“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” ~Marcus Aurelius
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QUOTE: “Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” ~Marcus Aurelius
Sunday, May 23, 2010
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QUOTE: You!
Sunday, May 9, 2010“Luck is wining the lottery. Hard work is … …!”
(Please fill in the blank in the comment.)
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QUOTE: Self-ownership and the implications thereof
Monday, April 26, 2010“Once one accepts the principle of self-ownership, what’s moral and immoral becomes self-evident. Murder is immoral because it violates private property. Rape and theft are also immoral — they also violate private property. Here’s an important question: Would rape become morally acceptable if Congress passed a law legalizing it? You say: “What’s wrong with you, Williams? Rape is immoral plain and simple, no matter what Congress says or does!” If you take that position, isn’t it just as immoral when Congress legalizes the taking of one person’s earnings to give to another? Surely if a private person took money from one person and gave it to another, we’d deem it theft and, as such, immoral. Does the same act become moral when Congress takes people’s money to give to farmers, airline companies or an impoverished family? No, it’s still theft, but with an important difference: It’s legal, and participants aren’t jailed.” — Walter Williams
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QUOTE: Three or more useless men
Monday, April 19, 2010FROM LUDDITE:
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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
—John Adams
Fight organized crime: Re-elect NO ONE…
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Seems simple enough!
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QUOTE: Bubble? What Bubble? Barney Frank (D-MA) 6/2005
Saturday, April 17, 2010http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/graph_of_the_day_for_april_17.html
“We have, I think, an excessive degree of concern right now about home ownership and its role in the economy… those who argue that housing prices are now at the point of a bubble seem to me to be missing a very important point… This is not the dot-com situation… you’re not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble.” Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), June 2005.
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Right before the housing bubble popped in 2006!
Thanks, Taxachusetts for electing such a perceptive leader. Think you might find someone else?
How about we pick the next Lottery winner? Or someone from the jury duty pool. Do you have a village idiot? Even they’d be better.
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QUOTE: The Sixteenth Amendment
Thursday, April 15, 2010“It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) to make permanent what the Framers feared — today’s income tax.” — Walter Williams
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QUOTE: Choose power widely dispersed over 50 states
Monday, April 12, 2010“Try this thought experiment. Pretend you’re a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?” — Walter Williams
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QUOTE: “Do it Right The First Time!”
Wednesday, March 24, 2010“Do it Right The First Time!”
and
“Make It Right!
Mike Holmes
Holmes on Homes
http://www.hgtv.ca/holmesonhomes
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QUOTE: Poverty — L. Neil Smith
Saturday, February 27, 2010Poverty is a solved problem – all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
— L. Neil Smith
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QUOTE: the sex lives of teenagers
Friday, February 26, 2010Any idiot, upon seeing the first automobile, could easily predict that it would revolutionize transportation. Only someone with exceptionally keen insight could have foreseen that it would also revolutionize the sex lives of teenagers.
— Isaac Asimov
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QUOTE: Communist
Wednesday, February 24, 2010“How do you tell a communist? It’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. How do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
—-Ronald Reagan
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Very applicable to the District of Corruption and all the various inhabitants.
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QUOTE: On the Constitution
Thursday, February 18, 2010FROM THE “MANY A TRUE WORD IS SAID IN JEST” FILE
When the Iraqis were endeavoring to enact a new constitution … …
“Let’s send them ours. It served us well for two hundred years, and we’re not using it anymore!”
— Jay Leno
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And it was a pretty good one. It did last more than 200 years.
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QUOTE: Epitaph on the Politician Himself
Friday, January 29, 2010http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/47878.html
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Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
~Hilaire Belloc, Epitaph on the Politician Himself
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ROFL!
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QUOTE: Hitler’s a footnote
Friday, January 22, 2010“If every Jewish and anti-nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.”
– – – – Aaron Zelman, co-founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
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QUOTE: The Present
Friday, December 25, 2009QUOTE: Yesterday is history ~ tomorrow a mystery ~ today is a gift ~ that’s why we call it the present. ~ Babatunde Olatunji
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QUOTE: Jefferson “If the American people ever allow the banks … …
Tuesday, December 22, 2009http://www.visandvals.org/Jefferson_s_Warnings.php
Jefferson warned, “If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied … I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.”
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QUOTE: The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp
Friday, December 18, 2009The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp
by Steve Washam
based on a telling by George Gordon
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Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few possessions–especially his traps–and drove south. Several weeks later he stopped in a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. It was a Saturday morning–a lazy day–when he walked into the general store. Sitting around the pot-bellied stove were seven or eight of the town’s local citizens. The traveler spoke, “Gentlemen, could you direct me to the Okefenokee Swamp?”Some of the oldtimers looked at him like he was crazy.
“You must be a stranger in these parts,” they said.
“I am. I’m from North Dakota,” said the stranger.
“In the Okefenokee Swamp are thousands of wild hogs,” one old man explained.”A man who goes into the swamp by himself asks to die!”
He lifted up his leg. “I lost half my leg here, to the pigs of the swamp.”
Another old fellow said, “Look at the cuts on me; look at my arm bit off!” “Those pigs have been free since the Revolution, eating snakes and rooting out roots and fending for themselves for over a hundred years. They’re wild and they’re dangerous. You can’t trap them. No man dare go into the swamp by himself.”
Every man nodded his head in agreement.
The old trapper said, “Thank you so much for the warning. Now could you direct me to the swamp?”
They said, “Well, yeah, it’s due south–straight down the road.” But they begged the stranger not to go, because they knew he’d meet a terrible fate.
He said, “Sell me ten sacks of corn, and help me load them into the wagon.”
And they did.
Then the old trapper bid them farewell and drove on down the road. The townsfolk thought they’d never see him again.
Two weeks later the man came back. He pulled up to the general store, got down off the wagon, walked in and bought ten more sacks of corn. After loading it up he went back down the road toward the swamp.
Two weeks later he returned and, again, bought ten sacks of corn.
This went on for a month. And then two months, and three. Every week or two the old trapper would come into town on a Saturday morning, load up ten sacks of corn and drive off south into the swamp. The stranger soon became a legend in the little village and the subject of much speculation. People wondered what kind of devil had possessed this man, that he could go into the Okefenokee by himself and not be consumed by the wild and free hogs.
One morning the man came into town as usual. Everyone thought he wanted more corn.
He got off the wagon and went into the store where the usual group of men were gathered around the stove. He took off his gloves. “Gentlemen,” he said, “I need to hire about ten or fifteen wagons. I need twenty or thirty men. I have six thousand hogs out in the swamp, penned up, and they’re all hungry. I’ve got to get them to market right away.” “You’ve WHAT in the swamp?” asked the storekeeper, incredulously. “I have six thousand hogs penned up. They haven’t eaten for two or three days, and they’ll starve if I don’t get back there to feed and take care of them.”
One of the oldtimers said, “You mean you’ve captured the wild hogs of the Okefenokee?”
“That’s right.”
“How did you do that? What did you do?” the men urged, breathlessly. One of them exclaimed, “But I lost my arm!”
“I lost my brother!” cried another.
“I lost my leg to those wild boars!” chimed a third. The trapper said, “Well, the first week I went in there they were wild all right. They hid in the undergrowth and wouldn’t come out. I dared not get off the wagon. So I spread corn along behind the wagon. Every day I’d spread a sack of corn.
“The old pigs would have nothing to do with it. But the younger pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn than it was to root out roots and catch snakes. So the very young began to eat the corn first. “I did this every day. Pretty soon, even the old pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn, after all, they were all free; they were not penned up. They could run off in any direction they wanted at any time. “The next thing was to get them used to eating in the same place all the time. So, I selected a clearing, and I started putting the corn in the clearing.
“At first they wouldn’t come to the clearing. It was too far. It was too open. It was a nuisance to them.
“But the very young decided that it was easier to take the corn in the clearing than it was to root out roots and catch their own snakes. And not long thereafter, the older pigs also decided that it was easier to come to the clearing every day.
“And so the pigs learned to come to the clearing every day to get their free corn. They could still subsidize their diet with roots and snakes and whatever else they wanted. After all, they were all free. They could run in any direction at any time. There were no bounds upon them. “The next step was to get them used to fence posts. So I put fence posts all the way around the clearing. I put them in the underbrush so that they wouldn’t get suspicious or upset, after all, they were just sticks sticking up out of the ground, like the trees and the brush. The corn was there every day. It was easy to walk in between the posts, get the corn, and walk back out.
“This went on for a week or two. Shortly they became very used to walking into the clearing, getting the free corn, and walking back out through the fence posts.
“The next step was to put one rail down at the bottom. I also left a few openings, so that the older, fatter pigs could walk through the openings and the younger pigs could easily jump over just one rail, after all, it was no real threat to their freedom or independence–they could always jump over the rail and flee in any direction at any time.
“Now I decided that I wouldn’t feed them every day. I began to feed them every other day. On the days I didn’t feed them, the pigs still gathered in the clearing. They squealed, and they grunted, and they begged and pleaded with me to feed them– but I only fed them every other day. Then I put a second rail around the posts.
“Now the pigs became more and more desperate for food. Because now they were no longer used to going out and digging their own roots and finding their own food, they now needed me. They needed my corn every other day.” “So I trained them that I would feed them every day if they came in through a gate and I put up a third rail around the fence.
“But it was still no great threat to their freedom, because there were several gates and they could run in and out at will. “Finally I put up the fourth rail. Then I closed all the gates but one, and I fed them very, very well.”
“Yesterday I closed the last gate and today I need you to help me take these pigs to market.”
The price of free corn is your own slaughter.
The parable of the pigs has a serious moral lesson. This story is about federal money being used to bait, trap and enslave a once free and independent people.
Federal welfare, in its myriad forms, has reduced not only individuals to a state of dependency; state and local governments are also on the fast track to elimination, due to their functions being subverted by the command and control structures of federal “revenue sharing” programs. Please copy this parable and send it to all of your state and local elected leaders and other concerned citizens. Tell them: “Just say NO to federal corn.” The bacon you save may be your own.
(c) 1997, The Idaho Observer. All rights reserved.
Permission granted to reproduce for non commercial purposes in entirety including this notice.
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QUOTE: Thanksgiving lesson
Thursday, November 26, 2009“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” – Margaret Thatcher
Thanksgiving?
The Pilgrims starved until the dismissed their “commonwealth” of socialism and allowed private enterprise.
If there’s anything to be thankful for, it’s that lesson.
Happy T-day, all.
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QUOTE: Paper money
Wednesday, September 16, 2009“Of all the contrivances devised for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes him with paper money.”
-Daniel Webster
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QUOTE: Gooferment spending
Friday, September 11, 2009“When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it.
When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on.
When a man spends someone else’s money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn’t care at all how much he spends.
And when a man spends someone else’s money on someone else, he doesn’t care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that’s government for you.”
—-Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman
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QUOTE: Attributed to Ben Franklin?
Friday, September 4, 2009“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
— Benjamin Franklin?
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QUOTE: Babe Ruth
Tuesday, September 1, 2009Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, “It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”
Babe Ruth
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QUOTE: Getting better?
Friday, August 21, 2009‘Everyday in every way, I am getting better and better’ (Emile Coue).
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QUOTE: If you like public housing you will love public health care
Wednesday, July 15, 2009*** begin quote ***
George Newman in the Wall Street Journal today does a good job with some health care reform myths. I especially like this perspective on a “public” plan:
“We need a public plan to keep the private plans honest.”
But then why stop there? Eating is even more important than health care, so shouldn’t we have government-run supermarkets “to keep the private ones honest”? After all, supermarkets clearly put profits ahead of feeding people. And we can’t run around naked, so we should have government-run clothing stores to keep the private ones honest. And shelter is just as important, so we should start public housing to keep private builders honest. Oops, we already have that. And that is exactly the point. Think of everything you know about public housing, the image the term conjures up in your mind. If you like public housing you will love public health care.
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I LOVE it!
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QUOTE: You need the government to walk!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009“The government is great at breaking your leg, handing you a crutch, and saying ‘You see, without me you couldn’t walk.’”
—- Harry Browne, the former Libertarian Party candidate for president
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QUOTE: Suitable for our congresscritters, politicians, and bureaucrats
Thursday, June 25, 2009Grass mud horse n. Wildly popular on YouTube, this mythical, alpaca-like creature was conjured by Chinese citizens to protest Internet censorship. Though the grass mud horse looks innocent, its Chinese name—Cao Ni Ma—sounds like “fuck your mother” in Mandarin.
—Jonathon Keats
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For some reason, listening to the President on Healthcare, Barney Frank on Bill O’Reilly, and all the other people who want to tell us all what to do, this seems strangely appropriate!
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