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Bill St. Clair
Land of the Mostly Free, Home of the Occasionally Brave
Bill Whittle tells Wendy Buckley, proprietor of carbonfootprint.com, which I will not bless with a link, to Pound Sand, and asks Harrison Ford, a fellow pilot, who Dr. Buckley has extolled to stop touching God whenever he wants, to join in the chorus. I'll join it. Wendy Buckley, Pound Sand!!
I've changed my mind about that link, but I'm going to do it as a Google Bomb. So join with me, if you have a web site, and link to carbonfootprint.com as Pound Sand.
From Dr. Jones to Dr. Buckley: just say, “This is none of your business! It’s a free country!”
Remember that little expression? “It’s a free country!” Remember when that was a common response to these petty tyrannies? Remember when any time anybody tried to tell you what you could and could not do we didn’t just whimper and apologize we used to turn to them and say, “Who died and made you king? This is a free country! I’ll do what I damn well please!”
Does this matter? Yes it does. Because freedom of action and personal responsibility are welded together, two sides of the same coin. When we are free to do as we please we become the kind of independent, self-reliant people who will step up in emergencies. And when we surrender our will to other people who live to tell us what to do, we then become dependent on being told what to do all the time.
My brother Steve is a year younger than me. Right around age 13 Stevie used to take a tent, his dog and a shotgun and hitchhike from our home in South Florida out into the Everglades. He’d usually be gone or two or three days. Did my mom worry about him? Yes she did, but on some level I guess she preferred to raise an independent boy who was living his life to the fullest rather than perpetually trying to defend a life-long infant.
A few months ago I heard in passing that Steve had been on his way to work one morning when he passed a car that was on fire with the driver still inside. He pulled over, grabbed his crowbar, smashed the window and with the help of another passing citizen pulled her out and saved her life. He never thought to mention this to me. I found out about it second hand a few days afterward.
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"If your state does not require me to do or pay anything, except voluntary fee for service, and does not forbid me from doing anything that does not harm a non-consenting person or their property, I have no problem with it. Not really a state then, though, is it?" -- Bill St. Clair
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A Bad Case of Liberty
J. Neil Schulman - commentary on McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Second Amendment case currently before the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of the United States is the mediator between a nation of potential revolutionary maniacs and an establishment that exists — no shit, really — only by their sufferance.
I am not the one making this threat, Chief Justice Roberts. I’m just a reporter. Don’t shoot the messenger.
But pay attention. However you decide the balance of power between the federal government and states and localities, it had better have as its object the maximum preservation and protection of what the American people see as their natural and obvious Constitutional rights.
An earlier Supreme Court made a mistake about this once in a case called Dred Scott v. Sandford. Somewhere between 600,000 and 700,000 Americans died because of that mistake.
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Re: Will you Participate in the Census?
Tahn at The Mental Militia Forums - an account of a truly glorious encounter with two boys doing the US census. [tmm]
“Well, you’re too late I says. “You have already been here and recorded my position.”
“Oh, we are just here to hand deliver your census questionnaire.”
“Well, I thought they came in the mail?”
“We are just trying to make sure they get delivered.”
“Well”, I says, getting right to it, “I can tell you the answer”.
“The answer”? the thin one asked.
Yep, I say’s, the answer is ONE.
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19 April 2010: Bring Your Sidearms and Longarms To The Banks of the Potomac
Concerned American at Western Rifle Shooters - an invitation to the 19 April, 2010 Restore the Constitution armed rally at Ft. Hunt National Park, VA, just across the Potomac from Washington, DC. Mike Vanderboegh and Stewart Rhodes will be among the speakers. The email notifying me of this post said that I previously referred to this event as "another Bonus March". Well, I hope I was wrong, and everything remains peaceful. Though it can't be another Bonus March. The good guys will be armed this time.
How the organizer intends to dress for the event
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Obama at the Bat
TheDepartment7 at YouTube - a moderately entertaining take-off on an old standard.
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Be Reasonable
I was imagining talking to an IRS representative today, something I've never, praise Eris, done, and wondered how I would respond to a request by said functionary to "be reasonable". This is what came to mind.
Reasonable, sir, would be for you to research all the income tax I've paid over 30-some years of employment, and all the social security and medicare tax I and my employers have paid, and for you to immediately refund every penny of it. Even more reasonable would be to add five or ten percent interest and five or ten percent penalty.
Anything short of that would just be a thug, you, pointing a gun at my head and me trying to convince you to reduce the amount of money you're demanding that I pay to keep your protection racket from denying me protection from you and your fellow thugs.
Barring immediate refund of my stolen money, I think lots of reasonable people would be unsurprised if I were to cut out your liver and feed it to my dog.
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Sensawunda!
George Potter has had his childish sense of wonder reprimed by Karl Schroeder's idea for a Verne gun. Cool, indeed. Just get the socialist wastes of air out of power and free men & women will do this and a whole lot more.
Put 1.5 terawatts of clean solar power into orbit with less than ten launches. Obsolete coal and petroleum power production with green baseline power, using less than a 10th the number of solar cells as you’d have to install on Earth to capture the same amount of sunlight.
Orbit an entire space elevator with one launch. Set it up, retire the gun, and get on with a clean space age.
Do the same thing with an orbiting greenhouse infrastructure. Drop solar-powered mass drivers on the moon to feed a continual stream of building material to the building sites.
Orbit fuel depots to drop the price of conventional rocketry to orbit through the floor. One shot and access to space for NASA becomes 10 times cheaper.
Send up a telescope so big that it can image the continents of planets circling other stars.
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One Term President
OneTermPresident.net features a rap video by the Wolverines and sells "OTP" merchandise, including caps and bumper stickers. Cool.
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Paypal SARs Cryptome?
Cryptome's Paypal account, which John Young uses for donations, has been locked by Paypal. He thinks they're filing a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), due to a surge in donations following their recent short-lived web site shutdown by Network Solutions in response to a copyright claim by Microsoft.
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"My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!" -- Harry S. Truman
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More un-American Acts
Claire Wolfe visited a pharmacy in a free country. She could buy whatever she wanted, just by asking. Imagine that! [tmm]
Testing the system, I went into two pharmacies and showed a card on which I had written (courtesy of FreeTranslation.com) a request for a certain other pharmaceutical. I gave its generic name and all the brand names I could find online. In both cases, women behind the counter identified the drug by its generic name and offered me all of it that I wanted to buy.
It’s just a harmless muscle relaxant, mild, with few side effects. But it’s one that the U.S., in the iron-fisted wisdom of its bureaucrats, has also placed behind that “make an appointment and pay $80 or $100 first” gate.
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From Brian Bowman:
"When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline." -- Haim G. Ginott
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Beliefs
The Inquisitive Neurologist posts a "non-exhaustive list of my beliefs and opinions, both conventional and unusual (or worse)." [faré]
- IQ is the best known measure of cognitive ability, predicts lifetime success in many domains, is predominantly genetically determined in modern populations, and systematically differs between various ethnic groups
- evolution is a fact, not a theory
- there is no god around these parts, and even if there was, he/she/it would not be somebody worthy of invitation for dinner, much less worship
- espousing the three opinions above is enough to make you a pariah almost everywhere
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- it bears repeating that non-initiation of violence is the only criterion for differentiating between good and evil
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Global Settlement Foundation
The Global Settlement Foundation "(GSF) is an independent, international non-profit organization that provides finality of settlement for global trade." It aims to replace the fraudulent and criminal world banking and legal systems with real gold and sliver money and common law courts. I don't entirely understand it, yet, but it seems like a good idea. Lots to read at the link.
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“Yeah, but what does that Three Percent thing MEAN?”
Mike Vanderboegh - good description of what Mike means by "three percenter".
There are, give or take, a hundred million firearms owners in this country. Three percent of that number is three million. So when we speak of the Three Percent, we are talking about three million firearms owners who are politically active, but no longer count on politics alone to defend their liberties. These three million have watched as our traditional right to arms has been attacked and diminished on the federal level for more than 75 years since the National Firearms Act of 1934. In that time, in almost every instance when a new firearm restriction has been proposed, we have lost the political argument and being law-abiding we have allowed ourselves to be shoved back, grumbling. The Three Percent are simply saying, “No more.” One more restriction on our natural liberties -- the liberties the Founders did their best to secure -- and we will resist.
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Have you ever watched a snake eat? As it swallows its prey whole, the jaw stretches wide open. The bottom jaw separates at the chin so that each half can work somewhat independently. Then one side will slide forward a ways, then pull backwards while the other half slides forward. The snake's teeth are backwards curving so that the prey will only move in one direction; down the snake's throat. This is similar to our situation. The Democrats are the left jaw and the Republicans are the right. Bureaucracy and counterfeit "laws" are the top jaw, pressing down on us. Any evidence that they are not all part of the same snake's mouth are an illusion. First one party gets into office and slides forward, then waits when the other party gains control. It is a dance of death for us, the prey. Slowly, inexorably leading straight down into the belly of the beast.
--Kent McManigal
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