Non-Verbal Quote of the Day:
From What Bubba Knows, and he’s selling them as stickers.
It would be funnier if it wasn’t so damned true.
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Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
Quietly, but not surrepitiously, the numbers of dissatisfied American individuals is growing, and many of them are armed, but not offensively dangerous. Meaning these American individuals have come to the conclusion that America is heading down a path it should not be on, trespassing so to speak, pillaging along the way, and armed resistance may, unfortunately, be required. They’ve had all they can stand, and they can’t stand any more. – John Venlet, Improved Clinch – Quietly on my Mind
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
We live in democracies. Rule by the majority. Rule by the people. Fifty per cent of people are below average in intelligence. This explains everything about politics. – P.J. O’Rourke, The ditch carp of democracy
Hat tip to Tam, who chose a different quote, but as usual for a P.J. piece, the entire thing is quotable.
Quote for the YEAR
Quote for the YEAR
It’s past time to vote these criminals out of office. It’s time we peasants got a wild-eyed mob together. We gather our pitchforks and our torches, we go to Washington, and we track these people down with hunting dogs. – Bill Whittle, Afterburner – Mountains of Money: Do you know how much $1 trillion is?
I fully expect Bill to be arrested shortly for sedition or inciting to riot, or some other similar charge.
But he’s right. And we’re fooked.
See also this post by Joe Huffman.
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
I am in no way implying that this is some formidable armed force that will rise up and recover America to her Constitutional greatness. what I AM saying though, is that I’m seeing a level of dissatisfaction and concern that was not even approached in the years of the Clintons. – Mostly Cajun, A Considerable Number
And we’re just over 100 days in . . .
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
That’s where we’re at. Laws apply to us in the middle. Those at the top are too big, powerful or important to have to live by them, and those at the ‘bottom’ don’t either. And darned if I’m not getting more than a little dissatisfied by the deal. – Mostly Cajun – Not for You or Me
A lot of us are. Read the whole backstory.
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
“Corporate taxes” are, in the long run, just regressive taxes that don’t hurt progressives at the ballot box because the electorate is collectively about as smart as a colony of clams. – Tam, Follow the Money
Quote
Quote
We are not your sons and daughters, whom you must protect and defend. We are your sword and your shield. We are men and women who volunteer to place our lives on the line so you do not have to. We do not decide when or where we will be sent. We go. You are our advocates, not our parents.
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I, as a soldier, am personally insulted when debate about war becomes not about policy, but about deaths, because it implies that my service is at best uninformed or ill-conceived, and at worst valueless.
I know my life is in the hands of others because I choose for it to be that way. I am not your daughter, a child who must be guided. I have made my choice and pledge my honor to it. I will thank you to remember that because we serve our nation, none of us dies in vain, regardless of the cause; end of debate.
Sarah Albrycht – Letter from a Soldier in Afghanistan
Via Dr. Sanity
READ. EVERY. WORD.
I’ve got dust in my eyes . . .
Quote of the Day
This time from the Geek with a .45:
In about 5 billion years, Sol, our star, will enter its red giant phase, and engulf the orbit of the earth. After this event, the universe will continue for at least 10100 years. Well prior to that, Earth’s atmosphere will boil away. Earth will be entirely, 100% destroyed, down to the last molecule, taking humanity with it.
The only way to avoid that fate is to attain star faring capability and get off this rock.
I submit therefore, that while stewardship of our resources is a laudable and necessary thing, that ultimately, our planet is 100% expendable, down to the very last molecule towards the goal of our ultimate escape.
Humanity needs exactly two game changing things: a compact, self contained, potent clean energy source along the lines of the fictional ZPM, and a star drive.
Such items will be the product of freedom, prosperity, and the material application of the intellect of man, and won’t be dropped out of the sky as a result of granola munching Gaia worship.
Nature is pleased to eat us, or kill us in any of a number of lingering, nasty, painful ways.
I say we give the bitch the middle finger and blow this joint. Can I get an “AMEN!”?
As I Head Off for Boomershoot . . .
As I Head Off for Boomershoot . . .
Something for you to think about, from Billy Beck:
All the political initiative now is with the forces of Amsoc. Where the so-called conservatives have fought generations of piece-meal rear-guard action against the integral resolution of socialism to corrode its worst enemy — the practical and living ideal of freedom: America — out of existence, and as they have done so as effects of disintegrated philosophy, the socialists are assuming the commanding heights in full political battle gear.
It is important to understand that this can only and inevitably mean physical battle gear, right in front of your eyes, right here in America. The spirit of this place that was not born of the slave’s obeisance will require this government to bare its fangs. I still believe that. The ways in which and the singular souls from Americans select their values are not yet so beaten to any alien molds so well that they will peaceably stand for the conformations that this government will eventually require and demand — not “ask”.
Do read the whole thing. Oh, and this:
A Thought For Your Day
“Officers of the police or revenue easily adapt themselves to any form of government.”
(Edward Gibbon, “The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire”, Vol. I, ch. 3, footnote 20, p. 59)
Also from Billy.
I’ll be on the road the next couple of days, but if at all possible, I’ll be posting at least a little something in the evenings.