I got the blues too. There is no white cloud in the sky, that's why.

B.H., P.D., D.S., W.T., and all other's...Well said.

What warts? A toad crown of warts means a natural toad is a king? A natural toad does No wear underpants, suspenders, or jockey briefs, either.

"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because a Deity did not take care of the baby child of him or her. It happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed." MOTHER THERESA.

"We are on dangerous ground if we believe that any individual, any nation, or any ideology, has a monopoly on rightness, liberty, and human rights." DAG HAMMARSKJOLD.

"When human/divine Jesus is reported to have said, go preach this to all the world, your zealous empire builders took this as opportunity to create dominion over people. It's similar to other crusades like capitalism, democracy, or communism (ISMS). A true spirtual sentient human being (O, please, have no institutional, permanent, and organized formed cannon belief, O please...) would never think that way. MATTHEW FOX.

"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind of speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." THE BUDDHA.

To YNW-okay. Just go lay-flat face-down in a white Dutch green clover patch, watch for a white cloud, and you sorta deserve it.

Oh goodness. I guess I better not mention anything about how some Latin American parties named "Radical" are actually in the center-right and are quite "conservative" by contemporary standards.

William:

The Hell's Angels, and their subculture of ritual domination predate the War on Drugs, bucky. It's strictly Lord of the Flies stuff. (I suppose you'll now tell me that if the government hadn't started WWII, the Hell's Angels subculture wouldn't exist, because the disaffected veterans who founded it wouldn't exist.) ...

The war on drugs goes back much, much further than the Hell's Angels. The angels might have existed even if drugs, girls, and gambling were legal among consenting adults; but they would have played hell paying for their lifestyle.

The horrible nightmare that is the inner city is a byproduct of the the nasty idea of having the government make people behave. By the way, have you read up on the scare they used to get the first drug laws on the books? It was pure bigoted, racist sexual scaremongering that blacks were going to screw every white woman in America.

By having laws to force people to "be moral" we create the situation where the opposite is encouraged. Did I mention ironic evil?

Please do not make this an "anarchy" issue as that is a cop-out. We could have followed the present Constitution and stayed out of people's private lives in the area of drugs, gambling, and prostitution.

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by Harry Browne

http://www.lewrockwell.com/browne/browne32.html

Few people are aware that before World War I, a 9-year-old girl could walk into a drug store and buy heroin.

That's right – heroin. She didn't need a doctor's prescription or a note from her parents. She could buy it right off the shelf. Bayer and other large drug companies sold heroin as a pain-reliever and sedative in measured doses – just the way aspirin is sold today. Cocaine, opium, and marijuana were readily available as well. No Drug Enforcement Agency, no undercover cops, no "Parents – the Anti-Drug" commercials. Just people going about their own business is whatever way they chose. ...

global stabilization professionals ??

Why do I feel like I just stepped from a childhood in the mountain wilderness straight into Bladerunner (again)? What a way to phrase "mercenaries." That's just ... scary.

William: I sympathize with your plant problem, but I disagree with your conclusion. "The gopher ate my agave" is way more poetic than any amount of blueberry bushes chomped through the non-snowy winter.

don't know much about poli sci and it will mean nothing to me if you cite writers and use specialized terms, but I am curious in a layman's terms kind of way: Are you saying that private property and enforceable right of contract exist without a government?

It can be. The absence of government is not the absence of societal organization. Most libertarians believe that societal organization arises automatically.

Private law even. (and there are historical precedents)

And, in the "in for a penny" department, are you saying that warlordism and strong-man status quo did not exist anywhere until after western European colonialism?

No. I was thinking of the present African situation that will be the next war by Democrats if it continues until 2008. (yes, the Dems win in 2008 --- you heard it here first) :-)

Africa has been a heartbreaking place my whole lifetime. Can anyone honestly deny the western involvement in the horrors? (that was my point, even if poorly written)

"Food of the Gods"

That would be, in Latin, "theobromine". Which is, appropriately, the predominant stimulant (caffeine-like) alkaloid present in chocolate ... the food of the gods. ;-)

Cheers,

P.S.: "theophylline" is "leaf of the gods", the primary such alkaloid present in tea.

ok - thanks.

>>All Blackwater Gear pieces work together with this vest system, allowing infinite configurability.<<

Hey! Now we can all be robots! Where do I get one?

Of course, you realize that makes a saboteur's job almost absurdly simple.

In days when there was a $6:00 USA bounty for a animal fox skin or a women wig-hair squall (scalped), a women nearby always grew a Laconic Balm.

If there was no poppy grower with a healing tincture during the immigration influx, a batch of nature's black maggots-worms were used to cleanse the head scalp.

SURVIVE!

Let's sing the chorus now....

..."When a little dab of maggot worm don't heal the government dandruff, OUTCH, what in the God In Heaven's Dear name does a person do?" Die? yep.

Theobromine also can be used in treatment of asthma, opening airways to help breathing. Seems like an apt description of Papa-bop's writing to me...

The absence of government is not the absence of societal organization. Most libertarians believe that societal organization arises automatically.

Oddly enough, the societal organization that arises automatically IS government. Environmentalists often make the same mistake. They assume that there is some "natural" state that would be acheived if it weren't for all the meddling of humans. Trouble is, we humans are no more or less a part of nature than any other element and that includes such things as the Federal Reserve Bank or the Gulag ot the Grand Canyon.

The innovation that the US (used to) represent is the idea that governments are instituted by men and require their continued consent in order to operate justly. Of course that insight highlights clearly just why imposing "democracy" from outside a society using guns and humvees is a recipe for disaster.