Re: [CTRL] OT: People Asking Questions (fwd)

1999-07-20 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MICHAEL SPITZER wrote: From another list I'm on: Question: I am not a pilot, or an airplane mechanic, so I ask this from a position of ignorance and seek responses from those more expert. I was reading the accounts of the plane accident, and from what I

Re: [CTRL] The Federal Reserve Bank is a Private Company

1999-07-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- The Myth of the 'Independent' Fed by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an 'independent' agency operated by selfless public servants striving to 'fine-tune' the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a

Re: [CTRL] GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF

1999-08-03 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- T Nohava wrote: http://www.nypost.com/news/1315.htm GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF By KIRSTEN DANIS snip Company Press Release SOURCE: Gates Learning Foundation; William H. Gates Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations Issue Statement on Returning

Re: [CTRL] Congress' voting record

1999-08-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Bill Richer wrote: The New American magazine just came out with the voting records of U.S. Congressmen for the first half of 1999. They looked at 20 of the most important bills in each house, then found out how often the person voted constitutionally. Here are some

Re: [CTRL] Micrsoft: A Predatory Monopoly--Wall Street Journal (fwd)

1999-11-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- A Predatory Monopoly snip monopoly Exclusive possession of the trade in some article of merchandise; the condition of having no competitor in the sale of some commodity, or in the exercise of some trade or business. Oh, you mean ... The MONOPOLY Federal Judge agrees the

[CTRL] Microsoft and liberty

1999-11-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ Microsoft and liberty Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Is free enterprise legal in America or not? That is the fundamental question raised by federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's 207-page "Findings of Fact" against Microsoft. Here's a judge who

Re: [CTRL] Microsoft and liberty

1999-11-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Microsoft and liberty Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Is free enterprise legal in America or not? Joshua This isn't free enterprise. It's monopoly capitalism. The natural outcome of of unregulated free enterprise. Monopoly Capitalism is more destructive than global

[CTRL] Antitrust and Microsoft

1999-11-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Antitrust and Microsoft by Dominick Armentano The Microsoft Corporation's continuing difficulties with the Department of Justice, even after an appeals court ruled in the company's favor, reveal the absurdity of attempting to apply 19th-century antitrust law to a 21st-century

Re: [CTRL] Dismal economic system. Dismal science.

1999-11-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua forwarded: The Growth Consensus Unravels Jonathan Rowe, Dollars and Sense snip It was John Maynard Keynes, after all, who devised the growth-boosting mechanisms of macroeconomic policy to combat the Depression of the 1930s; it was Keynesians

Re: [CTRL] textbook propaganda (fwd)

1999-09-09 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- From Sean: Well. My senior honors government/economics class is well into the first chapter now, and something's disturbed me about our textbook. Section 3 of the book gives a basic run down of different economic systems and how they work. There is a section

[CTRL] The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get...

1999-09-10 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get... by Mark Skousen "The modern market economy accords wealth and distribution income in a highly unequal, socially adverse and also functionally damaging fashion." --John Kenneth Galbraith The allegation

[CTRL] Guardians of the Constitution or Watching Out for Their Own?

1999-09-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- The Supreme Court of the United States: Guardians of the Constitution or Watching Out for Their Own? by Daniel J. Pilla By the very terms of the Constitution, all judicial officers, as well as others in government service, "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation" to support the

[CTRL] Federal Government Growth Before the New Deal

1999-09-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Federal Government Growth Before the New Deal by Randall G. Holcombe Popular opinion holds that most of the credit (or blame) for the incredible growth of the federal government should go to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. While Roosevelt certainly was a

Re: [CTRL] The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get...

1999-09-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nurev Ind Research wrote: Don't be fooled by these oinkres' propaganda. MJ: Ad hominem Nurev Ind Research wrote: The problem with unequal income distribution is NOT inequality. The problem is CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH into the hands of fewer and fewer people. This

Re: [CTRL] The glorious Welfare State economic system.

1999-09-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nurev Ind Research wrote: What kind of human being are you really if you can advocate for this system? Minimum Wage Workers Unable to Afford Rent Anywhere in Nation MJ: Why do you insist upon calling an orange a banana? Regard$, --MJ I sit on a man's back,

Re: [CTRL] The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get...

1999-09-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nurev Ind Research wrote: Don't be fooled by these oinkres' propaganda. MJ: Ad hominem Joshua: If the shoe fits... MJ: It is your shoe and apparently it fits your foot as you continue to concentrate on the individual making the statement rather than the

Re: [CTRL] This is news?

1999-09-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua forwarded: As the United States approaches to the 2000 presidential race, in which more money will be spent than ever, the fact must be faced that American has become a plutocracy, rather than a democracy. MJ: America was never intended to be a

Re: [CTRL] Godless Commie Rat!!!

1999-09-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua quoted: Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles, while capitalism is concerned with only with gain and profitability. Marxism is concerned with the distribution of wealth on an equal basis and the

[CTRL] Yours and mine

1999-09-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ Yours and mine by Walter Williams TOM BETHELL, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and Washington correspondent for "The American Spectator," has just penned an excellent book titled ""The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity

Re: [CTRL] Godless Commie Rat!!!

1999-09-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Ric Carter: If it *doesn't* work, it don't matter diddly-squat what its moral attributes may be - it's dead. And if the participants *don't* benefit, it can hardly be considered 'moral'. Joshua Not really. Something doesn't have to work to be moral. What

Re: [CTRL] Godless Commie Rat!!!

1999-09-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: Capitalism has NEVER existed. Please explain how forcibly taking from SOME and giving this to others is moral. SM: CAPITALISM has existed for centuries and leaves no room for truly representative government, be it socialism or any kind of truly free

[CTRL] The Origins of the Public School

1999-09-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ The Origins of the Public School by Robert P. Murphy [Robert Murphy is a recent graduate from Hillsdale College in Michigan] Hardly anyone disputes the contention that the modern public school is seriously flawed. Test scores continue to be

[CTRL] The Central Fallacy of Public Schooling

1999-09-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ The Central Fallacy of Public Schooling by Daniel Hager [Daniel Haer is a writer in Lansing, Michigan] When World War II ended, Congress authorized a tax cut to take effect January 1, 1946. YoungAmerica, a publication distributed through

[CTRL] Great Myths of the Great Depression

1999-09-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ Great Myths of the Great Depression by Lawrence W. Reed Many volumes have been written about the Great Depression and its impact on the lives of millions of Americans. Historians, economists, and politicians have all combed the wreckage

[CTRL] The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal

1999-09-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal by Robert Higgs The Great Depression was a watershed in American history. Soon after Herbert Hoover assumed the presidency in 1929, the economy began to decline, and between 1930 and 1933 the

Re: [CTRL] ABOLISH THE FDA?--YES!

1999-11-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Tenorlove wrote: I don't know about abolish; after all, they refused to approve thalidomide for morning sickness, saving thousands of U.S. babies from horrible birth defects. MJ: What of all the deaths from delays, bloated costs and failure to approve otherwise legitimate

Re: [CTRL] ABOLISH THE FDA?--YES!

1999-11-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: What of all the deaths from delays, bloated costs and failure to approve otherwise legitimate products? Tenorlove wrote: Read my previous post again. MJ: Funny, the words were ordered in the same manner and related the SAME meaning. Regard$, --MJ While the

Re: [CTRL] ABOLISH THE FDA?--YES!

1999-11-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Prudence L. Kuhn wrote: If we could just get it back to the policies it used about forty years ago, it would be fine. That was before it was sold lock, stock and barrel to the pharmaceutical companies. MJ: If this were TRUE, why is it a ten year (on average) $300

Re: [CTRL] A Clinton third term??? ...again. (fwd)

1999-11-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MICHAEL SPITZER wrote: Also does anyone know the status of H.J. RES. 17, proposing an amendment to the Constitution to repeal the twenty-second amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms a president may serve? MJ: WHAT limitations? By utilizing

Re: [CTRL] Liberty or Death

2001-10-29 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? MJ Very much so. Thew WTF? the media in this country is nothing but a corporate shill at this point - the news, which used to stand on its own, and therefore have some room to actually

Re: [CTRL] Liberty or Death

2001-10-29 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? MJ Very much so. Thew could you explain how? MJ Simply WATCH or READ the material put forth. Thew WTF? the media in this country is nothing but a corporate shill at this point -

Re: [CTRL] Liberty or Death

2001-10-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? MJ Very much so. Thew could you explain how? MJ Simply WATCH or READ the material put forth. Thew I do read it, and I do watch it, and I don't see it. So instead of a snide

Re: [CTRL] Liberty or Death

2001-10-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? MJ Very much so. Thew could you explain how? flw If you define capitalism as Free Market, then of course the media is anti capitalist. If you define modern capitalism

Re: [CTRL] Liberty or Death

2001-10-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- thew what you say may be true, but there are no facts in anything you've said. MJ What 'facts' do you imagine are absent? thew all I've asked you for are some hard facts, examples to back up what you say MJ And I have POINTED to reality FOR you. thew I do

Re: [CTRL] Liberty or Death

2001-11-01 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- thew if you read the messages I didn't mention capitalism, but corporatism MJ Yawn. Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? Regard$, --MJ The sting [of gossip] is the truth of it. -- Benjamin Franklin A

Re: [CTRL] Government at work: US boom bypassed middle class

2001-08-20 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Again, TAXES, TAXES, TAXES. Will you EVER learn? Regard$, --MJ He who dares not offend cannot be honest. -- Thomas Paine A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic

Re: [CTRL] Fw: The Subversion of Education in America

2001-08-28 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- laural What gets to me is the separation of Church and State is a first Amendment right! MJ This is untrue. The First Amendment PLAINLY prohibits Congress from mak[ing] laws in regards to 5 items. Regard$, --MJ The Constitution wisely forbids Congress to make any law

[CTRL] Children's drug is more potent than cocaine

2001-09-10 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Children's drug is more potent than cocaine Jean West The children's drug Ritalin has a more potent effect on the brain than cocaine, a study has found. Using brain imaging, scientists have found that, in pill

Re: [CTRL] Global Warming Much Worse Than Predicted

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ==

Re: [CTRL] [OT] Report: President Bush Has Lowest IQ ofallPresidentsofPast ...

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- thew just a quick note here george w bush was appointed, and not elected MJ Only some Religious Myrmidons chant such absurdity. thew are you saying th4e supreme court didn't appoint bush? MJ The Court has no such Power nor did they usurp such. Regard$, --MJ

Re: [CTRL] [OT] Report: President Bush Has LowestIQofallPresidentsofPast 50 Years

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- BB But consider, government IS big business, Joshua Yes. In a capitalist society where the wealth of the nation is transferred to private enterprises. It doesn't HAVE to be that way. MJ Not in reality, but we can pretend if it makes you feel better. BB

Re: [CTRL] Agriculture After Global Warming

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Someone Asks Do you think that it's possible this entire Global Warming thing has been concocted to stampede the people into accepting serious international authority over their lives? Nessie chants We already have serious international authority over their lives.

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: How to Stop Bush Amnesty of 3 Million Illegal Aliens

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Steve Wilson How about human rights? MJ What 'human rights'? One's like those outlined in the contradictory Declaration of Human Rights? Steve Wilson How about fair wages for everyone and not exploiting a person because hes an illegal facing shit jobs no one else

Re: [CTRL] Agriculture After Global Warming

2001-07-18 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ Corporations -- a creation of Government -- does NOT possess legalized FORCE. Nessie (1.) Tell that to Wackenhut. MJ You PREACH your nonsense to 'Wackenhut'. Nessie (2.) Corporations own the government. Ergo, they control the poluce and military. If you

[CTRL] The Roots of Racial Profiling

2001-07-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops? By Gene Callahan and William Anderson It is early in the morning, and the well-dressed young African-American man driving his

Re: [CTRL] U.S. Aid To Israel Violates 1st Amendment

2001-08-06 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Violates the First Amendment nothing ... there is no Power provided the Congress To forcibly take the earnings of Americans and give them to *any* Foreign Government or any other 'charitable' endeavor. Regard$, --MJ I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the

[CTRL] Saddam Hussein is Right

2001-08-09 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Saddam Hussein is Right by Bill Barnwell Do you have to be a bloodthirsty bully to be a conservative? That's one of the prerequisites, if the rhetoric of many Republicans are taken seriously. My conservative

[CTRL] Siege At Sagle

2001-06-07 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Siege At Sagle by Jeff Elkins Get the guns! We don't know exactly what alerted 15-year-old Benjamin McGuckin. It could have been one of the family dogs, warning the boy when a jackboot broke a twig. Perhaps one of

Re: [CTRL] How it's done: O-L-I-G-O-P-O-L-Y

2001-06-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua ol[i[gop[o[ly n., pl. lies OLIG(O) + (MON)OPOLY control of a commodity or service in a given market by a small number of companies or suppliers This is the corporate model for the New World Economic Order. It is based on the successful models in

Re: [CTRL] FDR Unmasked

2001-06-26 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Carl Grow up for Pete sake. I am not an FDR fan in general. But, what he did vis a vis W.W.II was necessary. MJ Aaah that 20/20 hindsight. Regard$, --MJ America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of

Re: [CTRL] July 4th! The Birthday of America

2001-07-03 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- July 4th! The Birthday of America by David Barton Q.: What is your opinion of David Barton's book The Myth of Separation? A.: The real myth is that Mr. Barton is an historian. -- Gene Garman Regard$, --MJ The United States of

Re: [CTRL] The Contradictions of Capitalism

2001-07-04 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nessie Chanted Capitalism and free markets are inherently contradictory. MJ Bullshit. These two concepts are inherently linked. Nessie Chanted Capitalism can't exist in a free market because capitalism requires the state. MJ Bullshit. Once the STATE sticks it's nose

[CTRL] A Layman's Look at the Communist Manifesto

2001-07-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] A Layman's Look at the Communist Manifesto by John Keller Partially Educated The Communist Manifesto is one of those documents I was aware of, but had never taken the time to actually read. As a woefully

Re: [CTRL] Global Warming Much Worse Than Predicted, Say Scientists

2001-07-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling,

[CTRL] Big Brother's New Prohibition

2001-07-13 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] BIG BROTHER'S NEW PROHIBITION Stephen A. Beck NONE OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR STATEMENTS ARE TRUE: But people think they are and that's the real crisis. Last year, 24,000 nationwide lost their lives because

Re: [CTRL] AP: NYT says Florida accepted flawed overseas ballots

2001-07-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nessie News flash -- it doesn't matter who won. Whoever it is, he's a puppet of the corporations who really rule us. The government is a front. MJ ROTFLMAO The Corporations are simply one of THOUSANDS of factions who the Pull-Peddling Politicians utilize to maintain

[CTRL] When Elephants Fly

2000-10-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ When Elephants Fly by Carole Ward I believe Republicans are going to lose in November, because utopian wolves outnumber the grass eaters. Even if conservatives eke out a victory in November, the battle for a Constitutional Republic is lost.

[CTRL] Remember the Maine! And the Other Ships Sunk To Start a War

2000-10-16 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Remember the Maine! And the Other Ships Sunk To Start a War by Bill Sardi February 15, 1898: "Remember the Maine." Mysterious explosion rocks the battleship MAINE in Havana Harbor, Cuba. 266 men were killed.

Re: [CTRL] Chcken Hawks

2000-10-18 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Wow ... and with this silly attempt at equivocation NONE of those purported 'avoiders' wrote their congresscritter explaining how he LOATHED the military. Go Figure. Regard$, --MJ Where is it written in the Constitution, in what section or clause is it contained, that you may

Re: [CTRL] Corporations ubber alles: Free trade at work.

2000-09-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
Nurev Electing a Free Trader like Gore or Bush will condemn people like those described below to lives of virtual slavery. MJ NEITHER of these Putz's have *ANY* interest in FREE TRADE. You *DO* know the difference between private and government ... don't you? Regard$, --MJ Law

Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: [Fwd: Nader: Empower People vs. Elite Control]]

2000-09-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The

Re: [CTRL] Look for the Union Label

2000-09-18 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua 1) Unlike the pre-WWII unions, they did not want to do away with Capitalism. MJ Learn the difference between PRIVATE and government. Joshua 2) They served as buffers between corporations and their workers. Just as the FDA, FCC, NLRB, and

Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: The Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy]

2000-09-25 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua, Why would 'free trade' require an agreement? You AGAIN (and continuously) choose to assist in the malignment of the solution. Regard$, --MJ A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of

Re: [CTRL] Only capitalism.

2000-09-25 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Learn the freaking difference between Government and private. Regard$, --MJ A totalitarian state thrives on propaganda, and there is no more effective way to limit thought than to control the language itself. By changing definitions of words through continual association, any

Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: FDA conflicts of interest (USA Today)]

2000-09-26 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- FDA advisers tied to industry Ever hear of the Public Choice Model? This unconstitutional, oppressive illusion should be abolished. Regard$, --MJ Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe

Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: (en) Our globalisation - Fighting Global STATISM]]

2000-09-28 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Please define: a. Government b. Private What is the difference between these two concepts? Regard$, --MJ An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost. -- Cicero A

Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: FDA conflicts of interest (USA Today)]

2000-10-01 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- -Caveat Lector- FDA advisers tied to industry MJ Ever hear of the Public Choice Model? This unconstitutional, oppressive illusion should be abolished. tenebroust I don't think we can go to a system where there is NO regulation, because it

Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: FDA conflicts of interest (USA Today)]

2000-10-03 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Bastiat Property is prior to law; the sole function of the law is to safeguard the right to property wherever it exists, wherever it is formed, in whatever manner the worker produces it, whether individually or in association, provided that he

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Debate the Constitution

2000-10-04 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Bob Hogwash. Bush and the reactionaries want to enshrine the Constitution, to cast it in stone, to worship it as Holy Writ. The problem with that is that it was never intended to be seen that way. MJ Really? Bob Gore is exactly correct. The

Re: [CTRL] An American Dictatorship: Ralph Nader's Vision for America

2000-08-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
Nurev If capitalism continues much longer, we will become the first species to become extinct due to insanity. Bill Amen JACKson! MJ Shouldn't capitalism will FIRST be implemented? You *DO* know the difference between PRIVATE and Government. Regard$, --MJ A totalitarian

[CTRL] CORRECTED Re: [CTRL] An American Dictatorship: Ralph Nader's Vision for America

2000-08-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
Nurev If capitalism continues much longer, we will become the first species to become extinct due to insanity. Bill Amen JACKson! MJ Shouldn't capitalism FIRST be implemented? You *DO* know the difference between PRIVATE and Government. Regard$, --MJ A totalitarian state

Re: [CTRL] Statism at work. Hitman economics.

2000-09-10 Thread M.A. Johnson
Nurev Ind Research wrote: snip more silly nonsense MJ Learn the difference between Government and private. Regard$, --MJ The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. -- Bill Clinton A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER

Re: [CTRL] Why health-care reform hasn't worked.

2000-09-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
snip Remove the Government SOLVE the problem. Chart the relation between government programs and restrictions such as the FDA and Medicare/Medicaid versus increases in costs and the problem and solution are readily apparent. Regard$, --MJ Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution,

Re: [CTRL] Awash in Oil-Whine about a 5% rise in taxes, but accept a businessman's 300% raise of the cost of oil.

2000-09-13 Thread M.A. Johnson
Joshua belched Americans deserve to get screwed. They are so brainwashed into deifying " the Market," that it's perfectly OK for businessmen to rip them off to the tune of tripling the price of oil. MJ That this is patently absurd aside (it is the Government's insistence on

[CTRL] Government and High Prices

2000-09-13 Thread M.A. Johnson
~~for educational purposes only~~ Government and High Prices By Thomas J. DiLorenzo The U.S. Congress is holding hearings on why gasoline prices have risen; pundits are beginning to repeat the anti-capitalist oil company bashing of the 1970s; and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban

[CTRL] Why the Price of Oil Is Surging

2000-09-13 Thread M.A. Johnson
~~for educational purposes only~~ Why the Price of Oil Is Surging By George Reisman Over the last year, the price of oil has once again been surging. The most prominent immediate cause has been cutbacks in the production of oil on the part of the member countries of OPEC, such as Saudi Arabia

[CTRL] Hidden Costs of Regulation

2000-09-13 Thread M.A. Johnson
~~for educational purposes only~~ Hidden Costs of Regulation by Christopher Mayer "In many countries interventionism has so undermined the supremacy of the market that it is more advantageous for a businessman to rely upon the aid of those in political office than upon

[CTRL] Chaos Theory

2000-12-01 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Chaos Theory by Bob Murphy Throughout history, there have been countless arguments advanced to support the State. None of them has been valid. This essay will address a certain class of these arguments, whose

Re: [CTRL] Ignorance kills.

2000-12-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Learn the difference between private and government. If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list.

Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: GLOBAL STATISM: Pathologically Amoral Economics]

2000-12-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Learn the difference between private and government. If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list.

Re: [CTRL] Ignorance kills.

2000-12-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ Learn the difference between private and government. Joshua Could you please repeat that. Again, and again, and again. MJ Since YOU continuously repeat the same nonsense ... I figure you constantly need reminding. Regard$, --MJ If a million people believe a

Re: [CTRL] IF THE VOTE WERE FLAWLESS...

2000-12-03 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- IF THE VOTE WERE FLAWLESS... We would have begun again as 48% of the voters said None of these Putzes compared to the closest Putz at 25%. Regard$, --MJ Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though

[CTRL] Those WTO Protests

2000-12-07 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Those WTO Protests By Ilana Mercer With the anniversary of the WTO protest, the protesters once again descended on the city of Seattle. Like a troop of primates, they hooted, threw rocks and bottles of gasoline,

[CTRL] December 7, 1941 . . . a Day of Deceit

2000-12-10 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] December 7, 1941 . . . a Day of Deceit by Robert B. Stinnett This week, as Americans remember those 2403 men, women, and children killed and 1178 wounded in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on

[CTRL] A Lesson in Academic Housecleaning

2000-12-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Pearl Harbor Historiography: A Lesson in Academic Housecleaning by Gary North Robert Stinnett closes his excellent summary article on Pearl Harbor historiography with these words: "Though the Freedom of Information

[CTRL] Will of the People?

2000-12-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Will of the People? by Thomas J. DiLorenzo The state needs to invent an endless series of myths about its powers and importance in order to exist, and there is no bigger myth than the notion that democratic

[CTRL] Now the Bad News

2000-12-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Now the Bad News by Mark Brandly Eight years of government expansion and political corruption was enough. The good news is that the Clinton-Gore era is coming to a close, and all their political appointees in

Re: [CTRL] Racism And The Fight For Democracy

2001-01-13 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ The LAW won out rather than the mob. Nessie Are you saying that you consider We The People to be a mob? If so, what's that make you? MJ No. Regard$, --MJ Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who

Re: [CTRL] Global warming claims 'based on false data'??

2001-01-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua This is obfuscation and drivel. All you need to know is that the ice caps and the worlds glaciers are melting and sea level is rising. No assholes can argue those measurements. MJ Are you describing WHAT you are writing? This 'sky is falling' Global Warming is

[CTRL] How the Democrats made loving Dixie a hate crime

2001-01-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] How the Democrats made loving Dixie a hate crime Robert Stacy McCain When he was the governor of Arkansas only two decades ago, Bill Clinton routinely issued proclamations, with the usual rhetorical flourishes,

[CTRL] Tryanny Personified

2001-01-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Tryanny Personified by Thomas J. DiLorenzo During the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for attorney general nominee John Ashcroft, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-O'Shea's Saloon) threw a fit over a perfectly correct

Re: [CTRL] Capitalism - It's a beautiful thing to watch free markets do what they do best.

2001-01-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- At 09:41 PM 1/19/01 -0500, you wrote: -Caveat Lector- "Why is California short on Electricity ? You should TRULY learn the fucking difference between PRIVATE and GOVERNMENT. California's Enemy: The

Re: [CTRL] Corporations ubber alles: Who's in charge here?

2001-01-21 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua The problem is that we " CONSUMERS " ( A BIOLOGICAL ENTITY WHOSE SOLE PURPOSE IS TO CONSUME ) are not modifying our behavior well enough to conform to the machinations of the free market and its corporate manipulators. MJ If someone is MANIPULATING a

Re: [CTRL] Capitalism - It's a beautiful thing to watch freemarkets dowhat they do best.

2001-01-21 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua "Why is California short on Electricity ? MJ You should TRULY learn the fucking difference between PRIVATE and GOVERNMENT. Joshua You should TRULY learn to live in the real world. MJ It is you who seeks to hide from reality. Joshua Your

[CTRL] Christ the Culprit?

2001-01-21 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Christ the Culprit? by Joseph Sobran Time magazine has just hailed an intellectual breakthrough: "A new book claims that Christianity, not just bad Christians, is to blame for persecution of the Jews." What an

Re: [CTRL] Corporations ubber alles: Who's in charge here?

2001-01-21 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua The problem is that we " CONSUMERS " ( A BIOLOGICAL ENTITY WHOSE SOLE PURPOSE IS TO CONSUME ) are not modifying our behavior well enough to conform to the machinations of the free market and its corporate manipulators. MJ If someone is MANIPULATING a

Re: [CTRL] A Question.....

2001-01-23 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- sno0wl Can Bush just cut off funds to international family planning agencies? Doesn't this kind of thing need approvalneed to go through committees? Require congressional approval? Is he some kind of emperor or Czar who can just say "This is how it's gonna

Re: [CTRL] A Question.....

2001-01-23 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. --Thomas Jefferson Bill I agree hence my opposition to funding religious schools through any "voucher" program. MJ What

Re: [CTRL] DERSHOWITZ: Bush Starts Off by Defying the Constitution

2001-01-27 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ And in a home with so many owners, there can be no official sectarian prayer. That is what the 1st Amendment is all about, and the first act by the new administration was in defiance of our Constitution. MJ Unfortunately, Dershowitz would not

Re: [CTRL] School Vouchers

2001-01-29 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nessie Before public education, literacy was limited to a handful, all rich or in the employ of the church. That was failure. MJ Bullshit. Kindly PROVE your assertion. Regard$, --MJ By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers ... has ensured

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