Love Your Arteries: Eat Dark Chocolate

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:00:00 GMT
# Kevin Tuma - Homewreckers - cartoon commentary. The Supreme Court takes a wrecking ball to property rights. Not funny.

# Silver at WolfesBlog - The Nine Nazgul - even a better name than "whore" for the guys in black dresses. Hehe. [claire]

# L. Neil Smith at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Naked Supremes - angry commentary on Rodriguez v. Raich and Kelo v. New London. Recommendation: "Vote for No Incumbent". [tle]

Never mind that there is absolutely nothing in the Constitution--which represents the basic "operating system" for the United States government (See Article 1, Section 8, which spells it out in detail)--that gives it any power whatsoever to outlaw drugs or much of anything else.

Never mind that a century of drug laws--and hordes of mad-dog machinegun-toting cops swarming across the countryside enforcing them--have clearly damaged the nation more than any kind of drug ever did.

What's important, of course, is that the authority of the state never be questioned or challenged, and that the paychecks and pensions of the politicians and police never be threatened or diminished in any way. As Abraham Lincoln clearly demonstrated back in the 1860s by slaughtering 620,000 individuals simply to preserve an artificial political construct, no amount of suffering and death (other people's suffering and death, that is) is too much when political power is at stake.

This, of course, is what modern legal pundits mean when they refer to the Constitution as a "living" document--in the same way a loaf of bread can be said to be "living" when it's covered with mildew and maggots.

# Vin Suprynowicz at The Las Vegas Review-Journal - If Michael Kane isn't nuts, someone else is - take LSD, murder your friend, get put in the loony bin for insanity, get over the insanity, and Michael Kane may be a free man next month. All because of the myth that drugs make you do things you wouldn't otherwise do. Yes, they sometimes lower your inhibitions. No, that doesn't stop you from being responsible for your actions.

# Will Durst at AlterNet - Scoundrel City - on the difference between disparaging the troops and disparaging the idiots who are responsible for putting them in harms way. "War: bad. Troops: good." [progressivenews]

You're all so fired-up desperate to know what endangers our troops; I'll tell you what endangers our troops. Greedy cretinous toad leaders who send them 12,000 miles away to a desert to fight a war based on lies. Lies about the threat and lies about a phantom desire to negotiate. That is what is responsible for putting our troops in harm's way. The idiots who sent them into this, and yes, its time to say it out loud, this quagmire.

Quagmire, as in bottomless morass. Quagmire, as in Vietnam. A minor conflict that tore our country apart about three decades ago. Perhaps some of you patriotic Republicans remember? I know none of you bothered to serve over there, but you must have have seen a History Channel special on it. Does the movie "Apocalypse Now" ring a bell?

# Charley Reese at LewRockwell.com - We Live on the Frontier - common sense about the fact that the only way to effectively defend yourself is to do it yourself. And why a handgun is a very efficient self-defense tool. [lew]

Gun ownership involves responsibilities. You have a responsibility to keep your weapon in a safe and secure location, out of the reach of children. If you have children, you have a responsibility to teach them gun safety. You have a responsibility to become so familiar with your gun that you can use it in the dark under stress. You have a responsibility to become proficient with it -- at least proficient enough to put all your shots in a circle the size of a dinner plate. You have a responsibility to know the applicable laws and to obey them. Remember, the gun is an inanimate object with no brain. It will kill anybody or anything in front of the barrel when it's fired.

You must also decide ahead of any confrontation whether you are willing to take a human life. If you turn on the lights and your dead burglar is a 17-year-old kid with an angelic face, can you live with that? Can you face the family of the person you kill? Can you handle the police investigation? If the answers are "no" or "I don't know," then forgo the gun and buy pepper spray and running shoes.

# Reuters - Dark chocolate seen healthy for arteries - who'd have guessed? Dark chocolate, my favorite kind, is good for the cardiovascular system. In moderation, of course. [lew]

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