Just some friction in The Machine

Thursday, April 29, 2004


A BIG howdy to the recent IRS visitor to my website.

3.3.216.152.in-addr.arpa name = internet1.irs.gov.

I did enjoy this snippet from my web log

---snip---

152.216.3.4 - - [27/Apr/2004:16:38:57 -0400] "GET /taxes/html/correspondence.htm
HTTP/1.1" 200 4788 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
%22Thomas+Marusin%22" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET C
LR 1.0.3705)"
152.216.3.3 - - [27/Apr/2004:16:38:58 -0400] "GET /taxes/images/a_t_bill.gif HTT
P/1.1" 200 2539 "http://www.sacto.com/taxes/html/correspondence.htm" "Mozilla/4.
0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)"
152.216.3.3 - - [27/Apr/2004:16:39:21 -0400] "GET /taxes/html/brewster2.doc HTTP
/1.1" 200 66048 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22T
homas+Marusin%22" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
.0.3705)"
---end snip---

A quick DNS query tells me this is from the IRS web proxy internet1.irs.gov and
the referrer log shows the visitor was looking for a reference to Thomas Marusin which they found
here, part of my
Prove the 16th website.


I have some recommended reading for my IRS employee readers.

http://www.861.info

http://www.givemeliberty.org

http://www.exodus10-3.org/


Wednesday, April 28, 2004


Zell Miller says to Dump the 17th Amendment

Miller, a former two-term governor of Georgia, contends the Constitution's prescription for balancing the interests of large and small states and the power of state and federal governments was destroyed when the U.S. ratified the 17th Amendment in 1913.
I couldn't agree more. As I've said before, I think the 17th Amendment does more than throw off the balance of power between large and small states, it results in more centralized federal power since the Senators are no longer fighting for the preservation of power for the bodies (legislatures) that should have elected them. This is one of blogger Jim Paulson's favorite topics.

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