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WEDNESDAY 2002-DEC-25 11:59pm CST

Merry Christmas from the Radical Incline. Peace on earth and good will toward men deserve a chance. But the brotherhood of humankind cannot come until mankind creates one democratic world union, and we don't seem to be in any danger of that happening soon, alas.

Holiday news we can use:
MSNBC: June still favorite time to lose virginity, but Holiday season a close runner-up.

Yahoo/Reuters: Zurich monks worried by organized Christmas begging. (On a larger scale we call it socialism.)

Okay, maybe it's just the jolly inclined radical's view, but I see this as a holiday horror story:
Los Angeles (Reuters) - Prison system officials refuse to permit inmates ingredients to make Christmas cheer just because some of them can't handle it. Inside the prison or out, prohibition is the punishment of the many because of the behavior of the few.

Nothing to do with the holidays, but one of the stupidest luddite articles I've ever read:
BBC Dec-23 Paul Rubens Farewell Beloved CDs. Excuse me?? Gagggg!

The Scotsman Dec-24: Mother abandons boy, 11, at airport. With psychologist apologias.

The PRUDES of the PURITALIBAN ALLIANCE win again, as Wal-Mart pulls the preggers Midge off their shelves due to unexplained popular disacclaim. Was it the removable stomach? The questionable fatherhood of the alleged father-doll Allan? The parentage of the pre-existing son-doll Ryan? All we know is, "Customers said they were not happy." DAMN THE TYRANTS!

Own the entire rustic town of Bridgeville, California, by buying it on e-bay, likely opening price $775,000, or if you prefer, a real estate company is offering the deed to Playas, New Mexico, ghost town available for only $3.2 million. Isn't this a great country? What great gifts these would make for Aunt Tilly!

Merry Christmaaaaaaas!

Ohio.com: Don't joke with the pilots about their drinking problems, or you'll get arrested!

Pennsylvania police kill 12-year-old boy after car chase. Just another day on the force.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35626-2002Dec25.html

America swaggers it can do anything it wants anywhere it wants anytime it wants just like always.

Reasonable measures!
news.telegraph.co.uk: Sudanese women ban sex in effort to halt war (By Vivien Morgan in Khartoum) A former university professor in Sudan has launched a sex strike in an attempt to to end the 19 years of civil war that have torn the country apart.
news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/24/wsud24.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/12/24/ixnewstop.html/news/2002/12/24/wsud24.xml

SATURDAY 2002-DEC-21 11pm CST

Had it been this long since I last added to this page? Darn these busy holiday weeks! "How much is that bloggie in the Windows? The one with the radical links?...."

Okay, okay, it's off-topic maybe, but it seems to me even our fellow intelligent higher mammals enjoy a roaring drunk and rebel against captivity, so it's unsurprising we humans do likewise. Guwahati, India, where drunken rampaging elephants kill six. And Miami, Florida, where an elephant, among other metro zoo animals, naturally turn violent against their captors.

BRAINWASHED VICTIMS OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL TYRANTS:
"He says he is not upset about losing his hand because it led to the end of his 12-year career as a thief." Well, whatever floats your boat, man, but civilized peoples see life under the rule of Sharia as brutal and obscene.

Short-haired girls passing for boys and so they jail the barber. 1950s southern United States? Not this time. Tyrannical Irannical, unsurprisingly.

Following up on an earlier item, it seems that sexual liberty is under assualt under the guise of disturbing the peace. Even though as noted in the earlier article the tenants of an apartment building knew there was a swingers' club on the premises, and received reduced rents for their inconvenience for the nuisance, the auspices of tyrannical so-called "government" was invoked to interfere in free exercise, free trade, and free choice and shut down the swingers club. Who could imagine such a thing happening in Berlin?

Either it's a crime or it's not. Either it's fraud or it's not. But licensing psychics? That almost seems to condone fraud. Where else but San Francisco would add another layer of law upon the citizenry by trying to regulate the difference between genuine psychics and charlatans!

More attempts to stop the unstoppable force of history:
Fox Dec-18: Colleges May Crack Down on File-Sharing

TOBACCO SUCKS BIG TIME...
BBC Dec-19: Why tobacco raises cot death risk
BUT PROHIBITION AND OVERREGULATION IS A CURE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
Fox Dec-19: New York City Imposes Strict Anti-Smoking Rules

Just for Christmas: Greeley, Colo. 7-Year-Old Saves Mom After Car Wreck

REPEAL!
REPEAL!
REPEAL!

TUESDAY 2002-DEC-17 6pm CST

So many days missed. So much going on keeping me from blogging the war. Here's a list of recent discoveries, though.

Old problem reported as news:
MSNBC/AP Dec-10: Net filters block some health sites Study tests software’s ability to prevent access to information

Here's a real shockeroo of a surprise:
BBC Dec-17: Afghan women 'still suffer abuse' Forced chastity tests are common, rights activists say

And along those same primitive lines:
Yahoo/Reuters Dec-16: Pakistan Woman Councilor Beaten, Paraded Naked

Meanwhile, when does YOUR contract with society expire?
News24.com Dec-12: 'Tide of history' washes away land claim
www.news24.com/News24/World/0,1113,2-10_1296953,00.html

An icon of human liberty goes up for auction:
Yahoo/AP Dec-15: Nev. Auctions Property From Brothel

Bullshit by the pound:
Yahoo/AP Dec-16 & hundreds of other places: Survey: Drug Use by U.S. Teens Declines Oh, yeah, like we're "winning the war on drugs." Read those figures! More than one in every hundred eighth-graders has taken OxyContin in the past year, heroin use is stable, but they're smoking less grass. This is not reassuring news!

What can we say? Kids like pot, too?
Fox News, Dec-11: HOLYOKE, Mass: Girl, 4, Brings Teacher Gift of Marijuana.
Yahoo/Reuters Dec-12: PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.- Nine-Year-Olds Face Marijuana Charges

Yet another terrible, intolerable attack on personal liberty in Australia
Yahoo/Reuters Dec-13: Police Fight Right to Bare Buttocks
"If we allowed everyone who wanted to drop their pants and moon police officers, we are undermining the authority of the police."

BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAHHHH!

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Meaning no disrespect to the law by that, of course. But while we're laughing....
Wired: Keeping Track of John Poindexter

wkbw.com Dec-12: "A Canadian Committee in Ottawa today recommended that Canada decriminalize the use of marijuana for personal use." Other than that closing line, the article is a propaganda piece bemoaning the problem that Prison Amerika is going to have if our neighbors to the North continue with the intelligent (if absurdly gradual) course of repealing pot prohibition.

THURSDAY 2002-DEC-10 5pm CST

I regret that I haven't had time to keep up with this lately. I'd rather be doing this than many things which take up my time currently.

BBC: Jon Johansen is charged with developing a software programme to allow internet users to get round copy-protected DVDs and make unauthorised copies of films.

Buffalo News editorial by Douglas Turner: Anonymous sources fueling push for war. How the news media manipulate public opinion and the power and presumption of Associated Press

BBC: Australia's high court has ruled that the financial publishers Dow Jones can be sued in the Australian state of Victoria over an article that appeared on their website.

THE MORONIC WAR ON PERSONAL CHOICE CONTINUES IN EUROPE. Presumption that government is the best nanny marks socialized European legislation.
This is London: Euro war on tobacco

FRENCH LANGUAGE TYRANTS LOOK STUPIDE:
Reuters: cyber.confusion@french.language

WAR ON FREELY CHOOSING CITIZENS CONTINUES:
USA GOVERNMENT MEDICAL TYRANNY OVER CITIZENS CONTINUES WITH ALLEGED SMALLPOX MASS VACCINATION PLAN
News with Views: HEALTH DISTRICTS MOBILIZING FOR MASS SMALLPOX VACCINATION CAMPAIGN

Range Magazine: Camper defends family against wolf, then must defend family against politicians, rabid environmentalists, and other nutballs

World Net Daily editorial by Dennis Praeger: French Fries Kill? How bad science and wild media scare people into demanding more government intervention in our lives.

DRUG NAZIS ON TYPICAL RAMPAGE HOSPITALIZE INNOCENT WORLD TRAVELER
News24: Austrian police on a drugs raid have reportedly beat and seriously injured an uninvolved student from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
www.news24.com/News24/World/0,1113,2-10_1296139,00.html

Ananova: More Christmas cheer: Vicar tells children Santa Claus is dead.

THURSDAY 2002-DEC-10 1am CST

WorldNetDaily: Hackers fight totalitarian governments

Washington Post: 4 Charged in Drug Sales at Burger King
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26774-2002Dec8.html

BBC: Cork replacements threaten wildlife

WorldNetDaily: Why terrorists target Muslims in theaters

Reuters: Police Hunt Hallucinogenic Toad Thief

Reuters: Principal Charged with Handcuffing Pupil

A couple of Christmasy bits
Reuters: Homeless Man Found with $30,000 in Pockets
Reuters: Woman Missing Eight Years Is Home for Christmas

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