War with Iraq

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 06 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT

Kevin Tuma - Yoyo - cartoon commentary on the bear market. Hehe.

russmo.com - Shysters - cartoon commentary on recent accounting scams. Grin.

"...[T]he views of professional and religious organizations and the result of opinion polls are irrelevant. Equally irrelevant are the practices of the 'world community' whose notions of justice are (thankfully) not always those of our people. We must never forget that it is the Constitution of the United States that we are expounding...." -- Justice Antonin Scalia

and:

"Federal spending is wildly out of control. Federal taxes now consume more of the legitimate private economy than at any time in our nation's history except WW II. The federal budget is full of billions in unconstitutional and wasteful pork, and no serious person can argue otherwise.... An income tax would be wholly unnecessary if Congress restrained itself and spent your tax dollars only on legitimate constitutional functions like national defense." --Rep. Ron Paul

and:

"Wall Street is in trouble. This is your fault. Yes, I am talking to YOU, Mr. or Ms. Small Investor. Wall Street is getting sick and tired of your namby-pamby 'wait and see' attitude toward the stock market. Wall Street wants you to show some courage and resume handing your money over to Wall Street, the way you did back in the excellent 1990s, when we had a New Economy, and leading Wall Street analysts were touting all these amazing new companies that were in the exciting new business of ... OK, nobody really knew what exact business they were in, but it was NEW! Back then, the message from Wall Street, as expressed in TV commercials for brokerage firms, was that if you gave them your money, in three or four weeks you would reap gigantic profits, then retire to a lifestyle in which the hardest work you had to do was think of names for your polo ponies. Unfortunately, things did not work out that way. It turned out that we did not have a New Economy, and that leading Wall Street stock analysts were, to put it charitably, smoking crack. It turned out that you would have been better off, from an investment standpoint, if you had fed your retirement nest egg, a quarter at a time, into a Skee-Ball machine. So, OK, Wall Street made a mistake. We all make mistakes! But now Wall Street is graciously willing to let bygones be bygones, and would very much like to win back investor confidence, in the form of money. ...But the point is, Wall Street is in trouble, and things are not going to get better until you, the small investor, stop selfishly thinking about yourself all the time. It's time for you to show some guts and gather together whatever money you have been able to acquire since the last time you got nailed by Wall Street, and send it to Wall Street. Just do it! Wall Street needs your money: NOW! That crack stuff is not cheap." --Dave Barry

From Quotes of the Day:

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. -- Berton Averre

and:

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -- Henry Kissinger

and:

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. -- Mickey Rooney

and:

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. -- Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.

and:

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. -- Bert Leston Taylor

I've finished the basic BlogMax code to create month indices. The index for August is 0208.html and July is 0207.html. I don't have these hooked into my daily upload code, so I have to ftp them up by hand right now. Tell me what you think.

I've decided not to do a year index. It would either be a bunch of links to the month indices and day pages, with only day titles to go on, or it would contain all the month indices for the entire year. The former isn't very useful. The latter would be nice, but it's too big (500K for July). I don't want that much of a bandwidth or disk space hit on my site.

Harry Browne at World Net Daily - Say 'bye, bye' to prescription drugs - why the new prescription drug "benefit" for seniors will make everyone's prescription drugs cost more.

Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - Will Congress Debate War with Iraq? - Probably not. GW will likely send our young men into harm's way without any more than last week's sham Senate hearings. Even though the Constitution requires a declaration of war from Congress before the president executes it.

The Senate Foreign Relations committee spent much of last week hearing testimony about Iraq. A second U.S. invasion of Iraq seems a foregone conclusion, as the testimony focused not on the wisdom of such an invasion, but rather only on how and when it should be done. Never mind that our own State department and CIA have stated that Iraq is not involved in terrorism; never mind that we're not discussing some of our so-called allies like Saudi Arabia, which actually funded and harbored those responsible for September 11th. None of those testifying questioned for a minute the President's absolute authority to order a military invasion at will.

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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