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Malone Vandam, on democracy:

Just the pure goggle-eyed violent stupidity of it could be the tinder of insurrection. The proverbial final straw.

“In a normal democracy?”

I’m not sure what your idea of a “normal democracy” is, Dionne, but in American democracy the Congress doesn’t take over an industry…

Democracy is democracy is democracy is mob rule is mob rule is mob rule.

By any other name, flavor, or stench, democracy always has been, is now, and always will be slow death by creeping mob lynching. There is no honor in defending the indefensible.

Again: Your job does not free you from your primary obligation to determine right from wrong and to act accordingly.

Three recent items, all excellent examples of that fact:

• Government-paid hell-raisers
• Thoreau on separating oneself from the state
• Judicial terrorists

See the binding principle?

My comment, just now, over at Real Muddy, er, Clear, Politics:

Ruthie: “In the real world…”

The nanosecond that phrase is used, it reveals that the user imagines that he (or Ruthie, in this case) is imbued with some special perception, which common folk, like everyone who disagrees with her, is not capable of understanding, but must simply comply because she said so.

Whenever you see anyone use the phrase, “in the real world”, be assured, that author is most certainly not aware of what it means to live in this world.

Obama, at his appearance at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday:

Carved into the marble behind me are the words of our first Commander-in-Chief:  “When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.”  Just as the contributions that our servicemen and women make to this nation don’t end when they take off their uniform, neither do our obligations to them.  And when we fulfill those obligations, we aren’t just keeping faith with our veterans; we are keeping faith with the ideals of service and sacrifice upon which this republic was founded. [emphasis mine]

The thug-in-chief is a manipulating liar. America was forged upon the ideal of individual liberty, not servitude and sacrifice:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

There was no screeching appeal to either service or sacrifice in attendance at the birth of America.

Obama wants you to think that you owe something to people you don’t know, haven’t ever met, and never will meet. He wants you to accept the idea that you owe something to everyone else simply because you exist.

There is no premise more wrong.

Obama, pretensively speaking about detainees in Guantanamo, but, in fact, speaking about you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVChNmN9y7E

Via Wendy.

Picked up this link to Peter Schiff’s senate aspirations via my new Twitter account.

Peter, don’t debase yourself by stooping to join the ranks of those presumptive rulers. I know your heart’s in the right place, but you can’t stop that screeching thing by stepping into it.

More cannibals on parade:

The best way to change the system, then, is to stick your fingers in your ear and scream “IM NOT VOTING”

A very mature political system blooming in your utopia, for sure.

My response, in its entirety, because I’ve been following this prolific cannibal for some years now:

It’s amazing the presumptions that can be fit into a single sentence.

When did you stop having intercourse with livestock?

See?

You’re screeching that I’m ignoring reality, when, in fact, you’re the ostrich plowing your head into the sand. What are you afraid of? I’ve been dragging you around here by your eyeballs for some time now, and all you’ve managed to do is be another data point demonstrating that a person can be shown concepts but can’t be made to think.

You’re also assuming that I want to change “the system”. All I want from “the system” is for it to remove the muzzle of its gun from my back and let me go about my life without duress. I don’t care if “the system” continues apace, slowly withers, or inevitably blossoms into an orgy of cannibalism, as long as you and your fellow votistas leave me and my life the hell out of it.

Perhaps the dumbest assumption you’re making is that I aspire to some utopia. I don’t. Humans are fallible. Anything humans do will have flaws, however, when those flaws are instituted as centralized process and “law”, there is no escape. On the other hand, when those flaws are part of decentralized associations, they victimize many fewer people.

I would never presume to make decisions about your life. That’s part of why I don’t vote. I don’t know what’s best for you. Why would you do that to me? You have no way of knowing what’s best for me. Do you have the balls to make me comply with your decisions about my life in person?

Would you dare attempt to make me comply with your preferences for my life, face to face? There is only one answer to that question, and that answer defines you as human or cannibal.

As usual, I expect he’ll go out like a light

Many thanks to Billy, for much of the ammo to use against such creatures.

A former home-owner in Phoenix quits paying her mortgage and blames everyone else:

A little more than a year ago, I bought a four-bedroom tract home with a pool, in a very nice subdivision in Scottsdale, Arizona, for $570,000.

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Suddenly, the house I bought for $570,000 is worth…$380,000?!?!

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What this means is that I, as a responsible homeowner, am now paying a mortgage of $450,000, on a house worth $380,000…

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I never thought I would be the type to end up in foreclosure, but last month I made the decision to stop paying my mortgage.

Alisa, you made a commitment. A promise. You signed a contract vowing you would pay what you promised.

You’re bailing out before you’ve honored your promise, and that makes you a liar and a thief, not to mention a colossal moron for imagining that a house is an investment. You allowed yourself to be consumed by tulip mania and you’re going to walk away from your obligation. Your actions prove you’re not a “responsible homeowner”. On the contrary, they prove that you can’t be trusted to keep your word.

This would have been a comment on Alisa’s blog, but she’s disabled comments on that entry.

Alisa’s bullshit via Billy.

Update: Alisa removed her original post, stating “Way too many crazy, ignorant people linking to this post from fascist sites. Not worth the gray hair”, revealing that she’s not only a liar and a thief, but a coward as well.

And, by the way, Alisa, “fascist” doesn’t mean what you imagine it means.

Some well-meaning but very stupid folks in Ypsilanti, MI catalyzed another unnecessary police escalation and derailment of a family’s lives:

While she returned to the car to get her cell phone so she could locate her friend, Emily Brumbaugh said, her husband approached the group.

“I heard, ‘Give me my kid,’ and ‘You’re not getting him,”’ she said.

At that point, that crowd was guilty of kidnapping.

The idiot cops who arrived on the scene didn’t help by sorting things out or dissipating tension:

Egeler said Lloyd Brumbaugh ran to the boy and picked him up, but Washtenaw County Sheriff’s deputies had arrived by then. He said he was told to put the boy down so they could talk. Brumbaugh complied, but when Deputy Katrina Bourdeau reached for the boy, Brumbaugh pushed her away and grabbed him, Egeler said.

There is no dispute that the Lloyd is the father of the boy, so when the deputy attempted to take Brumbaugh’s son, she became guilty of attempted kidnapping. Getting between a parent and his child is like getting between a grizzly and her cubs: you’re just asking for serious? trouble. Surely even a cop knows that, and should be able act accordingly without escalating the situation.

Emily Brumbaugh said she was placed in a patrol car until she calmed down and Brumbaugh was taken to a hospital, and didn’t learn where her husband was until he called her from jail at 7 p.m. that night.

And at that point the police made themselves guilty of kidnapping both Emily and Lloyd.

Unfortunately for everyone, cops everywhere are increasingly shooting first and asking questions later, if they bother to ask questions at all. As far as I can tell, they operate on only one premise: their authority must be respected at all costs.

Market Watch had the text of Obama’s acceptance speech online even before he started spewing. In part:

That’s the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper.

He left out a couple words there. What he meant was this:

That’s the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper, or else.

Obama would be your keeper, and compel you to be your neighbor’s keeper, even if it fucking kills you.