The author never owned the copyright. He was paid to write it. He did not write the book and enter into a contract with the publisher. There was never an agreement of royalties.

The book was published as a joke book. Anyone who understands what the word Anarchist means, knows that this book is not about Anarchy. The recipes were never real.

I am sure that the current copyright owner would be more than happy to sell the rights to William Powell, if he offered enough money. I would think that the selling price would have many zeros. Instead of whining on Amazon, the author should raise a few million dollars and buy the rights back.

This seemed to slip under the radar. Can they legislate to pick and choose which federal agencies have agency over Idaho?

Here is a link to the bill - http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2014/H0473.pdf

This was reported in the Idaho Statesman's blog back in February.

[House Bill 473, which was introduced by Republican Rep. Paul Shepherd of Riggins, comes in response to to the agency’s requirement that miners who dredge the bottoms of Idaho rivers and streams where endangered salmon, steelhead and bull trout spawn, must get a permit. A week ago, while I was away, between 60 and 70 miners filled the Capitol auditorium at a hearing organized by the chairmen of the House and Senate resources committees.....His bill says EPA doesn’t have authority to do anything because it is not in the U.S. Constitution and violates “the true meaning and intent as given by the founders and ratifiers,” and is declared to be “invalid in the state of Idaho.”

Read more here: http://blogs.idahostatesman.com/house-panel-introduces-bill-to-nullify-epa/#storylink=cpy]

So I went to the website this morning before work
and the screen said
"Health Insurance Marketplace: Please wait
We have a lot of visitors on our site right now and we're working to make your experience here better. Please wait here until we send you to the login page. Thanks for your patience!"

After work I thought I would try again...same message

There are only about 1.6 Million people in this state.
I realize that Idaho is number 2 in people without health care
But still...
What kind of rinkydink website did my hard earned taxes buy?
I wonder how long it will be before I can even look at my health insurance options. Perhaps we should have just used the federal exchange...

Has anyone here been able to use the exchange?

these a comments from others posted elsewhere

"Haydon said that "a drover's dog could lead the Labor Party to victory, the way the country is". Labor under Hawke won the 1983 election handily,

The same can be said for Abbott,"a drover's dog could lead the Liberal Party to victory, the way Labor is" Abbott never won this election, Labor lost it. How sad these political times are when you can be a prime minister by default."

"Amazing how absolutely nobody mentions the 'M' word - Murdoch. Pink batts, leadership challenges, Julia's carbon tax 'lie' - that's all we ever heard about, ad nauseum.

The fact that the Gillard-Rudd government presided over the world's strongest economy (according to virtually every economic measure available) was barely ever mentioned in the media, unless it was to snigger. When the GFC struck, the ALP kept the economy strong by refusing to go along with the austerity measures that made an economic ruin of so many countries and sent unemployment into the stratosphere. But of course, the Murdoch media weren't interested in this, because it proved the fallacy of neoliberalism.

An Abbott government will reverse this disgracefully underrated success by applying its neoliberal machete to anything and everything it doesn't like - which is the poor, the unemployed, public assets, the public service, public education, the minimum wage, renewable energy and permanent job security. But of course, it will deliver on tax cuts for the rich and welfare for the middle classes."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-07/labor-retribution-begins-after-poll-defeat/4943512

Australians will be complaining about the coalition before we know it...

I do not believe Chavez is perfect, but for many poor people in Venezuela, he at least listen to them.
If I had the opportunity to talk to him, I would definately ask him about these problems. I have the same issue with the US president. Nothing is black and white, but things can get incrementally better.

The previous governments of Venezuela benefited the wealthy over the poor
Some were very wealthy, and many were very poor.

Chavez was elected because of this

Crime could go up, if there is better reporting. I do not know if this is the case, but it is a possibility. Previously, the police could have protected the wealthy over the poor and the perception of a crime free society could be created.

Here is relately fair article about this from the Crisis Group

There is no one in the room,
they DO NOT have to do this

There is no one making them to do this

Every doctor who does this is complicate.

There were doctors who would do abortions when it was illegal. They did the right thing and disobeyed the law.

More and more when entering into agreements with companies we are agreeing to arbitration, which is basically unregulated courts paid for by one side.

Oddly the supreme court sees no problem with this

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/6592605/Cantabrians-farewell-cathedral

I want every news story to have the phrase "the Wizard told the crowd"

The chances of being able to afford drugs if you qualify for welfare are slim.

This is stupid

If you want to know who does drugs -- well, it is people with money.

This is about funneling government money to private companies -- those that make and process drug tests.
Also, making people afraid to apply for the help they need. Remember, in most states,only those with children can qualify, and really that is what welfare is now for, assistance to children.

I really enjoyed it and just as I finished it, I realized that I had a copy of The Return, another book by him, sitting on my bookcase.

It fits perfectly with these last throws of winter (Perhaps I am being overly optimist about winter ending...)