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McCain asks Georgia voters to back Sen. Chambliss – Yahoo News

bluecarp — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:07:24 +0000

via McCain asks Georgia voters to back Sen. Chambliss – Yahoo News

I love this part:

McCain told the crowd that Chambliss, a first-term senator, “is doing what we Republicans should have done for eight years and that’s restrain spending.” And in a commentary on hisElection Day loss, the Arizona senator added, “We let spending get out of control and it cost us a lot of our conservative base.”

That this is not blatantly obvious to the Republicans demonstrates their irrelevance.

Bob Barr back in Denver this Friday.

bluecarp — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:01:17 +0000

Bob will speak and take questions at the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce at 1:00.

At 3:00, he’ll do the same at Denver University’s Lindsey Auditorium, in Sturm Hall. This event is open to the public.

Then he’ll mingle with one and all in the Rox Room at Lodo’s Bar and Grill at 1946 Market Street from 6-8. Grab a beer and some wings with the only presidential candidate that actually believes in smaller government, free markets and personal liberty.

An action shot of Bob at work against the socialization of failed private businesses. Unlike Obama and McCain who are in favor of such government action.

Liberty Alert: Elections edition!

bluecarp — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:41:59 +0000

Libertarians are running for office throughout the state, and, of course, for President. Some updates and
information:

*PRESIDENTIAL RACE*

Bob Barr is back in town this Friday, October 17.

First, Bob will be speaking and taking questions at the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce from 1:00-2:00 p.m. The Chamber is located at 6840 S University Blvd, Centennial, CO. RSVP to
BSayyah@bestchamber.com

Second, Bob will speak and take questions at Denver University from 3:00-4:00 p.m. The event will take place at Lindsey Auditorium in Sturm Hall, 2000 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO. No RSVP necessary.

All party members and liberty lovers are invited to attend both events. We hope to see you there.

Third, ANOTHER CHANCE TO MEET BOB IN PERSON.

Come out and shake hands with Bob!

Location: Lodos Bar and Grill, 1946 Market Street, Denver, CO

In the Rox Room

From 6:00- 8:00 p.m.

This is an informal event. Grab a beer, have some wings, and talk with the only presidential candidate that actually believes in things called liberty, freedom and small government. No RSVP necessary.

Also note: The Colorado for Bob Barr meetup group is at Lodos every Thursday night at 6:30 until election
day. Look for us on the roof top patio, unless its snowing or something.

*U.S. CONGRESSIONAL RACE*

Martin Buchanan is running for the 1st Congressional seat. His website is here: http://www.buchananforcongress.org/

*STATEWIDE RACES*

Jim Frye is running for State House in the 42^nd district. His website: http://fryefor42.com/

Jack Woer is running for State House in the 25^th district. http://www.well.com/~jax/2008/

Ken Wyble is on the ballot for State Senate in the 28^th district. http://kenwyble.com/

*COUNTY OFFICES*

We have three Libertarians running for Commissioner in Boulder.
They are:

Commissioner – District 1 Ralph Shnelvar Candidate Website

Commissioner – District 2 Bo Shafer Candidate Website

Commissioner – District3 Randy Luallen Candidate Website

*STATEWIDE BALLOT INITIATIVES and REFERENDA*

There are currently 14 on the ballot. The LP Colorado Board of Directors makes the following recommendations on each. (Four of the initiatives – 53, 55, 56 and 57 – have recently been removed from the ballot and are not listed here.) The BoD also recently changed recommendations on 47 and 54. The current recommendations are listed here.

TITLE	SUBJECT	SUMMARY DESCRIPTION	LPCO SAYS	EXPLANATION
Referendum L	Candidate age limits	If passed, this would lower the age of a candidate for the Colorado House and Senate from 25 to 21.	YES	If you can get the votes, age is irrelevant.
Referendum M	Obsolete constitutional provisions	If passed, this would eliminate obsolete provisions in the state constitution about land value increases.	YES	Nothing substantive changed by eliminating these obsolete provisions.
Referendum N	Obsolete constitutional provisions	If passed, this would eliminate obsolete provisions in the constitution about intoxicating liquor.	YES	Nothing substantive changed by eliminating these obsolete provisions.
Referendum O	Initiative process	If passed, this would make it harder for citizens to place constitutional amendments on the ballot for voter approval, but make it easier for citizens to place state statutes on the ballot. It also provides protection against the state legislature from amending statutes passed through the initiative process.	NO	The LPCO fully supports the citizen initiative process. Since this Referendum makes it harder for citizens to place Constitutional Amendments on the ballot we oppose it.
Amendment 46	Affirmative action	If passed, this would prohibit the state from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.	YES	The government should not give preferential treatment to any group.
Amendment 47	Right to work	If passed, this would prohibit unions and employers from negotiating “union shop” contracts under which employees would be required to pay union membership or “agency” fees as a condition of continued employment.	NO	The LPCO apposes this Ammendment, in order to be in accord with the State Platform.
Amendment 48	Definition of “person” and abortion	If passed, this would change the definition of ‘person’ in the Colorado Constitution to include any fertilized egg, embryo or fetus.	NO	While the LPCO takes no official position on abortion, this proposed constitutional amendment would have far reaching implications and unintended consequences throughout the entire state constitution.
Amendment 49	Public payroll deductions	If passed, this would bar automatic dues deductions for private enterprises, including unions, from public employee payrolls.	YES	The government (at taxpayer expense) should not act as collector, bundler and distributor of dues for any private organization.
Amendment 50	Casino gambling	If passed, this would allow the general assembly or voters in the cities that permit limited gaming to extend the hours of limited gaming operations; to add roulette, craps, or both to the allowed games; and to increase the maximum bet up to $100.	YES	The government has no business telling people what they can do with their own money. If people want to gamble, it is not the government’s business.
Amendment 51	Sales tax for the development-tally disabled	If passed, this would increase the sales tax, in July 2009 and again in July 2010, to fund services for the developmentally disabled.	NO	While this is an admirable cause, it is best addressed via private charity and not taxation.
Amendment 52	Severance tax and transportation	If passed, this would create the Colorado Transportation Trust Fund, to be funded by that portion of the severance tax that exceeds the amount deposited to the state severance tax fund in the previous year, adjusted for inflation via the Consumer Price Index	NONE	Since this amendment does not raise taxes, it only changes how existing taxes are spent, the LPCO takes no position.
Amendment 54	Government contracting reform	If passed, this would prohibit those benefitting from no-bid government contracts valued at more than $100,000 a year from contributing to political causes for the duration of the contract plus two years.	YES	This amendment would limit Government overreach by banning the practice of “Pay to Play”, and help to limit Government spending, insist on Government accountability & transparency.
Amendment 58	Taxes	If passed, this would eliminate a tax credit for property taxes paid for payers of the severance tax, using the revenue primarily to fund college scholarships.	NO	This amendment unnecessarily raises taxes for a cause better suited for private charitable contributions.
Amendment 59	Education funding	If passed, this would create a state education fund savings account within the state education fund, to be funded from 10% of the monies deposited into the state education fund, including revenue that would otherwise be rebated under the TABOR rules, would also require that state educational spending increase by rate of inflation plus 1% through fiscal year 2010-2011; and restricts spending of the state education fund to specific education expenses.	NO	This amendment would eviscerate TABOR.

*ELECTION NIGHT FESTIVITIES*

Watch the returns come in Tuesday night, November 4, at Woody’s Wood-Fired Tavern, with fellow liberty lovers.

Woody’s is at 7095 East Evans Ave, Denver, CO 80224.

The Libertarian Party of Arapahoe County and the Frye for 42 campaign will pay for a pizza buffet, so don’t miss it!

The festivities will start about 6:30. See you there.

*And one to grow on AFTER the election:*

Save the Date!

Marijuana Reform Seminar

& Activist Boot
Camp

Presented by

SAFER &
Sensible Colorado

November 15, 2008 at Regis University from 9am-5pm

Plans are now
underway for a historic statewide Marijuana Reform Seminar and Activist
Boot Camp that will provide participants with detailed training
sessions and the materials they will need to get active in their areas and
start working toward changing marijuana laws in Colorado. The event
will address a variety of subjects, including:

• The state of marijuana laws and policies in Colorado

• Messaging, framing the debate, and
spreading the word

• Building support in your area and among
specific communities

• Lobbying and relationship-building with
local and state officials

Libertarians and others against the drug war are invited.

Without apology.

bluecarp — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:15:10 +0000

I believe in freedom. Without apology.

Taxes encroach on freedom.

State power encroaches on freedom.

I am not an absolutist. I am not an ideologue. I am not an anarchist.

I believe that taxes and the state are necessary.

Yet so is water. Too much of it, and you drown. You die.

Taxation and state power have grown far beyond any legitimate usefulness they might have. Our society is drowning in both. We have given ourselves a fire hose when all we need is a Dixie Cup.

The United States government is the single largest employer in the country. This is obscene.

The government produces nothing of value. Nothing. Why are so many people necessary to produce nothing of value? They are not.

They are wasteful. Would that it were that was all. But they are worse than wasteful. They prevent actual production of value. The government makes it harder for people that wish to produce to do so.

Unreasonable licenses, fees, regulation, red tape and bureaucracy make it so.

Without the production of value, there are no jobs. There is no food. There is no shelter. People produce these things. Government does not.

Indeed, oftentimes people form corporations to produce things. Yet corporations are nothing. They are legal fiction. Corporations are nothing but the individuals that comprise them.

True, government is nothing but people that comprise it. The difference is that people are free to purchase things from the people in a corporation or not, yet people are forcibly coerced into giving money to the government.

To some, this government coercion is fine. To me, it is not.

I make no apology for being anti-government.

I am tired of being criticized for lacking compassion because I am against the government and against the forcible confiscation of people’s money. It is not the government’s job to provide compassion.

It is mine. It is yours.

By sloughing off the responsibility of “compassion” over to the government, some are relieved of the moral burden of being compassionate themselves.

If they vote in favor of government force to take other people’s money to help the needy, they are compassionate. They care. At least that is the fiction under which these misguided people operate. It is so much easier to believe in fiction than reality.

It is not compassionate to take someone else’s money for a cause, no matter how worthy. It is compassionate to voluntarily give money to a cause in which one believes.

Some say charity will never be sufficient to provide for all the worthy causes. That government taxation is necessary to provide for all of these worthy causes. I say these people’s definition of “worthy cause” is overly broad.

If people do not wish to give money to a cause, the cause is not worthy to that person. It is immoral to force that person to give anyway, because government deems it necessary.

It is so much easier to force others to donate than to ask nicely. If one has to ask, then the answer might be “no.”

The faux-compassionate, pro-government faction can not stand for that. They deem themselves too compassionate to give others that freedom.

I am anti-government. I am anti-tax. I am pro-freedom. I am pro-liberty.

And I make no apologies.

Originally published at BlueCarp.

The McCain nightmare gets worse and worse

bluecarp — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:57:58 +0000

via My Way News – McCain would buy bad homeowner mortgages.

Just when you think McCain’s socialist economic policies have found their limit, he proposes additional nationalization of the economy.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican presidential candidate John McCain is proposing a $300 billion program for the federal government to buy up bad home mortgages and allow homeowners to keep their houses.

McCain said: “Until we stabilize home values in America, we’re never going to start turning around and creating jobs and fixing our economy and we’ve got to get some trust and confidence back to America.”

In an unusual step, McCain announced the plan during Tuesday’s debate. He said that as president he would direct the federal government to purchase mortgages directly from homeowners and mortgage providers. The loans would be replaced with fixed-rate mortgages, ostensibly at a loss to the government.

“Is it expensive? Yes,” McCain said.

It’s also a joke.

How Republicans can even pretend they believe in free markets without bursting out laughing takes a tremendous amount of self-control.

Reject the systemic idiocy of the two party system.

If you really want socialization, vote for Nader or McKinney.

If you really want free markets and liberty, vote Barr.

But don’t buy the load of crap McCain is selling. If Barry Goldwater were alive, he’d personally be kicking McCain’s ass out of that Senate seat Barry held for so long.

A vote for Obama/McCain is jus a vote for the continued socialization of America.

And I’m tired of hearing that McCain is “better” than Obama. A broken nose is better than a broken jaw, and I refuse to accept either one without a fight.

Mizzou QB

bluecarp — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:37:41 +0000

Heisman trophy candidate Chase Daniels looks more like John Belushi than John Elway.

Hello world!

bluecarp — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:12:30 +0000

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

Another reason to like Condi Rice

bluecarp — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:09:07 +0000

She is a fan of KISS.

The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Rice was in the Swedish capital Thursday for an international conference on Iraq. Kiss had a sold-out concert to play Friday.

"I was thrilled," Rice said of her late-night encounter with Kiss frontman Gene Simmons and bandmates Paul Stanley, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer in the executive lounge of the Sheraton Hotel where they signed autographs and handed out backstage passes and T-shirts to her staff.

I would Rock’n’ Roll All Night with Condi.

“Hillary math”

bluecarp — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:45:43 +0000

Denver Post cartoon – Ed Keefe

The only way Hillary can win the Democratic nomination is by using imaginary numbers.

“You want ‘change?’ Start here”

bluecarp — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:37:57 +0000

Denver Post column – David Harsanyi

Harsanyi is my favorite local columnist by far. I got the chance to meet him at the Libertarian National convention last weekend, and bought an autographed copy of his book "Nanny State." I recommend the book. (Harsanyi is not a Libertarian, but he is libertarian.)

In this column, he discusses Obama’s recent Denver appearance where he discussed education.

Obama has peddled a tired canard linking education failure to lack of funding. Nothing about obstructive unions? Nothing about increased teacher accountability? I wonder why.