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Quote of the Day

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Quote of the Day

Now, I love libertarians to death. My CPU practically has a permanent open socket to the Mises Institute. In my opinion, anyone who has intentionally chosen to remain ignorant of libertarian (and, in particular, Misesian-Rothbardian) thought, in an era when a couple of mouse clicks will feed you enough high-test libertarianism to drown a moose, is not an intellectually serious person. Furthermore, I am a computer programmer who has read far too much science fiction – two major risk factors for libertarianism. So I could just say, “read Rothbard,” and call it a day.

On the other hand, it is hard to avoid noticing two basic facts about the universe. One is that libertarianism is an extremely obvious idea. The other is that it has never been successfully implemented.

This does not prove anything. But what it suggests is that libertarianism is, as its detractors are always quick to claim, an essentially impractical ideology. I would love to live in a libertarian society. The question is: is there a path from here to there? And if we get there, will we stay there? If your answer to both questions is obviously “yes,” perhaps your definition of “obvious” is not the same as mine. – Unqualified Reservations, A formalist manifesto

This from a blog that reader Thibodeaux introduced me to in a comment to yesterday’s QotD. The author, “Mencius Moldbug,” makes my überposts look brief in comparison, but so far they’ve been worth the time.

“Eric Holder can go to hell.”

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In keeping with my policy of letting other people say it if they do it better than I can, today’s Quote of the Day from Larry Correia:

For example, if I talk about how when I lived in inner-city Birmingham, and it was an utter and complete cesspool of crime, poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, teenage pregnancy, and other problems, that’s cool, but then I say that the area was 99% black and seeped in a culture of welfare and institutionalized laziness, then I’m a racist.

You want us to not be cowards, Holder? Then how about I say that inner-city black culture is broken. It has been destroyed by generations being stupefied and milked by scumbags that share your flawed philosophy of entitlements and rewarding failure. You’ve replaced fathers with a welfare check and propped up bad behavior for so long that people like 50 Cent are looked at as role models.

But I can’t talk about that, because it doesn’t agree with the PC worldview, so then I get slandered for it. Hell, look what happened to Bill Cosby.

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It isn’t about race. It is about ideology. You don’t need to be brave to make fun of Asians, fat people, smokers, Republicans, rich people, Christians, hillbillys, rednecks, Mormons, home-schoolers, gun owners, the military, Fox News, or NRA members. You only need courage if you openly talk about issues relating to any group that votes in a block for Democrats.

Screw you, Holder. You’re the coward.

Read the whole thing.

Quote of the Day

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Quote of the Day

The whole thing is simply drenched in evil.

Money is taken from us, both individually at corporately, at gunpoint, on authority that ranges from dubious, at the very best, to outright usurped.

This Money is then handed over to men, granted them unauthorized power to decide to whom to distribute it, and even more unauthorized power to decide what conditions to place on its disbursement.

Thus, we are transformed from gold havers and rule makers to supplicants. We apply for the highly conditional privilege of being bribed with our own gold, because failing to do so places us at a competitive disadvantage compared to another in a similar situation.

Too many of us view this as natural, right, and just.

Too few of us hold the whole thing in the disgust and contempt it so richly deserves.
– The GeekWithA.45, It Took The Parasites Less Than 24 Hours To Line Up.

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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?

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.)

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.

Thomas Sowell, Illustrated

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“A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) has footnotes explaining what words like ‘arraigned,’ ‘curried’ and ‘exculpate’ meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today’s expensively under-educated generation.

“There is really nothing very mysterious about why our public schools are failures. When you select the poorest quality college students to be public school teachers, give them iron-clad tenure, a captive audience, and pay them according to seniority rather than performance, why should the results be surprising?

“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”


Touché.

Machine Guns and Dead Nazis

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Machine Guns and Dead Nazis

My wife and I went to see Defiance yesterday afternoon. I was going to write a review, but – as is my wont – when someone else says something better that I can, I let them:

The basic plot (I won’t ruin it for you) is a gang of paranoid gun crazies who band together and terrorize a benevolent government that the crazies feel like are threatening them.

The crazies run off in the woods like crazies are prone to do, they don’t pay their taxes and are generally hostile to the various government folks trying to help them and solve their problems. It is set in the ancient past that no one cares about anymore. The crazies generally all have relatives that were justifiably killed by the benevolent government who was trying to help them, which makes them mad and what is a crazy if not mad about something.

RTWT, it’s not very long.