This blog usually consists of free market libertarianism, occasionally mixing in film and literature.
"I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible." - Milton Friedman
Select links:
1. "Mises Institute."
2. "Lew Rockwell."
3. "Justin Raimondo."
4. "Glenn Greenwald."
5. "Mike Masnick."
Liberty.
“Animal rights group PETA has condemned the Pokémon media franchise and video game series, saying it “paints a rosy picture of what amounts to thinly veiled animal abuse.” … Last November, PETA attacked video game icon Mario for wearing “fur” — the Tanooki Suit, a frequent power-up in Mario games that grants the ability to fly.
PETA did not disclose in its statement how many actual, living, breathing animals died waiting for rescue while the organization spent its time and money campaigning against fiction.”
“I once voted at a Presidential election. There being no real issue at stake, and neither candidate commanding any respect whatever, I cast my vote for Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. I knew Jeff was dead, but I voted on Artemus Ward’s principle that if we can’t have a live man who amounts to anything, by all means let’s have a first-class corpse.
I still think that vote was as effective as any of the millions that have been cast since then.”
| Obama: | Sends drone strikes throughout Yemen, killing innocent civilians. |
| Obama: | Sends drone strikes throughout Pakistan, killing innocent civilians. |
| Obama: | Sends drone strikes throughout Somalia, killing innocent civilians. |
| Obama: | Sends drone strikes throughout Afghanistan, killing innocent civilians. |
| Obama: | Sends drone strikes throughout Iraq, killing innocent civilians. |
| Obama: | Puts crippling trade sanctions on Iran to provoke another war, similar to events leading up to Pearl Harbor. |
| Obama: | Signs NDAA, which allows for the indefinite detainment of US citizens outside of a warzone, without a trial or even being charged with a crime. |
| Obama: | Appoints czars to bypass Congress and extend the powers of the executive branch even more than Bush. |
| Obama: | Uses millions of tax dollars for personal vacations. |
| Obama: | Assassinates two American citizens, one being only sixteen years old, without any due process. |
| Obama: | Says he'll close Guantanamo Bay and doesn't. |
| Obama: | Calls for the arrest of alleged whistle-blower PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly leaking video footage of American soldiers killing Iraqi civilians ruthlessly and illegally. |
| Obama: | Allows for the torture of aforementioned Bradley Manning for eighteen months at Quantico before he's even charged with a crime. |
| Obama: | Calls for excessive Pell grants, which inflate the price of college tuition for everyone. |
| Obama: | Says he will not sign ACTA, then signs ACTA. |
| Obama: | Signs the NDRP, aka Peacetime Martial Law. |
| American People: | Why would anyone NOT vote for Obama? |
“Obama terrorizes innocent Pakistanis on an almost daily basis. The drone war he is waging in North Waziristan isn’t ‘precise’ or ‘surgical’ as he would have Americans believe. It kills hundreds of innocents, including children. And for thousands of more innocents who live in the targeted communities, the drone war makes their lives into a nightmare worthy of dystopian novels. People are always afraid.1
Women cower in their homes. Children are kept out of school. The stress they endure gives them psychiatric disorders. Men are driven crazy by an inability to sleep as drones buzz overhead 24 hours a day, a deadly strike possible at any moment. […]
Keen on Obama’s civil-libertarian message and reassertion of basic American values, I supported him in 2008. Today I would feel ashamed to associate myself with his first term or the likely course of his second. I refuse to vote for Barack Obama.
Have you any deal-breakers?”
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
— Josh Billings.
“You know what’s evil about politics? It turns people into enemies when they should and would naturally be friends in a normal society. In the marketplace you are happy to cooperate with anyone to mutual betterment. But in politics it’s all about hating your neighbor. If a person who believes all of civilization rests on a Romney win would naturally and rightly regard all Obama voters as mortals threats, wreckers of the good life itself. And the demographics of voting are rather predictable. You can often tell quickly how a person will or will not vote by appearance alone. That creates prejudice, bias, and hate. So politics creates these stupid battles between people — for absolutely no reason — and wars against the brotherhood of man. It creates the divisions it pretends to heal.”
“Karl Rove has figured this all out, no doubt. In Mitt he found the perfect stooge, a man so lacking in integrity and so clueless, that he was easily manipulated. The election was his to win, if he would just keep to the script.”
— Janet Ellingson, commenter at the New York Times.
