The Exercise of Vital Powers

It looks like the Sexual Harassment scandal has been broken.

I was on the LNC when these alleged events occurred, when the these alleged events were disclosed in Executive Session, and I know the people involved. Sean’s story isn’t entirely accurate. M Carling is alleged to have done things in that article that should rightly be attributed to another individual.

His analysis seems a bit off too. M and Aaron were desperate to oust Seehusen - presumably to get someone in there they could control. Well if M controls the ED then M is in a position to influence someone’s employment status. And remember, Sexual Harassment is based on perceived - not actual - threat to one’s job status.

So the question now is: when will the other culprit be named? And more interestingly, when will the scandal over FEC reporting finally break?

We had some fun poking holes in the LP Platform tonight at the Gwinnett RLC meeting (more on that later), but this post at Liberty for Sale sums it up nicely:

I wonder if any of these people hell bent on stating this ideal Libertarian world plan saw an attractive woman in a bar and decided he wanted to eventually have sex with her if he would want up and say “Hi, wanna f***?”I doubt it; he would probably ask if she wanted to go out first. He knows the goal, he knows what he wants, and he is not deceiving her or leaving his principals behind. He just understand that if he walks up and says “Hi, wanna f***?” that he would not only risk a slap in the face, but he would have only a slight chance of success and most likely would come of looking like a fruitcake. It will not work.

Gasoline is one of the cheapest fluids around……

http://www.cockeyed.com/science/gallon/liquid.html

(I’m just wondering who pays $38 million for a gallon of scorpion venom)

I’ll say it again: Critics of capitalism once predicted that free markets would wreak mass starvation, depletion of resources, pollution, and death.

They’re now reduced to bitching about too many flavors of mustard.

We’ve won the debate.

–Radley Balko

I think its time to close down our enemy combatant detention centers in Cuba. They have become a lightning rod of anti-Americanism. Most of the people held there have been there for at least a year. If we haven’t gotten information out of them by now, we aren’t going to get information out of them. We are detaining them to keep them out of circulation.

We should establish a prison in Afghanistan and turn over management to the Karzai government - with the proviso that US troops are responsible for security. The Afghans would be responsible for taking care of the prisoners - US forces are there to make sure they don’t escape. Any time a US official needs access to a prisoner then an Afghani is present.

This puts any responsibility for abuse on the Karzai government. It would provide a much needed influx of money into the country. More importantly it shuts down one more thing the left can use to attack our efforts in the war on terror.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

–C.S. Lewis

Wow - Boortz and Linder’s FairTax book is ranked higher than the Harry Potter book on Barnes and Noble.

Cool

I’ll be there. You should too.

From: Todd Pull
To: RLC-GA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [RLC-GA] Gwinnett Organizational Meeting
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:50:42 -0700 (10:50 EDT)

The organizational meeting for the Gwinnett Affiliate is Tuesday the 14th, 7
Pm - 9 Pm, at Jillians - Discovery Mills Mall from 7 Pm - 9 Pm.

The Discovery Mills Mall is off I-85 at Sugarloaf. All are welcome to
attend.

Todd

I’ve not paid much attention to the silliness going on in the US Senate over the judicial confirmations. It is partisan politics at its worse. And if I hear someone else use the phrase “nuclear option” I’m going to exercise my nuclear option with a nice former Soviet General and show them a thing or two.

That said, Reason gave me some interesting pointers to some of her quotes.

Democracy and capitalism seem to have triumphed. But, appearances can be deceiving. Instead of celebrating capitalism’s virtues, we offer it grudging acceptance, contemptuous tolerance, but only for its capacity to feed the insatiable maw of socialism. We do not conclude that socialism suffers from a fundamental flaw. We conclude instead that its ends are worthy of any sacrifice – including our freedom….1937…marks the triumph of our own socialist revolution

Curiously, in the current dialectic, the right to keep and bear arms – a right expressly guaranteed by the Bill of Rights – is deemed less fundamental than implicit protections the court purports to find in the penumbras of other express provisions. (citations omitted) But surely, the right to preserve one’s life is at least as fundamental as the right to preserve one’s privacy.

Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled; community impoverished; religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized….When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems?

Thanks to the People for the American Way(sic) for pointing me to some of her quotes. Thanks to them I’m now a Brown supporter.

The LPGa is currently in a tail spin. The party only put out one fundraising letter the entire year I was on their board - and I was the one who loaned them the money to do it.

On Monday they finally got rid the Executive Director they couldn’t afford. No word on if they will attempt to find someone competent to replace him.

Today I get an email from the one credible candidate that was going to run in 2005 saying he has backed out of the race. A GaTech Prof, Jud Ready, was considering running for the Atlanta City Council. Jud had already established a bridge with the Atl Firefighters Union, who the City Council shafted out of a pay raise. He is active in his neighborhood association, and is an all around personable guy. It would have been hard, but Jud could have won that election against the 20 year corrupt incumbent.

Now there are no LP candidates in 2005, an election year that focuses on non-partisan local races - the exact races that the LPGa needs to win to be able to move on to higher offices.

Some people thought I was a GOP plant sent to destroy the LP. In reality the LP is destroying itself. I think I’ll just sit back and watch.