Archives for November 2007

I’ll be dammed, but Jay Jardine found a sure way to do just that. He’s Canadian, but I think Americans can do just as well.

Eh, how about predictable? Seriously, how old do you think the person who wrote that is? I figure if they’re old enough to use a thesaurus, they ought to be old enough to get over their belief in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy or other fantastic wish-fulfillment vehicles like the enchanted poverty relieving spigot of the federal treasury, but maybe not.

Eh, how about surely not?

He’s speaking of Canada’s federal government pledging (with other people’s money) to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000. Yep, you guessed predicted it. It’s still the same. See, you too can predict the future too.

Via Rockwell, a must-see, by judge Andrew Napolitano (the only guy on Fox worth paying any attention to).

A clever little upbeat video, in spite of it being generally a parade of mostly contemptible fools & fuckers (with one notable exception).

You really only need to look at the first 35 seconds of this to get the point of this post. Feel free to watch the other three minutes, if you like. Perhaps you’ll realize something, as I did, that I’d never thought about before. How come alcohol prohibition was accomplished through the very arduous process of amending the U.S. Constitution (later repealling it, through the same arduous process)? Ron Paul points out: because they [rightly] understood there was no authority under the Constitution to ban it. Obvious, I suppose, but I’d never considered that. Accordingly, it kind of sheds light on the constitutionality of all current federal drug laws that are sending people to prison.

Anyway, in contrast to how Paul deals with the medical marijuana issue — direct and forthright, without equivocation — see how Hillary and Romney deal with it. "We’ll look at that." What slime; both of them. Can you see it? It’s unmistakable. First, they enthusiastically approach, with their false empathy and compassion. It’s a great opportunity to score points, eh? Then, once they understand that the guy is merely asking to be left alone by the feds, so he can take medicine five doctors have prescribed him, the original phoniness of those two scumbuckets comes out ringing.

Contempt.

Notice also: Paul offered no false, tear-jerking empathetic compassion. He offers real compassion: freedom.

Fox’s Neil Cavuto aggressively interviewing Ron Paul on June 26, 2007. (Funniest part: Cavuto asks Paul how the building he was standing in — the one housing the congress and senate — could have been built without the IRS and income taxes. Paul points out is was built prior to 1913. Ha!)

This is Cavuto interviewing Paul five months last, on Nov 23rd (Part 1; Part 2). I’ve never seen Cavuto so gentle. Via Rockwell.

Should lightening strike in the same place twice, and Black Swans begin falling from the sky to coincide with Paul getting the nomination, you’ll see pro-war republican right and left suddenly becoming peace nicks.

You can count on it.

Worth a look.

Now, do you ever wonder how it is that you can often read such things and find them to be so prescient, today? Do you understand why that is? Well, for one, it’s because they understood practical politics; they understood human propensity to be driven by fear above all else; and they understood human propensity to seek authority ("easy answers") outside of its own capacity to reason.

They also understood that the only defense against such civilization decline was adherence to a set of principles. Unfortunately, they didn’t go far enough (though they went as far as they could, in the context of an authoritarian state — which is indeed what they established).

The lesson to take away from that is there’s simply no way to establish an ultimately all-powerful institution ("checks & balances" only slow things down) like a state, along with its constitution that, regardless of its seeming "reasonable" nature, is still an imposition upon men. In the end, the core differences between the state they established and the state we have today is primarily degree, not principle. In terms of the logic of human nature applied to political power, everything has marched along pretty much as I’m sure some of the more enlightened amongst these wise men forecast in their warnings.

…sweet land of liberty…Where 2,000 juveniles — juveniles; people who are supposed to be stupid, so’s they can learn the difference — are serving life sentences without possibility of parole. This compares to 12: in the rest of the world combined.

…Of thee I sing.