An expert on economics who studied under Milton Friedman, his books "Race and Culture" and "Inside American Education" introduced a whole different way of thinking compared to what I learned in high school and college.

Eternal Vigilance

If there is anything antithetical to the ideals that this country was founded on and to the Constitution itself, it is the way that the income tax is enforced in this country. This week, millions of Americans will send to the federal government their tax returns. These returns contain information that reveal to the government the most intimate details of its citizens. Everything that is put onto these returns can be used against you in the criminal and civil sense. Information gleaned from these tax returns can and have been used to intimidate, blackmail, and ruin people. Demonstrations have shown professional tax preparers given the same conditions in which to prepare a return, can come up with different tax liabilities. The tax system is a mess, and it gets worse.

What has this income tax created? A multimillion dollar industry for tax lawyers, tax accountants, and tax preparation services. A government bureacracy that continues to grow (when government spending grows less than the rate of inflation its considered a good thing). An intrusive, abusive, and out of control Internal Revenue Service that uses as its primary weapon not "due process" or the law, but intimidation, and the ignorance of its citizens to perform its function.

Now, America is a great country, the freedoms that we have in this country are unheard of in some parts of the world. I distinctly remember asking my mother, when I was a child (she lived under a dictatorial regime) "Why couldn't you vote the way you wanted to?" "Soldiers would stand there to ensure you voted properly"!!!??? And she came from a somewhat privileged background. Well, I didn't understand what she meant when I asked her at the time, the subtlety was lost on me. But now, I have a greater appreciation for what my parents went through to get to this country. I also understand that a stand must be taken to keep our country free. (Some would say all hope is gone)

But is this country as great as it once was? No, it is not, the United States at one time was the worlds greatest creditor nation, today it is the world's greatest debtor nation. We function and our economy is considered growing when we consume (which is ridiculous on its face, assets cannot be accumulated when you have liabilities that outpace them). Right now, our government spends money like a once prominent family trying to keep up its "airs". As sure as the sun will rise, there will be a day of reckoning. President Bush sees it and to his credit he has tried to bring the spotlight on it with attempting to reform Social Security and the income tax code. At the same time, the spending that has occurred under is Administration is out of control. Look at Medicare, the Department of Education, any other "social program" you can name.

Whatever reforms that do happen are probably going to do nothing more than kick the can down the road so to speak. It is going to take something major that really hits home for most of our citizens to realize the dire economic straits we are in. It could be that all of these countries that buy US Bonds stop buying them. Or, the government might default on its payment to the national debt. Or, we go into a depression that is even greater than the "Great Depression" or all of the above.