Harry Browne, best-selling author and two-time Libertarian Party presidential nominee, died in his home in Franklin, Tennessee, Wednesday night, March 1, after a long illness. He is survived by his wife Pamela and his daughter Autumn.
He served as Director of Public Policy for the DownsizeDC.org, and as a consultant to the Permanent Portfolio family of mutual funds. Throughout the mid and late-20th century, he was a popular public speaker who appeared on the Today show, Wall $treet Week, The Larry King Show, and hundreds of other national and local radio and television shows.
Browne twice ran for President as the nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000. He was a frequent guest on radio and TV, both as a political and financial commentator. Browne was a co-founder of DownsizeDC.org, Inc. and a strong advocate of that organization's “Read the Bills Act,” which would require Congress to read every word of every bill before voting on it.
In late 1994, Browne announced his Libertarian candidacy for president and received 485,759 votes on Election Day, the second highest total in Libertarian Party history. In 2000, he was again nominated to represent the Libertarian Party and garnered more than 382,000 votes, despite a tight race between the two major parties.
Browne was born on June 17, 1933 in New York City. He died of Lou Gehrig's disease. .
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If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
A public opinion survey released this fine Wednesday morning shows that 73% of Californians are opposed to extending a toll road through San Onofre State Beach.
Last September, the Transportation Corridor Agencies commissioned their annual public opinion poll on how much we all love toll roads, about as much as we love lung cancer. Their plan to extend the 241 toll road through the heart of SOSB depends upon their claim that people think it’s a good idea. “Their numbers never resonated with us, based on thousands of conversations we’ve had with community members” says Brittany McKee of Sierra Club, which commissioned the new poll along with Natural Resources Defense Council.
On Sept. 1, 2005 the Weekly published its own interpretation of TCA’s poll.
They never mentioned anything about the road going through a state park; questions were vague, or did not “mention or factually present the basic action,” according to John Fairbanks of Fairbanks, Maslin, Maullin & Associates, the public opinion firm that conducted this latest poll.
The new survey, conducted between February 18 and 22, polled 800 likely voters, with a margin of error of +/- 5%. It claims that 49% of respondents strongly oppose toll roads through state parkland, with another 20% somewhat opposing. On the specific issue of a toll road through San Onofre, 56% of respondents strongly oppose the idea.
Fairbanks puts it best: “Putting a toll road through a state park doesn’t work with voters.” - Alex Brant-Zawadzki .
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San Onofre Surf Beach is such a popular place to party that state park officials have decided to clamp down.
The state parks department announced Monday that any group of 25 or more people wanting to hold an event at Surf Beach must get a special event permit. Only one group per day will be permitted, and if there is to be alcohol, that requires an alcohol permit, too. Permits must be filed at least 30 days in advance and will be issued first-come, first-serve.
Why the rules? Lori Coble, special event permit coordinator, said lots of big gatherings took place at Surf Beach last summer – mesothelioma attorneys parties and such – without permits, and many had alcohol. The parties were so big that they impacted general public use of the beach, Coble said.
Permits are available in the state park office at 3030 Avenida del Presidente. Call (949) 492-0802. .
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Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have engineered a strain of pond scum that could, with further refinements, produce vast amounts of hydrogen through photosynthesis.
The work, led by plant physiologist Tasios Melis, is so far unpublished. But if it proves correct, it would mean a major breakthrough in using algae as an industrial factory, not only for hydrogen, but for a wide range of products, from biodiesel to cosmetics.
The new strain of algae, known as C. reinhardtii, has truncated chlorophyll antennae within the chloroplasts of the cells, which serves to increase the organism's energy efficiency. In addition, it makes the algae a lighter shade of green, which in turn allows more sunlight deeper into an algal culture and therefore allows more cells to photosynthesize... .
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David Klein came up with the idea of Jelly Belly’s over 25 years ago, as a great Dad, he likes to say, Roxy was his greatest invention & candy is in Roxanne Klein's blood. And we're not talking about the sugar high from her sweetly sour concoction, dubbed Sandy Candy. Klein comes from a candy-minded family, and she's known sweet innovation from birth. After all, Roxanne's father, David, invented the Jelly Belly candy. He and her mother, Rebecca, helped Roxanne get Sandy Candy off the ground when the now 22-year-old dreamed up the idea in high school, agreeing to develop the candy in their Covina, California, factory. That certainly made it easier to get the sweet stuff made-freeing Roxanne of the typical start-up and equipment costs. Says Roxanne, "I come up with ideas every day, and we don't have the equipment to make them all....so this was a good one." Does Roxanne feel any added pressure, being the daughter of a successful inventor? "No," she says, "we're all individuals. I just go with my own flow. My Roxy flow." .
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