Sunday, April 24, 2011

Thought for the Day

William Shatner as the voice of the Robot Monster in the upcoming remake of Robot Monster:

I must!
But yet,
I CANNOT!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Monday, April 18, 2011

A Movie

I just saw Atlas Shrugged, Part One.

It wasn't how I visualized it.

It's better.


Les

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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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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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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 workers employees to actually get up and build the thing.
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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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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Huh?

Alex Johnson of The Epoch Times reports:

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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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Quote of the Day

Mark Urbin posted this on his No Moss Here blog:


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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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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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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