From Eric Dondero:
Newly-released video of the next big reality show to sweep Australia.
Which of the contestants will be the first to lose their Muslim-ness, and become a full-fledged Aussie?
H/t BNI
No more fun for Aussie beach-goers and partyers
From Eric Dondero:
So much for being exempt from Sharia if you're a Western tourist in the Aceh Province of Indonesia. The first Province to institute Sharia, is now having to confront a potential loss of tourist revenue. Hotels, the mainstay of the local economy, are struggling to adapt.
From VOA:
Although Westerners do not have to abide by the dress code in general in Aceh, wearing skimpy swimming suits and other revealing clothing is frowned on in the province, the only part of Indonesia where Sharia is used.
Rousseau said the exemption for tourism does not apply to some other laws. For example, he reassured authorities he will not permit unmarried couples to sleep together.
Sabang Mayor Munawar Liza Zainal said there is no conflict between tourism and Islam, as long as the visitors respect the local culture. This means dressing appropriately when visiting the villages and not having loud parties.
Editor's comment - Of course, people vote with their feet. The hot Aussie tourist market will no doubt shift to alternative areas where they can drink and frolic as they please.
From Eric Dondero
Reason interviews an Occupy Wall Street protester. She's from Los Angeles, and happens to be a public employee.
The new face of National Socialism 2011.
It's all about Jobs for "little people"
From Eric Dondero:
Striking a blow against political correctness, Rep. Ritch Workman has introduced a bill to re-legalize a unique form of bar and nightclub entertainmnet.
From NBC Miami "Lawmaker Files Bill to Repeal State Ban on Dwarf Tossing in Bars":
House Bill 4063 would repeal Florida Statute 561.665, which bans establishments who sell alcohol from activities "involving exploitation endangering the health, safety, and welfare of any person with dwarfism."
Under the current statute, the state can fine or suspend the liquor license of bars that host dwarf tossing.
The cringe-inducing activity was outlawed in 1989, when national controversy over dwarf tossing prompted the Legislature to ban it in bars for safety reasons, the Current reports.
Further info from Blufftontoday.com "Lawmaker wants to re-legalize dwarf tossing," Oct. 5:
Rep. Ritch Workman of Melbourne filed House Bill 4063 on Monday.
"To me it's an archaic kind of Big Brother law that says, 'We don't like that activity,'" Workman told the Florida Current. "Well, there is nothing immoral or illegal about that activity. All we really did by passing that law was take away some employment from some little people."
Note - Workman is a frequent speaker at Florida Tea Party rallies (video). He is also a US Army combat Veteran.
Editor's comment - Note the blatant editorializing by NBC-Miami, calling the activity "cringe inducing." For liberals perhaps, and other PC weenies? Ooh-rah! Ritch, Ooh-rah!! Photo credit - Inquistr.com
by Clifford F. Thies
In Germany, the unemployment rate is 6.1 percent and trending down. In the United States, the number released today is 9.1, and the number has been fluctuating in the low 9's for some time. There is a growing sense among my fellow economists that contributing to this difference is the solid financial shape of Germany, which has been running a deficit in the 2 to 3 percent range, relative to the U.S., which has been running a deficit of about 11 percent. In Germany, consumers, workers, employers and investors have more confidence in the future, while in the U.S. there is real concern. This, of course, has been my view for several years now.
Job growth in the U.S. remains enemic; overall, the demand for labor is down; and, there is a growing mis-match between the skills required for the jobs that are available and the skills among job applicants.
In the monthly estblishment survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 100,000 net new jobs were created during the past month, hardly enough to keep the unemployment rate from rising and not enough to cause the unemployment rate to fall. Looking at the monthly household survey of the BLS, the unemployment rate remained steady in spite of disappointing job creation because of continued weakness in labor force attachment. In addition, there were more people working part-time but wanting full-time work, which makes the stated unemployment rate less indicative of the actual difficulties faced by those seeking work.
According to the monthly survey of the Conference Board, the number of job openings listed on-line has fallen by about 500,000 over the past six months, so that today there are about 10 million more job seekers than jobs available .From 2005 to 2008, there was a rough eqyality in these figures. While overall job listings are down, job listings for healthcare professionals, especially nursing, are up; as is demand for technical workers. Demand for people in the construction area remains steady, but at a low level as compared to several years ago.
The disparity in the skills of job seekers with the skills required by job openings is indicated in the monthly survey of the National Federation of Independent Business. This year, the number of small businesses reporting unfilled job openings is about 50 percent higher than it was the prior two years.
Such mis-matching in the labor market is not unusal in recoveries nowadays. With the pace of change we now have, the economy that recovers from a recession is not the economy that fell into it. We saw this in the recoveries from the 1989 and 2001 recesssions. These were characterized as "jobless recoveries" as, for about two years after the start of the recovery, there was little net job creation. In this business cycle, we are now two and a half years from the end of the recession, with still no real indication of the start of a recovery.
CLIFFORD F. THIES is the Eldon R. Lindsey Chair of Free Enterprise Professor of Economics and Finance at Shenandoah Univ. in Virginia.Photo credit - WHIO radio
Have expired tags in D.C. - Go straight to Jail
by Eric Dondero
We've had a lot of choice words (even vulgar at times) to say about Virginia Senator Jim Webb over the years. We were staunch supporters of his opponent George Allen 6 years ago. But we now must give credit where credit is due.
D.C. has recently been enforcing a code that calls for jailing of residents with expired registration tags. The code states that expired tags could result in up to a $1,000 fine, and up to 30 days in jail. The 30 days in jail part has never been enforced, until now. The administration of Mayor Vincent Gray is cracking down. Scores of mostly African-American drivers living in the District have already spent a night or two in the pokey.
From Fox News, "U.S. Senator to D.C. Mayor: 'No Justification' for Jailing Drivers With Expired Tags":
police arrested a mother on her way to pick up her child from school, with her younger child in the car.
Senator Webb - defacto Senator for the District - has written a strongly worded letter to Mayor Gray denouoncing the arrests stating in part:
"While drivers should be held accountable for such minor infractions, there is absolutely no justification for jailing citizens whose only offense is an expired tag,"
Senator Webb will not be seeking reelection in 2012.
Adam Brickley, The Daily Caller, "The Palin movement isn’t retreating, it’s reloading":
She has more than enough skill and support to engage in any number of ventures. We may well be referring to her as “Secretary Palin” in the near future — whether she’s tackling government’s biggest bureaucracy as President Cain’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, charging toward energy independence as President Romney’s energy secretary, or finally bringing some sense to environmental policy as President Perry’s EPA director.
Editor's note - Adam is a longtime friend and former contributing editor to LR. In early 2007, PA GOP activist and libertarian Republican Stephen Maloney and I assisted Adam in promoting Draft Palin for VP.
From Eric Dondero:
Last week, Tea Party favorite Herman Cain seemingly suggested that he couldn't support Rick Perry if he were to win the nomination. He was quoted on CNN: "Today, I could not support Rick Perry as the nominee for a host of reasons."
Now, he's backing off, though still with reservations. From The Hill "Cain would support Perry as GOP nominee, 'but it won't be 100 percent'":
"Now if [the nominee is] one of those other candidates up there, I am going to support them 100 percent. If Governor Perry gets the nomination, I will still support him, but it won’t be 100 percent," Cain said on Hewitt's show.
Cain added that he is more convinced than ever that he will win the nomination, and eventually the White House, so he doesn't expect Perry will get the nomination.
Ed. comment - And as a possible VP selectee?
"Fuckin' Jews... Wall Street Jews!"
From Eric Dondero:
Jewish passer-by confronts man holding Wall Street Bankers = Hitler sign. Calls him an Anti-Semite. The protester responds using Anti-Jewish slogans ala Nazi street protests of Berlin, Germany 1938.
"The Jews control Wall Street. The Jews control Wall Street. Google it!"
Later on he shouts - "Fuckin' Jews... Fox News, Fox News..."
H/t Weasel Z...
OVERNIGHT NEWS FROM OVERSEAS!!
Riots by mostly Muslims from North Africa in Département français de Mayotte (French adminsitrative jurisdiction of Mayotte)
From estrepublicain.fr, - Mayotte, where demonstrations against high prices have evolved in urban guerrilla warfare. The "mzougous" (white men) have to lie low - "WE ARE TRAPPED":
What had remained a peaceful movement has degenerated into urban guerrilla warfare. Today, the 101st French department has sunk into total chaos.
Food stores have been looted, cars burned, and gas stations threatened by torch attacks.
[A] climate of insecurity prevails... illegal immigrants who creep into houses to rob in the day, "Djombo" (machetes) in hand.
"Mzougous" [White native French] have been advised to hide. They have become the enemy.
The poorest Mayotte [residents] , are fed up with the exorbitant prices of premium consumer products... a litre of gas at 30 euros... unaffordable rents...
Editor's note - Translation from French mine. H/t ImazPress, & Islam vs. Europe blog.
From Eric Dondero:
This is from Public Policy Polling a Democrat-leaning firm.
Via Hedgehog:
US SENATE – NEBRASKA (PPP)
Jon Bruning (R) 46%
Ben Nelson (D-inc) 42%Don Stenberg (R) 41%
Ben Nelson (D-inc) 39%
Note - With George Allen comfortably ahead for the Virginia Senate, this leaves the GOP only one win shy of taking control. (Assuming Scott Brown can hold on in Mass.) Dem-held seats in Missouri and Montana are already tilting GOP. Current toss-ups held by Democrats - Wisconsin, New Mexico, North Dakota and Florida. Plus, outside shot for GOP win in Connecticut.(Source: Cook Report)
IRS levies $2.3 million in back taxes, interest and penalties on SF marijuana dispensary
by Clifford F. Thies
Chief Justice Marshall put it succinctly. The power to tax is the power to destroy. The feds have found yet a new way to enforce the marijuana prohibition: through the tax code. A San Francisco medical marijuana dispensary has been found to be liable for millions of dollars of back taxes, interest and penalties, because it deducted the cost of the product it sells to its customers. This product is illegal under federal law, no matter that it is grown in California, bought and sold within California, and used in California, all in accordance with California law.
How is it that a completely intrastate product is subject to Congressional regulation?. Because if you grow and smoke your own marijuana, if means you won't go blind from glaucoma and thereby need federal government-regulated, interstate products that treat your blindness. Well, that's the theory of the U.S. Supreme Court. Now the Obama administration wants to take this theory of interstate commerce one step further. The Obama administration wants to require people to buy federal government-regulated health insurance on the basis that you might one avail yourself of health services which, of course either is either directly interstate commerce or is connected to something that is connected to something that is interstate commerce. This is called the "six degrees of separation" theory of interstate commerce. Anything or nothing at all is connected to interstate commerce by no more than six connections.
With regard to marijuana, back in the days of the adoption of the very Constitution today's justices are supposedly interpreting, marijuana, then usually referred to as hemp, was routinely grown for the purposes such as manufacturing rope for sailing ships. George Washington himself grew the stuff. It was perfectly our right as Englishmen to grow marijuana. Part of our liberty that we brought with us into the Union. And, there was no law on the federal books on marijuana until 1937 because prior to the FDR Administration, there couldn't have been. Nobody would have even thought the federal government had the power to regulate marijuana. But, starting with FDR, there was an accelerated discovery of all kinds of new powers for the federal government. Every year, we discover new powers. Like the President can, without due process, order the death of anybody he determines is a terrorist. And, marijuana, why that's just another form of terrorism that the federal government will keep us safe from, no matter what the stupid people in the stupid states might decide.
But, instead of using predator drones to take out the marijuana dispensaries of San Francisco, they've decided to use an even more effective weapon: the federal income tax. After all, it's the way they got Al Capone.
Source: MyFoxNY.com Photo credit - The Fresh Scent
UPDATE!!
From the Editor: Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com is headlining a similar story today, "Obama Admin Launches Medical Marijuana Crackdown" by Publius. A commenter at Breitbart - Morgue MD - wrote:
I bet the stoners will blame Republicans and continue to vote for Democrats instead of looking up the word "Libertarian", and joining the GOP.
Radical Islam is "a worldwide threat"
Pull out Quote from Hugh Hewitt radio interview with US Senate Rand Paul of Kentucky, Oct. 5 (via Breitbart TV):
We've done a pretty good job over the last few years of cutting off the searpant's head so to speak [of Al Qaeda]. We've done, you know, a pretty good job of disrupting them. And that's another thing that's sometimes lost even on my father, that you know, he did vote to go into Afghanistan. So, he did say we can't be attacked on 9/11 without repercussions... So, I think we have done a pretty good job at disrupting their bases in Afghanistan... I don't think there's a nation-state at this point that is accepting Al Qaeda. I mean Iran may be debatable.
I think an argument can be made that the threat from Al Qaeda is no longer an isolated threat, that it's a worldwide threat, and that having a mobile military that can react at a moment's notice anywhere's in the globe, is the defense rather than land war or nation building.
Editor's note - This website agreess completely and wholeheartedly with the foreign policy views expressed above by Senator Paul. Photo h/t RedDog report
Get a friggin' Job!
Via TheHill:
“Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself. . .
It is not a person’s fault if they succeeded, it is a person’s fault if they failed.”
City leaders want to clean up downtown
From Eric Dondero:
It's still waiting final approval by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. But the city is already making plans to expand the coverage area to other neighborhoods beyond downtown.
From KATU.com "Downtown Portland beer ban stalls, but it's still in the works" Oct. 3:
The City Council already voted for the ban late last year but the crackdown on sales hasn't officially begun. That's because the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) still has to give the city's petition a final seal of approval.
If the OLCC gives the city the green light, stores would not be able to sell single containers of malt liquor or domestic beer over 22 ounces, or malt liquor or domestic beer with more than 5.75 percent alcohol. They also wouldn't be able to sell wine with more than 14 percent.
And this:
Originally, the target area included Old Town, Goose Hollow and the downtown core but now the OLCC is now looking at adding the Pearl District and Northwest 23rd Avenue to the roster
Note - The Portland city council is entirely Democrat. Additionally, the Mayor Sam Adams (yes, that's his real name) is also a Democrat.
Shops forced to re-locate to safer areas
From ansamedinfo.news Lebanon: threats against vendors of alcohol in South Sept. 30:
Protests have been made and threats issued over recent months against Christian-run shops that sell alcoholic beverages in the South of Lebanon, a 'feudal' territory 'belonging' to the Shiite Islamic Hezbollah movement and its militias.
In the latest case reported by the Marakaziya agency, a young tradesperson received anonymous threats in the post with a warning that they should close down their shop in Kferwe', in the Nabatiyeh region. The young man has now moved to Kferwe' after closing another shop in Nabatiyeh after a demonstration was organised against him in that town.
Over the past few days, another shopkeeper selling alcoholic products in Houla, in the province of Marjeyoun, saw his shop being targeted by a group of unknown persons throwing empty beer bottles. (ANSAmed).
Photo credit - Onislam.net
"no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow" -- Judge Patrick J. Fielder (via TheCompletePatient.com)
From Eric Dondero:
Yet another American tradition being destroyed by liberal judges. Take special note of ruling #4, which reads like something straight out of a George Orwell novel. (State "police powers" über alles).
The court ruling is the work of Democrat-appointed Dane County Circuit Court Judge Patrick J. Fiedler:
On September 9, Judge Fiedler issued his decision on the motion, stating that the court’s August 12 denial of plaintiffs’ motion for judgment meant the following:
(1) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;
(2) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;
(3) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to board their cow at the farm of a farmer;
(4) The Zinniker Plaintiffs’ private contract does not fall outside the scope of the States’ police power;
(5) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice
Property Rights tossed out the barn door
Food Freedom blog (Decentralize, Grow your Own, Buy Local) explains further:
In his opinion the Judge rejected out of hand the Zinniker plaintiffs’ argument that they had a fundamental right to possess, use and enjoy their property (including “a fundamental right to own a cow, and to use their cows in a manner that does not cause harm a third party”); he stated this claim was “wholly without merit.”
Fmr. Democrat Gov. had vetoed the legalization bill; Republican legislators, Gov. Scott Walker may save the day
Farmtoconsumer.org reports:
Last spring over 700 people came to Eau Claire to speak at the public hearing for the Raw Milk bill. Over 600 of these people were there because they were in favor of legalizing the sale of raw milk in Wisconsin. The legislators listened all day long and into the evening and they went back to their colleagues in the legislature and said this bill is what the people want and will be good for the state of Wisconsin in many ways. The Senate and Assembly voted overwhelming in favor of the Raw Milk Bill. The last step needed was Governor Doyle's signature. Due to pressure from the corporate dairy industry and a few medical associations, Governor Doyle [a Democrat] vetoed the bill to prevent it from becoming law.
Wisconsin Republicans now have a majority in both chambers. And the Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker is a Republican. Gov. Walker during his campaign and more recently, has indicated support for Food Freedom.
More info on the benefits of drinking raw milk RawMilkTruth.com
Muslim Prohibitionists winning over government leaders
From mychristianbloodspirit.com "2 Algerian Islamists call for bars to close" Oct. 5:
The two, Hachemi Sahnouni, who helped found the Islamic Salvation Front, and Abderazak Zeraoui Hamadache, said that alcohol is "perverting our youth and destroying our religious morals."
The call to close all bars recalls the period referred to as the "black decade" in the 1990s when extremists imposed their will on many villages and cities.
"We call on neighborhood committees to demand the definitive closing of bars and shops selling alcoholic beverages, forbidden by the religion of the prophet," the two said.
Reflecting the sensitivity of the situation, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia ducked a question Friday about the growing fear of those selling alcoholic beverages, saying only that alcohol causes health problems.
Editor's note - Advancing worldwide prohibitionism from Muslims continues to receive zero coverage from so called "libertarian" media.
Swiss libertarians say Hölle keine! (Hell No!)
Ivica Petrusic is vice president of Secondos Plus, one of the largest pro-immigrant organization in Switzerland. Petrusic is being quoted in the Swiss press calling for the replacement of the Swiss flag with a flag more representative of diversity.
From The Local, Switzerland News in English, Sept. 20, "SVP to immigrants: Don’t mess with the Swiss flag"
He said that the old tricolour “represented a progressive Switzerland, open to the world,” as opposed to the current banner which “no longer corresponds with today’s multicultural Switzerland” because the country “has great religious and cultural diversity.”
On rightist lawmaker, herself an immigrant from Slovokia expressed outrage at the proposal.
Yvette Estermann, an SVP lawmaker, said the statement made by Petrusic shows “disrespect” towards Switzerland. She wondered “if the next thing will be to abolish Christian churches” in the country.
“It is unacceptable that immigrants give orders to their host country on what it has to do,” she told The Local.
The Swiss Peoples' Party (SVP) is the right-libertarian party in Switzerland headed by Oskar Freysinger. The Party akin to the UK Independence Party, is pro-tax cuts, pro-Swiss sovereignty, and for shutting down immigration from countries whose values conflict with Swiss tolerance.
Swiss libertarians SVP.ch
Absolute Must See!!
From Eric Dondero:
Sex sells in Switzerland. Loss of sovereignty to E.U. overlords does not.
Check out this new ad setting Switzerland on fire by the Pro-Swiss Culture, Pro-Sovereignty, Swiss Peoples' Party.
