RashyNullPlanet

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.

My comment, earlier today at Mark Perry’s blog:

“Globalization and technology and automation all weaken the position of workers,”

So the flipside is: subsistence farming with nothing but crude hand tools strengthens the ‘position’ of workers.

The Obaminator would have that “strong government hand” securely around your neck.

To a man, the commenters at that link are arguing about symptoms. The underlying idea they never question is that it is acceptable to use force to accomplish anything.

The folks in Pillsbury, ND had an election, and no one came.

But on June 10, no one showed up. Not even those on the ballot.

Unfortunately, the zero turn-out wasn’t because they realized that voting is delegated coercion, or even for any sliver of recognition of the force underlying voting. They were all just too busy to gather round the cannibal pot that day.

Last Saturday I was utterly shocked to learn that my dad cut off the tips of two fingers on a table saw. My dad is Mr. Safety. He survived more than 30 years working on elevators, on the edge of open shafts, and near huge machinery, with some injuries, but nothing like this.

I heard about SawStop saws a while ago. A saw like that would have prevented my dad from losing the tips of his fingers.

I’ve done some more reading about SawStop saws since last Saturday, and came across this:

In an effort to get the power-tool industry to adopt safer technology, Gass recenlty visited the Consumer Product Safety Commission outside Washington D.C.

SawStop sure has a great way to prevent injuries. I wish my dad had been using a SawStop saw last Saturday, but there is no way that I would ever use the club of government to bludgeon anyone into submission to some product of mine.

Steven Gass makes a great product, based on great intentions, but using government coercion to compel people to use anything is never right, no matter how great the product or intentions.