Under God

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:00:00 GMT

From The Federalist:

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillips Brooks

and:

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. -- Daniel P. Moynihan

and:

Americans have also only begun to understand that if radical Islam is one face of our enemy, the other is the radical Left. -- David Horowitz

and:

...[L]ooking at the newly hired luggage inspectors, we might be safer if the passengers frisked the inspectors, rather than vice versa. -- Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder

and:

California Gov. Gray Davis (D) is returning a $10,000 campaign contribution when he found out it was from the owners of a strip club. To his credit, he's going to return the money to the girls one dollar at a time! -- Jay Leno

From Quotes of the Day:

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. -- Mark Twain

and:

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. -- Dan Rather

and:

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln

and:

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard

russmo.com - Forest Protectors - cartoon commentary on the enviro-whackos protection of the forests. Hehe.

tuj at kuro5hin - My Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Life (Culture) - one man's experience with LSD. I posted the following comment: [kuro5hin]

My favorite Ram Dass LSD story

In one of Ram Dass' books, don't remember which, he told a story about his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, aka Maharaji. Ram Dass tried many times to give LSD to Maharaji. Nothing ever happenned. But he had some doubt that the old man was really swallowing the tabs. So the next time Ram Dass gave a tab to Maharaji, the guru made a show of placing it on his tongue and carefully swallowing.

A short while later, Maharaji went wild, started acting crazy. Ram Dass was thinking, "What have I done to this poor old man?" Maharaji came immediately back to his senses and told Ram Dass, "They knew about this stuff a thousand years ago. If you take it in a meditative mood, you can visit Jesus. But after two hours, you have to come back. Wouldn't it be better to BE Jesus?"

I bought East River, an old album by the Brecker Brothers that I used to have on vinyl. I heard a takeoff on "Skunk Funk" on the radio and had to have the original. Billy Cobham did a version of this song titled "Some Skunk Funk" on his 1975 album Funky Thide of Sings (re-released in 1999).

Norman Singleton at Politech - Why Ron Paul was only Republican to vote no on morphed-porn bill - the house has passed another version of the so-called child pornography prevention act. The first one was declared unconstitutional last April. This post contains Ron Paul's speech on why he voted against the bill and links to the vote and a previous Politech article containing a link to the bill itself. [smith2004]

David Kravets of AP via The Washington Post - Pledge Declared Unconstitutional - by the ninth district court of appeals. It violates the establishment clause because of the phrase "under God". I'm no big fan of pledging allegiance to a flag, but this ruling is garbage. The judges responsible should be impeached and imprisoned. I heard on NPR this morning that some members of congress are saying that if the Supreme Court doesn't overrule the ninth circuit, they'll pass a constitutional amendment. Kuro5hin discussion here. Slashdot discussion here. From neitzsche at slashdot: [sierra]

I pledge alleigance to the RIAA
and to the corporations for which it stands,
One fascist organization, under what's-his-name
un-distributable
with tyanny, and injustice for all.

Sheriff Michael E. Cook at Sierra Times - Readers Questions Answered - The Sheriff answers a few questions about J.J. Johnson's article about electing a Sheriff. [sierra]

One question was: "Do you believe in reciprocity when it comes to concealed carry permits?" Many people don't understand (reciprocity). The easy way to explain that is you have a drivers license issued by your home state, you are allowed to drive in all other states on that license. That is reciprocity. I believe the same should apply to carry permits. Unlike some people however, I don't believe in carry permits. I feel that as long as you are not a convicted felon and can legally own a firearms, you should be allowed to carry it concealed. The honest citizen is not the one that needs to be feared.

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The bottom line is that the Sheriff is the only person you choose, by your vote, to protect you and you family against all enemies foreign and domestic and empower to protect your Constitutional Rights. That is why it is important to pick the right person. Please get involved and make a good choice. Don't pick a yes person who will roll over at the first sign of trouble.

ucblockhead at kuro5hin - Language Comparison, C#, C++ and Java (Technology) - One man's comparison of three different languages on Windoze. [kuro5hin]

KaosConMan at Slashdot - A Terabyte of Data on a Laptop Hard Drive - Wow! Not yet commercialized. [/.]

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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