First:

FreeMindsTV, a libertarian cable access show in New Hampshire which recently moved to doing podcasts too, has gone terrestrial. Starting September 28, 2008 the show will air each Sunday from 3-5pm EST broadcasting through GCN. Stations currently signed up to pickup the show are:

• WCER 900-AM Canton, Ohio
• WBCR 1470-AM Maryville, Tennessee
• KLID 1340-AM, Poplar Bluff, Missouri
• KGEZ 600-AM, Great Falls, Montana

Congratulations everyone who’s part of FreeMinds{TV,Radio}. Keep up the good work. One recommendation though… redo the website. It’s a mess.

Second:

As was reported the other night Gardner Goldsmith was fired from the radio station he was at and as a result planning on accelerating Liberty Conspiracy’s online presents.

His first podcast is now available here [Monetary Manipulation by Government Part 1]and you can subscribe the the podcast through http://libertyconspiracy.podomatic.com [RSS].

One last thing, if you enjoy these programs, feel guilty for not being a big enough participant in the liberty movement or just appreciate what they are doing please consider donating a few dollars a month to the cause. How can you pass up the opportunity to become an All Seeing Eye in the liberty conspiracy? Contribute to Liberty Conspiracy here and FreeMindsTV here.

Seems to me the fall caused the kid to see the future if he was talking about harming cops. That’s the first thing I’d think of after knowing they tazed someone who was in the condition he was.

http://www.ballot-access.org/…

Dirty… but that’s politics.

http://www.missoulian.com/…

Although it’s against state policy for employees to play games like solitaire on their office computers, it’s left to each department to decide whether to keep or remove games from the computers.The issue arose recently at the Child Support Enforcement Division in the Department of Public Health and Human Services.

Division employees received new computers, but without the games like solitaire, hearts and minesweeper that come with the Microsoft Windows software package. These games had been on the division’s previous computers for years.

Some union and nonunion employees complained that the games weren’t on the new machines, said Lonnie Olson, division administrator. They said some other divisions in the same department had games on their computers.

“I said if they want them, we’ll put them on,” Olson said, adding that he wanted to make sure division employees were treated the same as others in the department.

An anonymous tipster who said he worked in the private sector criticized Olson’s decision.

“If state employees have time to play computer games, then there are too many state employees,” the tipster said in an e-mail to the Helena Independent Record. “As an employee in the private sector, I would run the risk of losing my job if my boss caught me playing games on my computer.”

Olson said he wasn’t aware of anyone abusing the privilege during work hours.

So they hang out before and/or after work to play MS Windows games? I think I agree with the private tipster. However, given the “services” the Department of Public Health and Human Services generally provides I’d rather them playing minesweeper than doing their job.

California:

1. Christine Smith : 25.1%
2. Steve Kubby : 17.0%
3. Wayne A. Root : 13.8%

No one else broke 10%. Phillies got 5.0%. Interestingly according to Eric Garris over at Third Party Watch Ron Paul may have actually won:

[I]t appears that Smith was beaten by “write-in votes.” The 12 ballot candidates received a total of 13,750 votes statewide, out of about 80,000 who are registered statewide.

A check of major counties shows that, in each case, the number of “write-in votes” exceeded Smith’s total. For example, in Los Angeles, the largest county in the state (making up a third of the state’s population) reported 2,157 write-in votes, compared to Smith’s total of 746. Orange County reported 1,279 write-ins compared to Smith’s total of 352. San Francisco County reported 145 write-ins, compared to Smith’s total of 86. Alameda County reported 138 write-ins, compared to Smith’s total of 133.

Unfortunately, the write-in votes will not be counted, since no one filed as an official write-in candidate, but one can make an educated guess as to what candidate LP registrants would write in.

Missouri:

1. UNCOMMITTED : 46.8%
2. Wanye A. Root : 18.1%
3. Steve Kubby : 9.6%
4. George Phillies : 8.0%

Arizona:

1. George Phillies
2. Wayne A. Root
3. Barry Hess