The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
Quote of the Day for Tomorrow.
(Since I already have a QotD for today.)
I’d like to think things are near some sort of conclusion…but I think we have quite a bit more horror to go through yet.
Comment by “jamie” at this Free Market Fairy Tales post.
Yup. The razor-blade ride ain’t over yet, and the alcohol bath is still a long way down. And we’re right behind you.
Plinking with 105’s.
Some people have all the fun. Mostly Cajun relates a story from his career as a tank wrangler.
Quote of the Day.
Tam, on the anniversary of the birth of John Moses Browning:
Were he alive today, he’d be 153. And we’d have frickin’ death rays.
And possession of said death rays would be verboten to anyone but employees of Federal, State, or Local .gov.
Your local IRS agent could carry one, but you couldn’t.
An Older Quote.
One I’ve cited here before, by Rev. Donald Sensing from December of 2003:
I predict that the Bush administration will be seen by freedom-wishing Americans a generation or two hence as the hinge on the cell door locking up our freedom. When my children are my age, they will not be free in any recognizably traditional American meaning of the word. I’d tell them to emigrate, but there’s nowhere left to go. I am left with nauseating near-conviction that I am a member of the last generation in the history of the world that is minimally truly free.
I’m beginning to think the good Reverend is a prophet himself.
RTWT.
Quote of Immortal Quote.
(Hat tip to Irons in the Fire for this one)
Short of assassination there is little people can do when their political masters have forgotten the true meaning of the democracy of which they are forever prating, are determined to have their own way at all costs and hold public opinion in contempt. – The last testament of Flashman’s creator: How Britain has destroyed itself, by George McDonald Frasier
Read the whole thing. And remember that Britain is a petri-dish of what the Left our political masters wish to “accomplish” here. (Edited because both the statist Left and statist Right want to accomplish the same thing, they just differ on who should be in charge.)
Neo-Neocon Alert!.
If you have not read Neo-Neocon’s ongoing series A Mind is a Difficult Thing to Change, I strongly recommend you do so. There are fourteen posts so far. She’s recently picked it up again, and expects there will be at least eight more posts before it’s complete. I strongly recommend it. Start here.
I Want to Show This to Everybody I Know.
Random Nuclear Strikes has found a cartoon you couldn’t find a single studio willing to make today. Strongly recommended. (It’s full of “jingoism,” Markadelphia.)
I Don’t Want Large Cities Electing Our President.
The Geekwitha.45 details how the opposition is attempting a legal end-run around the Electoral College system, and why it benefits no one but the political Left. It is a descent into direct democracy.
It’s a must-read if you don’t live in a major metropolitan area.
(If you do live in a major metropolitan area, have someone read it to you and explain it while you look at the pretty pictures.)
When Seconds Count…
…the police are only minutes away. In this case, a little over five minutes.
Hat tip, SayUncle.
