It just wouldn't be me if I didn't start out with some Libertarian news I received today. Enjoy!
New Bill: Feds Must Approve Every Employee Hired in U.S.
by James W. Harris
How's this for a downright totalitarian scheme? Legislation being pushed by many Republicans and Democrats in Congress would require every business in America to ask the federal government to approve any new employee it wants to hire.
So far over thirty members of Congress have signed on to the "New Employee Verification Act," or NEVA, bill. Other bills with similar aims are also being considered.
An article by Rob Hotakainenm of McClatchy Newspapers summarizes the Orwellian NEVA plan:
"The nation's 7.4 million employers would be required to provide the government with Social Security numbers for all new employees -- more than 55 million each year -- and federal employees would then use a massive electronic database to do cross-checks. The new system would aim to detect any workers who got their jobs by using fraudulent Social Security numbers."
The supposed rationale of the law is to keep illegal immigrants from being hired. But it would, of course, apply to all American citizens as well, eventually trapping us all in an ever-expanding federal database.
It's a Big Brother nightmare-come-true.
The American Civil Liberties Union says the legislation would create a "no-work list" -- like the hated and abusive no-fly list -- that would apply to all Americans.
"Americans should not have to ask their federal government if they have permission to accept a new job," said Caroline Fredrickson, the director of the ACLU's Washington legislative office.
The plan's chief sponsor is Rep. Sam Johnson, (R-TX), who says Americans are "tired of broken laws and broken promises" concerning immigration.
Well, Rep. Johnson, speaking of "broken laws and broken promises," what about the promise of America as the "land of the free"?
Americans need to say "Never!" to NEVA and other schemes like it -- while there's still time.
(Source: "Critics see Big Brother in employment verification plan" http://www.star-telegram.com/national_news/story/649957.html
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Oh my fookin' god! What the hell? Alls I can say is, when it's time to storm the castle, can I man the guillotine?
I see we'll have to school you in the fine art of creating links and blockquoting, huh?
Yeah, I could use some help. Plus, I had trollers all around me when I was posting this.
Good Lord. See, Coyote, give the guy a voice....
I will say that legislation is a big pile of crap, but yeah, take a significant quote in your normal writing, then link to the rest of the article so we can go read it if we want to. Coyote will help, she taught me everything I know.
My first post is gonna be "Why Ron Paul is a Freak."
"trollers?"
Well, Jeff, your first post is gonna be a novel, then, eh? Bwahahaha!
The freak's new book debuted at #1 and remains at #1 (political non-fiction).
http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Manifesto-Ron-Paul/dp/0446537519/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211488579&sr=8-1
By "trollers" I meant people hanging out around my cubicle.
How do you hyperlink a word again? Gimme an example.
Ah! Them trollers.
Okay, when you're in the posting box, check out all the buttons up top. (font, TT, b, i, etc) Slide your pointer over each one slowly, it'll tell you what the button's for. Most of them work by first highlighting the words you want to do something to, like linking, then you press the button and it'll do what you want to those words. The linking has an extra step. Here goes:
First, write the words you want to be the link in your post. Then highlight them. Then get the address to the page you want to link to. The way I do it is bring up the page, like a news story, click up on the address bar once and it'll highlight the entire address, even if you can't see the whole thing in the window. Hit control C to copy it to memory. Go back to your post and highlight the words you want to be the link, then hit the button up top (between the big T with colors and the Left indent). A box will pop up asking for the address. Since you already copied the "http" part, just delete that, click on the empty text box and Control V to paste the address from your clipboard. Hit okay and you'll see the words underlined.
You can see if you did it right by clicking on the word Preview at the right, and it'll show what the page will look like. Hide Preview to go back to editing. You can bounce back and forth no problem, it won't go to the blog til you hit publish. Fiddle about all you want, no one's looking. It just takes practice figuring out the quirks of each button, but this is the easiest interface. Not as fancy as some, but it gets the job done.
Oh, and when you're quoting someone else, you'll want to highlight their whole quote, then hit the " button. It just makes it easier for us to know if it's you talking or the article.
I was reading my entertainment weekly last night and saw that Paul's book is #4 or #5 in all non fiction, and on its 3rd printing or some such. I thought of you, MV, and knew I'd be hearing about it at some point. Heehee.
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