Mamma Mia! US State Dept Bizarre New Passport Application

“I gotta law, you getta monopoly…everybody-a happy!”–Uncle Bennie

…This month’s Uncle Bennie award–unveiled in another ‘ law switcheroo’ at this fascinating expose site: http://papersplease.org/wp/     of the  http://www.thefirstamendment.org/programs.html   . Once passports were simply optional letters of introduction and safepassage, now says the article if the US has its way they’ll be a multi-page a snoopfest with impossible questions becomes a way to ban travel from the land of the free? Should you get a passport now (see article on getting 2 passports down our feed)? …Libs worldwide advocate treaties for passport-free travel and working residency, so folks: …this is DOA and is another ignore-the-Libs program that won’t stand.  How bad is this? You decide:

Cronyism vs. Capitalism Explained-Our Bennie Award

…explained by indefatigable LIO Fellow Dr. Palmer in a handy Youtube to share with your circle now… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlDxUyzBfBQ&feature=player_embedded

Bennie Award-Gov’t Monopolies No More: Libertarians & Lib Ideas Cleared the Way for the 10 Largest–By Customer–Great US Companies…

…almost none of them existed before Libs championed deregulation which paved the way for new technologies customers love–and those that did were radically transformed from expensive oligopolies to more responsive low-cost providers, though much remains to be done: http://247wallst.com/2012/04/30/american-companies-with-the-most-customers/2/

Bennie Award! A Coerced Government vs Private Barbershop Compared

…or close enough: It seems that the US Congress has 2 barbershops–which is cheaper and efficient? From an enlightening site–

Bennie Award: US Dieticians Want to Jail Grandma for Recommending Chicken Soup?

 “I gotta law, you getta monopoly…everybody-a happy!”–Uncle Bennie

…another winner in the quest to entrench mediocrity through legislation?  Read this writer whose opinion (along with this article ) just might become a crime under the proposed measures that would allow only RD’s or Registered Dieticians –whose poor carb-mega-farms crony- capitalist driven advice many feel has contributed to the obesity epidemic overtaking the world–to make diet recommendations: http://drdavidbrownstein.blogspot.com/2012/04/ada-wants-nutrition-prisons.html and:

Instead of A Bennie Award-Did YOU Miss These Great Articles?

…we’re giving Uncle Bennie a rest this month so you have a chance to fight a few coercive or cultural logjams by discovering and sharing these great articles and tips–so avoid caesarians, get paid instead of taxed as a family caregiver, discover The Farm as a terrific model for poor empowerment, and learn languages free…

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Learn 101 Languages–Free		1
Arrivederci Phone Books		1
Systems: Glocalism! Social Entrepreneur Bootcamp		1
The Farm: Libertarian-Friendly Poverty Commune Makes Folks Rich		1
Systems: Rand’s ‘Slow Thinking’ Advice Rediscovered by Cognitive Researchers, Hit Film		1
Helping Homeless Help Themselves		1
Learn to Research–and the Real Law, with the Corpus Juris Secundum		1
The Most Important, Low-Cost AND Effective Libertarian Civic Act After 0) Taking the Pledge…		1
(USA) Be Paid Family Caregiver		1
2012 Stargazing Musts		1
Libertarians! Your Monthly Quiz		1
Mid-Wife Freedom Works: Participative Tools Cut Caesarians, Empower Moms		1
18 (Mostly Now Legal) Great Herbs People Use		1
Get A Job With Startwire		1
Maximum Life Foundation Blog		1
EALOs! Libertarians In Public Office Of The Month		1
Lib Idea of the Month: US Patent Office Adopts A Libertarian-Direction Open Concept		1

Bennie Award For Government Coerced Monopolies, Oligopolies and Subsidies: How Not To Build A 100K USD Electric Car

 “I gotta law, you getta monopoly…everybody-a happy!”–Uncle Bennie

…with 1/2 Billion US Government subsidies to their friends results in car that breaks down during CONSUMER REPORTS test check in… in this month’s BENNIE AWARD

Bennie Award: Eminent Domain Problem Hits Asia–Communist Asia, No Less

 “I gotta law, you getta monopoly…everybody-a happy!”–Uncle Bennie

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/02/global-land-grab.html Libertarians have long denouncd Eminent Domain and warned of its misuse, calling for immune family homesteads. Now Communists in league with corrupt companies are grabbing people’s land with the theory or legal tricks—as IKEA has done in the US….

Bennie Award:The Truth Behind that US Keystone Pipeline Opposition

 …isn’t crazed ecologists but Eminent Domain courtesy of Canada, but thanks to Lib activists forging coalitions, whole states are rebelling.

“I gotta law, you getta monopoly…everybody-a happy!”–Uncle Bennie

Be sure to look and check out our other Bennie awards each 7th of the month

US Govt Cuts Budget–of Agency that Cuts Budget

…the GAO which monitors budget shenanigans say they save $81 for every $1 spent, but regulation is at work to put a stop to that– in an example to democracies everywhere to shrink activity to levels last seen under penny-pinching FDR:  http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Most_Cost_Efficient_Federal_Agency_Forced_to_Cut_Staff_120209 

Should More Teens Vote? Ask Motivating Teen Inventors

Teens saved unsuspecting US citizens from having to display this mess to a horrified world.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19601_6-teenage-inventors-that-changed-world.html  Ignoramus Laws try to regulate teen use of  hip-hop, the snowmobile, the Colt (unless dfrafted in the military), reading or watching Superman, mandated community service programs such as teaching Braille and even how to display the Flag (such as arrests to hassle teens for wearing the same flag patches police do).

 Now find out how teens DESIGNED hip-hop, the snowmobile, the Colt, Superman, Braille and THE US FLAG!

Free Market NOT Corporatism: Reason Mag Explains

 “I gotta law, you getta monopoly…everybody-a happy!”–Uncle Bennie

We begin  sometime postings looking at self-dealing coercive switcheroo statutes or cock-eyed bigotries whose examplary nature merit our new Uncle Bennie Award…Says REASON:

VS. Coercive Government Statute Pretend Solutions: Just Pass a ‘Law’ to Ban Satan, Make Hunger a Crime…

 

Yet another use of bills of Attainder and ‘positive’ statutes to undermine the Jury System? In 2001, the town of Inglis, Florida took the proactive step of banning Satan, something most other Godless towns have been too lazy to do….
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_16459_13-things-you-wont-believe-are-against-law-somewhere.html Your taxes at play…