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He was not fined for paying in pennies... he was fined for the manner in which he paid ie <<<Campbell says the incident upset staff because pennies were strewn about the counter and floor, and West's action served "no legitimate purpose.">>> I would have done the same as the bank.... told him to roll them and bring them back. Of course its legal tender, but its not legal to make a mess with them or demand that the staff count them. On Jun 7, 3:05 pm, Jonathan Ashley <jonathanashle...@lavabit.com> wrote:"Disorderly conduct" seems to be the "don't argue with me" catch-all used by the clowns in uniform these days. Unfortunately this man will likely take his "punishment" (like many before him) for foolishly believing he could pay his bill with the King's coin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Man Cited After Paying Bill With 2,500 Pennies* (AP) VERNAL, Utah - A Utah man has been cited on a charge of disorderly conduct after paying for a disputed medical bill with 2,500 pennies. The Deseret News of Salt Lake City reports Jason West went to Basin Clinic in Vernal on May 27 prepared to dispute an outstanding $25 bill. Assistant Vernal Police Chief Keith Campbell says that after asking staff members whether they accepted cash, West dumped 2,500 pennies on the counter and demanded that staff count them. Campbell says the incident upset staff because pennies were strewn about the counter and floor, and West's action served "no legitimate purpose." Police later issued the 38-year-old West a citation for disorderly conduct. That carries a fine of as much as $140. Or 14,000 pennies. *Penny Offense: Man Fined For Paying Fee In Pennies* By Claudine Zap No lucky pennies here: Police have charged Jason West, an aggrieved medical patient in Vernal, Utah, with disorderly conduct. His alleged crime? Attempting to pay a disputed medical bill of $25 entirely in pennies. The story, reported in the Salt Lake City Deseret News, describes the "penny offense" this way: West, 38, did not believe he owed the medical clinic $25 but came in to pay the fee in person. He first asked the clinic staff if the facility accepted cash payments, and then dumped 2,500 pennies onto the counter and demanded that they be counted. But West apparently hadn't counted on the clinic calling the police; the arresting officer contended that West's protest served "no legitimate purpose." The charge carries a fine that can go as high as $140--and there's no word as yet on what currency West will use to pay it. West isn't alone in the ranks of penny protesters. A wise guy in Frederick, Maryland, showed up at the county clerk's office last summer with bags of cash to pay off his tax bill with $966.86 in change. And a New Jersey school district a few years back punished 29 students who paid for their $2 school lunches in pennies--possibly as a prank--with two-day detentions. After parents protested, the students were pardoned. The school explained that the use of the small change slowed down the lunch line. -- Freedom is always illegal! When we ask for freedom, we have already failed. It is only when we declare freedom for ourselves and refuse to accept any less, that we have any possibility of being free.
I have NO problem with gay civil unions that are equal to hetero civil
unions (JP, mayor, courthouse etc.) The big problem is that when you
use the word "Marriage" it riles people up as they immediately
associate that with "Church and Religion".
The other problem that people have is that the vast majority do not
want the "Right" (it is not a "Right", it is a licensed activity....
rights need no permissions) which is better and more correctly called
an "Option" to marry or join with someone of the same sex. I do not
want that option.
Gays and straights have exactly the same rights and options now under
an emotionless and blind law. ... to marry someone of the opposite
sex. What is being asked for is an extension of that "right" or
"Option" to benefit a small part of the population only that would (in
their minds) negatively effect the 90% that do not want the option or
would never think of using it.
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On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> An old one, but still funny.
>
> A small zoo in Tennessee obtained a very rare species of gorilla.
>
> Within a few weeks the gorilla, a female, became very difficult to handle.
>
> Upon examination, the veterinarian determined the problem. The gorilla was
> in heat. To make matters worse, there was no male gorilla available.
>
> Thinking about their problem, the Zoo Keeper thought of Bobby Lee Walton, a
> redneck part-time worker responsible for cleaning the animal cages.
>
> Bobby Lee, like most rednecks, had little sense but possessed ample ability
> to satisfy a female of any species.
>
> The Zoo Keeper thought they might have a solution. Bobby Lee was approached
> with a proposition. Would he be willing to mate with the gorilla for
> $500.00?
>
> Bobby Lee showed some interest, but said he would have to think the matter
> over carefully. The following day, he announced that he would accept their
> offer, but only under four conditions:
>
> 1. "First", Bobby Lee said, "I ain't gonna kiss her on the lips."
>
> The Keeper quickly agreed to this condition
>
> 2. "Second", he said, "You can't never tell no one about this."
>
> The Keeper again readily agreed to this condition.
>
> 3. "Third", Bobby Lee said, "I want all the children raised Southern
> Baptist."
>
> Once again it was agreed.
>
> 4. And last, Bobby Lee said "I'll need another week to come up with the
> $500.00
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On Jun 7, 2:50 pm, Jonathan Ashley <jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
wrote:
> *Take Your Little Black Box and Shove It*
> by L. Neil Smith
> ln...@netzero.com
>
> Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprisehttp://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2011/tle622-20110605-02.html
>
> We all heard this week that from this moment onward, all new automobiles
> manufactured in or imported to the United States will be required to
> have "litle black boxes" like the flight recorders in aircraft.
>
> The device, which steps far outside the bounds of what's allowable under
> the Constitution, will tell government, the insurance company you're
> forced at gunpoint to do business with, the ex-spouse suing you for
> divorce, and anybody else who can get a court order out of some drunken
> sleazebag judge, exactly where you've been going, how often you went,
> and how fast you got there. The government admits that it will form the
> basis for a new tax, to be assessed by every mile you drive.
>
> Of course the taxes on gasoline will be repealed.
>
> Not.
>
> They're quite open about it, because they have other, bigger plans for
> you and your car. I'm assuming this contrivance will be remotely
> readable, so they can nag you about your driving habits, and remind you,
> in the Sacred Name of Holy Gaia, that you're consuming too much energy.
> Even worse, it's a step toward giving the blue gang the power they've
> craved for years, to turn your engine off whenever they feel like
> stopping you, pulling you out of your car, stealing anything valuable
> you may have on your person, and bludgeoning you half to death.
>
> The cops have gone crazy. There's lots of this going around, these days.
>
> Mind you, nobody ever got to vote on this, not even the useless
> scumsucking parasites we mistakenly call representatives. It's being
> imposed on us by another brutal and barbaric brigade of bureaucratic
> banditi. Doubtless it will arrive with all kinds of penalties and rules
> with regard to disengaging the damn thing and dumping it in the landfill.
>
> Where it belongs.
>
> Now let's stop and grab hold of reality for a moment. The United States
> is in the middle of a second Great Depression, brought down upon us,
> exactly like the first, by government interference with the free market
> system. The first time around, it was the Federal Reserve, keeping
> interest rates lower than they would naturally have been. This time, it
> was fat, stupid economically ignorant politicians, forcing banks to make
> home loans that everybody involved knew could never be repaid.
>
> Before the first Great Depression, no economic downturn (each of them
> caused by government) had ever lasted more than eighteen months. Thanks
> to the abysmal cluelessness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his
> criminal accomplices, the Great Depression lasted twelve years, and
> never truly ended. There were more people unemployed in 1941 than there
> had been in 1932 when he was elected. It was simply interrupted by the
> Second World War which Roosevelt did everything he could to get us into,
> in order to conceal his embarrassing failures in the fog of war.
>
> So here we are again, seventy years later. in the middle of the same
> kind of mess, the politicians in this country having learned precisely
> fuck-all from the unspeakable stupidities committed by their
> predecessors. It's such an unbelievable series of developments that many
> otherwise staid and sober observers have come to believe its being done
> deliberately, in order to demolish America and loot the ruins.
>
> I find the thesis extremely difficult to refute. Every single last thing
> that Obama and his gaggle of mutants have done to "alleviate" the
> disaster we're living through has been diametrically, 180 degrees wrong.
> In a depression, normally hardworking Productive Class individuals
> suddenly find themselves without employment (generally owing to
> excessive taxation, insane levels of regulation, or government
> manipulation of the money supply) and without enough money to feed,
> clothe, house, transport, and defend themselves and their families.
>
> Everything Obamanism has forced on us has made things worse. If they're
> actually sincere in their misbegotten attempts to repair the destruction
> that they and theirs have wreaked, that's extremely bad news. It means
> that, instead of striking Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, the Air Force
> should be bombing America's real enemies, Harvard and Yale.
>
> Which brings us back to those little black boxes---and unintended
> consequences. Government policy---along with the extortionate demands of
> unions---have come close to killing America's automobile industry. The
> current administration---which did the killing---has reanimated General
> Motors so it can stagger around like a zombie, but that will change
> nothing in the long run, because the anti-car fanatics aren't finished.
>
> Case in point: as long as this unconstitutional law remains in force, I
> will never buy a new car, and neither will anyone else who values
> privacy and freedom. Get that, Detroit? What it means is another brutal
> blow that, following so many others, you guys may never recover from. It
> also means that, exactly as I predicted (prematurely) in The Probability
> Broach, we'll all be driving little plastic cars from Brazil. The used
> car market will boom, driving up the cost of living for ordinary folks.
> An underground economy centered on gimmicked black boxes will
> thrive---rob a gas station, swap your box out, get away free.
>
> Meanwhile, Republicans haven't done a single thing to slow the
> Juggernaut by a mile per hour, or reverse it by an Angstrom unit. In
> fact, they've helped the Democrats to accelerate it by renewing the
> single most evil, Draconian, and unconstitutional item of legislation
> that this country has ever suffered under, the so-called Patriot Act.
> They're trying to kill the Internet. They are liars and cowards and thieves.
>
> I've had enough of this crap. How about you? It can be stopped---
> reversed---but it will require a clear understanding on the part of
> Republicans who, at the moment, seem too dumb to live, that they have to
> take creatures like John Boehner and Mitt Romney over to the barrow
> ditch at the side of the road, make them kneel down, and do the right thing.
>
> By which I mean pray, of course.
>
> Or not.
>
> If they won't be the party of liberty they pretend to be, then we will
> start another. And another when they infiltrate and corrupt it. And
> another after that. It may mean another four years of Obama. It may mean
> a slide into totalitarianism that we'll have to fight our way out of
> again, but it will also be worth it, just to put an end to the
> Republican Party and to the parasites and shapeshifters who fill its ranks.
> --
>
> Freedom is always illegal!
>
> When we ask for freedom, we have already failed. It is only when we
> declare freedom for ourselves and refuse to accept any less, that we
> have any possibility of being free.
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I would have done the same as the bank.... told him to roll them and
bring them back. Of course its legal tender, but its not legal to make
a mess with them or demand that the staff count them.
On Jun 7, 3:05 pm, Jonathan Ashley <jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
wrote:
> "Disorderly conduct" seems to be the "don't argue with me" catch-all
> used by the clowns in uniform these days.
>
> Unfortunately this man will likely take his "punishment" (like many
> before him) for foolishly believing he could pay his bill with the
> King's coin.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *Man Cited After Paying Bill With 2,500 Pennies*
>
> (AP) VERNAL, Utah - A Utah man has been cited on a charge of disorderly
> conduct after paying for a disputed medical bill with 2,500 pennies.
>
> The Deseret News of Salt Lake City reports Jason West went to Basin
> Clinic in Vernal on May 27 prepared to dispute an outstanding $25 bill.
>
> Assistant Vernal Police Chief Keith Campbell says that after asking
> staff members whether they accepted cash, West dumped 2,500 pennies on
> the counter and demanded that staff count them.
>
> Campbell says the incident upset staff because pennies were strewn about
> the counter and floor, and West's action served "no legitimate purpose."
>
> Police later issued the 38-year-old West a citation for disorderly
> conduct. That carries a fine of as much as $140. Or 14,000 pennies.
>
> *Penny Offense: Man Fined For Paying Fee In Pennies*
> By Claudine Zap
>
> No lucky pennies here: Police have charged Jason West, an aggrieved
> medical patient in Vernal, Utah, with disorderly conduct. His alleged
> crime? Attempting to pay a disputed medical bill of $25 entirely in pennies.
>
> The story, reported in the Salt Lake City Deseret News, describes the
> "penny offense" this way: West, 38, did not believe he owed the medical
> clinic $25 but came in to pay the fee in person. He first asked the
> clinic staff if the facility accepted cash payments, and then dumped
> 2,500 pennies onto the counter and demanded that they be counted.
>
> But West apparently hadn't counted on the clinic calling the police; the
> arresting officer contended that West's protest served "no legitimate
> purpose." The charge carries a fine that can go as high as $140--and
> there's no word as yet on what currency West will use to pay it.
>
> West isn't alone in the ranks of penny protesters. A wise guy in
> Frederick, Maryland, showed up at the county clerk's office last summer
> with bags of cash to pay off his tax bill with $966.86 in change.
>
> And a New Jersey school district a few years back punished 29 students
> who paid for their $2 school lunches in pennies--possibly as a
> prank--with two-day detentions. After parents protested, the students
> were pardoned. The school explained that the use of the small change
> slowed down the lunch line.
> --
>
> Freedom is always illegal!
>
> When we ask for freedom, we have already failed. It is only when we
> declare freedom for ourselves and refuse to accept any less, that we
> have any possibility of being free.
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We Scooped Breitbart: Anthony Weiner's Bedroom Photos!
Hankering for a slice of Anthony Weiner? 2020 12th Street NW DC #709 20009 (202) 525-3677. But be careful. It's actually wife Huma Abedin's condo, which she bought back in 2006 for $649,000. The Weiner is a gold-digger who just didn't want to sleep on a cot in his office anymore.
This is a virtual tour of #709 when Abedin bought it:
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http://blogs.forbes.com/larrybell/2011/06/07/u-n-agreement-should-have-all-gun-owners-up-in-arms/
or
http://tinyurl.com/3bq8thg
U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms
Jun. 7 2011 - 2:04 pm
It may not come as surprising news to many of you that the United Nations doesn't approve of our Second Amendment. Not one bit. And they very much hope to do something about it with help from some powerful American friends. Under the guise of a proposed global "Small Arms Treaty" premised to fight "terrorism", "insurgency" and "international crime syndicates" you can be quite certain that an even more insidious threat is being targeted – our Constitutional right for law-abiding citizens to own and bear arms.
What, exactly, does the intended agreement entail?
While the terms have yet to be made public, if passed by the U.N. and ratified by our Senate, it will almost certainly force the U.S. to:
Enact tougher licensing requirements, creating additional bureaucratic red tape for legal firearms ownership.
Confiscate and destroy all "unauthorized" civilian firearms (exempting those owned by our government of course).
Ban the trade, sale and private ownership of all semi-automatic weapons (any that have magazines even though they still operate in the same one trigger pull – one single "bang" manner as revolvers, a simple fact the ant-gun media never seem to grasp).
Create an international gun registry, clearly setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
In short, overriding our national sovereignty, and in the process, providing license for the federal government to assert preemptive powers over state regulatory powers guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment in addition to our Second Amendment rights.
Have no doubt that this plan is very real, with strong Obama administration support. In January 2010 the U.S. joined 152 other countries in endorsing a U.N. Arms Treaty Resolution that will establish a 2012 conference to draft a blueprint for enactment. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged to push for Senate ratification.
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton has cautioned gun owners to take this initiative seriously, stating that the U.N. "is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there is no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control."
Although professing to support the Second Amendment during her presidential election bid, Hillary Clinton is not generally known as a gun rights enthusiast. She has been a long-time activist for federal firearms licensing and registration, and a vigorous opponent of state Right-to-Carry laws. As a New York senator she ranked among the National Rifle Association's worst "F"-rated gun banners who voted to support the sort of gunpoint disarmament that marked New Orleans' rogue police actions against law-abiding gun owners in the anarchistic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
President Obama's record on citizen gun rights doesn't reflect much advocacy either. Consider for example his appointment of anti-gun rights former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels as an alternate U.S. representative to the U.N., and his choice of Andrew Traver who has worked to terminate civilian ownership of so-called "assault rifles" (another prejudicially meaningless gun term) to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Then, in a move unprecedented in American history, the Obama administration quietly banned the re-importation and sale of 850,000 collectable antique U.S.-manufactured M1 Garand and Carbine rifles that were left in South Korea following the Korean War. Developed in the 1930s, the venerable M1 Garand carried the U.S. through World War II, seeing action in every major battle.
As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama was an aggressive advocate for expanding gun control laws, and even voted against legislation giving gun owners an affirmative defense when they use firearms to defend themselves and their families against home invaders and burglars. He also served on a 10-member board of directors of the radically activist anti-gun Joyce Foundation in Chicago during a period between 1998-2001when it contributed $18,326,183 in grants to anti-Second Amendment organizations.
If someone breaks into your home when you are there, which would you prefer to have close at hand: 1) a telephone to call 911, or 2) a loaded gun of respectable caliber? That's a pretty easy question for me to answer. I am a long-time NRA member, concealed firearms license holder and a regular weekly recreational pistol shooter. And while I don't ordinarily care to target anything that has a mother, will reluctantly make an exception should an urgent provocation arise. I also happen to enjoy the company of friends who hunt, as well as those, like myself, who share an abiding interest in American history and the firearms that influenced it.
There are many like me, and fewer of them would be alive today were it not for exercise of their gun rights. In fact law-abiding citizens in America used guns in self-defense 2.5 million times during 1993 (about 6,850 times per day), and actually shot and killed 2 1/2 times as many criminals as police did (1,527 to 606). Those civilian self-defense shootings resulted in less than 1/5th as many incidents as police where an innocent person was mistakenly identified as a criminal (2% versus 11%).
Just how effectively have gun bans worked to make citizens safer in other countries? Take the number of home break-ins while residents are present as an indication. In Canada and Britain, both with tough gun-control laws, nearly half of all burglaries occur when residents are present. But in the U.S. where many households are armed, only about 13% happen when someone is home.
Recognizing clear statistical benefit evidence, 41 states now allow competent, law-abiding adults to carry permitted or permit-exempt concealed handguns. As a result, crime rates in those states have typically fallen at least 10% in the year following enactment.
So the majority in our Senate is smart enough to realize that the U.N.'s gun-grab agenda is unconstitutional, politically suicidal for those who support it, and down-right idiotic—right? Let's hope so, but not entirely count on it. While a few loyal Obama Democrats are truly "pro-gun", many are loathe to vote against treaties that carry the president's international prestige, causing him embarrassment.
Also, don't forget that Senate confirmation of anti-gun Obama nominee Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Many within the few who voted against her did so only because of massive grassroots pressure from constituents who take their Constitutional protections very seriously.
Now, more than ever, it's imperative to stick by our guns in demanding that all Constitutional rights be preserved. If not, we will surely lose both.
But no one in their right mind would claim Obama was a Westerner.
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 | Globalists Want a Fuel Tax on All Airlines and ShippingEowyn | June 7, 2011 at 9:05 am | Tags: Al Gore, Andrew Steer, climate change, global warming, IPCC, United Nations, wealth redistribution, World Bank | Categories: Crazy Politicians, Culture War, Economy, Taxes, United Nations | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-7o8 |
The alarming claims of the world's foremost AGW body -- the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- about the Himalayan glaciers all melting by 2035 and the disappearance of 40% of the Amazon rainforest turn out to be bogus. Countless reputable scientists have come out against AGW. But all that hasn't stopped the One-World Globalists, in their guise of caring "environmentalists". They are hell-bent on a global wealth-redistribution and dissolving national boundaries and sovereignty.
levy" tax the emissions of most flights that land or depart from Europe, regardless of airline. That will, of course, drive up airfare, which in turn will inflate the costs of other goods.
Gerard Wynn reports for Reuters, June 5, 2011:
BONN, Germany, June 5 (Reuters) - The World Bank will suggest a global levy on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on Sunday.
Developed countries have already written off chances of agreement on a new binding deal at a U.N. conference in Durban this year, placing a new focus on piecemeal efforts including fund-raising. Binding targets under the Kyoto Protocol cap the greenhouse gas emissions of nearly 40 industrialised countries but expire in 2012 and now look unlikely to be extended in time.
Andrew Steer, World Bank's Special Envoy on Climate Change
The World Bank is focusing on a levy on shipping and jet fuels in a report to G20 finance minister in October, among other efforts to keep climate action on track. "We are looking at carbon emissions-based sources ... including bunker (shipping) fuels and aviation fuels, that would be internationally coordinated albeit nationally collected," said Andrew Steer, World Bank special envoy for climate change.
The Bank estimates the extra cost to help the developing world prepare for more droughts, floods and rising seas at $100 billion annually. Various sources put the extra cost of cutting carbon emissions at $200 billion or more annually.
Steer said ... "let's get on with delivering what is committed," ...referring to various voluntary emissions targets and measures including a target agreed two years ago for the world to raise $100 billion climate aid annually by 2020.
The U.N. talks are stalled on the future of Kyoto, which only caps rich country emissions.... Global shipping and aviation emissions are neither limited nor measured under Kyoto. As a result these sectors are coming under closer scrutiny and the European Union in particular is involved in an escalating spat with the global airline body.
The EU plans a levy on the emissions of most flights that land or depart from Europe from January 2012, regardless of airline, a measure the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Sunday called illegal.
In addition to a levy on transport fuels, the World Bank is investigating raising funds from the sale of emissions permits to countries and companies, as already happens under the EU carbon market, and soft loans from development banks to stimulate private sector cash, said Steer.
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| | Dramatic Pics of Chile's Volcano EruptionEowyn | June 7, 2011 at 10:13 am | Tags: Chile earthquakes, volcano chain | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-7oj |
Last Wednesday, June 1, 2011, a forceful 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Chile off the country's south-central Pacific coast.
The same area was badly damaged in a major 8.8 magnitude quake that struck Chile on 27 February 2010, which was followed by a tsunami that devastated coastal communities. The 2010 disaster - the 6th largest earthquake on record since 1900 -- killed 524 people, left 220,000 homeless and caused an estimated $30 billion in damage. [Source]
5 days after last Wednesday's quake, on June 6, 2011, a Chilean volcano erupted for the first time in 50 years. Ash was thrown 6 miles up into the sky and some 3,500 residents were evacuated.
Chile has a chain of about 2,000 volcanoes, which is the world's second largest volcanic chain after Indonesia. Some 50 to 60 of Chile's volcanoes are on record as having erupted, and 500 are potentially active. [Source]
Here are some dramatic pics of the volcanic eruption:
Photo sources: Daily Mail; Terra.
Hmm. Since when do volcanoes erupt in a nuke-bomb-style mushroom cloud?
~Eowyn
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