Labor Day 2003
Women are always sayin', "You men don't suffer like we do when we have labor pains." Bull. There's a pain that only men get that's so far above labor pains that you can't even find it on the pain chart. That's the pain when you take your girl to the movie theater, sit down beside her in the movie theater, put your arm around the back of her seat in the movie theater, and leave it there for TWO and a HALF hours. The blood starts to drain from your finger tips. She says, "Wha' choo doin'?" "I'm tryin' to save my arm."
Vin Suprynowicz at The Las Vegas Review-Journal - The IRS refused to answer her questions - Vin tells the story of the acquittal of Vernice Kuglin of tax evasion.
"I ended up with some really awesome attorneys. We had a really fair trial. ... I just told my story. I believe that the judge gave very good jury instructions, and Larry differentiated for them between the civil aspects of it and the `criminal willfulness.' I think the two letters I sent were very powerful."
Letters containing questions that have still not been answered?
"No they have not, and as Larry said in closing, had the IRS answered my questions in August and September of 1995 when I asked them, we would not be in court. They have not answered them and they cannot answer them. I believe no American is liable for the income tax. There is nothing that would make an American citizen liable for the individual income tax."
Butler Shaffer at LewRockwell.com - The Hitler Test - given a description of the Founding Fathers and Hitler as candidates, but without their names attached, Mr. Shaffer's classes used to pick Hitler 75% of the time. They're getting better these days. Only 52.3%. Maybe they're learning. [root]
Having had a brief taste of the brown-shirted culture of the present administration, perhaps enough Americans are rediscovering the significance of their own history. As the media lapdogs continue to recite their scripts and slobber on cue, it may prove to be the case that the "spirit of '76," with its love of liberty and distrust of governments, is still sufficiently engrained in the fabric of our society.
John Ross - Wal-Mart: Consumer Savior or the Scourge of Small Businesses? - the free market continues to keep in business those people who offer something more for your money, even in the age of Sam Walton's mega-super-stores.
We often look at the past with rose-colored glasses. It has never been terribly easy to make money in any kind of small business. And being big is no guarantee, either--look at KMart. Sticking with firearms, consider the challenges that gunshop owners faced in the past: Pre-1968, people could buy guns and ammo through the mail. Ten years ago, there were many more Federal Firearms Licensees that weren't stocking dealers, compared to now. The smaller gunshop of yesteryear is rarer today, but many of the savvy ones are making a living dealing 100% in used guns on consignment, something Wal-Mart is unlikely ever to attempt. Others combine their shops with on-site ranges with gun rentals, another marketing advantage Wal-Mart will never have.
William Stone, III at The Libertarian Enterprise - Professional Paranoid - Mr. Stone proves that there are no terrorists in America. It's all a hoax perpetrated by the government to convince the sheeple to give up their liberty. [tle]
If there were hundreds of thousands of terrorists in this country, there would necessarily be thousands of basements filled with cheap, easy-to-make pipe bombs to choose from for the job of terrorizing Mount Rushmore's tourists. They would throw a few into a knapsack, spend a few extra dollars for a timed detonator, and rent a car in Rapid City. They'd then arrive at Mount Rushmore in time for the lighting ceremony, take a seat in the center of the crowd, and quietly slide their knapsack under the concrete bench in the amphitheater. They'd then leave, ostensibly to go to the bathroom (if an excuse is even necessary), get in their car and drive back to Rapid. With appropriate timing, about the time their car hits the town of Keystone, the explosive will go off, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. They'd then return the rental car in Rapid and disappear back into obscurity.
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There is nothing -- literally nothing -- preventing the devious terrorists the FedGov claims exist from performing such acts every day. And yet, such acts never occur. Not today, not yesterday, and not ever.
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How can we account for this discrepancy? How can there exist terrorist in the United States -- each capable of coming up with schemes far more nefarious than my paranoid musings -- and yet, no terrorist acts of this type have ever been committed?
The answer is simple: there are no terrorists. If there were, we'd see their acts every day. Terrorism wouldn't be confined to US-occupied countries like Iraq, they would literally occur every day somewhere in the United States, in a manner similar to -- or worse than -- that which I outlined.
Joseph Knight, modified by Mike Blessing, at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Social Contract - an honest rendition of what the "social contract" really includes. Would be funny if it weren't so true. [tle]
SECTION 7: I agree that the Government may change these terms at any time and hold me fully liable if I fail to abide by these or any other terms. The Government may enter, search, or seize my home and other property without my consent or knowledge to ensure compliance, and the Government may confiscate or destroy my property, imprison me, or kill me with impunity at any time.
Signature is optional. Existence as a life force is presumed consent.
Todd Andrew Barnett at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Insanity of the Anti-Bambi Hunt Agenda - normal people of all stripes disgusted about hunting naked women with paint ball guns, but since it's consensual behavior between adults, it ain't nobody's legal business. But you knew that. [tle]
Mike Straw at The Libertarian Enterprise - Crime Doesn't Pay! - if your intended victim is armed. A long screed on who was really responsible for 9/11, whether they had anything to do with its planning or execution or not. [tle]
Perhaps he had a particular woman all picked out, ready to strike, and decided against it at the last moment when he perceived the confident gait and assertive expression borne as a result of the womans new-found joy, pride and self-esteem at the discovery that, for the first time in her life, she was dependant on no "other person" to protect her, didn't have to cringe, terrified, waiting uncertainly, wondering when -- if -- someone else would finally rescue the poor, defenseless damsel in dire distress.
I only know that since they audaciously chose to become legally defensively armed, there are six thousand confident and assertive women still alive, ebulliently enjoying the full measure of their productive lives and I don't care why.
They, like us, have a right to live.
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If only ten percent of the passengers on one of the doomed airliners on September eleventh 2001 had chosen to live up to their responsibilities as unorganized Militia members and decided to carry, there would have been twenty to thirty champions, like Todd Beamer, to face the enemies of liberty.
Do you think the outcome would have been different?
Due to the sheer premeditated criminal cowardice of self-important social fascists like Boxer, Clinton, Daschle, Feinstein, Kennedy, Kerrey, Lautenberg, Lott, McCain, Reno, Schumer, and Thurmond, over three thousand innocent Americans were murdered without even a chance to justly defend themselves!
More people, innocent citizens, not military combatants, were killed on September eleventh 2001 than died at Pearl Harbor.
More people, innocent citizens, not military combatants, were killed on September eleventh 2001 than died on D-Day.
This gang of devil social fascist tyrants is the same one that whispered in the appreciative ears of bin Laden, Hussein, Khomeni, Pol Pot, Tse-Tung, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, and Caligula, and they most assuredly deserve the same fate!
Were engaged in a war against evil and tyranny, and cowardice in the face of the enemy is a capital offense.
