Ron Paul and The Skunk Ape

Yesterday federal agents raided the distribution center for Liberty Dollars. 20 Ron Paul coins were selling for 20 USD yesterday, and are at over 300 USD today.
The affadavit filed by the .gov states:

That Norfed was "uttering coins of gold, silver, or other metal," "making or possessing likeness of coins," mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. "The goal of Norfed is to undermine the United States government's financial systems by the issuance of a non-governmental competing currency for the purpose of repealing the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Code."

The moral of this story is:

If you want to run for the US Presidency and win, don't run on a platform of Constitutional Values. Don't say things like: " I will eliminate the IRS". Or, "I will fold up the CIA". Thats just crazy talk, and a good way to get the audit of the century, followed by a bullet through the brain from a "lone assasin" shooting from .... a school book depository for instance.

If you want to get elected as US President, and not get shot in the head by the CIA during your first year in office, you need to promise the following, at bare minimum:

1. I will increase the effectiveness of our great military.
2. I will increase the size and scope of our intelligence communities.
3. I will get handguns and assault rifles off of America's streets, except for the Federally Owned Kind.
   
4. After disarming you, I will do a better job of protecting you from the fascists, communists, drug addicts, illegal immigrants, radical islamists, the skunk ape and all other bogeymen, except for those on our payroll. (The skunk ape was taken off of the Federal payroll in 1998.)
5. I will do all of the above while reducing taxes, and the size of the Government!

The Skunk Ape in Myakka, FL in 2000. He tried to pay for dinner at IHOP with Liberty Dollars. Now the Feds are on his trail.

Our High-Tech Alarm System

We have a high tech alarm system in our apartment. It constantly monitors all doors and windows and will sound a very loud alarm if they are tampered with. It also alerts us if there is smoke in the apartment. While highly sensitive, it never issues false alarms for thunder claps, honking cars, or rednecks fighting in the street.

It's central computer, consisting of proprietary neural network code, running on hardware about the size of a walnut, rapidly learns which threats to alert us to, and which to ignore. It has learned to ignore my wife and I as we approach the apartment, as it now knows that we are supposed to be there. It has determined that the best place to monitor the apartment for intruders at night is the path from the front door to the bedroom, as anything attacking us would have to pass through that space.

The biggest problem we have had with our alarm system is that it liked to chew on it's rear chassis. It would munch for hours, and if you gave it a whack on it's central computer housing, it would stop for a few minutes and then go back into the endless rear chassis-munching loop.

At one point we purchased a large plastic cone to keep the central computer housing end of the alarm system from being able to reach the rear chassis of the alarm system, which worked, but looked ridiculous. The alarm system had the appearance of a satellite dish. If we could plug a cord into the central alarm system and get TV, I would be all for it, but our alarm system is wireless. Add to this that the alarm system also doubles as the first line of home defense, as the central computer housing end of the alarm system is armed with a hinged array of sharp spikes, designed to inflict pain on intruders. The rear chassis protecting cone degraded the physical threat of the spike array, made it more of a joke really. There was one positive benefit: The cone amplified the volume of the auditory alarm by directing the sound in one direction, making the alarm system sound as if it were three times it's actual size. This multiplied the perceived threat to intruders, however if they did see the alarm system, they would have merely laughed, then robbed us.

We removed the alarm system from the house and took it to a repair specialist who suggested that dust and pollen contamination of the alarm system were causing the rear chassis-munching glitch.

After applying the fix (anabolic steroids) suggested by the repair specialist, our alarm system has not munched it's rear chassis once. The fix did result in an increase in the gain of the response signal to incoming stimuli, and as a result the alarm system sounds now for squirrels and falling leaves. Gone is the cone, and the endless rear chassis munching.

Knox County resident shoots burglar

Via the Knox News Sentinel.

Good job Mr. Garland!

Green Badge Of Nerdy-ness

Via Tam, a page that rates the reading level of blogs:

My results:

...Which is funny considering I write this blog on construction paper with a purple crayon held in my fist, and then have my wife type it in to blogger for me.

Interestingly, the US Republican Party page rates College Undergraduate.

The US Democratic Party page rates...... you guessed it: Genius!

The White House? High School.

Rush Limbaugh: Genius. Evil Genius.

The true test, however was the work page that I created for our new research lab: Genius, baby!

Cat travel story

Coming from a family with a history of cat travel mis-adventures, this cracked me up.

Mennonite Central Committee

I added a link to the Mennonite Central Committee in the links bar. Feel free to give them a visit!

Recent Visits from Richmond VA to Liberal CCW.

So I don't have that many readers. Actually, I have three: My Dad, Tam, and an occasional visit from ColtCCO.

This weekend I had three visits from the Verizon Netblock in Richmond VA to the archive of my NSA/Lingualistek story.

Interestingly I am not the only one who thinks that Lingualistek is an NSA front company.

I wonder if they are reading?

If so, you will love my upcoming post on the CIA and Second Life.


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