What we have here is an image of Bibi Netanyahu and Barack Obama at the same age. There's a reason that some fathers have shotguns. (I'll stick to my FAL for that job.)
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Question of the Day
If you had a daughter, who would you rather have her marry?
What we have here is an image of Bibi Netanyahu and Barack Obama at the same age. There's a reason that some fathers have shotguns. (I'll stick to my FAL for that job.)
What we have here is an image of Bibi Netanyahu and Barack Obama at the same age. There's a reason that some fathers have shotguns. (I'll stick to my FAL for that job.)
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Quote of the Day
Everything I need to know about unions, I learned during the 1983 copper miners’ strike in Arizona, when a 3-year-old girl was shot in the head while lying in bed with her teddy bear. All because her father was a strikebreaker.
-- John Skookum
I'm not a Christian, but I do believe that those who live by the sword, should as Christ says, die by the sword.
I believe that those who benefit from the exercise of coercive force should be put down by force.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Comment
As far as I'm concerned, Bill Maher is on my "cry wolf" list.
That walking waste of mass and energy has no credibility whatsoever.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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That walking waste of mass and energy has no credibility whatsoever.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Thought for the Day
It appears the I've outlived Douglas Adams.
This isn't disturbing but it is a bit annoying.
(Illo from Dork Tower by John Kovalic)
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Video of the Day
Seriously, this is a clear case where the live version is superior to the album version. I really did not care for the in studio ornamentation in the original release.
Found at Legal Insurrection.
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Monday, May 02, 2011
Meanwhile...
... at the total perspective vortex:
Even if the usual Marxist credibility issues did not apply to a recent announcement from the White House, we need to remember that there are still millions of folks out there who still believe that they have the Allah (not God) given right to murder those who have chosen to live a rational life. Some of them still have money and organizational skills to apply to the problem of murdering infidels like you and me.
Islamic terrorism will continue. Count on it.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Update at about 0740 CDT:
David Horowitz has this to say about the event:
Any questions?
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Even if the usual Marxist credibility issues did not apply to a recent announcement from the White House, we need to remember that there are still millions of folks out there who still believe that they have the Allah (not God) given right to murder those who have chosen to live a rational life. Some of them still have money and organizational skills to apply to the problem of murdering infidels like you and me.
Islamic terrorism will continue. Count on it.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Update at about 0740 CDT:
David Horowitz has this to say about the event:
Osama bin Laden was a symbol of the Islamic jihad. After 9/11, surveys by al-Jazeera and other sources indicated that between 10% and 50% of Muslims regarded him as a hero. That is somewhere between 150 million and 750 million people. Symbols are important, and the death of the symbol of Islamic jihad is important. But the jihad will go on.
The fact that bin Laden was killed in a mansion near Islamabad (fitting name) is but one mark of the support he had in the Muslim world. But by the time our forces reached him, ten years after 9/11, the center of the jihad had long passed from the caves of Waziristan to the Middle East — to the Islamic Republic of Iran, to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, and to the fount of the Islamic hatred and crusade against the West — the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Obama will take credit for the death of al-Qaeda’s leader, and he deserves it — for the aggressive war he waged in Pakistan in particular. This was a forward strategy that provoked the wrath of the “liberal” establishment when Nixon tried it in Vietnam, and Reagan in Libya and Bush in Iraq. Unfortunately, this is only the right hand of Obama’s strategy towards the jihad. The left hand is simultaneously stoking the fires of Islamic aggression in its heartland, the Middle East, and our war with this evil is just beginning.
In his speech tonight the President talked as though the war is a war with al-Qaeda, although al-Qaeda has played a very small and diminishing role in the 17,000 plus Islamic terrorist attacks that have been perpetrated since 9/11. After that attack, Bush swore that the United States would not tolerate terrorist regimes that threatened the democracies of the West. You’re either for us or against us he said, to the dismay of the appeasement Left. But since then Islamic terrorist regimes have been created in Lebanon and Gaza and Somalia, the Taliban has been resurgent in Pakistan and the Muslim Brotherhood has risen in Egypt. The storm clouds that are gathering — not least because of the feckless ineptitude of the Obama Administration itself — will not be dispelled by one man’s death.
There are many days of grief and suffering on the horizon still. As President Bush so rightly said in the days after 9/11, this will be a long hard war that is likely to last our lifetimes.
Any questions?
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Question of the Day
Here in Minneapolis there are still piles of plowed up and compacted snow, which are not protected by shade, still visible from the streets and highways. And yesterday, on the First of May, I saw snowflakes falling while I was parked at a cab stand.
What ever happened to Global Warming?
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What ever happened to Global Warming?
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Sunday, May 01, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thought for the Day
William Shatner as the voice of the Robot Monster in the upcoming remake of Robot Monster:
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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I must!
But yet,
I CANNOT!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Today In Minneapolis
A ground level billboard at the intersection at the intersection of Franklin and Hennepin avenues in Minneapolis has, after the better part of a month, finally been defaced. The billboard showed the first sentence of the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Apparently someone had splashed some kind of fecal colored liquid on it.
Maybe somebody missed a hit on their bong and finally noticed it.
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Apparently someone had splashed some kind of fecal colored liquid on it.
Maybe somebody missed a hit on their bong and finally noticed it.
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Quote of the Day
A day without Socialism is like a day without starvation, slavery, and murder.
-- Some Blogger
And a day without Socialism is also a day without malicious obstruction and gross incompetence.
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Saturday, April 09, 2011
Impressions
With the surge in retail space vacancies, and not just in the malls, I feel like I'm living on the first page of Atlas Shrugged.
And if the First Family starts to consume mass quantities of grapefruit I am going to scream.
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And if the First Family starts to consume mass quantities of grapefruit I am going to scream.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Quote of the Day
It is more a subject of joy that we have so few of the desperate characters which compose modern regular armies. But it proves more forcibly the necessity of obliging every citizen to be a soldier; this was the case with the Greeks and the Romans, and must be that of every free State. Where this is no oppression, there will be no pauper hirelings. We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, an make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. We can never be safe till this is done.
-- President Thomas Jefferson
Short of a revolution I simply don't see this happening.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Quote of the Day
"Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to build a wall to keep our people in."
-- President John F. Kennedy
Imagine how much fun the city of Chicago could be if they were able to put up a wall to keep the productive victims in... assuming of course they could get their overpaid municipal union
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Monday, March 21, 2011
A Bunch Of Quotes From The Other Les
"The Right believes in creating wealth, the Left believes in grabbing it."
"Gosh, his feelings must be real hurt when he found out that the average citizen has more functioning neurons than he does."
"Why does the Left insist on being anything but right?"
"Whenever I listen to a speech by or read the writings of a socialist, or whatever any other advocate of affirmative coercion chooses to call himself this week, it is with the reasonable expectation of being lied to."
"When fighting for one's life, one NEVER uses the Queensberry rules."
"Peace in the real world is simply the absence of those -- such as the socialists -- who seek to deprive you, I, and our fellow citizens of our own Life, Liberty, and Property. Real peace can only be achieved by the physical isolation or outright elimination of those who seek to subjugate, plunder and murder us. This can only be done through the use of physical force...In short, true peace can only be achieved only through the possession of superior firepower and the moral will to use it."
"Somewhere out there is about thirty feet of rope and a lampost with Charlie Shumer's name on them."
"Stupid and artificial is in my mind very repulsive."
"Of course when that "hippy chick" is portrayed by Charlotte Rampling, circa 1974, the affirmative choice is pretty much a given."
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"Gosh, his feelings must be real hurt when he found out that the average citizen has more functioning neurons than he does."
"Why does the Left insist on being anything but right?"
"Whenever I listen to a speech by or read the writings of a socialist, or whatever any other advocate of affirmative coercion chooses to call himself this week, it is with the reasonable expectation of being lied to."
"When fighting for one's life, one NEVER uses the Queensberry rules."
"Peace in the real world is simply the absence of those -- such as the socialists -- who seek to deprive you, I, and our fellow citizens of our own Life, Liberty, and Property. Real peace can only be achieved by the physical isolation or outright elimination of those who seek to subjugate, plunder and murder us. This can only be done through the use of physical force...In short, true peace can only be achieved only through the possession of superior firepower and the moral will to use it."
"Somewhere out there is about thirty feet of rope and a lampost with Charlie Shumer's name on them."
"Stupid and artificial is in my mind very repulsive."
"Of course when that "hippy chick" is portrayed by Charlotte Rampling, circa 1974, the affirmative choice is pretty much a given."
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Huh?
Alex Johnson of The Epoch Times reports:
Um, isn't that pretty much the definition of how the Soviet State operated?
You simply can not have Socialism, or "social justice", or any other political order that operates on looting without the exercise of deadly force against the productive population.
The only alternative to a social and political order based on the principle of consent is coercion by physical force. (The emission of fraudulent ideologies only serves to cloud the issue.)
As the present looting spree by the Tax Eaters continues we will eventually see mobs of overburdened taxpayers taking to the streets with their fists in the air and chanting: "HELL NO! WE DON'T OWE!"*
To the various gangs of Tax Eaters, who depend on tax revenue for their sustenance, this is nothing less than a death sentence. And their patrons in executive office on the state and federal level will respond to a tax strike with open and deadly force.
They simply have no other choice.
* Yes, I know what's going on in Wisconsin. I'm simply predicting that things will get a lot worse.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former leader of the USSR, said recently that Moammar Ghadafi could be run out of Libya due to the violent force used to combat the protests.
"Gadhafi reacted so ruthlessly that he might end up being forced out (of his country),” Gorbachev told CNN. “I don't want to make predictions or anything, but he's shooting at people; he is using the military and weapons against defenseless people."
Um, isn't that pretty much the definition of how the Soviet State operated?
You simply can not have Socialism, or "social justice", or any other political order that operates on looting without the exercise of deadly force against the productive population.
The only alternative to a social and political order based on the principle of consent is coercion by physical force. (The emission of fraudulent ideologies only serves to cloud the issue.)
As the present looting spree by the Tax Eaters continues we will eventually see mobs of overburdened taxpayers taking to the streets with their fists in the air and chanting: "HELL NO! WE DON'T OWE!"*
To the various gangs of Tax Eaters, who depend on tax revenue for their sustenance, this is nothing less than a death sentence. And their patrons in executive office on the state and federal level will respond to a tax strike with open and deadly force.
They simply have no other choice.
* Yes, I know what's going on in Wisconsin. I'm simply predicting that things will get a lot worse.
Monday, February 21, 2011
A Question For Today
I have a question for Republican office holders and members of the Tea Party:
If public employee unions, and teacher's unions in particular are corrupt, then how can we continue to allow them anywhere near our children?
I think the answer is obvious.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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If public employee unions, and teacher's unions in particular are corrupt, then how can we continue to allow them anywhere near our children?
I think the answer is obvious.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Quote of the Day
Mark Urbin posted this on his No Moss Here blog:
Anyone who feels that they are automatically right is automatically wrong.
The persistent habit by the members of The Left of refusing to check their basic beliefs (what Ayn Rand used to call a Premise Check) as well as their immediate facts is leading them away from the path of reality (and thus Life) and onto the path of insanity and destruction. It should come as no surprise that horrendous megaperson body counts were run up by collectivist states in Twentieth Century. Each of those states were founded on a falsehood and led by a leader who was held to be infallible.
Anyone who feels that they are infallible is already in the failure mode.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Much of the left’s hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left’s new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong on facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It’s all they have left.
-- Ann Coulter
Anyone who feels that they are automatically right is automatically wrong.
The persistent habit by the members of The Left of refusing to check their basic beliefs (what Ayn Rand used to call a Premise Check) as well as their immediate facts is leading them away from the path of reality (and thus Life) and onto the path of insanity and destruction. It should come as no surprise that horrendous megaperson body counts were run up by collectivist states in Twentieth Century. Each of those states were founded on a falsehood and led by a leader who was held to be infallible.
Anyone who feels that they are infallible is already in the failure mode.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Thought for the Day
If President Richard M. Nixon could be briefly brought back from the dead, what would you ask him?
Two things immediately came to mind:
1. Was it really too much trouble to have prosecuted, convicted, and executed Jane Fonda for treason?
2. Arms control treaties with the Soviet Union? What the Hell were you smoking?
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Two things immediately came to mind:
1. Was it really too much trouble to have prosecuted, convicted, and executed Jane Fonda for treason?
2. Arms control treaties with the Soviet Union? What the Hell were you smoking?
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Progressives In Action
In the early 1930s, the Communist Party of the United States censured a comrade whom they had assigned to infiltrate the National Guard, because he refused to distribute materials demanding the abolition of corporal punishment of the troops on the grounds that it had already been abolished, nearly a century earlier.
-- Al Nofi's CIC, Strategy Page
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Comment
I've pretty much invoked the "Cry Wolf" rule as far as the emissions of the Leftist Commentariat is concerned.
And I expect the Senior Senator from New York to call for more violence against more innocent people in three... two... one...
"Mister Schmumer... what's it like to not have a Human soul?"
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And I expect the Senior Senator from New York to call for more violence against more innocent people in three... two... one...
"Mister Schmumer... what's it like to not have a Human soul?"
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Sunday, January 02, 2011
“Natalie Portman Lesbian Scene"
Apart from the gross overemphasis on a certain part of the female anatomy the one thing I really hated about Penthouse was the lesbian scenes. (But I do have to say that it was too bad that Guccione’s fusion reactor project never got off the ground.)
But then I pretty much dropped Playboy after they went all plastic. (The lips and other parts of the anatomy) I would not be the slightest bit surprised if a Mattel Barbie doll was chosen as the Playmate of the Month.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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But then I pretty much dropped Playboy after they went all plastic. (The lips and other parts of the anatomy) I would not be the slightest bit surprised if a Mattel Barbie doll was chosen as the Playmate of the Month.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Quote of the Day
"How can anybody ever NOT need a gunship?"
-- Sergeant Schlock, Schlock Mercenary, December 31, 2010
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-- Sergeant Schlock, Schlock Mercenary, December 31, 2010
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
More Anniversaries
On this day in 1989 a dictator was properly disposed of.
Also on this day in 753 ab urbe condita someone important was born in a barn.
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Also on this day in 753 ab urbe condita someone important was born in a barn.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Anniversary
On this day in 1944 Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe set the world standard for answering an ultimatum.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
A Statistic
Apparently today is the anniversary of the birth of Comrade Stalin.
Some so-called people apparently feel that this was a good thing:
Of course I've never made any secret of the fact that I firmly believe that that the remaining advocates of Communism should have to actually experience the practice of their doctrine from the point of view of the victim. And of course the most efficient way to do this is for each of them to receive one round in the head in the old Soviet style. (Of course it would be best if this is dome while they're in what we could call the larval stage.)
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Some so-called people apparently feel that this was a good thing:
Stalin, former dictator of the Soviet Union, has been remembered today by Russian Communists on what would have been his 131st birthday.
His supporters placed four thousand red carnations on his grave beside Kremlin walls.
They had raised 80,000 rubles in a fundraising drive with the slogan 'Two carnations for Comrade Stalin', organiser Igor Sergeyev told the Interfax news agency.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov placed the flowers beside a bust of Stalin that stands on his grave.
He called for the 're-Stalinisation' of Russian society in an open letter today, addressed to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev has criticized the rights abuses of the Soviet era.
Zyuganov said at a news conference today:
"Putin and Medvedev's stability is based on what Stalin and the Soviet authorities created.
"They have not created anything themselves in 10 years."
Under Stalin's rule millions died due to his forced industrialisation, the collectivisation of agriculture and the imprisonment and execution of ideological enemies.
Of course I've never made any secret of the fact that I firmly believe that that the remaining advocates of Communism should have to actually experience the practice of their doctrine from the point of view of the victim. And of course the most efficient way to do this is for each of them to receive one round in the head in the old Soviet style. (Of course it would be best if this is dome while they're in what we could call the larval stage.)
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Thought for the Day
I do think that its a bit weird to be driving into a sunrise at eight in the morning.
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
Question of the Day
What ever happened to Anthropogenic Global Warming?
The inflato-roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome stadium (appropriately named for a famous source of hot air) collapsed as a result of a blizzard this weekend.
This will have the effect of transferring all Minnesota Vikings football games to other venues and all associated taxicab business with it. Not good for a cab driver like me.
I also spent several hours working to get my car unstuck from the parking lot of the building I live in.
This weekend just sucks.
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The inflato-roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome stadium (appropriately named for a famous source of hot air) collapsed as a result of a blizzard this weekend.
This will have the effect of transferring all Minnesota Vikings football games to other venues and all associated taxicab business with it. Not good for a cab driver like me.
I also spent several hours working to get my car unstuck from the parking lot of the building I live in.
This weekend just sucks.
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Oh, Really?
While driving my cab today I discovered that some American Indians actually celebrate Thanksgiving.
I would not doubt for a second that if some lefty sociologist were to discover this that they would attribute it to a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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I would not doubt for a second that if some lefty sociologist were to discover this that they would attribute it to a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Gosh, What A Surprise!
Another believer in the Primacy of the Parasite and the Sacredness of the Earth has come up with a brilliant idea:
I have to start by saying that I really don't have a problem with people who own and ride bicycles. The purchase and recreational use of a bicycle (an old school ten speed, not one of those newfangled mountain bikes) is on my personal list of things to do. (Along with getting a pilot's license and taking up the guitar again.)
But as someone who is a professional driver I could go on and on about the narcissistic assholes who engage in abusive behavior with their very expensive bicycles on the public streets.
When I was doing pizza delivery in South Minneapolis I found that the fastest route from the store to a certain area was a road running along the west bank of the Mississippi River. Unless, of course, one or more bicyclists, in their special bicyclist clothes*, decided to ride in the street instead of the nicely paved and specially constructed bicycle path that was just off of and running parallel to the road.
And then there are the assholes who ride side by side on the public streets and thus making it impossible to pass the group without going into the opposite lane. Imagine how much fun this is when there is oncoming traffic. Of course if you live in an area with a significant "Progressive" population you don't have to imagine it.
And then there are those obviously superior individuals who feel that they don't have to comply with the traffic signals or otherwise pay attention to what's ahead of them.** Never mind the obviously predictable results.
So it comes to no surprise to me that some obviously caring, compassionate, and progressive defender of Mother Gaia*** come up with a means to facilitate their continued movement in the face of adverse circumstances.
Never mind the fact the lowering the pressure of an automotive tire will adversely effect the efficiency and safety of the vehicle. So what if it lethally endangers an innocent family. In the eyes of the caring, compassionate, and progressive defenders of Mother Gaia that father and mother, and their children are only useless emitters of carbon dioxide anyway.
* One day I saw someone wearing a red bicyclist shirt with the Hammer and Sickle, and the letters "CCCP" emblazoned upon it. I passed up the temptation to ask if they had run out of brown shirts and swastika armbands.
** Seriously, I was slowly pulling out the parking lot of the taxi company that I now drive for and some local crackhead riding on the sidewalk on what was likely a stolen bicycle plows into the right side of the cab at about the position of the rear wheel. Given the way I drive when I'm trying not to hit something (And I did once pass up an opportunity to run over former Vice President Mondale and wife while they were walking in the street in Downtown Minneapolis) I should have been visible for at least fifteen seconds. Which is more than enough time for a clean and sober person to slow down and stop. Of course I refused the crackhead's demands for monetary compensation.
** THAT BITCH! Do I have to go on?
Bikers, fear the flat no more — those days of cumbersome packs with oversized pumps may be behind you. In the spirit of some other resourceful bike tricks like the Aquaduct Bike and the Airbag “Collar,” Instructables shows how you can build a pump to siphon air from car tires to fix a flat — all you need is a 50-100 cm long air hose and two chucks.
I have to start by saying that I really don't have a problem with people who own and ride bicycles. The purchase and recreational use of a bicycle (an old school ten speed, not one of those newfangled mountain bikes) is on my personal list of things to do. (Along with getting a pilot's license and taking up the guitar again.)
But as someone who is a professional driver I could go on and on about the narcissistic assholes who engage in abusive behavior with their very expensive bicycles on the public streets.
When I was doing pizza delivery in South Minneapolis I found that the fastest route from the store to a certain area was a road running along the west bank of the Mississippi River. Unless, of course, one or more bicyclists, in their special bicyclist clothes*, decided to ride in the street instead of the nicely paved and specially constructed bicycle path that was just off of and running parallel to the road.
And then there are the assholes who ride side by side on the public streets and thus making it impossible to pass the group without going into the opposite lane. Imagine how much fun this is when there is oncoming traffic. Of course if you live in an area with a significant "Progressive" population you don't have to imagine it.
And then there are those obviously superior individuals who feel that they don't have to comply with the traffic signals or otherwise pay attention to what's ahead of them.** Never mind the obviously predictable results.
So it comes to no surprise to me that some obviously caring, compassionate, and progressive defender of Mother Gaia*** come up with a means to facilitate their continued movement in the face of adverse circumstances.
Never mind the fact the lowering the pressure of an automotive tire will adversely effect the efficiency and safety of the vehicle. So what if it lethally endangers an innocent family. In the eyes of the caring, compassionate, and progressive defenders of Mother Gaia that father and mother, and their children are only useless emitters of carbon dioxide anyway.
* One day I saw someone wearing a red bicyclist shirt with the Hammer and Sickle, and the letters "CCCP" emblazoned upon it. I passed up the temptation to ask if they had run out of brown shirts and swastika armbands.
** Seriously, I was slowly pulling out the parking lot of the taxi company that I now drive for and some local crackhead riding on the sidewalk on what was likely a stolen bicycle plows into the right side of the cab at about the position of the rear wheel. Given the way I drive when I'm trying not to hit something (And I did once pass up an opportunity to run over former Vice President Mondale and wife while they were walking in the street in Downtown Minneapolis) I should have been visible for at least fifteen seconds. Which is more than enough time for a clean and sober person to slow down and stop. Of course I refused the crackhead's demands for monetary compensation.
** THAT BITCH! Do I have to go on?
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Thought for the Day
The problem is not the Emperor's attire or lack of it, the problem is that the damned fool thinks that he is the Emperor.
This thought for the day is brought to you by the letters "W", "T", and "F".
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This thought for the day is brought to you by the letters "W", "T", and "F".
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Monday, November 01, 2010
Today On My Day Off
The fellow who took my order at the White Castle in St. Louis Park, Minnesota give me the senior discount.
Yes, I've lost some hair and some of what's left is a bit gray, but it is still a bit over five weeks short of my fiftieth birthday.
Bleh!
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Yes, I've lost some hair and some of what's left is a bit gray, but it is still a bit over five weeks short of my fiftieth birthday.
Bleh!
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Message for Today
A message from Chuck Prime:
Bloody good thing I now have a cell phone.
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From ResistNet:
The Republican Party has set up a Hotline for election day, 1-888-775-8117, which will be staffed by attorneys, to handle polling issues and possible voter fraud or intimidation. If folks even guess that it might be taking place, they should call for free advice.
Bloody good thing I now have a cell phone.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
OPEN LETTER TO GEN. PETRAEUS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AND RE-POST
From www.BurnTheKoranForFreedom.com
OPEN LETTER TO GEN. PETRAEUS
General, I ask you this: what in hell is your “mission” if We the People jeopardize it by exercising our First Amendment rights in our own homeland? Is your “mission” to defend our rights against foreign enemies, or to defend foreign enemies against our rights?
You made your choice, and you justified it by asserting that you and those under your command have been taken hostage by our terrorist enemy. The ransom demand you obediently delivered to us is that we must submit to your captor’s restrictions against our rightful freedom on our own property, or they’ll kill you.
I remind you and your captors that we do not negotiate with terrorists.
And I remind you that you are the most respected general in the present day, commanding in the most powerful military in all of history, during the most justifiable war in the last seventy years. So please either remember your priorities and slaughter your captors, or resign in disgrace so that we may replace you with a warrior. And if you resign, please do so along with President Obama, Gen. Caldwell, Pentagon Spokesman Lapan, Sec. of State Clinton, Atty. Gen. Holder, NATO Sec. Rasmussen and all others in all branches of government and in all alliances who echoed your request, no matter whether they did so mindlessly or with surrender aforethought.
Our own military leaders asking us to forsake our freedom is un-American. Asking us to do it to on behalf of the comfort of our enemy in a time of war is treasonous. And asking us to do it in the name of the alleged cowardice of those under your command is a shocking and unthinkable act of surrender which I still don’t have all the words for.
But I do have the action for it. We the People will force the issue right here and now. If peacefully exercising our unalienable rights on our own property here in our own homeland endangers you, then we will endanger you.
We will burn the Koran for freedom and post the videos for all the world to see. We will be overt or covert, we will be named or anonymous, we will be sparse or numerous – but we will be unstoppable, and eventually we will be effective.
We will do this because you have no goddamned right to sell out our freedom for the sake of our enemy’s sensitivity. We will do it because you more than have the power to defend yourselves against that enemy if only you would use it. We will do it because facing danger to defend our rightful freedom is why we pay you, train you, equip you, promote you, appoint you, deploy you, and – formerly! – revere you.
You work for us, General, not for our enemy. And we will regain control over you and over this war from the command center of our own backyards. We will destroy any of your alliances of appeasement which would restrict our constitutional rights. We will force the military to defend yourselves and us as you were deployed to do, or to come home in defeat and lock the door behind you.
Whether accidentally through stupidity or deliberately through manipulation, it’s been made clear that We the People have the power to force this issue with nothing more than a book, a match and a video recording.
And so we will.
A right not exercised under duress is a right that has been surrendered. And should you and those above you continue to choose surrender as the course of the military, that will be your own course, your own bargain with the devil, and your own shame – not that of We the People. If free individuals are to remain free, they must defy all oppression at all times, without special exceptions. America was founded on defiance! And some of us remain a proudly defiant people to this day. So if your “mission” is to build understanding in the world, then make sure they understand that about us.
When we can burn our own copies of the Koran on our own soil without credible threats from jihadists or appeasement of those threats from our military and our government, then we will gladly stop burning them.
We may live in occupied territory psychologically, but we do not yet live in occupied territory legally or physically. We will do as we please, and we will continue to expect all branches of our government to secure our right to do it.
I remind you that securing our rights is the only legitimate reason that governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
And not everybody among the governed consents to surrendering our rights to terrorists. We will ensure that you either join us in resisting them, or get out of the way.
Let’s roll.
Chuck
www.BurnTheKoranForFreedom.com
From www.BurnTheKoranForFreedom.com
OPEN LETTER TO GEN. PETRAEUS
“Were the actual burning to take place, the safety of our soldiers and civilians would be put in jeopardy and accomplishment of the mission would be made more difficult.”
– Gen. David Petraeus
General, I ask you this: what in hell is your “mission” if We the People jeopardize it by exercising our First Amendment rights in our own homeland? Is your “mission” to defend our rights against foreign enemies, or to defend foreign enemies against our rights?
You made your choice, and you justified it by asserting that you and those under your command have been taken hostage by our terrorist enemy. The ransom demand you obediently delivered to us is that we must submit to your captor’s restrictions against our rightful freedom on our own property, or they’ll kill you.
I remind you and your captors that we do not negotiate with terrorists.
And I remind you that you are the most respected general in the present day, commanding in the most powerful military in all of history, during the most justifiable war in the last seventy years. So please either remember your priorities and slaughter your captors, or resign in disgrace so that we may replace you with a warrior. And if you resign, please do so along with President Obama, Gen. Caldwell, Pentagon Spokesman Lapan, Sec. of State Clinton, Atty. Gen. Holder, NATO Sec. Rasmussen and all others in all branches of government and in all alliances who echoed your request, no matter whether they did so mindlessly or with surrender aforethought.
Our own military leaders asking us to forsake our freedom is un-American. Asking us to do it to on behalf of the comfort of our enemy in a time of war is treasonous. And asking us to do it in the name of the alleged cowardice of those under your command is a shocking and unthinkable act of surrender which I still don’t have all the words for.
But I do have the action for it. We the People will force the issue right here and now. If peacefully exercising our unalienable rights on our own property here in our own homeland endangers you, then we will endanger you.
We will burn the Koran for freedom and post the videos for all the world to see. We will be overt or covert, we will be named or anonymous, we will be sparse or numerous – but we will be unstoppable, and eventually we will be effective.
We will do this because you have no goddamned right to sell out our freedom for the sake of our enemy’s sensitivity. We will do it because you more than have the power to defend yourselves against that enemy if only you would use it. We will do it because facing danger to defend our rightful freedom is why we pay you, train you, equip you, promote you, appoint you, deploy you, and – formerly! – revere you.
You work for us, General, not for our enemy. And we will regain control over you and over this war from the command center of our own backyards. We will destroy any of your alliances of appeasement which would restrict our constitutional rights. We will force the military to defend yourselves and us as you were deployed to do, or to come home in defeat and lock the door behind you.
Whether accidentally through stupidity or deliberately through manipulation, it’s been made clear that We the People have the power to force this issue with nothing more than a book, a match and a video recording.
And so we will.
A right not exercised under duress is a right that has been surrendered. And should you and those above you continue to choose surrender as the course of the military, that will be your own course, your own bargain with the devil, and your own shame – not that of We the People. If free individuals are to remain free, they must defy all oppression at all times, without special exceptions. America was founded on defiance! And some of us remain a proudly defiant people to this day. So if your “mission” is to build understanding in the world, then make sure they understand that about us.
When we can burn our own copies of the Koran on our own soil without credible threats from jihadists or appeasement of those threats from our military and our government, then we will gladly stop burning them.
We may live in occupied territory psychologically, but we do not yet live in occupied territory legally or physically. We will do as we please, and we will continue to expect all branches of our government to secure our right to do it.
I remind you that securing our rights is the only legitimate reason that governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
And not everybody among the governed consents to surrendering our rights to terrorists. We will ensure that you either join us in resisting them, or get out of the way.
Let’s roll.
Chuck
www.BurnTheKoranForFreedom.com
Sunday, September 19, 2010
What Day Is It?
Its the International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
And that means its time for get in touch with your inner pirate. And who doesn't want to get in touch with their inner pirate?
Once you've gotten in touch with your inner pirate, the job is not over. Remember to consult the Affirmations for your Inner Pirate:
Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmations for the Inner Pirate
Monday:
"I'm going to rape and pillage today just for the heck of it because, gosh darn it, I deserve to have a good time."
Tuesday:
"I am not a fraud, a thief yes, but not a fraud."
Wednesday:
"I deserve all the loot and booty I can carry without feeling ashamed or being grandiose."
Thursday:
"I will express my feelings today. I will not hide them behind my eyepatch. My eyepatch is not a mask for my feelings, but rather a small swatch of leather that covers a hideous scar."
Friday:
"When I overtake that merchants vessel, I will not be playing those parent tapes in my head: "You wield a cutlass like a girl" . . . "Why can't you be more like Blackbeard's son?" . . . "Philosophy? What kind of major is that? It's useless!"
Saturday:
"Just because I indulge in wine and wenches does not mean I'm an alcoholic sex-addict like my father."
Sunday:
"If I must violently put down a mutiny today, it is not because I am a bad person or that I am not worthy of love; it is because my crew are a bunch of yellow-bellied, lily-livered sons-of-whores--and I am mean enough, ruthless enough, and dog gone it, people fear me."
transcribed by James R. Torrence
Arrrrrr...
And that means its time for get in touch with your inner pirate. And who doesn't want to get in touch with their inner pirate?
Once you've gotten in touch with your inner pirate, the job is not over. Remember to consult the Affirmations for your Inner Pirate:
Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmations for the Inner Pirate
Monday:
"I'm going to rape and pillage today just for the heck of it because, gosh darn it, I deserve to have a good time."
Tuesday:
"I am not a fraud, a thief yes, but not a fraud."
Wednesday:
"I deserve all the loot and booty I can carry without feeling ashamed or being grandiose."
Thursday:
"I will express my feelings today. I will not hide them behind my eyepatch. My eyepatch is not a mask for my feelings, but rather a small swatch of leather that covers a hideous scar."
Friday:
"When I overtake that merchants vessel, I will not be playing those parent tapes in my head: "You wield a cutlass like a girl" . . . "Why can't you be more like Blackbeard's son?" . . . "Philosophy? What kind of major is that? It's useless!"
Saturday:
"Just because I indulge in wine and wenches does not mean I'm an alcoholic sex-addict like my father."
Sunday:
"If I must violently put down a mutiny today, it is not because I am a bad person or that I am not worthy of love; it is because my crew are a bunch of yellow-bellied, lily-livered sons-of-whores--and I am mean enough, ruthless enough, and dog gone it, people fear me."
transcribed by James R. Torrence
Arrrrrr...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Announcement!
Chuck Prime, who was the sysop for our local Objectivist BBS here in Minneapolis (He moved to Arizona) has set up a couple of interesting sites:
http://www.burnthekoranforfreedom.com/
http://burnthekoranforfreedom.com/wordpress/
This was after I posted a letter from him without his permission:
http://newresister.blogspot.com/2010/09/chuck-prime-on-defiance.html
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http://www.burnthekoranforfreedom.com/
http://burnthekoranforfreedom.com/wordpress/
This was after I posted a letter from him without his permission:
http://newresister.blogspot.com/2010/09/chuck-prime-on-defiance.html
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Friday, September 10, 2010
Thought for the Day
To deliberately burn a copy of the Koran in a public act is essentially useless. It's like throwing a Frisbee for Peace, or any of the other stupid acts of posturing practiced by the self-styled Peace Movement back during the Cold War.
It is nothing more than a Voodoo ceremony.
Islam, like all other anti-human (you know, EVIL) ideologies, can only be opposed through the education of the general population of its actual doctrines and effects, and through the consistent exercise of retaliatory force upon those Muslims who cross the line into violence.
When we do this (and we have to) the problem of Koran disposal will take care of itself.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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It is nothing more than a Voodoo ceremony.
Islam, like all other anti-human (you know, EVIL) ideologies, can only be opposed through the education of the general population of its actual doctrines and effects, and through the consistent exercise of retaliatory force upon those Muslims who cross the line into violence.
When we do this (and we have to) the problem of Koran disposal will take care of itself.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Monday, September 06, 2010
So Anyway
Les wakes up, and he notices that many lefties still hate Bush, and says:
(Roll 1d6)
1-3. So what else is new?
4-5. Really? Kate Bush can't suck that badly.
6. Something involving an obscure anatomical reference that he cannot repeat in a public forum. (Checks to see that he spelled "public" correctly.)
Les goes back to bed.
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(Roll 1d6)
1-3. So what else is new?
4-5. Really? Kate Bush can't suck that badly.
6. Something involving an obscure anatomical reference that he cannot repeat in a public forum. (Checks to see that he spelled "public" correctly.)
Les goes back to bed.
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Quote of the Day
"Someday they'll make a touch-screen that works when it's covered in blood."
-- Captain Kaff Tagon, Schlock Mercenary, August 16, 2010.
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-- Captain Kaff Tagon, Schlock Mercenary, August 16, 2010.
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Friday, August 06, 2010
Anniversary
Today is the 65th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
Here is someone else's thoughts on the subject/
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Here is someone else's thoughts on the subject/
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Thought for the Day
Revolutions happen because the ruling class does something really stupid.
In the American case, it is simply to exist.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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In the American case, it is simply to exist.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
So Anyway
Here's a conversation I had with a customer yesterday:
The passenger had given me 23 dollars when it was very obvious that she had intended to give me 8 dollars for the fare.
Seriously, being dishonest is just too much work.
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Passenger: Thank you for being honest!
Me: I like to keep my karma in order.
The passenger had given me 23 dollars when it was very obvious that she had intended to give me 8 dollars for the fare.
Seriously, being dishonest is just too much work.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
So Anyway
Yesterday some African American Asshole called me a racist because I wouldn't give him a free ride in my taxi cab.
That's not racism, that's business.
This comment brought to you by the letters "F" and "U".
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That's not racism, that's business.
This comment brought to you by the letters "F" and "U".
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Monday, July 12, 2010
An Observation
What we have occupying the White House is an affirmative action diversity hire who will do anything other than the job he was hired for.
So what else is new?
This observation is brought to you by the letters "F" and "U".
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So what else is new?
This observation is brought to you by the letters "F" and "U".
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
A Little Unclear On The Concept
"When Japanese troops invested the German colony of Tsingtao [Quingdao], on October 31, 1914, they sent a message wishing the defenders good luck."
-- Al Nofi, May 30, 2010
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
So Anyway
The local nurses union staged a strike this week. There were yard signs all over town declaring that they care for us. As far as I recall this is the first time I have ever seen political yard signs go up before a strike.
There have also been billboards put up around the Twin Cities area proclaiming their position of "people before corporate profits." Clearly a shining example of someone's brain on leftism.
I don't believe that it would be a good use of my time to try to explain to the shrieking harpies that without the reasonable expectation of a return on an investment no rational individual would make an investment. In other words, with out profits there are no hospitals. Even the local church based hospitals over in Saint Paul, Minnesota have merged into a corporation, the Healtheast Care System. (I used to work for them.)
I had to hold my tongue and my middle finger today as I and about five other drivers from Red and White Taxi had to drive by some picketing harpies at the Minneapolis Children's Hospital who were shrieking that I and my passengers, four of the nice ladies who were filling in for the strikers, should die.
(I have to wonder how many of those shrieking harpies are involved with the Church of Obamatology.)
You know, I would not want any of those shrieking harpies anywhere near me or any other member of my family in the event of a hospitalization.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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There have also been billboards put up around the Twin Cities area proclaiming their position of "people before corporate profits." Clearly a shining example of someone's brain on leftism.
I don't believe that it would be a good use of my time to try to explain to the shrieking harpies that without the reasonable expectation of a return on an investment no rational individual would make an investment. In other words, with out profits there are no hospitals. Even the local church based hospitals over in Saint Paul, Minnesota have merged into a corporation, the Healtheast Care System. (I used to work for them.)
I had to hold my tongue and my middle finger today as I and about five other drivers from Red and White Taxi had to drive by some picketing harpies at the Minneapolis Children's Hospital who were shrieking that I and my passengers, four of the nice ladies who were filling in for the strikers, should die.
(I have to wonder how many of those shrieking harpies are involved with the Church of Obamatology.)
You know, I would not want any of those shrieking harpies anywhere near me or any other member of my family in the event of a hospitalization.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Quote of the Day
"I've learned the hard way that you never play with anything that has a name over six syllables long."
-- Captain Sam Starfall, Freefall, May 14, 2010
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-- Captain Sam Starfall, Freefall, May 14, 2010
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Sunday, May 02, 2010
Like...WOW!
Found this on YouTube.
Like, Wow!
Like I also need to get back to work on my screenplay for a Traveller film.
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Saturday, May 01, 2010
Mass Murderer Day!
I'd say "Happy Mass Murderer Day", but that would make me sound like that idiot who's presently married to Barbara Streisand.
Once again the self-styled "Progressives", whose only real progress has been in inventing new excuses for stone age bad behavior, are taking time out from their efforts to turn their respective countries into unspeakable hellholes to celebrate a holiday that they stole from a bunch of heathens.
They still call it May Day. I've started calling it Mass Murderer Day.
For a number of years I have mocked the present occupant of a stolen U.S. Senate seat Al Franken. Ayn Rand once said that it was morally acceptable mock evil as long as it was recognized as evil. So once again I present:
Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmations for the Inner Communist
Monday:
"I'm going to execute and expropriate today just for the heck of it because, gosh darn it, I deserve to have a good time."
Tuesday:
"I am not a fraud, a Marxist yes, but not a fraud."
Wednesday:
"I deserve all the mass adulation from the people I can get without feeling ashamed or being grandiose."
Thursday:
"I will express my feelings today. I will not hide them behind my mustache. My mustache is not a mask for my feelings, but rather a small patch of facial hair that covers my inadequacies."
Friday:
"When I rob a bank for the cause, I will not be playing those parent tapes in my head: "You wield a revolver like a girl" . . . "Why can't you be more like Stalin?" . . . "Philosophy? What kind of major is that? It's useless!"
Saturday:
"Just because I execute Christians and counter-revolutionaries does not mean I'm an mass-murdering psychopath like my father."
Sunday:
"If I must violently put down a counter-revolution today, it is not because I am a bad person or that I am not worthy of love; it is because my people are a bunch of religion-addicted capitalist sons-of-bitches--and I am mean enough, ruthless enough, and dog gone it, people fear me."
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Once again the self-styled "Progressives", whose only real progress has been in inventing new excuses for stone age bad behavior, are taking time out from their efforts to turn their respective countries into unspeakable hellholes to celebrate a holiday that they stole from a bunch of heathens.
They still call it May Day. I've started calling it Mass Murderer Day.
For a number of years I have mocked the present occupant of a stolen U.S. Senate seat Al Franken. Ayn Rand once said that it was morally acceptable mock evil as long as it was recognized as evil. So once again I present:
Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmations for the Inner Communist
Monday:
"I'm going to execute and expropriate today just for the heck of it because, gosh darn it, I deserve to have a good time."
Tuesday:
"I am not a fraud, a Marxist yes, but not a fraud."
Wednesday:
"I deserve all the mass adulation from the people I can get without feeling ashamed or being grandiose."
Thursday:
"I will express my feelings today. I will not hide them behind my mustache. My mustache is not a mask for my feelings, but rather a small patch of facial hair that covers my inadequacies."
Friday:
"When I rob a bank for the cause, I will not be playing those parent tapes in my head: "You wield a revolver like a girl" . . . "Why can't you be more like Stalin?" . . . "Philosophy? What kind of major is that? It's useless!"
Saturday:
"Just because I execute Christians and counter-revolutionaries does not mean I'm an mass-murdering psychopath like my father."
Sunday:
"If I must violently put down a counter-revolution today, it is not because I am a bad person or that I am not worthy of love; it is because my people are a bunch of religion-addicted capitalist sons-of-bitches--and I am mean enough, ruthless enough, and dog gone it, people fear me."
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
A pile of rocks on their 100,000,000,000,000 dollar note. Wow! What did they expect when a Moscow-indoctrinated stone-age savage is put in charge?
So anyway, I went shopping today.
I was very tempted to insert a Monty Python reference here.
Bought a new M1911A1 made by Rock Island Armory for $556.35 at a gun show today. What can I say? It was love at first sight.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
So Anyway
I dishonored Earth Day by having a Juicy Lucy burger at the 5-8 Club on Cedar Avenue today.
Of course what the Greens really want is a communist state with themselves in charge, and without all of those nasty steel mills.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Of course what the Greens really want is a communist state with themselves in charge, and without all of those nasty steel mills.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Thought for the Day
Justice consists of getting what you deserve, not receiving what you want.
The absolute last thing the other side wants is justice. Because that would result in their extinction.
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The absolute last thing the other side wants is justice. Because that would result in their extinction.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Anniversary
On this day in 1865 some actor who apparently believed in an older version of the Primacy of the Parasite shot a sitting Republican president.
Fortunately, the present generation of thespians who believe in a more recent version of the Primacy of the Parasite are only sitting around and whining about Republicans.
For now.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Fortunately, the present generation of thespians who believe in a more recent version of the Primacy of the Parasite are only sitting around and whining about Republicans.
For now.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Monday, April 05, 2010
Question of the Day
Does anyone have a spare copy of the Necronomicon that they wouldn't mind mailing to the White House?
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
So Anyway
I suppose it really helps to have a sense of humor.
We now return to your regularly scheduled reality.
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We now return to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
In Other News
While driving my cab today I saw a tea party at the intersection of Central and University avenues in Northeast Minneapolis. There's apparently a significant labor union building on that corner and a public park on the other side of the intersection.
I honked my horn as I drove by.
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I honked my horn as I drove by.
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Thought for the Day
What I want to know is this, can The Big Zero ask a customer at a fast food restaurant if he wants french fries with his meal without resorting to the use of a teleprompter?
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Thought for the Day
Something I've noticed:
The Parasites and their partisans in the media are constantly going on and on about how stupid those who rationally oppose them are.
They're really beginning to sound like the alien invaders in Plan Nine From Outer Space.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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The Parasites and their partisans in the media are constantly going on and on about how stupid those who rationally oppose them are.
They're really beginning to sound like the alien invaders in Plan Nine From Outer Space.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Thought for the Day
I have a message for the Democratic Party and their intellectual partisans, you know, the folks who are visibly upset at the fact that we won't blindly submit to their whims.
Get over it.
Sure, you claimed to won the presidential election by a majority of the votes cast. (After all, your candidate IS an Illinois Democrat)
So what?
An election in a constitutional republic is a process of hiring someone to perform a constitutionally defined task. It is not a mystical collectivist ritual for the anointment of a stone age god-king.
We do not believe in The Leader Principle. We do not believe that the stone age god-king that you call The One is in any way the embodiment of a collective will. And we certainly do not believe that we are in any way subject to what are in fact his individual whims.
We are not and never will be a living prop in your ideological fantasies. We will not bind ourselves with the chains that you offer us. And we will never embark on the path that ultimately leads to the anonymous ditch outside of town.
This isn't Russia in 1917. We know about the ultimate results of your ideological fantasy and will not go down that path without a fight.
So knock it off! Get out of our way and go home, grow up, and get a life.
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Get over it.
Sure, you claimed to won the presidential election by a majority of the votes cast. (After all, your candidate IS an Illinois Democrat)
So what?
An election in a constitutional republic is a process of hiring someone to perform a constitutionally defined task. It is not a mystical collectivist ritual for the anointment of a stone age god-king.
We do not believe in The Leader Principle. We do not believe that the stone age god-king that you call The One is in any way the embodiment of a collective will. And we certainly do not believe that we are in any way subject to what are in fact his individual whims.
We are not and never will be a living prop in your ideological fantasies. We will not bind ourselves with the chains that you offer us. And we will never embark on the path that ultimately leads to the anonymous ditch outside of town.
This isn't Russia in 1917. We know about the ultimate results of your ideological fantasy and will not go down that path without a fight.
So knock it off! Get out of our way and go home, grow up, and get a life.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
News From The Future!
In the future math teachers will find it necessary to tell their students that the concept of the "algorithm" was not named for Al Gore.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Thought for the Day
If a Democrat really wanted to fight "greed and corruption" all they have to do is refrain from running for and holding public office.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
A Brief Comment
I had a little chat with a postal worker on why they aren't delivering mail to the apartment building that I just moved into. I also spoke to the representative of the building owner on why she can't get the post office to deliver mail to the building.
An iron law (if not THE iron law) of bureaucracy is that the so-called workers in the system will make the least effort necessary in order to collect their paychecks. The ideal situation of course is that the bureaucrat should do no work at all in order to collect their pay. [1] Thus it should be no surprise to us that a new generation of Islamic suicide bombers are penetrating security checkpoints manned by the employees of a Federal agency.
In the private sector a serious failure of that magnitude would result in the firing of the employee who failed to do his job and possible criminal prosecution. In the Federal sector a lazy bum is protected by the civil service apparatus. And God help you if you try to discipline an affirmative action diversity hireling. [2]
The Left, in what they imagine to be their infinite wisdom, is now pushing for placing the entire field of medicine in the hands of people who have no stake in the outcome of medical treatments. Whether you, or the most precious members of your family, live or die is simply irrelevant to them as long as they collect their paychecks and pensions. There is no shortage of horror stories coming out of nations where the state provides universal health care. [3]
Innocent people will die needlessly when the state takes over the field of medicine. the nice term for this is murder.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
1. I've been led to understand that this has been actually achieved in some places in Africa.
2. This may explain why the Democratic Party nominated a grossly inexperienced African-American instead of Hillary Clinton. Apparently many on the left may have felt that the race of Die Grosse Null made him immune from criticism. Not only critics of the policies and actions of the Obama administration are being called racists, they are being called such in a manner similar to the way the old school Klansmen used to describe their victims as "uppity niggers."
3. Livestock on American capitalist farms receive better medical care than the subjects of the Cuban communist state.
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An iron law (if not THE iron law) of bureaucracy is that the so-called workers in the system will make the least effort necessary in order to collect their paychecks. The ideal situation of course is that the bureaucrat should do no work at all in order to collect their pay. [1] Thus it should be no surprise to us that a new generation of Islamic suicide bombers are penetrating security checkpoints manned by the employees of a Federal agency.
In the private sector a serious failure of that magnitude would result in the firing of the employee who failed to do his job and possible criminal prosecution. In the Federal sector a lazy bum is protected by the civil service apparatus. And God help you if you try to discipline an affirmative action diversity hireling. [2]
The Left, in what they imagine to be their infinite wisdom, is now pushing for placing the entire field of medicine in the hands of people who have no stake in the outcome of medical treatments. Whether you, or the most precious members of your family, live or die is simply irrelevant to them as long as they collect their paychecks and pensions. There is no shortage of horror stories coming out of nations where the state provides universal health care. [3]
Innocent people will die needlessly when the state takes over the field of medicine. the nice term for this is murder.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
1. I've been led to understand that this has been actually achieved in some places in Africa.
2. This may explain why the Democratic Party nominated a grossly inexperienced African-American instead of Hillary Clinton. Apparently many on the left may have felt that the race of Die Grosse Null made him immune from criticism. Not only critics of the policies and actions of the Obama administration are being called racists, they are being called such in a manner similar to the way the old school Klansmen used to describe their victims as "uppity niggers."
3. Livestock on American capitalist farms receive better medical care than the subjects of the Cuban communist state.
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Friday, January 01, 2010
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Good News - Bad News
Susan Sarandon is available again. But she is fourteen years older than I am, which puts her well past menopause. (I'm 49.)
Oh, and she's still a lefty twit.
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Oh, and she's still a lefty twit.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Blast From The Past
From This Blog on May 11, 2007:
What the Republican Party needs to get through their collective skulls right now is the fact that the age of politics as usual is over.
No more compromise. No more deals. No more bipartisanship.
There must be a radical clean up of the mess that the Left has created. The partisans of socialism must be systematically removed from our public institutions. And if we are to have a future as the core nation of our civilization we must make a special effort to clean out the Augean Stables that our educational establishment has become under the tutelage of the Left.
And we must with volume and clarity tell the spoiled brats who imagine themselves to be the heirs of Marx and Lenin to grow up or get out.
Of course, if those idiots would just die, it would be nice too.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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What the Republican Party needs to get through their collective skulls right now is the fact that the age of politics as usual is over.
No more compromise. No more deals. No more bipartisanship.
There must be a radical clean up of the mess that the Left has created. The partisans of socialism must be systematically removed from our public institutions. And if we are to have a future as the core nation of our civilization we must make a special effort to clean out the Augean Stables that our educational establishment has become under the tutelage of the Left.
And we must with volume and clarity tell the spoiled brats who imagine themselves to be the heirs of Marx and Lenin to grow up or get out.
Of course, if those idiots would just die, it would be nice too.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Coincidence of the Day
Last night I wrote the following passage:
Right now it is snowing outside my apartment.
Oh, I've moved out of my brother's basement and I'm now living in a studio apartment in an inner suburb of Minneapolis.
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It was snowing outside.
Dennis Keller stood and watched the snowflakes drift down to the ground outside the sliding glass doors of the sitting room. Some of the snowflakes had the temporary good fortune -- they would eventually melt after being crushed under the weight of subsequent snowfalls –- to land on the bare ground or the concrete pavement. Other snowflakes weren’t so fortunate. They would land in the tiny stream which ran outside the house and melt immediately. It was the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet Freya.
Dennis realized that it had been nearly three decades since the last time he had taken the time to stand at the door and watch each flake of snow fall to the ground. He had been too busy growing up.
Right now it is snowing outside my apartment.
Oh, I've moved out of my brother's basement and I'm now living in a studio apartment in an inner suburb of Minneapolis.
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Monday, December 07, 2009
Gripe of the Day
It's snowing in Texas and the Transnational Socialist elites are getting together in Copenhagen to whine about Capitalism Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Private jets and limos. Nothing is too good for the self appointed saviors of Mother Gaia.
Of course Mother Gaia can't tell them to shove off.
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Private jets and limos. Nothing is too good for the self appointed saviors of Mother Gaia.
Of course Mother Gaia can't tell them to shove off.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Another Quote of the Day
The Archbishop of Canterbury seems to be of the view that somewhere in the Bible, it says "take the wealth of others by force and give it to people best able to work the political system". Just another statist thug, but then we already knew that.
-- Perry de Havilland, Samizdata
From the Unpublished Memoirs of Allen Keller:
They had to bring in the vicar from FU's district [4] in Southampton to officiate. Most of the senior Anglican clergy, especially the Archbishop of Canterbury, who very thoroughly loathed FU wanted no part of the whole affair. My (lack of) God! What a fucking waste of mass and energy! The current Archbishop of Canterbury would rather quote from Marx and Engels than from Jesus Christ and he'd rather do a blowjob on an Ayatollah or a Soviet Commissar than say a kind word about Western Civilization.
One of my passengers once asked me if I was an Objectivist and I answered in the affirmative. He then asked me what I thought of the current economic and political situation and I said that I thought that Atlas Shrugged was supposed to be a work of fiction.
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Quote of the Day
Try to understand this elementary principle of collectivist politics: you are not yours. Your life does not belong to you. You are a “resource” to be employed at the discretion of others
- Billy Beck
In short, we're livestock.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thought for the Day
How a progressive can turn into a fascist in three easy steps.
1. Take a bath or shower.
2. Get a haircut.
3. Put on a clean party uniform.
That's it. That's all it takes.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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1. Take a bath or shower.
2. Get a haircut.
3. Put on a clean party uniform.
That's it. That's all it takes.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
MORON OF THE DAY
While parked at a taxi stand in downtown Minneapolis I noticed that someone with a bunch of progressive stickers on their mountain bike ("SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE...", "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS") did not lock the bike to the signpost marking the taxi stand but to the kryponine type lock of the ten-speed bike that was actually locked to the signpost. I suppose this gives a new meaning to Rand's concept of the Second Hander. Think of it as parasitism in action.
(Seriously, I wish I had a camera with me to record this sort of stuff.)
What a f***ing moron. These f***ing morons believe that they're smarter than the rest of us? Why do we allow any of them to vote? Why should anyone take orders from them?
I simply can't think of a reason.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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(Seriously, I wish I had a camera with me to record this sort of stuff.)
What a f***ing moron. These f***ing morons believe that they're smarter than the rest of us? Why do we allow any of them to vote? Why should anyone take orders from them?
I simply can't think of a reason.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
So Anyway
Charles Johnson, the master of Little Green Footballs, is apparently appalled that Rush Limbaugh made the suggestion that a professional Enemy of Human Kind should commit suicide.
Part of what Mr. Limbaugh said was:
Comrade Revkin has suggested that us mere mortals should voluntarily limit our reproduction in or to limit the emission of carbon dioxide by human beings. (Never mind the fact that carbon dioxide is a natural component of the terrestrial atmosphere whose quantity has been discernibly decreasing over the course of geological time.)
But because rational persons, who naturally refuse to believe the nonsense emitted by environmentalists, will not voluntarily limit the number of children they have -- so that a bunch of moral parasites can feel good about themselves -- there will be open calls for limitation of "breeders" by force. This will be followed, by those true believers in power, by the actual exercise of force to control breeding, through forced abortions and sterilization. Which in turn will be followed by the elimination of those "breathers" who are deemed by Environmentalist Elites (the Elect of Gaia, as it were) to be useless or "counter-environmental."
The nice words for this are subjugation and murder.
We should not be the slightest bit surprised that the Environmentalists will join the ranks of the mass-murderers because they, like the socialists that they evolved from, basically see productive humans as livestock to controlled and used. They see us creatures without a right to live.
There's a proper term for those who deny your Right of Life, they are properly called mortal enemies.
Charles Johnson has decided to hang with the Enemies of Mankind. He shouldn't be the slightest bit surprised when he is hanged with them.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Part of what Mr. Limbaugh said was:
The environmentalist wackos are the same way. This guy from The New York Times, if he really thinks that humanity is destroying the planet, humanity is destroying the climate, that human beings in their natural existence are going to cause the extinction of life on Earth — Andrew Revkin. Mr. Revkin, why don’t you just go kill yourself and help the planet by dying?
Comrade Revkin has suggested that us mere mortals should voluntarily limit our reproduction in or to limit the emission of carbon dioxide by human beings. (Never mind the fact that carbon dioxide is a natural component of the terrestrial atmosphere whose quantity has been discernibly decreasing over the course of geological time.)
But because rational persons, who naturally refuse to believe the nonsense emitted by environmentalists, will not voluntarily limit the number of children they have -- so that a bunch of moral parasites can feel good about themselves -- there will be open calls for limitation of "breeders" by force. This will be followed, by those true believers in power, by the actual exercise of force to control breeding, through forced abortions and sterilization. Which in turn will be followed by the elimination of those "breathers" who are deemed by Environmentalist Elites (the Elect of Gaia, as it were) to be useless or "counter-environmental."
The nice words for this are subjugation and murder.
We should not be the slightest bit surprised that the Environmentalists will join the ranks of the mass-murderers because they, like the socialists that they evolved from, basically see productive humans as livestock to controlled and used. They see us creatures without a right to live.
There's a proper term for those who deny your Right of Life, they are properly called mortal enemies.
Charles Johnson has decided to hang with the Enemies of Mankind. He shouldn't be the slightest bit surprised when he is hanged with them.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Thought for the Day
Something I want to do to the next asshole I see wearing a Che shirt:
Me: I can do an impression of Che Guevara, want to see it?
Asshole: Sure!
Me: (Pull out a .45 and shoot the asshole in the head.)
Asshole: (THUD!)
Here's more on that murderer.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Me: I can do an impression of Che Guevara, want to see it?
Asshole: Sure!
Me: (Pull out a .45 and shoot the asshole in the head.)
Asshole: (THUD!)
Here's more on that murderer.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
And Now For Something Completely Different
And now a message from William Shatner.
This message was brought to you by the numbers 6 and 9, and the Minbari letter "TRI".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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I am Canadian!
This message was brought to you by the numbers 6 and 9, and the Minbari letter "TRI".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
So Anyway
If I wasn't such an atheist I would drop to my knees and thank God for the existence of well heeled drinkers who live in the far suburbs.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
So Anyway
While I was driving my cab yesterday I heard Rush Limbaugh say that up to the Holocaust Hitler and the Nazis were Leftists.
I have to disagree.
Marx was a raving antisemite. Old school Progressives (the one they NEVER teach you about in the public schools) had "issues" with those they saw as the "inferior" races. (Africans, Jews, Asians, etc.) And eliminating those who don't fit into the collective makes perfect sense to a collectivist.
I've come to the conclusion that anyone who sees another person as either a tool to be used, or as trash to be disposed of, is essentially a Leftist. (Which pretty much puts me to the right of Attila the Hun.)
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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I have to disagree.
Marx was a raving antisemite. Old school Progressives (the one they NEVER teach you about in the public schools) had "issues" with those they saw as the "inferior" races. (Africans, Jews, Asians, etc.) And eliminating those who don't fit into the collective makes perfect sense to a collectivist.
I've come to the conclusion that anyone who sees another person as either a tool to be used, or as trash to be disposed of, is essentially a Leftist. (Which pretty much puts me to the right of Attila the Hun.)
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Quotes of the Day
From the latest episode of Freefall I present the following quotes.
The Mayor tells us how to really make someone suffer:
And The Mayor on the concept of Justice:
We now return you to your original reality.
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The Mayor tells us how to really make someone suffer:
"That rotten little space mollusk! I'll teach him to hit me with a pie! I'll rip his tentacles off! I'll boil him in pudding and drive a stake of mistletoe through his heart! I'll have him tied to a post and forced to attend every single budget meeting for the nest century!"
And The Mayor on the concept of Justice:
"Now I'm really going to kill him! How dare he get me this mad and then be innocent of what I'm accusing him of!"
We now return you to your original reality.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
An Observation
One thing that I have noticed on the occasions where I have to drive my Taxi Cab through the campus of the University of Minnesota is that virtually all of the students and most of the nominal adults DO NOT LOOK TO EITHER SIDE TO CHECK FOR ONCOMING TRAFFIC WHEN CROSSING THE STREET.
This makes the process of driving through the campus rather interesting.
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This makes the process of driving through the campus rather interesting.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Quotes of the Day
"Murphy doesn't take days off."
-- Davan MacIntire, Something Positive
"Zach, I'm not a violent person but if you try to massage your misfortune into my back, I will smite you like an Old Testament God. F*ck the frogs, we're goin' straight to dead babies and fire from the sky."
-- Ibid.
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-- Davan MacIntire, Something Positive
"Zach, I'm not a violent person but if you try to massage your misfortune into my back, I will smite you like an Old Testament God. F*ck the frogs, we're goin' straight to dead babies and fire from the sky."
-- Ibid.
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Surreal Thought of the Day
I had a silly thought.
Visualize for a moment a few urban gangster types (likely wanna-be gang bangers) sitting in their absurdly pimped out car at a red light with the stereo emitting the usual noise.
Crossing the intersection in an ornate carriage is someone who looks like Frederick the Great, following the carriage on wagons is an orchestra playing the Brandenburg Concerto, drowning out the stereo in the gangster car. We see the astounded expressions on the faces of the gangsters.
Just a thought I had while parked at a taxi stand with the radio on the local classical station.
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Visualize for a moment a few urban gangster types (likely wanna-be gang bangers) sitting in their absurdly pimped out car at a red light with the stereo emitting the usual noise.
Crossing the intersection in an ornate carriage is someone who looks like Frederick the Great, following the carriage on wagons is an orchestra playing the Brandenburg Concerto, drowning out the stereo in the gangster car. We see the astounded expressions on the faces of the gangsters.
Just a thought I had while parked at a taxi stand with the radio on the local classical station.
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Thought for the Day
Projection is when the self-appointed deity, sitting on a throne of human skulls, points a finger of a blood stained hand at those who seek to stop his rampage and screams "murderers!"
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Les Doesn't Play Well With Others, or the Morons of Tomorrow.
While I'm at it I should also mention that a previously mentioned group of morons is still at it.
Here's their website, I won't bother to quote the site this time. Just read it yourself.
A rational study of the real world would show that a real state of Peace is effectively indistinguishable from a state of Liberty and a state of Security. Peace, Liberty, and Security are simply three words that a rational person uses to describe the same condition, the rightful ability to live one's own life without coercive interference by others.
A rational study of actual history would show that the state of peace for the citizens of a free nation is the result of the violent elimination of the would be conquerors and their pet quislings.
If we rationally examine those who constitute the membership of the so-called Peace Movement we find that virtually every one of them is an open advocate of the coercive subjugation of the productive members of the Human Race. The occasional exception being a self-blinded fool who isn't paying attention to what they're ideologically in bed with.
In short, a "peace activist" and the "peace movement" are in fact enemies of Peace.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Here's their website, I won't bother to quote the site this time. Just read it yourself.
A rational study of the real world would show that a real state of Peace is effectively indistinguishable from a state of Liberty and a state of Security. Peace, Liberty, and Security are simply three words that a rational person uses to describe the same condition, the rightful ability to live one's own life without coercive interference by others.
A rational study of actual history would show that the state of peace for the citizens of a free nation is the result of the violent elimination of the would be conquerors and their pet quislings.
If we rationally examine those who constitute the membership of the so-called Peace Movement we find that virtually every one of them is an open advocate of the coercive subjugation of the productive members of the Human Race. The occasional exception being a self-blinded fool who isn't paying attention to what they're ideologically in bed with.
In short, a "peace activist" and the "peace movement" are in fact enemies of Peace.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Editorial Correction
I forgot to mention the fact that yesterday was the International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
We are sorry for this appalling oversight.
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We are sorry for this appalling oversight.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
A Couple of Things
Thought for the Day
The truth is never fair and balanced.
Quote of the Day
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The truth is never fair and balanced.
Quote of the Day
"I hate you Sam. I hate you more than any woman's ever hated a cephalopod."
-- The Mayor, Freefall, September 16, 2009
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Thought for the Day
The other side doesn't get it because they don't want to get it. They don't want to get it because it would mean that they would have to admit that they are part of the problem.
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Down The Memory Hole?
Yesterday I posted a link to news story to the RWING mailing list and the first paragraph of the story about a detail of Die Grosse Null's plan for destroying the health of Americans.
Are we now on a plantation? Or is the Chicago Democrat setting up a protection racket?
This morning when I clicked on the link I found that the story had been changed. The subject of the original first paragraph had been moved down the page and rewritten.
Oh, they were only thinking about it, but they decided not to do it. (Or have they?)
They should not have been thinking about it at all.
What do they, both in our so-called government and in the mainstream media, think we are? A bunch of mindless animals?
I'll update this story as circumstances require.
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"Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as divisions among Democrats undercut President Barack Obama's effort to regain traction on his health care overhaul."
Are we now on a plantation? Or is the Chicago Democrat setting up a protection racket?
This morning when I clicked on the link I found that the story had been changed. The subject of the original first paragraph had been moved down the page and rewritten.
"One provision would fine families up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance, essentially requiring that everyone have medical coverage, much like the case with car insurance. Obama rejected a mandate, and fines, during his presidential campaign."
Oh, they were only thinking about it, but they decided not to do it. (Or have they?)
They should not have been thinking about it at all.
What do they, both in our so-called government and in the mainstream media, think we are? A bunch of mindless animals?
I'll update this story as circumstances require.
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Saturday, September 05, 2009
Thought for the Day
When somebody (invariably a "progressive") plays the Race Card, it says that they are wrong, and they know it.
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