Chocolate Mint Pie
I posted my mother's recipe for Chocolate Mint Pie. Butter, sugar, chocolate, eggs, & mint in a graham cracker crust. Yum!
Gunnery Network - Women & Guns - photos of beautiful women holding firearms. Part of their huge selection of firearms-related graphics. [notreasonblog]
Brainslug.org via The Cult of the Dead Cow - damn spam - a letter from "the widow of the late President George W. Bush of the United States of America" in the style of the Nigerian spam that we all get occasionally. Hehehehehehehehe. [deadcow]
DavidIcke.com (pronounced "Ike", not "Ick") is worth a visit, for comic relief if nothing else. I know you'll want to take the red pill, but take the blue pill first for some laughs. Some really out there stuff. Beware the Illuminati! [deadcow]
David Icke's words are designed to inspire all of us to be who we really are, to fling open the door of the mental prison we build for ourselves and to walk into the light of freedom.
JeffOtto.com is an interesting place. He sells (or at least talks about) Technology Products using Tesla and other unusual energy ideas and Health Products, including Chet Day's 5 Secret Tibetan Rejuvenation Rites. But My Covenant with the Lord and God's Law were more interesting to me (Christian flavored sovereignty). I can't vouch for the veracity of any of the claims on the product pages. I haven't bought anything from him, and some of the claims sound bogus to me, but his pages are certainly interesting. Added to my links page.
J.D. Tuccille at CivilLiberty.About.Com - Travel at your own risk: Is your name on the no-fly list? - the airport gestapo (er... Transportation Security Adminstration) has a "no-fly" list. If your name is on it, they won't let you get on an airplane. Funny thing, though... noone will say how names get on the list. [smith2004]
On your next trip to the airport, think about the cops, tax collectors and politicians you may have angered over the years. Could any of them have put a red flag next to your name?
Patrick K Martin at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Shelter - reflections on our world in the light of one of Mr. Martin's favorite Twilight Zone episodes. [tle]
The threat of terrorism was ignored in this country for more than thirty years. Highjackings, bombings, shootings, these things failed to excite any desire to defend ourselves, people just went on with their lives oblivious to any threat to themselves. After all these were just isolated events that happened to other people in other places. Of course when the twin towers fell this changed, suddenly everybody looked around and realized that trained, organized killers had all of us in their sights. The response was to leap into the arms of the statist's who proclaimed a willingness to protect them, if they just give up a few of those silly constitutional rights.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr at The Libertarian Enterprise - Lay Low the Rich - what the tax dissidents apear to have forgetten. [tle]
The line on these people is that they are crazy and paranoid. Quite the opposite is true. The problem with these people is not that they do not trust the state. It is that they trust it too much.
They believe government courts would actually rule against the interests of the government. They believe that the tax authorities would actually feel trapped by a literal reading of the tax code. They believe that this is still a nation of laws -- laws that can be read and understood by the common man -- rather than a nation run by bandits out to get every dime.
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Another claim of these people is that the income-tax authorizing 16th Amendment wasn't validly ratified. I'm prepared to believe that. I'm prepared to believe that amendments 11 through whatever the latest one is were not validly ratified. But what does that matter? Many of the states that originally entered the union did so on the condition that they could peacefully leave if they wanted to, and we know how that turned out.
For that matter, I'm prepared to believe that the Constitution itself was never validly ratified, and that the near-anarchism of the Articles of Confederation should be our guiding light. Whether that is true or not, however, is of purely academic interest. This country is run by a voracious regime of tax eaters and imperialists who care nothing about liberty, tradition, the ideals of the founding, Christian morality, and the like. Appealing to these considerations is like explaining the virtue of chastity to a rapist. It's a pious act, but not likely to affect the outcome.
Kevin Tuma at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Myth of GOP Conservatism: The Ugly Truth about the Republican Party - I know Mr. Tuma only through his cartoons. Nice to see an essay. Guess I should hang out more often at EtherZone. [tle]
It is time for a realistic assessment: We are living in a Police State right now. Not six months from now. Not ten years down the road. Not if someone we do not like gets elected President. Not if all our guns are taken away.
Right now.
The only reason you are reading this article here is because they haven't started censoring political dissent on the Internet ... yet. There are many evils that have not been implemented to date, but the mechanical apparatus of totalitarianism is completely in place, oiled, idling, and ready for use, thanks to the War On Terror.
Jim Duensing at The Libertarian Enterprise - Lady Liberty Dropped Her Torch - and it's burning away our civil liberties. Pick it up. Carry it proudly. Liberty! [tle]
Americans should not be content that they currently enjoy more freedoms than Kurds in Iraq, Christians in China, or Kalifornians.
America is the greatest country in the world because it is the freest in the world. It is the freest in the world because it is the only nation in the world founded, not upon race or ethnicity, but upon an idea. That idea, the founding act of American government, is a declaration that whenever government becomes destructive to the ends of liberty it is the right and the duty of the people to alter or abolish it. In short, an American is defined as someone willing to defend freedom, even if it means abolishing the current governmental order.
Ted Smalley Bowen at Technology Research News - Scheme hides Web access - an overview of Infranet, an idea for circumventing web censorship and surveillance created by Nick Feamster, Magdalena Balazinska, Greg Harfst, Hari Balakrishnan, and David Karger at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and reported at the Usenix Security '02 conference in August. Uses proxy servers that appear to the surveillor to be regular web sites. [grabbe]
