Institute for Justice wins case in FL limiting politics, page 2

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Great Speech by Yaron Brook
What is great about America - Let us not forget! 8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmZvI1J3imI
 
So did you know that Benjamin Franklin was the colonials staunchest opponent of Independence for decades leading up to the onset of full hostilities? Not really committing to it until the Declaration of Independence meant he had to choose sides permanently? It's too bad they don't actually teach you American history in school. They give you a Harlequin romance instead.

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Meanwhile, here's John F. Kennedy on the 4th making an honest mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. It would take history to prove what the problem would be, but the problem indeed occurred from the basic premise of 'We need to take your freedoms away.' But few, if any, outside their inner circle really understood that was their intention.

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The Yaron Brook speech was so inspiring, i'm going to write his name in for POTUS. I know he can't win.
Then every time the POTUS says something dumb, i will brag i voted for Yaron Brook. :thumb: So over the next 4 years maybe his name will come up enough that people look him up and watch his show. Maybe in 2024 there will be a candidate from his new party, maybe called the "Party of Principles" or something like that. A long shot that makes sense to me 8)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm5g-mZ5qb4
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Here Yaron Brook explains how being taught altruism, when taken to the next level, it leads to nihilism :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPohcxp_A2A
 
Last night I was reminded of you, Mr.Gruber, in of all things a little search on an unsuccessful racecar of nearly 50 years ago. Partly because some guy tagged himself the 'Ayn Rand of autoracing.' But more because I happened across someone calling the buyer of some of those cars "Hapless." I figured you'd have been real interested in Lindsey Hopkins. And it'll help me explain why I think you can do better than Yaron Brook.

The problem with Mr. Brook is he has a lot of opinion and a lot of philosophy, but has he ever really been out there, I don't know, running a Radio Shack store or anything? He needs people like you to fill in the gaps. My point is I think if Yaron Brook read this he'd agree with what I have to say, but he can't really offer a story or a real theme such as this. Meanwhile. . . .

If you've ever heard of Lindsey Hopkins Technical College in Florida, the short version is he made it happen. He is known for things such as being part owner of the original New Orleans Saints and of the Atlanta Falcons, which sponsored one of his Indycars. Having started a number of companies and becoming the head of Coca Cola meant he could afford expensive hobbies, such as racing. Would we have this great story to tell if he hadn't?

Hapless? That means unlucky. He certainly watched twice as his cars were comfortably leading the last lap and could seemingly coast home first, but then run out of gas and prove coasting wasn't enough, coming in 2nd and 3rd. He also watched his entry leading in the final laps of the Indy 500 when there was a wreck that killed the driver. Mostly, he wasn't all THAT rich, he didn't have the best equipment. In 1972, he was going to change that.

The problem there was that he picked a new car, the first to be designed by computer, at a time when computers themselves were like a pedestrian on the side of the freeway compared to your home computer. The software/programming was probably written in 1969/70, when the fast lap in Indy qualifying was 170mph. When the designing is underway in '71 the record was raised to 179mph. Had the car arrived even by then it would have at least been competitive.

Another owner, Pat Patrick, was much like Hopkins, fielding older cars, buying almost worn out engines from other teams, just trying to hang on awhile until something falls into place. Having elected to buy the same cars Hopkins was buying, he'd attempted to sell his old cars to fans through magazine ads, etc. Instead the new cars were late and his drivers were still using the old in the first races. When the new finally came barely in time to take to Indy, they hadn't been 'Sorted out,' the team had no time to run them and understand them. Almost time to qualify and it was turning out that the design software had ideas about aerodynamics that had been superceded by the conventional designs. The entire field was to beat the speed of the fast qualifier just the year before. The Patrick team threw in the towel on their new cars quickly.

Lindsay Hopkins received only 2 of his 3 cars. While the lucky to be left out driver got his rush updated old car into the race fairly easily, the two new cars were a handful and only one made it. There was some performance clause that the cars had to make the race. Both Patrick cars and one of Hopkins' returned to the builder. But because it qualified and lasted a few laps, guess who was stuck with the other car. It sat in the garage.

This all sounds like an unhappy ending so far. but not so fast. (Oh, wrong thing to say in racing.) Wally Dallenbach, the driver who couldn't qualify the car, found another team needing a replacement for an injured driver and finished the season with them, recording some of his best drives ever at the time. Johnny Rutherford, a struggling driver with one win and experiencing his 7th winless season since then, parted ways with the Patrick team, finished the first half of the season with no points, then ran well enough in the second half to rise to 7th in the standings. Patrick bought some more old cars for the following season, but at least newer than he had; hiring Dallenbach and giving him at the age of almost 40 the chance to win his first 3 races that year, with more to follow. Patricks' other new driver also won 3, including the Indy 500. The Pat Patrick team had arrived.

Rutherford, meanwhile, wound up with the McLaren team the following year, the half season with a new team at least establishing him as a prospect afterall. At the age of 35 he was fast qualifier at Indy and got the second win of his career. He would win Indy three times and pick up win 27 at the age of 48.

Things would look up for Lindsey Hopkins, too. Team McLaren was the fast qualifier the year before, they'd brought that old car as a backup but would rather sell it than take it home and Hopkins put Roger McCluskey, the guy who got the disasterous car into the Indy 500, at the front of the pack for a change, he won his first race in years and wound up 3rd in the points. The following year all 3 of Hopkins' drivers had used but at least competitive cars, running 3rd, 4th and 7th at the Indy 500. McCluskey would win again, but also take the Indycar Championship at the age of 43, after decades of mostly struggle. Hapless? It wasn't all bad luck, was it?

Even those 3 cars that never qualified for the Indy 500 would be reworked and rebodied, never front runners but they raced.

So I can see where Yaron Brook would explain where there's nothing nihilistic about Mr. Hopkins. He wasn't paying for cars on the track to be altruistic toward the drivers, right? I don't want to compare it to, say, the promoters/sanctioning bodies who just don't care about the drivers, there's plenty of stories where there were hazards and a driver wound up dead because the business people wanted to cover up there was a problem. As the Lindsey Hopkins Technical College proved he was ready to do things for those in need, but business is business and none of his operations would have survived if he'd ran them as charities.

But what incredible stories. What a boring life without there being people like Roger Penske (Ever see that name on the side of yellow rental trucks?) Pat Patrick and yes, Lindsey Hopkins. I'm not sure Hopkins had the money to spend as did Penske, who overpaid wildly during Hopkins' car crisis for an engine in an emergency for the driver who went on to get the first of Penske's 18 wins at Indianapolis that year. And there's more to that story if you know your racing. But Penske is known for saying '. . . .Do it first class, only race the cars you can afford.' And Penske could afford to win that year, as well as other years. It didn't seem that Hopkins could afford to be competitive so much of the time.

But at least he kept these drivers on the track, where they could hope and await their chance. Imagine if only the best funded, most prepared were allowed to compete. There sure would be a smaller number of competitors. And the disaster of that terrible car started the snowball rolling down the hill for so many.

Do they even have stories like this under Communism? How bad do they want them? This is what Yaron Brook talks about, but could he ever bring it to life?

I'd sure rather have been out there racing myself, but it's too expensive, never gonna happen. At least I got to witness all these adventures.

And Lindsey Hopkins had a logo, the rabbit pulled from the hat. When his cars won, it was like that.

Oh the video is another more practical look that Brook would agree with but never make so interesting.

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My favorite hobby in 1972 was racing "rich" guys that had expensive cars, with my highly modified (by me) 1963 Valiant that i paid $75 for. At the time, nobody had ever seen a turbocharger, and one loser thought it was AC. :lol: i only lost ONCE in about 17 races. (guy towed the car on a trailer, mine was a daily driver)
thanks for the story and video :bigthumb:
 
cruises at 175 mph all the way across country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbwaYcp2Xw
skip to 1:03 to skip ads :roll:
 
I'm going to link some basic cases that bring home the point
1st up FOOD TRUCKS (a business anyone can start, but is it legal?)
https://ij.org/case/carolina-beach-food-trucks
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Why is it so important for conservatives to continue the myth that "those damn socialists are the root cause of all our problems". To wit:

The American dream was lost on August 13, 1971. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock -- pushed by a Republican's Republican and an ultra-conservative bunch of advisers if ever there was. America has never been the same since. And the middle-class paid the price. Heck, we are still paying the price. But of course, the lame excuse continues to be "Clinton, Obama, Hillary, Biden". Whatever.

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Bloodthirsty Commie Chairman Mao PLAYED
Doctor Henry Kissinger and Tricky Dick Nixon like fools during Vietnam
after
Mao's mass murder of 20 million !

98 year old Henry Kissinger was finally fired days ago by President Trump !
 
MJSfoto1956 said:
Why is it so important for conservatives to continue the myth that "those damn socialists are the root cause of all our problems.

Mostly it has to do with the fact it's not a myth. Mao's death toll in China alone exceeded 100million, then there's Africa, Central America, South America. That man knew how to Communist Party. Nixon was only opening the door to the possibility, he didn't do it. That's like blaming anything you don't like about cars on Duryea. However, we can blame Socialism for Antifa, etc., they are always out doing harm. Haymarket bombing, etc., it seems violence is precious to them.

Prior to the Covid my downtown was a major food truck gathering point. We already had some serious restauranteury and I don't think there was a problem with competition. I think some people wound up at trucks because places they wanted to go were too crowded. But I'm touchy about food trucks for health reasons, so much gets linked to them. And they all suffer that reputation because we have no way of knowing who the bad guys are.

Given the licensing of the local business, I think there's some amount of protectionism they are owed. Just don't throw that out the window completely.
 
I learned that "You CAN fight city hall" and win :bigthumb: Even the gov has to reconsider sometimes, with the prospects of 47 expert lawyers about to sue :lol:
and so, they gave up without going to court :bigthumb: and that the average gov employee often has no clue and really isn't out to stifle competition.
and there IS a charity that makes me want to read every story :bigthumb: i'll only post links to ones that i like, so if say, you are religious, and want to send your kids to a Catholic school, for example, i will be skipping over those.
 
I can't make this stuff up :lol:
https://ij.org/case/mandan-nd-mural
the "mural police" goes after art the city does not like :roll:
until they got sued by IJ and ran off with their tail between their legs :oops: :lol:
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State makes selling "veggie burgers" a crime :roll: Until they got sued https://ij.org/case/mississippis-unconstitutional-food-labeling-law The cattle industry is full of lies. Like "you need meat for protein" :roll:
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I wish i knew about IJ when i got my ticket for riding an unregistered ebike. they could of made a federal case out of it and WON :shock: (i was happy to escape without any fine or court costs)
 
A shoplifter runs into a house at random, and the police destroy the house to get him :shock: :roll:
US supreme court refuses case! :roll:
https://ij.org/case/lech-v-city-of-greenwood
 
My city passed an ordinance that limits the number of cars in your garage to 2 :roll:
I have a city approved 1000sf garage that can hold 4, even 5 if i put 1 in the workshop.
Wacky law. They allow 4 cars in the driveway but not in the garage :shock:
So i'm going to ask IJ to send a letter informing the city that my rights are being violated. If they do it, well, with 47 lawyers, i'll feel like Superman is on my side 8)
 
Moved to OTD because this is ultimately about politics.
 
Who is going to know if you have 2 or 4 or 5 cars in your garage, even less so if you dont have neighbors right next to you 10' from every angle.


Matt Gruber said:
My city passed an ordinance that limits the number of cars in your garage to 2 :roll:
I have a city approved 1000sf garage that can hold 4, even 5 if i put 1 in the workshop.
Wacky law. They allow 4 cars in the driveway but not in the garage :shock:
So i'm going to ask IJ to send a letter informing the city that my rights are being violated. If they do it, well, with 47 lawyers, i'll feel like Superman is on my side 8)
 
The lady across the street called code enforcement on a guy making custom bicycles, and he had to move.
 
Who is going to know? From the window in my brother's bedroom he could see the 18 cars parked in the backyard next door. There was always one or two partially torn apart in the garage, maybe 4 he and his wife were driving in the driveway. And I mean the great old European sportscars. Oh, I took quite a number of those pictures in those books. There was an Alfa sportscar in the shape of a station wagon, so they had one.

The city harassed him. Only allowed to have x numbers of cars isn't a law, it's a policy which they treat as law. And there is such thing as agency law, you can win but it ain't easy. So sometimes there were extra cars from his driveway winding up next door for awhile. So the city spreads the harassment around. Just before he died they wound up moving to a house behind a church, literally you drove through the church parking lot away from the street to get to the house. I don't know if it was completely trouble free, but it seemed easier for him.

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Another win for freedom by the Institute for Justice :bigthumb:
https://ij.org/press-release/u-s-supreme-court-rules-unanimously-you-may-sue-government-agents-for-damages-when-they-violate-your-individual-rights/
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First i emailed and wrote i wanted to ask some quick Q's, and that i'd need time to digest their answers.
So myself, i felt compared to cases before the Supreme Court, my Q's were trivial. But, NO they view all violations to be important 8) So now my new view is that it is like finding a few ants in the kitchen. You know if you ignore them, they will take over. The rights in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration if Independence must be defended, just like ants in the kitchen. The USA will end up like Mexico or Cuba, if we don't keep our rights.
 
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