Ministers Against the Drug War
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. -- Mark Twainand:
Vote early and vote often. -- Al Capone
John McCabe at loony dot org - Choose Success - "Sometimes a picture just says it all..." Hehe. [loony]
My thanks to Sean Hackbarth for his link to my Holey CommU.N.ists Batman page. It's sad. The United Nations was a good idea. Get countries together to solve their problems with talk instead of bullets. Too bad it was corrupted into a world socialist government. [mind]
Bill St. Clair: gun lover and U.N. hater.
Thomas L. Knapp at poli-sigh.com - Tilting at Windmills: So how did congress become a career? - used to be Congress was a part-time job for rich folks who could afford its low pay. We have wrought the current oppolence and corruption. We can fix it. How? Stop believing in it.
With congress, the War Between the States induced an opposite effect: power began to centralize in Washington. People began to believe in the omnipotence of their national government.
As we began to believe, our faith infused what ought to have been a stagnant, moribund Old Boy's Club with the power to act ... and act they did. In less than a century, we proceeded from relative peace to cold war, from relative security to government-mandated pension fraud, and from sound money to pieces of paper backed only by "the full faith and credit" of the institution that shelled Vicksburg, burned Atlanta and invented the atomic bomb.
Samantha Levine at usnews.com - Marion Pritchard: She shot a Nazi to save Jewish children - During WWII, Ms. Pritchard was providing a safe harbor for three Jewish children when a Nazi appeared at her door. She shot and killed him. Bravo! How long before we need to behave similarly here in Amerika? Remember, the Nazi was just a good soldier following legal orders. [kaba]
Liz Michael at Sierra Times - Open Letter To Liberals Favoring Gun Confiscation - "Have you lost your minds?" Worth a look. [sierra]
Dave Barry at the Miami Herald - Considerate guests use the gas station bathroom - Dave reminds us scum, aka men, of proper house-visiting etiquette: do not use the guest towels or the guest soap or the guest pillows. They're only for show. Why? Because women are insane. Hehe. [wnd]
James E. Gierach - The Story of Float #62 - The story of a "Ministers against the drug war" float that appeared in the recent Bud Billiken Parade in Chicago. How it was built, the valiant failed effort to get press coverage, and Mr. Geirach's experience while marching. Save the children. End the drug war. [drugsense]
Ah but the float design, all it takes is a creative idea. Well, I often say that we tell kids to stay away from drugs and then we put a pot of gold next to the choice we tell them not to take. Pot of gold . . . pot of gold at rainbow's end. Rainbows come from dark clouds and rain in the sunshine. The drug war kills our kids. Bodies on the deck of the float. No, this is a fun thing for kids. Tombstones! Yes! R.I.P.. The idea for a float design did not come that quickly, but it did come. We would build a float depicting an "ominous, drug-war cloud" from which a rainbow poured into a "drug-war pot of gold" resting on the green grass of a "drug-war cemetery patch," complete with white-picket fences and a park bench.
How do you construct a cloud, a rainbow and a pot of gold? Help. To the rescue came my pastor's wife, Jude Borling, and her brother, Larry Bogosh. Time proved that they could do anything. Drug-war clouds are made of prohibition, plywood, stuffing, black-sheer lining, gas pipe and clear plastic beads that look like raindrops. Drug-war rainbows are made of hope, PVC pipe, glue, material matching seven rainbow colors, 2 x 4s and skyhooks. A drug-war pot of gold is make of avarice, a garbage can, 2 x 4s, plywood, pipe, foam, black and gold-colored cloth covered with gold sequins. Tombstones come from heartache, pressed board, 2 x 4s and paint. The grass, cemetery bench and picket fencing came from Home Depot.
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We traveled through the suburbs at 20 to 30 m.p.h., east on 95th Street to the Dan Ryan expressway. Oh, Mayor Richard M. Daley would be furious. Rev. DeVille said that he had recently suggested to Mayor Daley that we have to legalize drugs and the mayor turned a reddish-purple color. After all, Daley made his bones on backs of drug-war cadavers, putting people behind bars for consensually buying and selling drugs. He helped turn American into a nation of prisons. Drug war has turned America into the prison capital of the world, a country with the highest rate of incarceration in the world; formerly, the land of the free. Drug war is justification for prison slavery, the disparate incarceration of people of color to "save our kids" and provide jobs to economically depressed areas of Illinois. But we were on the way to a parade that catered to people of color, and we carried a message of hope. We were towing a float with hope. We had done it!
The O'Reilly Factor via POT-TV Network - Fox's O'Reilly Factor with Judge Gray - O'Reilly hosts James Gray and Asa Hutchinson (the new head of the d.e.a.). O'Reilly wants troops on the Mexican border. Hutchinson talked but didn't say anything I noticed. Gray has realized that the black market prices caused by the drug war make it impossible to win. He still thinks drugs should be illegal, but thinks we've got to reduce the price first. Good start judge, but the only way to eliminate a black market is to allow a real market. Government has no right to protect me from myself. Requires Real Video. [drugsense]
Robert Teesdale - Bayonets of Freedom - The speech Mr. Teesdale gave in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City on July 14th, 2001. Links to more speeches from that day, and pictures of the speakers, can be found on the New York Tyranny Response Team's TRTUN page.
The most dangerous thing in the world... is an American with a rifle.
He is dangerous because he is powerful. He is dangerous because he is a wild animal, in the truest sense of the word - because he is free. He is as wild and beautiful a thing as any natural predator, and is to be treated with as much respect.
