No Quarters

Well I will admit that I am amazed that they were so open on their view of us. With the turmoil of today it is hard to say anything bad about the Obama administration without being called a right wing hate filled tea bagger....but I'll try.

There is a rather well known phrase from the bible that is a good place to start. "When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things." I Cor. xiii. 11. Most of us here are adults and most of us here attempt to view things from an adult viewpoint. While we come to different conclusions we are very much not children...I hope. Sadly the nature of some comments I found in an article needs to be addressed and I would like your view of them.
From a Wall Street Journal Article.

When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu sees Americans as unruly teenagers and the Administration as the parent that will have to teach them a few lessons.
Speaking on the sidelines of a smart grid conference in Washington, Dr. Chu said he didn’t think average folks had the know-how or will to to change their behavior enough to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said. “The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.” (In that case, the Energy Department has a few renegade teens of its own.)

In so many ways I find this offensive as I have looked at the issues and come to a conclusion. To say that a conclusion that they might find in opposition to them as childish goes back to something I read long ago that has guided me in many ways when I view our government.

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher during the late 1700's. While some of his views were 'odd' there was one from his writings "Principles of Rights" that has struck me as being very important in todays society with our slowly encrouching government.

'No one has a right to compel me to be happy in the peculiar way in which he may think of the well-being of other men; but everyone is entitled to seek his own happiness in the way that seems to him best, if it does not infringe the liberty of others in striving after a similar end for themselves when their Liberty is capable of consisting with the Right of Liberty in all others according to possible universal laws.'*A Government founded upon the principle of Benevolence towards the people*after the analogy of a father to his children, and therefore called a paternal Government*would be one in which the Subjects would be regarded as children or minors unable to distinguish what is beneficial or injurious to them. These subjects would be thus compelled to act in a merely passive way; and they would be trained to expect solely from the Judgment of the Sovereign and just as he might will it, merely out of his goodness, all that ought to make them happy. Such a Government would be the greatest conceivable Despotism; for it would present a Constitution that would abolish all Liberty in the Subjects and leave them no Rights

.People throw around the term Socialist, Fascist and all other terms with little knowledge of what they really mean. I fins that using the term "paternalistic" works the best as it is understandable, and shows how both parties work towards the worst of Kant's Paternalistic government view.

We now have a member of the government admitting that yes we are living in Kant's paternalistic governmet. His honesty that we are ALL children and need to be guided by the parents should be offensive to both sides of the party spetrum.

It should be noted that the article ends with this blurb

Energy Department spokesman Dan Leistikow added: “Secretary Chu was not comparing the public to teenagers. He was saying that we need to educate teenagers about ways to save energy. He also recognized the need to educate the broader public about how important clean energy industries are to our competitive position in the global economy. He believes public officials do have an obligation to make their case to the American people on major legislation, and that’s what he’s doing.”

I simply feel his words are damning enough to feel Kant just rolled over in his grave. |

3 shots and 4 hits. he he.

After the men entered the store, they announced a robbery, and one, armed with a semiautomatic handgun, pistol-whipped an employee, police said.

From about 20 feet away, Augusto raised the shotgun and fired three blasts, hitting all four men, police said.

2 dead and 2 wounded....I wept...Wait! I laughed. Sorry. I get those words inverted.

Of course the article had to bring in the government to piss me off.

New York City police said they were investigating whether Augusto had a permit for the shotgun. The New York Times, quoting a law enforcement official, said on its Web site the district attorney was considering a possible misdemeanor weapons charge against Augusto, which would indicate he did not have a permit.

He just stopped a crime, and a crap load of future crimes in a obviously legal shooting and they hassle him over a damn permit. People wonder why I'm a libertarian.. It's crap like this that does it. |

This is one of them. |

I finished my BA in Liberal Studies. I'm taking the Fall off to get things in order and starting back to school in January on my Masters.

I'm going to be blogging here a little in the near future and having fun and reconnecting with some blogs that have fallen by the wayside. |

The idea has merit, but...but...but...I'm speechless. A Mosin Nagant home-made Sniper rifle.



Gunbroker link

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This is an interesting piece and if real likely kicks like a mule. |

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While the news is all aflutter about the 10 seconds of porn shown during the super bowl from Club Jenna, I wonder if the Club Jenna channel had to suffer through 10 seconds of the super bowl? |

Here is an article about a lovely Mexican beauty queen being caught with a whole pile of firearms and ammo. Instead of looking at the bathing suit image or the crowning image I instead get bothered they they don't have a better shot of the firearms.

I'm sick...just sick.

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New York Giant's Plaxico Burress has been in the news due to unsafe firearm handling. Well here is a funny take on the subject.
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Are they serious? Horiuchi?

I dislike the term Zombo'ed...or what ever the hell his name was, but this one is so offensive to me that I want to order a rifle just to cancel the order.

Thanks to Say Uncle for this nightmare endorsement.

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Dumb Blonde Loses Control of AK-47 - Watch more free videos |

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I think that while the Obama candidacy is worrying some people, you need to mix in that the stress of an economy in turmoil. Together they create a fear of the unknown and this reaction. I don't feel that Obama alone could have this affect. |

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, and politicians. All three need supervision. —DICK ARMEY

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Damn! I'm starting to sound like the democratic underground, but this shows bad taste, and a mindset that is worrisome.

The front of the black shirt shows the number "68" with a slash through it. One of the primary protest groups at last month's DNC in Denver called themselves "Recreate 68," harkening back to the violent, 1968 political convention in Chicago.

The back of the shirt features a menacing-looking police figure, wearing what looks like a Denver police badge and helmet and clutching a baton. He's looming over the city of Denver along with the slogan, "WE GET UP EARLY, to BEAT the crowds." Also written across the back of the shirt is "2008 DNC.'

Nothing like 'beat[ing] the crowds' to install respect and fear in the masses.

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This might seem small but the secret service has had a history of doing this. They simply demand that protesters be removed, then charge them with trespassing. God knows that a well run political machine does not allow for freedom of speech.

Here is a little info from the ACLU over this tactic from several years ago when it involved 'free speech' zones. They also dislike t-shirts and such.

It all comes down to one frightening issue. If she has the sign it is trespassing, if she gives it up she is okay. Speech denotes the crime. We are fucked people. Fucked.

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Assault with a deadly flower and their response at the RNC battle ground.



I feel like I am losing my mind when the 'unwashed' hippies and I are on the same side of this issue.

Also note that Baton beats face...literally.



They stepped in later to keep her from talking to the press. A whole pile of dung piled on your rights in those short 36 seconds of video. I like the police...I don't like the militant police.

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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —CHARLES A. BEARD

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In November the wrong person will be elected and we will be cursed with another 4 years of the same old crap. Which one is the wrong one...both.

This election has a Rolaids nature too it. I cannot look at either of the two front runners without feeling as if the air is thick and still like just before the approaching storm.

Hell. Normally I would say that the libertarian candidate is a person to look into, but Bob Barr is NO LIBERTARIAN. The man is a politician who is a supporter of the war on drugs, the marriage act, a person who voted for the patriot act and wanted to ban religions he did not like in the pentagon. This person was overlooked by his party so he tried futilely to morph into a libertarian...the sign of a true politician.

Even my fall back position of libertarian is a dead end.

November is going to be a bad month for this nation.

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