Wendy is absolutely right:
without freedom there is no morality. Only social control.
That’s precisely what Anthony Burgess illustrated in A Clockwork Orange. You owe it to yourself to read the book or watch the movie. It shows exactly where social control is going.
Adam Davidson hasn’t a clue:
At the end of the day that’s what an economy is supposed to do. It’s supposed to employ as many people as possible.
To hear it, go here, click the “Listen Now” link, and fast forward to just before the 9-minute mark.
An economy has no purpose unto itself. An economy is an aggregate of individual transactions. It has no “purpose.” It can’t. It simply is.
Adam is assigning purpose where no purpose can exist. His statement is no different than, “the purpose of gravity is to kill people who fall.”
Obama, while introducing Sotomayor as his choice to replace Souter, had the nerve to utter this:
Well, Sonia, what you’ve shown in your life is that it doesn’t matter where you come from, what you look like or what challenges life throws your way, no dream is beyond reach in the United States of America.
I’ve long dreamed of keeping all the money I earn. I dream of living without the compulsion of others’ preferences.
I dream of cannibals walking away from the pot.
“No dream is beyond reach in the United States of America.”
Bullshit.
Souter, on America, via John Venlet:
“The republic, Souter said, ‘can be lost, it is being lost, it is lost, if it is not understood.’”
Kelo was but a single empirical data point in your complicity, David. You never understood, and you never will.
Mitch McConnell is concerned:
It certainly sets up the potential for the majority — if it chooses to — to run roughshod over the minority…
The tyranny of the majority was set in motion the day The Declaration died:
The important point here is to understand that we aren’t where we are because the past leaders and legislatures have failed to live up to the ideals of the Constitution, but that those who framed the Constitution failed to live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
The American Revolution in fact *died* with the ratification of the US Constitution.
That idiot McConnell can’t see past the nose on his face.
Become a judge, have your soul excised, and send a man with an IQ of 47 to prison:
For more than six hours Tuesday, as a parade of witnesses testified about the severity of Aaron Hart’s mental retardation and his inability to understand his legal rights, the 18-year-old defendant with an IQ of 47 sat silent and shackled in a chair, alternately fidgeting and making faces.
But in the end, none of it was enough to persuade a judge in this small east Texas town to reconsider the 100-year prison sentence he gave Hart in February after Hart pleaded guilty to molesting a 6-year-old boy.
Here’s an indication of what an IQ of 47 really means:
Under 70 - Definite feeble-mindedness
99.5% of IQ scores fall between 60 and 140
Eric Clifford, you’re a fucking liar:
Clifford, who last week said he had agonized over the case, took only a few seconds to issue his ruling.
Hart’s parents say he has been raped repeatedly by other inmates since he was first arrested last September.
Drop dead, Clifford. You took the coward’s path: you used the “law” as a substitute for rational thought, at the expense of a small child in an adult body.
Spend a day in Aaron’s place. I dare you.
Finished my 2008 self-incrimination servitude, i.e. taxes, last weekend and just today got around to figuring what’s been taken from me over the course of my life: $290,595.45. Last year, the total was $261,369.97. That’s $29,225.48 just for this year, or roughly, a pretty nice new truck. Hell, I could have bought a livable house for that. It’s getting to the point where I could have bought some great ocean-front property in some place that has no winters, unlike the US, where it’s soon going to be winter all year ’round.
I should note that the number above includes my wife’s taxes. It does not include sales taxes or property taxes.
Every year I look at that huge and growing number and imagine what I could have done with that money. Every year I wonder why I continue to be such a victim. Every year I vow to stop being a slave. Every year I fail.
This, from here:
Most people ‘going Galt’ refuse to recognize the final moral meaning of it; it’s a form of nonviolent social protest, and something you do on account of principle, and you should expect to pay a significant penalty for doing it.
Note the ultimatum: “you should expect to pay a significant penalty for doing it.” That “it” is minding your own damn business, and that chiseler presumes that you should pay dearly to someone for doing so.
Just now, on the local news forums, my response to a guy who has not even a hint of self-respect:
I run across people like you every day, and every time, I ask myself: how should I deal with this person?
You don’t care that your neighbors, and you, are being fleeced on your word. You don’t care that people break into innocent peoples’ houses on your word. You don’t care that people take what you’ve earned, as long someone else is robbed the same as you.
You’d sit on a jury and convict a person simply because a guy wearing a costume suggested you should.
You’re the future.
You’re already dead.
This person is a symptom.
To hell we go.
That girl has dibs on grinding Paul Schene’s balls into powder.
Savages like Schene are a menace to everyone, every day they live.
Kill yourself, Paul Schene.