Quote of the Day

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Quote of the Day

I also have a cautionary note for those who are not part of the militia movement. When large numbers of citizens begin arming against their own government and are ready to believe even the silliest rumors about that government’s willingness to evade the Constitution, there is a problem that goes beyond gullibility. This country’s political establishment should think about what it has done to inspire such distrust – and what it can do to regain the trust and loyalty of many Americans who no longer grant it either. – Glenn Harlan Reynolds, “Up in arms about a revolting movement,” Chigago Tribune, 1/30/1995. (PDF)

(h/t: Michael Bane.)

On a related note, I wonder if there’s any way possible to expedite my Ted Brown custom M-14?

Just Words?

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Just Words?

http://img.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vidmg.photobucket.com/albums/v99/smallestminority/The_Reagan_Obama_Debate.flv
My “favorite”:

Reagan: “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.”

The current President of the United States: “As President, I will sign a universal health care plan into law by the end of my first term in office.”

Reagan: “The doctor begins to lose freedom. . . . First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then doctors aren’t equally di­vided geographically. So a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him, you can’t live in that town. They already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it’s only a short step to dictating where he will go. . . . All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it’s a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay. And pretty soon your son won’t decide, when he’s in school, where he will go or what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.”

The current President of the United States: “John McCain and Sarah Palin call this socialistic. I don’t when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.”

Via Roger Kimball.

Depressing indeed.

How can I get a copy of this video for my archives? The “Download Video!” button, doesn’t.

UPDATE: Thanks to Ambulances, Boomsticks and Coffee I am now hosting this video.

You Don’t Get Me, You Get Tam

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You Don’t Get Me, You Get Tam

QotD:

You’re going to be paying for passing out this Monopoly money for the rest of your lives, even if you were just born today and live to be 100, and in return, they’ll graciously allow you to keep a little bit extra of your own money. The only people to whom this could sound like a good deal probably get outwitted by flatworms on a regular basis.

That pretty much describes what our Congresscritters think of us.

(9:00PM, finally home – again – for three nights.)

Work, Work, Work, Work, Work.

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Work, Work, Work, Work, Work.

Sorry about the lack of posting. Lots going on with work. By the time I sat down tonight to eat dinner and check the blogs it was 8:00PM, and my bedtime is 9:00. I just don’t have time to A) read much, or B) write anything. But traffic is up.

This seems to be a trend – the less I say, the more people read it.

You’d think I’d learn something from this . . .

This One Sees Too Clearly . . .

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This One Sees Too Clearly . . .

Mike will be one of the first in line for “re-education.”

And an update:

There are a lot of people who know just how big a monstrosity this thing is, yet when they went to the polls last November, there was no ballot choice for them. Neither major party candidate offered any indication they were possessed the political will to go against the tide of populist entitlement. And no, this is not some “We are all responsible for the genocide in Rwanda” collective guilt trip. It is just a simple statement of fact if you are among the hundred million or so voters who cast a ballot for a major party candidate last election, you, and I for that matter, voted for the raping of the American economy, and with it American liberty.

The dismal failure of political will on the part of the elected, is matched by an equal failure of civic will on the part of the voters. We, and the fact of the existence of the two nonentities we accepted as candidates on the most recent ballot stands as proof, are now as convinced that the government is a cause rather than a result of good, as any medieval serf was of his king. We have allowed ourselves to become a democracy rather than a republic. And if you have to ask what is so bad about that, there’s no help for you.

(*sigh*)

Guilty as charged.

EXACTLY!

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Today’s Quote of the Day:

Interesting, but it reminded me a little of Ayn Rand (remind me to tell you guys about the Ayn Rand fan and the Iraqi microloan guy some day when I’m whining about having nothing to write about) in that after 50 pages, you’ve got the point and the rest is just…remediation. – Abby at Bad Dogs and Such

And I really want to hear that story about the Rand fan and the microloan guy.

Reasoned Discourse and The Other Side

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Reasoned Discourse© and The Other Side™

There’s been some discussion around the gunblogosphere recently about the typical Reasoned Discourse we experience with the gun-control side of the argument, but Xavier has found a video of someone who truly put her beliefs to the test. (In associated news, Morgan Spurlock is not, apparently, a complete wanker.) As Xavier put it:

Got 42 minutes and 32 seconds?

It’s worth your time if you’re any kind of activist at all.

My favorite part? Seeing the difference between the activist’s first shot (with a shotgun) and her later emotions when she was learning to fire a handgun.