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Who says you can’t go to Jail for not wearing your Seat Belt?
Individualist Extreme Sports enthusiast receives 10-days plus fine
From Eric Dondero:
Remember "Super" Dell Schanze, the mid-2000s TV ad computer pitch man? He ran as a Republican for Salt Lake City Mayor. In 2008, he ran for Utah Governor on the Libertarian Party ticket. He even accused moderate GOPer Jon Huntsman, and now Obama administration ambassador to China of being a closeted "Socialist." He received 3% of the vote in a 3-way race.
Schanze is a well-known eccentric and controversial extreme sports enthusiast. His chosen sport is experimental para-gliding.
In August of 2009 the thrill seeking Schanze was convicted of "reckless driving and three seat-belt violations." He was fined $670.00 and received a 10 day sentence in the Utah County Jail.
According to the Salt Lake City Tribune, March 16:
The charges stemmed from an August 2008 incident on Redwood Road. Officer Michael Paletta, an investigator with the state Division of Motor Vehicles, testified at trial that he saw Schanze jerking his car back and forth in the lane, causing Paletta to fear that Schanze was going to hit him. Paletta pulled Schanze over, and discovered that two of his children were sharing a seat belt, a violation of state law, and that Schanze was unbuckled.
Harold W. Stone III, Schanze's attorney, argued the traffic stop was unwarranted. He said Schanze was rocking the car back and forth within his own travel lane, which does not meet the definition of reckless driving.
Schanze and his new lawyer are now appealing the conviction on the grounds that he was improperly stopped by police. Part of the original arrest involved Schanze not having a properly registered concealed carry sidearm.
Schanze is now making serious noises of another run for Governor. He plans to highlight these issues of Nanny-state government and over-restrictive gun laws to light.
The Super Dell philosophy is grounded in eccenstrism and extreme individualism which has rubbed many the wrong way, including local politicians and media. In fact, Schanze has long maintained that he's a special target for police harrassment for his libertarian outspokeness and criticisms of local politicians.
The Super Dell philosophy from a 2006 interview with KSL:
"Just because I think I'm a superhero and I love me and I think I'm great doesn't mean I think anybody is beneath me. All I'm trying to do is say, 'Hey, everybody should be the center of their own universe. Everybody should be happy with the way they are. It's not an arrogant thing; you only take it wrong if you have a low self esteem and don't really comprehend where it's coming from."
Dell lives on a compound in the mountains with his wife and four boys. He enjoys his privacy when not campaigning or paragliding. It's described as a "cozy mountain home, complete with a six foot electric fence topped with razor wire."
As for his Governor's run it's all about personal freedom, no nanny-state rules, gun rights and keeping taxes extremely low. Continuing:
"And now I might have go up and file for governor. You have one chance where you can vote for 'Super' Dell and lower taxes," he said.
No word if he's planning to run on the Republican or Libertarian ticket?
You can visit Schanze's blog which features extreme sports videos at dellschanze.blogspot.com
Photos of Schanze paragliding in Utah, his computer store, and him being arrested.
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by Ron Hart
From Fox News, "Pelosi's Office Sat on Massa Mess?" March 12:
Lots of drama surrounded the allegations against former New York Congressman Eric Massa who is accused of sexually harassing his aides, but these grave charges were not news to some top Democrats.
It turns out that the San Francisco speaker's office got wind of the allegations in October. That's when Massa's chief of staff told Pelosi's office that the former congressman was living with his aides and behaving in ways that made them uncomfortable. But the speaker's office didn't do a thing about it.
Rep. Michele Bachmann quoted in Politico:
"The real story about Massa is that it appears Speaker Pelosi’s office may have known about the sexual harassment between him and his employees as of last October, but they laid on that story... this is what it looks like. It looks like they laid on that story until they couldn’t get Massa’s vote; then, suddenly, these charges got out and this guy was forced to resign. This is how dirty it’s getting."
Eric Massa became the New York Democratic Party’s biggest political embarrassment in weeks. Even in our TMZ-era of politics, Massa lowered the awkwardness threshold. This latest scandal follows on the heels of Gov. David Paterson’s forced step-aside after rumors his office was rife with graft, corruption, drug use and interoffice casual sex. On the positive side, Paterson’s staffers were never late for work.
Remember, Paterson himself followed Eliot Spitzer, who resigned after it was revealed that he was a hooker enthusiast. That bastion of liberal Democrats, New York, which is Obama’s vision for us, is on a roll.
Eric Massa’s bumbling replies to accusations that he groped male staffers, whom he lived with, achieved a CNN first: he made Larry King appear the most lucid one in an interview.
In fairness to Massa (and as he is quick to point out), the alleged groping took place on his 50th birthday. For all you frugal male friends of Massa who don’t know what to get him for his 51st birthday, you can’t go wrong with letting him tickle you for an hour.
Massa also told the media, while dodging the question himself, to “ask his wife if he was gay.” I am no political strategist, but I would imagine after years of marriage she is probably in on this gig. I did some rare research and determined that Eric Massa has fathered two children with his wife: one right after the Burt Reynolds semi-nude centerfold came out in Cosmo magazine, and the other shortly after Scott Brown’s magazine photo appeared in1982. It was then that Massa got interested in politics, with particular attention to polling his constituents.
Per interviews, Massa spent several vividly memorable years “on a ship with 10,000 men.” Massa probably left the Navy after his dream of being a rear admiral was crushed; he learned that it was an actual high-ranking command position.
Nanny “Swamp Boss” Pelosi was slow to react to the Massa situation, citing an ethics investigation. The Democrats have had ongoing “ethics investigations” into both Massa and Charlie “Weekend at Benefactors” Rangel. Pelosi found it hard to act on the ethics investigations, since not a trace of actual ethics has been uncovered.
Maybe Pelosi can use Massa to tickle terrorists for information instead of the method she abhors, water-boarding. It would fit right in to her oh-so cute stance on national defense.
Ron Hart is a southern libertarian humorist and writer living on the northwest coast of Florida. RonaldHart.com
Science Reader Survey: Closing on Wednesday, 3/17 1 pm EST | The Loom
A quick note: I’ll be closing the survey on science reading habits at 1 pm EST Wednesday. The turnout has been great, and people are still joining in tonight. But I don’t want to let too much time go by before crunching the numbers and putting them back out for you again. So please have your say.
P.S. I know, I know–why are podcasts and public libraries not in the survey? I don’t know why I blanked on them. Register complaints in the comment thread.
NeoCon Progressive Michael Lind gets it wrong on Rand Paul’s name change
From Eric Dondero:
Formerly Self-proclaimed "NeoConservative" turned diehard Progressive Michael Lind has a hit piece on libertarians at the NeoLiberal Salon, "Bring it on Ayn Rand Geeks: Why the emergence of the libertarian right is good news for progressives" March 15.
Lind makes the case that the Right will suffer from the stridently anti-Government "libertarian" wing of the GOP. He acknowledges with the decline of the religious right, and NeoCons, the libertarians or Ayn Randians are emerging as the leading intellectual force among Republicans, led by Glenn Beck, the Cato Institute, Congressman Ron Paul and fiscal conservative Cong. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
Read the full article here.
But a few paragraphs down, Lind makes a major blunder, which highlights his unfamiliarity with the libertarian movement.
It is hardly surprising, then, that libertarianism is the beneficiary by default of the relative decline of its rivals on the right, neoconservatism and the religious right... Now two of the stars of the emergent right, Ron Paul and Paul Ryan, are professed disciples of the Mary Baker Eddy of egotism...
"The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand," Ryan told a convention of Randians in 2005. Ron Paul named his son Rand Paul.(Emphasis mine)
I worked for Ron Paul, on and off, in various capacities for 15 years, from 1987 to 2003. This included the 1988 Libertarian Presidential campaign as his Travel Aide. Rand, or as we knew him then, "Randy" was involved in his father's presidential effort, particularly the last few months of 1988.
I was there when he formally announced to everyone that he wanted us all to refer to him as "Rand." His motivation was two-fold; his admiration for Ayn Rand, and the distinction of Rand as unique and more formal sounding.
Ron Paul's reaction at first was a bit negative, beliving his son's name change decision to be a little silly. But he soon got used to it.
I believe Rand did eventually go to the courthouse here in Brazoria County, Texas and officially get it changed.
But there's no doubt Rand made the change entirely on his own. It is entirely incorrect for Lind to assert that it was Ron Paul (and presumably Carol Paul) who named his son "Rand."
Two key Polls, libertarian-leaning Republicans for US Senate – California & Pennsylvania races
Hedgehog has new polling data for two races of libertarian-leaning Republicans running for US Senate.
In Pennsylvania, Toomey continues to lead, as he has done since last summer, in all but one or two polls which showed him slightly behind.
US SENATE – PENNSYLVANIA (Rasmussen)
Pat Toomey (R) 49%
Arlen Specter (D-inc) 40%
Out West, libertarian Republicans are pulling for libertarian-conservative military veteran and state assemblyman Chuck DeVore. A few others are supportive of Carly Fiorina.
US SENATE – CALIFORNIA (Rasmussen)
Barbara Boxer (D-inc) 43%
Tom Campbell (R) 41%Barbara Boxer (D-inc) 46%
Chuck DeVore (R) 40%Barbara Boxer (D-inc) 46%
Carly Fiorina (R) 40%
Governor Christie appoints Privatization Task Force
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie held a press conference on Tuesday to announce his appointment of a five member Privatization Task Force. The members include Chairman, Dick Zimmer, Todd Caliguire, Kathleen Davis, John Galandak and Dr. P. Kelly Hatfield.
Christie elaborated on the purpose of the Task Force. From The Gov Monitor:
"Delivering programs and services to our citizens is government’s primary job, but I have asked the Task Force to look for places where we can do this in a more efficient, cost-effective way by having the private sector do it,” Governor Christie added. “This full review will allow the Lt. Governor and me to make carefully informed decisions on where and how to do this as we continue to responsibly manage state government. It will also make recommendations for how privatization could improve operations and reduce costs for municipalities, school districts and counties."
Dick Zimmer is a former 4-term Congressman. During the 1990s he served on the Republican Liberty Caucus advisory board. Galandak is the former President of the Foundation for Free Enterprise.
Galandak in particular is receiving a ringing endorsement from one of the States' top Libertarians, not too mention some advice.
From Dr. Murray Sabrin NewJerseyNewsroom.com:
I have known John for 25 years, and we worked together for more than 20 years delivering the World of Free Enterprise program to public school children, primarily in Bergen County. John has the unique perspective of a business association trade leader who understands completely the strengths of the free enterprise system and how taxes, government spending and regulations undermine prosperity and job creation.
John should not be shy in advocating a massive downsizing of state government, and in keeping with sound free market principles, steep cuts in taxes and an overhaul of the regulatory climate in the Garden State.
In addition, John should also advocate for free enterprise education. He should call for teachers, principals, administrators, parents and other stakeholders to run local public schools. That means schools becoming nonprofit institutions, relying on tuition, fees, grants and other non-tax means to pay for all school costs.
Sabrin, an economist at Ramapo college, is a two-time Libertarian candidate for US Senate. He's also a former National Vice-Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus.
NCBI ROFL: How extraverted is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de? Inferring personality from e-mail addresses. | Discoblog
“Computer mediated communication (CMC) plays a rapidly growing role in our social lives. Within this domain, e-mail addresses represent the thinnest slice of information that people receive from one another. Using 599 e-mail addresses of young adults, their self-reported personality scores and the personality judgments of 100 independent observers, it was shown that personality impressions based solely on e-mail addresses were consensually shared by observers. Moreover, these impressions contained some degree of validity. This was true for neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and narcissism but not for extraversion. Level of accuracy was explained using lens model analyses: Lay observers made broad use of perceivable e-mail address features in their personality judgments, features were slightly valid and observers were sensitive to subtle differences in validity between cues. Altogether, even the thinnest slice of CMC—the mere e-mail address—contains valid information about the personality of its owner.”
Thanks to Robert for today’s ROFL!
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