http://ilinews.wordpress.com Independent Long Island's Official News Source Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:52:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There was a Chinese proverb that once said: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Today, that same proverb in New York State might go like this: "Give a man a fish and you ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/dont-teach-a-man-to-fish/ Author: Gisela Martinez Executive Summary – Contrary to what most people are aware of a part of a state can secede to form their own state. Maine separated from Mass. in 1820. West Virginia left Virginia during the civil war. Now Nassau and Suffolk counties in New York wish to ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/secession-mania-spreads-to-long-island-ny/ A study entitled "Freedom In the 50 States: An Index of Personal And Economic Freedom", published by the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, set out to answer which states give their citizens the most leeway, and which have them on the tightest leash. The study is the first-ever comprehensive ranking ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/new-york-state-the-least-free-state-of-the-us/ Now Independent Long Island (ILI) has a nickname! New York State's nickname is the fairly well-known "The Empire State". For reasons of symbolism, I had also associated New York State with the Tarot Emperor card. Well, I managed today to put two and two together, and so now Independent Long Island shall ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/ili-now-has-a-nickname/ The bulldozers are rolling, and the activity is frenetic. A new city, and entirely new jurisdiction is under construction at this very moment! Of course, this is not at all what is happening in my backyard, and actually it is quite a tranquil Sunday afternoon. Yet the metaphor I used previously ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/ilis-first-municipal-corporation-is-born/ Do you speak Brooklynese? Bird = Boid Bronx = Braunx Coffee = Cawfee Long = Laung Oh My God = Oh My Gawd Slippers = Slippiz I'll talk to you in an hour = I'll tawk to you in an howa King's Plaza = King's Plee-AZZ-a With you = Witcha I didn’t do it = I di-int do ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/new-brooklyn-mail-service/ According to Independent Long Island's Historian James Alcock (he is also our High Commissioner to Canada), when the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster in 1931, which elevated Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland from colonies to autonomous dominions within the British Commonwealth (not fully independent because ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/america-land-of-the-unfree-home-of-the-knave/ In the beginning, the Kingdom of Pictland was a kingdom in exile, yet it was a powerful Fourth World nation nonetheless, with a history going back in time as far back as 3 March 1812, when the kingdom was proclaimed a Sovereign nation in exile in a Decretum Regius by ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/kingdom-of-pictland-formally-recognises-independent-long-island/ Historians tell us that with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, and the fall of Leninist communism, the term Second World largely fell out of use, although the term Third World remains popular. Nothing could be further from the truth as a political reality at least. In the real world, the ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/the-political-third-world-exists-no-more/ Practically the Whole Union Wants to Secede from the US! New Hampshire HCR 0006 (affirming States' rights based on Jeffersonian principles) Oklahoma State Sovereignty Bill HJR 1029 [PDF] Arizona State Sovereignty Bill HCR 2024 Washington 10th Amendment HJM 4009 [PDF] Montana HB 0246 Michigan HCR 0004 (2009) [PDF] Missouri HR 212 California SJR 44 (old bill: 1994) Georgia Senate ... http://ilinews.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/practically-the-whole-union-wants-to-secede-from-the-us/