I may only be a simple cab driver, but it looks like Leftism is basically an excuse to feel smugly superior to everyone else without regard to actual knowledge, actual ability, and the actual consequences of their actions.
/Les
Monday, August 22, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
So Anyway
After two years of driving a taxi cab on the day shift I switched over to driving on the night shift.
It's different.
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It's different.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Quote of the Day
Via Mrk Urbin:
The problem the other side has with the truth is that it is the truth."
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“ [The Obama administration’s] problem is not that Fox isn’t a real news organization, their problem is that it is."
-- Rich Lowry
The problem the other side has with the truth is that it is the truth."
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Thought For The Day
One thing the current occupant of the White House is doing is demonstrating the true value of an elite Ivy League collage education.
If I was sorting resumes in a hiring process I would have to put anyone with a degree from Harvard at the bottom of the pile.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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If I was sorting resumes in a hiring process I would have to put anyone with a degree from Harvard at the bottom of the pile.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Monday, August 08, 2011
Repeated Thought For The Day
From this blog on February 26, 2007:
Because that's how our present ruling class is behaving?
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Why do I feel like I'm tied up and gagged in the back seat of a car driven by someone who insists on driving on the wrong side of the road and who responds to the appearance of oncoming traffic by denying that it exists and stomping on the accelerator pedal?
Because that's how our present ruling class is behaving?
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Saturday, August 06, 2011
Today In History
On this day in 1945 the Japanese city of Hiroshima was visited by a B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay.
They're still talking about it.
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They're still talking about it.
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Thursday, August 04, 2011
Quote of the Day
Rory, which talk do you want first? "The birds and the bees" or "how much pressure does it take to rip body parts off a sex predator?"
-- Mister Sanderson, Something Positive, August 4, 2011
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
Capitalist Thought Of The Day
"Why in the world would we want our paying customers, the ones who buy our records, see our concerts, wear our tee shirts, to kill themselves?"
--Rob Halford, lead singer of Judas Priest
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Jennifer Knapp - Martyrs and Thieves
Okay, she believes in Jesus, has a tattoo of a crown of thorns just below the right shoulder (visible on other videos) and likes girls.
No one is perfect.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
A Suggestion
The mortal remains of the late Amy Winehouse (whose auditory output was never emitted from any radio station that I listen to) should be stuffed, mounted, and placed on display as an example of how not to live. Growing little girls should be horrified at the sight of what that appallingly stupid female did to herself. If anything the premature demise of this stupid tattooed skank should show a clear connection between aesthetic and moral standards, and why such standards are necessary.
Tattooing, especially on a female, is a form of mutilation. There is simply no excuse for it. Tattooing is simply ugly and is very much a clear indication that the person is not practicing reason as a way of life.
And do I need to rant on about drug use?
Yes, I'm being an insensitive bastard, live with it.
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Tattooing, especially on a female, is a form of mutilation. There is simply no excuse for it. Tattooing is simply ugly and is very much a clear indication that the person is not practicing reason as a way of life.
And do I need to rant on about drug use?
Yes, I'm being an insensitive bastard, live with it.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Environmental Hazards of the Day
I drove through several very large puddles of dihydrogen monoxide today in my taxicab.
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Suggestion
Prose style and sentence structure are irrelevant when your characters are tedious, dull, and just plain dumb.
(I'm reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.)
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(I'm reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.)
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Monday, July 04, 2011
A Blast From The Past
On the anniversary of the signing (the vote was held two days previously) of the Declaration of Independence I will repost something from November of 2008:
Let's talk about Socialism.
We must understand that Socialism is essentially a Master/Slave ideology. If you pardon me for quoting the First Trustifarian, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs." And for the socialists, as with the antebellum slaveholders, the needs of the masters will always be much greater than the needs of the slaves.
The socialist master class, both here in the United States and abroad, basically see themselves being dispossessed of what according to their ideology is rightfully theirs. Control of their slaves and the products of slave labor. What should not be a surprise to us is that the response of the socialist master class and their supporters is in many ways similar to the actions of the antebellum slaveholder class and their supporters.
Those who reject the chains of the Left are subjected to public ridicule and slander by the self-styled intellectuals and subject to physical violence by the goon squad, with the ski-mask replacing the white sheet as the attire of choice.
If you will pardon me for the use of shocking language, to the master class of the Left, we who reject the chains of Socialism are (regardless of our actual race) no better than a bunch of "Uppity Niggers." It should be no surprise to us that they are treating us as such.
If we want to go on the ideological offensive (Or is it the Counter-Offensive?) we should simply point out the fact that the socialist economic structure is based on SLAVE LABOR.
If you will pardon me for repeating this, "from each according to his ability -- to each according to his need." Is the literal description of a slave labor economic system.
It is invariably the full socialist states such as the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, and the various People's Republics of Whatever that build and depend on full-service slave labor camps to create the goods that they need to survive.
It is the socialist parties in the otherwise Capitalist nations of the West that act as if wealth, the product of everyone's thought and labor, belong not to the individual who created it, but to some manifestation of the collective (Der Volk, the World Proletariat, etc.) as a whole, and thus act as if a robbery has occurred when the true creators of wealth are allowed to keep some of it.
(Gosh, wow, I do tend to get a bit long winded sometimes.)
The socialist is for the most part someone who declines to live the essentially rational and productive life that is proper to Man, and instead goes to great lengths (including the total disconnect from reality) to cook up excuses to grab the wealth created by others. As if the goods and services created by others were something naturally found in nature.
Instead of living as rational men, socialists choose instead to exist as less than rational animals.
Perhaps we should start treating them as such.
Let's start by voting them out of office and go on from there.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Let's talk about Socialism.
We must understand that Socialism is essentially a Master/Slave ideology. If you pardon me for quoting the First Trustifarian, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs." And for the socialists, as with the antebellum slaveholders, the needs of the masters will always be much greater than the needs of the slaves.
The socialist master class, both here in the United States and abroad, basically see themselves being dispossessed of what according to their ideology is rightfully theirs. Control of their slaves and the products of slave labor. What should not be a surprise to us is that the response of the socialist master class and their supporters is in many ways similar to the actions of the antebellum slaveholder class and their supporters.
Those who reject the chains of the Left are subjected to public ridicule and slander by the self-styled intellectuals and subject to physical violence by the goon squad, with the ski-mask replacing the white sheet as the attire of choice.
If you will pardon me for the use of shocking language, to the master class of the Left, we who reject the chains of Socialism are (regardless of our actual race) no better than a bunch of "Uppity Niggers." It should be no surprise to us that they are treating us as such.
If we want to go on the ideological offensive (Or is it the Counter-Offensive?) we should simply point out the fact that the socialist economic structure is based on SLAVE LABOR.
If you will pardon me for repeating this, "from each according to his ability -- to each according to his need." Is the literal description of a slave labor economic system.
It is invariably the full socialist states such as the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, and the various People's Republics of Whatever that build and depend on full-service slave labor camps to create the goods that they need to survive.
It is the socialist parties in the otherwise Capitalist nations of the West that act as if wealth, the product of everyone's thought and labor, belong not to the individual who created it, but to some manifestation of the collective (Der Volk, the World Proletariat, etc.) as a whole, and thus act as if a robbery has occurred when the true creators of wealth are allowed to keep some of it.
(Gosh, wow, I do tend to get a bit long winded sometimes.)
The socialist is for the most part someone who declines to live the essentially rational and productive life that is proper to Man, and instead goes to great lengths (including the total disconnect from reality) to cook up excuses to grab the wealth created by others. As if the goods and services created by others were something naturally found in nature.
Instead of living as rational men, socialists choose instead to exist as less than rational animals.
Perhaps we should start treating them as such.
Let's start by voting them out of office and go on from there.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Sunday, July 03, 2011
Short Rant Of The Day
Seriously, if I could move to another planet, I would.
http://www.anti-strib.com/blog/why-mn-is-broke.html
Part of the problem is that the Donks cheated in the recount phase of the election as usual, and the other part of the problem is that a third party (part of the legacy of Governor Ventura) sucked up votes from the Republicans. Otherwise we wouldn't have this entirely stupid budget crisis and we'd have a lower state budget to boot.
Of course the public employees, who would get a big payoff if the present occupant of the governor's office got his way, are out with signs blaming Republicans and the Tea Partiers.
This BS has to end.
Were it in my power to do so I would start with a absolute ban on all pubic employee unions. Furthermore I would terminate the employment of all persons are holding, or have held, an office within their unions. All such persons would be terminated from state employment without their pensions.
That would be just a start.
http://www.anti-strib.com/blog/why-mn-is-broke.html
Part of the problem is that the Donks cheated in the recount phase of the election as usual, and the other part of the problem is that a third party (part of the legacy of Governor Ventura) sucked up votes from the Republicans. Otherwise we wouldn't have this entirely stupid budget crisis and we'd have a lower state budget to boot.
Of course the public employees, who would get a big payoff if the present occupant of the governor's office got his way, are out with signs blaming Republicans and the Tea Partiers.
This BS has to end.
Were it in my power to do so I would start with a absolute ban on all pubic employee unions. Furthermore I would terminate the employment of all persons are holding, or have held, an office within their unions. All such persons would be terminated from state employment without their pensions.
That would be just a start.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Just A Reminder
For the upcoming presidential election I will repeat a suggestion I made back in 2004:
So how should we deal with Leftist brownshirt actions on election day?
The first obvious thought that came to mind was to go to the polls in a group. Bring cameras (stills and video). Split into two groups, one group to go into the polling place and the other group in overwatch mode with the cameras. When the first group finishes voting they will take the overwatch position while the other group votes. In the event of a confrontation with any Leftist brownshirts the photos and video get turned over to Fox News or the appropriate Federal agency.
That's my $ 0.02
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So how should we deal with Leftist brownshirt actions on election day?
The first obvious thought that came to mind was to go to the polls in a group. Bring cameras (stills and video). Split into two groups, one group to go into the polling place and the other group in overwatch mode with the cameras. When the first group finishes voting they will take the overwatch position while the other group votes. In the event of a confrontation with any Leftist brownshirts the photos and video get turned over to Fox News or the appropriate Federal agency.
That's my $ 0.02
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Lesson For Today
Slightly more than tripling a distinct (and let's face it, a hostile) population group is an act of genocide in Newspeak.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
(Thanks to Communism Kills)
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Quote of the Day
"I'm impressed he was ever able to walk into a church without catching on fire."
-- Monette MacIntyre (formerly Donnelly), Something Positive, March 2, 2002
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-- Monette MacIntyre (formerly Donnelly), Something Positive, March 2, 2002
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Comparisons
While I am an atheist I will comment on something I've noticed about the founders of three present day religions.
Jesus was a working guy.
Mohammad and Karl Marx married for money.
When it comes to who you choose to follow character does matter.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Jesus was a working guy.
Mohammad and Karl Marx married for money.
When it comes to who you choose to follow character does matter.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Thought for the Day
One of the things that is really bothering me is that it appears that we are living out the opening chapters of Atlas Shrugged as well as the Civilization Collapse part of the back story of Starship Troopers.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
So Long Ago...
I was going through some old stuff and I found this note about something that happened at an SF fan convention:
I also had the following exchange with a female Klingon:
FK: (Seeing the button I was wearing) "Godless Capitalist." You must be a Ferengi.
LB: No, I'm an Objectivist, I read Ayn Rand.
FK: (Blank stare)
Oh, well ...
Monday, June 06, 2011
Quotes of the Day
All anonymous posters on a single discussion topic:
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We poison our air and water to weed out the weak. We set off fission bombs in our only biosphere. We nailed our god to a stick. Don't fuck with the human race.
We drink poison too, and derive enjoyment from the temporary malfunctioning it causes in our higher brain functions. The higher the toxin level the greater the beverage; diluting the toxin with water is severely frowned upon.
Entire sectors of the Human leisure industry are dedicated to the production and sale of liquid inebriants which damage the body's internal organs and cause dehydration. Humans sometimes make a GAME out of consuming these inebriants.
We cover our food in neurotoxin. For the flavour.
Humans are so hardcore their first innovations were ways of making killing easier. Don't mess with homo sapiens sapiens.
Humans consider one of the greatest career paths available to be piloting conveyances that use explosions for thrust.
We routinely bombard ourselves with high amplitude sonic vibrations as a recreational activity. The more intense energy output used in this activity, the better the experience. Rock on Humanity!
The human taste in literature is highly disturbing, to say the least. While they have some civilised pieces, regarding philosophy and emotion, too much is simple obscenity. murders are glorified, and the more they kill, the more famous they become, while wars are remembered almost fondly, referred back to time and time again in tale after tale of slaughter and debauchery. What kind of race could revel in its own sociopathy?
Large and potentially dangerous doses of highly toxic chemicals and radiation are widely accepted as valid treatments for a variety of ailments. Even in medicine, the humans are exceedingly brutal.
The fact that Humans expose themselves to sunlight in order to damage their skin and make it assume a darker hue just adds weight to the theory that this species is in love with death.
Some humans even worship a insane sociopathic god that commits all kinds of atrocities like killing their own children and yet they consider this god to be loving and merciful.
You only have to look at the gloomy obsession with treatment of deceased humans in early cultures (see embalming, insistence on using 'special' ground to bury the deceased) to come to the conclusion that the entire race is close to being a violent death cult.
Their own physicians claim that, "it kills the same number of human and cancerous cells, but the human has more."
They do this with their own bodies! Imagine their willingness to expend people with whom they have no personal connection!
The various human cultures seem incapable of forming a single coherent whole as is the norm throughout the rest of the galaxy. Whereqas others formed a single coherent cultural whole for the species, the humans obstinately refuse to do the same and regularly indulge in brief but highly destructive bouts of intercultural culling.
The human capacity to change is fascinating.
I myself have witnessed a human military officer, who is tasked solely with the purpose of abusing his subordinates until they bond, take a group I suspected of severe genetic ailments - excess fat tissue, panic during crisis situations - and turn them into the perfect murder machines that have come to know and fear. We have long suspected that humans in their homelands are weaker than those we regularly encounter, but it is clear that even the weak ones can become dangerous with minimal effort.
I would not advise an invasion of any human-controlled system at this time.
Humans are an incredibly odd species. While most creatures couldn't dream of putting themselves in danger, they do it for the sake of health. They put all sorts of chemicals in their body to cure ailments. They don't even understand how any of it works. They simply know that it doesn't kill them, and they're happy with that. They even frequently experiment with new chemicals, trying to cure more ailments with potentially deadly ingredients!
Some humans even deliberately put themselves in incredible danger just for fun.
All human children, from the earliest stages of post-uterine development, are encouraged to partake in feats of violence and strife with one another, to establish which group is the victor. With no tangible benefit presenting itself, they compete purely for the sake of dominion and ego. Often these competitions will involve forceful physical contact and injuries, which is considered a part of the developmental process. It should come as no surprise that the species is so malajusted.
"Observation indicates that many of their tactical simulations- used to desensitize their offspring to violent actions- are not given freely, but instead must be purchased of the offspring's own time and money. In this way, training for what is often bloody combat, simulated homicide, and sometimes even wanton acts of destruction is seen as a sort of commerce and reward."
It has been suggested that the harsh environment the human species originated in is responsible for much of their aggression. The environment of Sol-3 (or Earth, colloquially) is volatile in the extreme. Massive salt water oceans are pulled about the surface of the planet by lunar tides. This combines with a constant colossal movement of air about the planet to make storms of mind boggling size and ferocity. “Hurricane” is a water/air hybrid storm that flings masses of water and air about, sometimes leveling or flooding whole cities. “Tornado” is an electrically charged vortex of winds that can demolish even the strongest human structure, yet they commonly build vast both vast cites and, even more astounding, clusters of flimsy dwellings called ‘mobile homes’, in areas renowned for the violence of these storms. The planetary temperatures create both vast areas of frozen water and dehydrated desert, and humanity has filled even these inhospitable climes with everything from crude structures hand made of local materials to large ‘resorts’ where humans PAY to subject themselves to prolonged exposure to solar radiation or swim in large tubs of water filled with chlorine!
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Saturday, June 04, 2011
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Some News
L.A. Sunset has a new blog, and he's having a go at the French.
But then, who hasn't?
THE PUBLIC CAUSE
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But then, who hasn't?
THE PUBLIC CAUSE
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Question of the Day
I decided to follow up on someone who posted a comment to something I said on this blog about six years ago. At the time I was attempting to replicate the snarky tone of an online comic page that I was (and presently still) rather fond of. I was of course expressing my usual and utter contempt for those walking wastes of mass and energy who call themselves peace activists. (Other examples of usual and utter contempt may be found here.)
So some Methodist clerk with a delusion of virtue wanders in and left some comments, largely to the effect that I, the metaphysical and epistemological realist with a snarky attitude, am mentally ill or is otherwise depraved. I did not argue with this induhvidual (misspelling deliberate here), I simply explained why such a person should be held in contempt.
Ultimately I dropped the rhetorical sixteen-ton weight on him:
Needless to say, when it comes to stating the truth I'm not a nice guy. But I did have some issues with copy editing back then. (I have a lot more to say on the subject of peace activism here.)
Out of curiosity I followed the link back to his blog today and found that he is still around and still an epistemological and ethical moron. (As a point of courtesy I'll leave a link to the idiot here.)
During this process a thought occurred (No, it didn't hurt. (Smile)). A question came to my mind.
Would this idiot, in a display of moral posturing, stand between a former state leader condemned to death for mass murder and the firing squad?
Somehow I strongly suspect that this, and lot a of other moral frauds wouldn't. But if I were in charge of the firing squad I would give the order to fire, followed by the order to reload.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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So some Methodist clerk with a delusion of virtue wanders in and left some comments, largely to the effect that I, the metaphysical and epistemological realist with a snarky attitude, am mentally ill or is otherwise depraved. I did not argue with this induhvidual (misspelling deliberate here), I simply explained why such a person should be held in contempt.
Ultimately I dropped the rhetorical sixteen-ton weight on him:
Thus the willing servant of willing servant of tyrants, terrorists, and the Enemies of Mankind in General strikes the pose of righteousness while inoring the screams of the victims of tyranny and terror.
We would of course be remiss if we did not point out that hate is an emotional response to the recognition of the fact that one is in some way in the presence of evil. And in this case I mean willful, deliberate, evil.
We should not be surprised that this willing servant of tyrants, terrorists, and the Enemies of Mankind in General would claim that hatred of evil is evil. This is simply another contradiction given voice by a willfully depraved creature whose only claim to the title of Human is its physical form.
We could say that a peace activist is the political equivalent of the depraved bystander who tells a women who is being raped that she should "lay back and enjoy it", but that would be an undeserved compliment.
We could say that killing a peace activist is no more an act of murder than putting down a rabid animal, but that would be an insult to rabid animals.
I will say that killing a peace activist is an act of defense, of one's self, of one's family, of one's nation, and of Humanity in General.
Unlike the aforementioned willfully depraved creature, I've had a long and tiresome day doing productive work, and I will (have) nothing more to say on this subject today.
Needless to say, when it comes to stating the truth I'm not a nice guy. But I did have some issues with copy editing back then. (I have a lot more to say on the subject of peace activism here.)
Out of curiosity I followed the link back to his blog today and found that he is still around and still an epistemological and ethical moron. (As a point of courtesy I'll leave a link to the idiot here.)
During this process a thought occurred (No, it didn't hurt. (Smile)). A question came to my mind.
Would this idiot, in a display of moral posturing, stand between a former state leader condemned to death for mass murder and the firing squad?
Somehow I strongly suspect that this, and lot a of other moral frauds wouldn't. But if I were in charge of the firing squad I would give the order to fire, followed by the order to reload.
What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Quote of the Day
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton
(Found at Samizdata.net)
- Lord Acton
(Found at Samizdata.net)
Friday, May 27, 2011
Morons of the Day
Some local leftists, basically a bunch of apparent communists and union trash, are having a public hissy fit over the fact that the cleaning crew at a locally headquartered grocery store chain, Cub Foods, are only paid the minimum wage.
Wages are a cost of doing business. An increase in the cost of doing business has to be passed on to the customers in the form of higher prices paid by the consumers at the checkout line and a reduction in the return on investment to the stockholders of the company.
Faced with higher prices the customers as a general rule will shop elsewhere. Faced with a reduction or outright elimination of a return on their investment the stockholder will invest elsewhere as well.
In the real world real workers who do real work who don't like what they are being paid will look for a better paying job from another employer. I've done this a few times myself. And believe me this strategy works.
But instead of dealing with other people on the basis of consent the campus commies, union goons, and other such trash prefer to use coercion as their means of obtaining their goals. But in this case the government will not act as their goon squad so they are attempting to inflict a guilt trip on their target by means of a hunger strike.
It doesn't bother me in the slightest to say that anyone dumb enough to try this on me is totally welcome to starve to death.
But just to be nice I'll suggest a more efficient and less painful way of committing suicide, as illustrated by this panel from an episode of Something Positive:
(Thanks to Randy Milholland.)
Wages are a cost of doing business. An increase in the cost of doing business has to be passed on to the customers in the form of higher prices paid by the consumers at the checkout line and a reduction in the return on investment to the stockholders of the company.
Faced with higher prices the customers as a general rule will shop elsewhere. Faced with a reduction or outright elimination of a return on their investment the stockholder will invest elsewhere as well.
In the real world real workers who do real work who don't like what they are being paid will look for a better paying job from another employer. I've done this a few times myself. And believe me this strategy works.
But instead of dealing with other people on the basis of consent the campus commies, union goons, and other such trash prefer to use coercion as their means of obtaining their goals. But in this case the government will not act as their goon squad so they are attempting to inflict a guilt trip on their target by means of a hunger strike.
It doesn't bother me in the slightest to say that anyone dumb enough to try this on me is totally welcome to starve to death.
But just to be nice I'll suggest a more efficient and less painful way of committing suicide, as illustrated by this panel from an episode of Something Positive:
(Thanks to Randy Milholland.)
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Thought for the Day
How many Muslims does it take to change a light bulb?
They don't. They blame the Jews for the darkness.
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They don't. They blame the Jews for the darkness.
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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
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