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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:00:00 GMT

The Moon Is Also Busy

I bow to God in gratitude,
And I find the moon is also busy
Doing the same.

I bow to God in great happiness,
And I learn from where the suns
And the children
And my heart
All borrow their Light.

I bow to the Friend in deep reverence
And discover a marvelous secret carried on the air:

This whole Universe is just as blessed
And divinely crazed as I,
And just as lost in this Wonderful Holy Dance.

My dear,
After such a long, long, journey,
God has made another soul
Free!

Now all Hafiz wants to do
Is open a beautiful Tavern
Where this Sacred Wine
Of God's Truth, Knowledge and Love
Is forever and ever
Freely offered to you.

O bow to God in gratitude,
And some day
You will see how
The moon is also busy doing the same.

I Heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz - Daniel Ladinsky

Jeffrey Graham at ClickZ - Are We Ready for Convergence Yet? Another article about the uselessness of the CueCat. [faisal]

Remember the last time you saw an advertisement in a magazine, and you decided immediately to go to the web site for more information? And then it was so difficult to type in the web address that you gave up, frustrated and disappointed? Neither do I. CueCat is a cure where there's no disease.

Minority Mike at LewRockwell.com - You Know You're a Bigot If...: how to get labelled a bigot by the PC crowd. [lew]

Correct thinking people know it's not polite to question the motives or methods of Racists and Communists Of Color.
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Correct thinking people know that laughing at socialist stupidity and corruption is far too damaging to the inner-child of globalist baloneyspeakers.
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You know you're a bigot if -- You think Hillary Rodham-Clinton-Rodham is a self-serving, untalented screaming harpy who would eat her own child if she thought it would further her fascist agenda.
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You know you're a bigot if -- You think Bill Clinton is an agent of the anti-Christ and you can't understand why the press won't break the story about his reflection not showing up in mirrors. Correct thinking people know that Billy-Jeff feels their pain, as well as their breasts and wallets.

Lawrence H. Diller, M.D. at Salon - Just say yes to Ritalin! It is truly a war on some drugs. The drugs that enhance liberty are out. The ones that make Johnny a pliable subject of the state are in. Every time I read about Child "Protective" Services, I imagine my likely response should one of those fascists even hint at taking my kid away. The world would rapidly be minus one fascist. [lew]

Public school administrators, long the enthusiastic adherents of a "Just Say No!" policy on drug use, appear to have a new motto for the parents of certain tiny soldiers in the war on drugs: "Medicate or Else!" It is a new and troubling twist in the psychiatric drugs saga, in which public schools have begun to issue ultimatums to parents of hard-to-handle kids, saying they will not allow students to attend conventional classes unless they are medicated.
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It is no longer simply an issue of which school or which class a child will attend. Instead, some parents are being threatened with the possibility of losing custody of their children if they refuse to comply with suggested treatment for an alleged medical condition.

Darrel Mulloy at Sierra Times - If Atlas Shrugged, Why Can't We? Proposes a "separation", where those of us who believe in liberty drop out of society, stop supporting the do-nothings and the government. Interesting. [sierra]

William Miller at Sierra Times - An Open Letter To Wal-Mart: One man's response to the rumors that Wal-Mart is considering removal of guns and amunition from their product list. [sierra]

I wanted to write to Wal-Mart and express my concerns about talk I'm hearing lately that Wal-Mart may discontinue selling guns and related merchandise at its stores.
As a regular - and regularly satisfied - customer of Wal-Mart, I enjoy your stores and appreciate your prices, service and selection. But if Wal-Mart does indeed bow to the emotionally-based demands of those opposed to Americans' right of self-defense, you can rest assured that I will never again set foot in a Wal-Mart store, nor will I allow a family member to do so.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership - WalMart wants your opinion about guns: how to call a representative of the Wal-Mart CEO's office and voice your opinion on whether Wal-Mart should continue to sell guns.

Margaret N. O'Shea at the August [Georgia] Chronicle - Women rally for guns: The story of Dianne Sawyer of Red Bank, SC, whose mother was killed with a baseball bat wielded by her father. Ms. Sawyer was one of the five women who started the Second Amendment Sisters, the group that protested for the right side during the Million Mom March last May. [market]

A gun is like fire insurance. You hope you never have to use it, but it's there if you do.

Stephen Moore at the Cato Institute - Fire the World Bank: Those Protesters Were Right: The World Bank must go, but not for the reasons the recent protesters have been touting.

After reading through this most recent report, I became convinced that the protesters in front of the World Bank and IMF buildings were right: These institutions should be closed pronto. They do more harm than good. The left-wing protesters in Washington this past spring were right about that. Next time they rally in front of the World Bank building, I'll join them.
This new report again reinforces the long-held suspicion that it is the Bank itself, not capitalism, that is the greatest threat to worldwide prosperity.

Jwap is a WAP gateway written in Java. [meat]

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Government doesn't work. Never did. Never will. Can't. But there are lots of good people. Love them.

-- Bill St. Clair

The Atlanta Declaration

Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

-- L. Neil Smith

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

-- L. Neil Smith

A Penalty Clause for the Bill of Rights

Any official, appointed or elected, at any level of government, who attempts, through legislative act or other means, to nullify, evade, or avoid the provisions of the first ten amendments to this Constitution, or of the Thirteenth Amendment, shall be summarily removed from office, and, upon conviction, deprived of all pay and benefits including pension, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

-- L. Neil Smith

Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

-- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report on gun control laws.

Who is a libertarian?

Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap")

"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."

-- L. Neil Smith

(Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP")

Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

-- L. Neil Smith

Concise

"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

-- Mike Vanderboegh

Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

-- L. Neil Smith

This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

-- Vin Suprynowicz

If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

-- Edward Abbey

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

-- Bill St. Clair