Thursday, April 08, 2004

There's No Way This Thing Could Hide in Your Keyboard

The dreaded camel spider. I wonder if they can spit like a camel?  Dang, that’s a big spider.  It would be interesting to see a camel spider mix it up with a bird eating spider.

Via Dean at Dean’s World.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/08 at 03:55 AM
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What About My Interest?

Skip Oliva has an interesting piece posted this morning at Citizens for Voluntary Trade. Skip titled his piece “The Religion of Politics," and in the piece lays out his reasoning why he thinks “pragmatism is killing America.” From Skip’s piece.

"In each of the three examples mentioned above—pornography, obscenity, and antitrust—the government seeks to restrict personal liberties and individual rights by invoking the “public interest.” The government can prosecute individuals for possessing or trading sexually explicit materials because it’s not in the “public interest.” Words and pictures deemed obscene by five unelected regulators can be banned from privately-owned television networks because it’s in the “public interest.” Businesses and individuals lose their right to enter into private contracts when such agreements violate the “public interest.”
What is the “public interest”? It’s nothing more than special-interest politics. It is the replacement of individual rights with group rights, where groups fight for control of the government to impose their will upon other groups. It is a perpetual cycle of influence-peddling, parasitism, and avarice."

Posted by John Venlet on 04/08 at 03:26 AM
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