Happy Halloween

To start the festivities off a little early, why don't you take a look at these Burzum lyrics?

He's Even Worse Than I Thought

Sen. Miller endorses Bush's re-election campaign
Not content with blasting the Democrats in his latest book, Zell Miller has now actually endorsed Bush and has offered to do all he can to help him win re-election. Since Miller isn't running for re-election and has no reason to appeal to the conservative Georgia electorate, I think these moves were designed to land him a job with Bush & Co. for the second term or maybe he was just born a huge jerk that deserves only the society of swine and other beasts.

Miller, in all his toolish glory.

Newspaper: VARG VIKERNES Carried Military Equipment At The Time Of His Arrest - Oct. 28, 2003

BURZUM mastermind Varg Vikernes, who is serving a 21-year sentence for the August 1993 murder of MAYHEM guitarist Oystein Aarseth (a.k.a. Euronymous), was carrying enough arms and military equipment at the time of his latest arrest to pass for a commando, Norwegian daily newspaper VG reports in today's edition.

more later...

Yo

Yo Dave, are you sick? I didn't see you in English today. Speaking of which, beware of the pop test. Also, may I have a look at the discussion sheet soon?

Biggest* Deficit EVER!

Well, not quite. In absolute terms, we are running the largest federal budget deficit ever. As a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product, the deficit isn't the biggest, but it is still one of the largest. Since WWII, the only deficits that have been larger as a portion of the GDP were 85-86 and 91-92 deficits. Needless to say, all of these mammoth deficits were under Republican Presidents.

Another Gem from Newsmax, St. Reagan's Martyr Brigade

Nancy Reagan Should Sue CBS
“The Reagans” is nothing but a defamatory hatchet job sanctioned for the sole purpose of destroying a dying man’s legacy. The author of the screenplay, the producers and CBS all know
that.

Therefore, CBS must be stopped from ever airing the program.

Ah yes, because public criticism of a public figure hurts their reputation...so its SLANDER! Actually, its libel, something which seems to suprise our esteemed collegues at newsmax, as you can see from the is excerpt:

Defamation comes in two “flavors”: libel and slander. Libel covers written or printed publication whereas slander covers verbal communication (publication). Libel is easier to prove because, unlike slander, libel is right there in black and white.


Interestingly, courts generally consider defamation that occurs via television broadcast “libel” as opposed to “slander.”


But clearly, this guy knows what he's talking about, he's looked up a few supreme court precedents! Do realize how much work that is? Though even the laziest high school student in the world could just dick around with google for a few minutes and do the same thing, it is still really impressive. Really. It is so impressive that I'm sure this column is going straight on fridge of the author's mother, right over that really ugly collage and the equivalency diploma from that internet university.

I know that this post doesn't really make sense, but don't forget the moral of the story: newsmax is written by dumb bastards for really dumb bastards.

So Life Like!

"Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like Liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."

Seeing as how there is little difference between the unthinking, conservative cliche spewing Ann Coulter doll and the real unthinking, conservative cliche spewing Ann Coulter, I think this could be the source of some confusion.

The Public Interest's Axis of Innuendo

And it reminds us that in those countries most friendly to us, the anti-American party is about the same size as the peace party here.

-"Defining the 'peace party'", The Public Interest

That's some clever phrasing, implying that the American peace movement is somehow related to anti-americanism (and they have such an airtight case, too. Look, they are polling about the same! It couldn't be coincidence. Never.) abroad without ever explicitly making such a claim. I wonder if these guys hang out with the speech writers at the White House who always put 9-11 and Saddam Hussein in the same sentence. I should never have expected anything other than this nonsense from a publication founded by one of the Kristols.

A Preview of 2004

Each day the Republican strategy for the Presidential election becomes increasingly clear. I suspect that the GOP is going to focus on social issues in order to the divert Geoge W. Bush's serious domestic and foreign policy failures. I don't expect Bush to brag about how we went from record budget surpluses to record deficits or how he's the first president since Herbter Hoover to finish his term with fewer jobs than when he started. In 2002, the Republicans tried to use the Iraq War/the War on terror as a campaign tool, they may try it again, but they'll be more hesitant this time. Bush's $87 billion request for reconstructing Iraq is unpopular and more bad news from Iraq can be expected for some time to come. Bush's early declaration of victory makes the situation in Iraq an even greater political liability for him; it is a pretty safe bet that Bush's ridiculous carrier landing will make an appearance in countless Democratic attack ads. Having screwed up on all fronts, the Right is gearing up to refight the culture war. The talk of an anti-gay marriage amendment to the constitution, the White House's coddling of General Boykin (who called Islam idolatry and said the war on terrorism was a religious war) and the passage of the partial birth abortion ban ares signs of a new focus on social issues. It is also likely that the Supreme Court's peldge of allegiance ruling (especially if the Supreme Court uphold's the 9th circuit court's decision) and its decision legalizing sodomy are going to be used as campaign fodder by the Republicans.

I'm not really sure how the Democrats should handle this Republican strategy (if I am right and it really is their plan). I wouldn't want them to embrace reactionary posistion. Co-opting the Republicans is unlikely to work since the convetional wisdom is that the Democrats are social liberals and any attempt to prove otherwise would be greeted with great skepticism and is unseemly to boot. I think the best we can do, is avoid giving conservatives an easy target like Howard Dean and instead appealing to middle america with style, if not substance by nominating someone from the South or Middle West (basically anyone who is not Dean or Kerry).

Winger Watch

The Weekly Standard is still claiming that Iraq supported Al Qeada. They even say that Saddam was Bin Laden's best friend! The Standard would carry Bush's war to hell and back if he asked them to.

Wei Yang Better Watch It....

Taiwan has ability to construct subs, consultants report

They are only diesel submarines, but its still a step in the right direction. It also shows that Taiwan is becoming less dependent on US arms, which is good for everyone, everyone but the Chinese.

Noble Gestures R Us

Dems Push Mental Health Bill As Tribute To Wellstone
I have no real problem with "mental health parity" (requiring insurance companies to pay for mental healthcare, like it was any other kind of treatment), because unless you cling to outdated and inhumane notions about mental illness, there is no reason on Earth to treat it any differently than any other kind of disease. The only problem with this bill is that as far as I knowm, it is an unfunded mandate and therefore will not do much to improve healthcare in this country. Insurance companies are going to have to raise premiums or cut other services in order to make mental healthcare coverage equal regular coverage, so its not like people will be much better. While the bill isn't great policy, it is good politics, though. Who doesn't want to take on the greedy insurance companies in the name of the little guy and make their opponents look like stooges for big business?

Look at me, I am a Maaaaaverick!

Lieberman Would Tap McCain if Elected

McCain heard the exchange on his car radio and laughed.

It seems that Lieberman just use McCain's name in a desperate effort to associate himself with the nationally popular senator. This pathetic maneuver to get attention shows how worried Joe Lieberman is getting, it is also a really bad idea. Saying you'll appoint a Republican is to a cabinent posistion is not the best way to woo democratic primary voters and as I said before it is transparent attempt to ride on the popularity of McCain which makes Lieberman look like the geek that always carried the cool kid's book bag; Once you show you have no dignity, people are bound to respect you.

More On Newsmax

National suicide: a march for illegal aliens in Riverside, Calif.

That picture and caption are straight off of Newmax.com. While there is nothing overtly bigoted about them, it is still suspicious. "National Suicide" sounds a lot like "racial suicide", the phrase used by bigots during the early 20th century who were concerned with being submerged by rising non-white populations. Also, we should consider why immigration is "national suicide". The United States has one of the most dynamic economies in the world with a proven track record of providing jobs for new arrivals. America was able to absorb successive waves of immigrants who spoke different languages and had different cultures in the past; so, what's the difference between the poor European immigrants of yesteryear and immigration from the third world today? The most obvious difference is race and though newsmax doesn't mentions it in its articles, that seems to be the implicit subtext of everything on that site written about immigration.

The Year of the Rat

Sweet merciful Oliver North! Those America hating Democrats are out to destroy this country. It appears that Comrade Clinton's pentagon is giving Boeing a sattelite contract even though it is officially on the Defense Department's shit list because of its problems with industrial espionage. Why don't these people get it? They are undermining the national security of America! If China takes over the planet, it will be all their fault and this major misstep will be directly responsible for the death of freedom world-wide. Are they retarded or just disloyal traitors trying to advance international communism?

Oh wait, its Rumsfeld is doing this...never mind...

Is Clark Arrogant? Third Hand Information Suggests So

The New Republic Primary has pointed out that Wesley Clark responded to charges that he was aloof and arrogant by remarking:

"How do you think I could have succeeded in the military if everybody didn't like me? It's impossible," he said. "Do you realize I was the first person promoted to full colonel in my entire year group of 2,000 officers? I was the only one selected. Do you realize that? . . . Do you realize I was the only one of my West Point class picked to command a brigade when I was picked? . . . I was the first person picked for brigadier general. You have to balance this out. . . . A lot of people love me."

Why didn't he just say "I am the most humble man ever, I totally won the humble prize for 5 years in a row and the nobel committee is considering giving me an award for my humility. Oh, did I mention I was really humble?"

A Suggestion

Never mind...

Flash Mobs

I am hard pressed to find anything more pathetic than flash mobs and the people that go to them. In the press I keep reading that flash mobs are the latest craze, but I don't know a single person that goes to them (and I know a lot of fairly strange people). What on earth would make someone want to consort with strangers over the internet and plans some ridiculous group activity? Can't they think of a slightly better to do than eat marshmellows in the mall (while jumping up and down) with a hundred other losers? The whole thing is a desperate cry for attention, excuse me, a desperate collective cry for attention (which makes it so much worse). In the past a lot of things have been called signs of social decay or warnings of the imminent collapse of western civilization, but I think flash mobs alone are worthy of that title. The only fads that rival the bizzare techno-lameness of flash mobs are friendster and blogging...

But back to the point, I'd vote for any candidate for any level of government with a sufficiently severe flash mob eradication plan and a vague understanding of the principles of political economy.

Is This Ralph?

And for those who haven't given it a look yet, click here to experience lubo.

He...appears to be a tool.

Senator Zell Miller has attacked his own party again, claiming (wrongfully) that the Democrats have moved too far to the left, neglected the South and that its candidates have little chance of beating George W. Bush. In the past, I chalked up a lot of Miller's fratracide to the fact that as a Senator from Georgia, sometimes he to distance himself from the Democrats' more liberal aspects. Now that Miller is retiring, there can't be a political motivation for his complaints unless it is to help the Republicans win.

Selling Out

This blog is beginning to attract a larger and more mainstream audience. I remember way back when I created this website I never intended to put my blood, sweat and tears into it for the enjoyment of some lame middle class pro-establishment squares. The blog use to be so much cooler when it was underground, independent, hardcore and alternative, but now its just getting aborbed by the all-consuming corporate culture. Soon the very concept of the subversive weblog will be co-opted by McDonalds. I swear, this is like Green Day (which I only listened to on LP's, the free thinker's preferred recorded media) all over again.

The Bush Bubble

Not only does the President rarely read the newspapers and admits to relying on advisors to inform him about important current events, it appears he is also protected from the trauma of having to witness people protest him and his policies. Bush is the first President under which the secret service has restricted protestors (pro-Bush spectators are not quarantined to "free-speech zones" that are sometimes several miles from the President. I don't blame the secret service, though, those prostestors are dangerous and an assassin would never think of pretending to be a Bush supporter. Not in a million years.

Bad Move

Bush Cites Philippines as Model in Rebuilding Iraq
The Phillipines probably aren't the best example of successfull American nation building. After the Spanish-American war, the United States fought a bloody counter-insurgency campaign against Fillipino nationalists that ended up killing hundres of thousands of Fillipinos and the Phillipines didn't gain independence untill after the Second World War. Having the president say that the Phillipines are our model for Iraq can't exactly be reassuring for many Iraqis.

Makes Sense

South Korea Mum on Sending Troops to Iraq
I don't know why anyone would expect South Korea to assist the US in the rebuilding of Iraq. First, South Korea have a (possibly nuclear) North Korea, a ginormous security threat right, next to them. Second, the US has tens of thousands of troops stationed on the edge of the Demilitarized Zone that seperates the the two countries. If we wanted help from South Korea (or if they wanted to help us), why not just allow the US to move some of these men to Iraq?

News From the Front

The growing nerd war between the B of P and Natey B has expanded to include "Uzi Does It" and "Catherine". See the growing intensity of the conflict in the comments section of Nathan's latest post.

I report. You Decide.

Limbaugh is a Martyr
Modern day Martin Luther King and radio personality Rush Limbaugh is being crucified by the PC Gestapo, the Liberal Media and the Civil Rights establishment. What a sad day when so called defenders of civil liberties turn on the best friend of the first amendment. Truly, freedom has had no greater friend than our christ-like friend, El Rusho.

Godless China To Invade the Heavens!
The awful atheist communist of China are about the befoul God's home with their infernal space program. Cleary, it is time the United States sink hundreds of billions of dollars into an unnecessary and unworkable missile defense scheme as soon as possible. Not only will the militarization prevent further Red aggression in space, but it would also play a vital role in the war on terror. If another 9-11 were to happen, national missile defense would be able to...well, that's not important. The important thing is that the Saddamite Democrats in congress be crushed, the pockets of defense contractors runneth over and our favored place at the right hand of the father be protected.

Ted Kennedy is a Crazy Cocaine Addict
Many know far left Mass. Senator, Ted Kennedy for his pro-saddam views, but few know about the total depravity of his personal life. A former employee of Kennedy, who was fired for "insanity" and "gross incompetence" has accused Kennedy of snorting the illegal drug cocaine several times a day. According to this angry former employee (who has no vendetta against his former "dick of a boss"), Kennedy gets his coke from an international ring of drug dealing abortionist pedophiles who commit senseless murder on the side.

NEWSMAX IS NOT REAL

Today in the library I observed a fellow student reading NewsMax. When I asked him why he read it over more reputable news sources, he replied that they were not conservative enough. I then suggested that perhaps he should look to fox news for hard hitting, fiercely independent and 100% objective coverage that wouldn't challenge any of his prejudices. This student declined, saying that Fox News wasn't conservative. Well, it maybe a suprise to this student, but NEWSMAX ISN'T NEWS! It is a bunch of conservative hacks supported by ads for viagra supplements and pyramid schemes who churn out right wing propaganda for your enjoyment. Newsmax is as about as professional as this weblog, actually in many ways its worse, because it lacks such luminaries as Thomas Taxter and North Outlandishamn. Just as you wouldn't trust us as a source of real news, you shouldn't trust some no name site that tries to sell you secret medical research that proves cigarrette smoking is good for you or that the medical mainstream is controlled by Hillary Clinton. Also, if a media outlet retells such hackneyed crypto-racist garbage as the imminent threat posed to America by an emerging non-white majority, it should under no circumstances be your main source of news and in fact you should probably not read it at all. If however, you use an organization like NewsMax as your window on the world, I think you automatically surender all your rights as a citizen and human and should have your brain pickled for the benefit of medical students, because clearly you were not using it anyway.

Sympathy for Lieberman

Lieberman Proposes Tax Hike for Wealthy

He doesn't just want to repeal the Bush tax cut, he wants to effectively raises tax rates on the rich to levels higher than they were during the Clinton years. This maybe not the best move politically, but it is excellent policy. Not only would Lieberman's plan raise taxes on the rich, it would also cut them for the poor and middle class, signifcantly increasing the progressivty of the income tax. I'm rather suprised that it was Lieberman who took up the soak the rich banner after Graham bowed out, but I guess stranger things have happened.

Dean Beats Edwards, Once.

I rarely agree with Howard Dean over John Edwards, but today is one of those days. Edwards has said he will vote no on the $87 billion bill to fund the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, while Dean proposed paying for the measure by repleaing parts of the Bush income tax cut. I think Edwards' move is bad on two counts, in the first place it makes it look like he is wavering in his support for the war (he voted for the use of force resoluton), so he can be tarred as a waffler and be attacked for not SUPPORTING THE TROOPS. Dean's posistion on the other hand is pretty clever, becuase he can make the charge that the administration is more concerned with tax cuts for the wealthy than national security.

Strange

Towards the end of his lengthy rant about the the undeserved success of Quentin Tarantino, Greg Easterbook wrote something that was more than a little bizzare:

Disney's CEO, Michael Eisner, is Jewish; the chief of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein, is Jewish. Yes, there are plenty of Christian and other Hollywood executives who worship money above all else, promoting for profit the adulation of violence. Does that make it right for Jewish executives to worship money above all else, by promoting for profit the adulation of violence? Recent European history alone ought to cause Jewish executives to experience second thoughts about glorifying the killing of the helpless as a fun lifestyle choice.

I'm not going to say Easterbrook was being anti-semetic, but there was virtually no segeway into this part of his post. Easterbrook's comments also seem vaguely threatening. Weirder still is that this comes on the heels of his ""NO" DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN NO" post on the Kobe Bryant case.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Texas Senate Approves Redistricting Plan

First the Republicans win the recall and now this. Every democratic state legislature in the country should gerrymander as many Republican districts out of existence as possible in response to this awful GOP power grab.

Pander Bear on the Loose!

Bush Promises Tighter Embargo of Cuba

It is unbelievable how cynically Bush is appealing to ultra-conservative, borderline crazy cuban exiles in Florida. Even the AP notes it, in the very first lines of the article no less:

Hoping to make amends with a key political constituency, President Bush said the United States would tighten enforcement of its embargo on Cuba and provide a haven to more fleeing Cubans while planning for the day when Fidel Castro's rule comes to an end.

So, the absurd policy of punishing Cuba and rewarding and strengthening neo-imeprial China (which has a much worse human rights record and poses a much greater security risk to the United States) will into the future, so that Karl Rove will have loyal foot soldiers for the next Florida recount.

Tooling Around At The Weekly Standard

Stepehn F. Hayes at the Weekly Standards is still pushing the Iraq-9-11 connection. In his latest column, he maintains that Dick Cheney was completely right when he went on "Meet the Press" and said that "We don't know" about Saddam and 9-11. While in of itself, the statement "We don't know" is truthful, it is cleary part of the Administration's constant and baseless innuedo about a connection between Iraq and the September 11th attacks exists. Cheney's choice of words was misleading, because it implies that there is a reasonable chance that Saddam was involved, when in fact there is no evidence to support such a claim. So in that sense, Cheney was wrong, especially in light of the White House's previous efforts to imply (though never explicitly stating) that Iraq was behind 9-11.

Edited for spelling

What's In a Name?

Political Aims speculates that Edwards' low poll numbers are due to people confusing with the television pyschic John Edward. I'm actually inclined to believe this theory. Edwards hasn't been in the senate very long and has had very little national exposure, he's not a not household name by any strech of the imagination, so it is entirely possible that people are hesitant to back him because they think he's some clownish montebank (15 Pomposity Points!). As a matter of fact, one of my friends once remarked "John Edward, you mean the biggest douche in the universe?", alluding (12.5!) to a South Park episode that savaged the TV telepathist. Political Aims recommends that Edwards change his name to "Bill Clinton" to solve the problem, personally, I think it would be best if Edwards just got himself a lot of media attention by doing something bold/stupid. Perhaps it is time he challenge Dean to a fist fight.

Battle of the Nerds

We're under attack!

North's Favorite Board Game

Incivility! Incivility! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Recently anti-tax activitst Grover Norquist compared supporters of progressive taxation (which I estimate to be 2/3 to 3/4 of the country) to Nazis:

The argument that some who play to the politics of hate and envy and class division will say is, "Well, that's only 2 percent -- or, as people get richer, 5 percent, in the near future -- of Americans likely to have to pay [the estate tax]." I mean, that's the morality of the Holocaustt: "Oh, it's only a small percentage. It's not you; it's somebody else."

I'm sure the always fair and balanced David Brooks will give him a stern talking to about intemperate political discourse.

Says It All

Washington Times chose its assistant National Editor, and avowed Southern Secessionist Robert Stacy McCain, to review a book about Martin Luther King Jr.

via atrios

Is Nativism Always Bad?

Orrin Hatch has propsed amending the constitution so that naturalized citizens can run for President. While in principle I support a more open immigration policy and removing unfair barriers to office, I'm not exactly comfortable with Hatch's idea. In the first place, it is purely political, a direct byproduct of Arnold's victory in the recall race and is probably meant to give him a chance to run for President in 2008. When you think about it, any provision that prevents both Schwarzenegger and the prince of darkness...er... Henry Kissinger from becoming President looks pretty good. Those are only the achievements of that highly prejudiced constitutional requirement in the last 30 years. Who knows what misery the Republic has been spared (and maybe spared in future) thanks to our founding fathers who wisely decided that immigrants could never be real Americans. Ever.

Brother Outlandishman Has Lost His Way

From the first day I allowed you to express your views on the blog, first with addition of comments and then when I made you a member of the blogging team you have done nothing but vent your spleen on the very platform that allows you to do so in the first place. Your posts complaining about men in hawian shirts were amusing, but your growing hostility must be brought under control. I'm worried about your immortal soul, North. An angry heart plants the devil's seed, or something like that. You really ought to think about your afterlife more. Do you really want to be thrown into a lake of fire with a bunch of sodomites and unwed mothers? I didn't think so. Please mend your ways now and avoid this terrible fate. Submit to our loving heavenly father and cease biting the blog that feeds you. I'll keep you in my prayers.

Heard in the Library

"I'm not one of those girls that obsesses over shoes, but when I saw her shoes the world just stopped for me."

Tom Eliopous is a Huge Tool

You might think I'm joking, but Tom is seriously a huge tool. If you don't know this annoying bastard, consider yourself very lucky. His existence is one of the greatest misfortunes of my life.

About Time

Graham Ends Democratic Presidential Bid
I knew he was doomed when his campiagn released a horrible promotional album.

Where Has All the Text Gone?

Some regular readers (such as the members of this blogging team and that recurring visitor from Thailand) may have noticed that there are significantly more pictures on the blog than there have been in the past. This sudden jump in pictures can be very easily explained. Emotionally, every member of the Board of Pomposity has the emotional development of a small child and so we become very excited when we come across a new toy. Today's toy is using graphics on the blog, but let me assure you, we will soon grow board of it and like a Christmas puppy in Febuary, the pictures will eventually disappear.

Tom on Dave

Tom on the Blog War

YAY

Dave's Take on the Brian-North-Tom Blog War

Congressman Blames Everything On Others, Hates Muslism and likes Segregation and Bribery.

According to the AP:
U.S. Rep. Cass Ballenger blames the breakup of his 50-year marriage partly on the stress of living near a leading American Muslim advocacy group that he and his wife worried was so close to the U.S. Capitol that "they could blow the place up."

This is not some fringe outfit either, but CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) a mainstream muslim organization. He percieved the presence of women wearing headscarves at CAIR as a sign that the organization was up to something. Last year, Ballenger said that Cynthia McKinney stirred in him "a little bit of a segregationist feeling." Rep. Ballenger also blamed the failure of his marriage on new rules that barred lobbyists from buying dinner for congressional couples, because it damaged his wife's social life and not because, as some critics have alleged, he's an "enormous tool".

Unsafe In Any Election

Nader undecided on presidential bid
I bet this monomaniac will run in 2004, despite the fact that the last 3 years have shown pretty clearly that Bush is significantly worse than any Democrat (in case you were too much of an idiot..er..idealist to realize that in 2000). It would be just his style, because somehow destroying the main force for progress (the Democrats) in American politics will lead to a new progressive golden age.

0 man.

I'm not done with the Aryan Menace yet, far from it as a matter of fact. I will continue to attack this big bastard untill the very end, because a tool like this should not hold an elected office of any kind.

Schwarzenegger "Admired Hitler"

"I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it."

You can claim that a raunchy interview with a defunct porn magazine doesn't mattter because that was when you were young and stupid, the same thing can't be said about LIKING HITLER.

Oh yes, I'd like to officially designate Arnold as a "slave banging, Hitler loving queer", in the words of John Stewart. At least one of those charges on target, so I'm actually way more accurate than other news sources.

It Is Even Worse

The CDC study was much less conclusive than it might sound at first. The task force found that there was "insufficient evidence to determine effectiveness." So basically, the report proved nothing at all.

Time to Declare a State of Emergency

Libertarian group chooses New Hampshire as 'free state'

Libertarians have been looking for a state to re-settle in en masse in order to force it to undergo a political transformation and become some kind of limited government utopia. Now the Libertarians have made their decision and targeted New Hampshire as their chosen free-state-to-be. If I were a liberal, or a person of moderate sense living in New Hampshire, I'd be quite unnerved by all of this. One of New Hampshire's main attractions for the Libertarians was the states constiution, which guarentees the right to revolution and succession. Given that these people really don't like the the enormous and intrusive modern federal government and would like to get rid of a lot of its laws, I think those provisions in the state constitution could be a source of some trouble.

Anyway, here are my predicitons:
1) The most likely course of events is the Liberarians never get their shit together because they never left the rebellious stage of their teenage years and are completely unable to organize anything or that a few do actually move to New Hampshire, but not enough to really change things in any meaningful way.
2)The Libertarians eliminate almost every single tax and regulation in the Great State of New Hampshire, elect Milton Friedman as governor and Tommy Chong as Attorney General and businesses flock to the state and because of shining model of the productive powers of the free makret unleashed.
3)The Libertarians take over New Hampshire and revolutionize its politics, declaring dozens of federal laws and statutes null and void. The national guard is put under the control of Governor Galt and the federal government remains unable to reign in New Hampshire because our combat strength is tied down in Iraq. Taking a page from Machiavelli, President Bush decides to destroy what he cannot control and US Air Force turns vast streches of the state into hideous dunes of ash and splinters of bone.