the IDIOT

liz goodwin:

An Arizona man is in trouble with his homeowners’ association over flying the Gadsden flag, which features a coiled rattlesnake and the words “Don’t Tread on Me.” […]

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LRC’s dunce david kramer needs an editor. badly. this would drop his LRC blog output by ~95%.

in his first post today he asserts that there are not three ways a state raises money, but two. this is because “borrowing” must always be paid back with stolen wealth.

good point in isolation, but what of his sticking with counterfeiting and theft as the two remaining ways? absurd. there is only one method of the state enriching itself, and it is theft. this includes “borrowing”, “taxation”, and counterfeiting (printing “money” others are forced — as in force — to use).

update 20100901:
what a fucking undeservedly arrogant bootlick child. he now writes, (more…)

note to “science” “professors”: saying “conservation of angular momentum” explains dick. noting the parameters of a physical “law” doesn’t explain it. pretending otherwise is the great dodge of modern formal “education”. in its simplest form the dodge goes no further than mere invocation of the relevant buzzword. putrid. (more…)

Chickenhawk Mob

Posted by Lew Rockwell on August 26, 2010 03:32 PM

It’s not often that I root for Al Sharpton, but anyone competing with the Glenn Beck pro-war rally tomorrow at the DC Abe temple is OK with me. But Glenn: M.L. King–whom the neocon Beck heralds–was an opponent of war and the US empire. How about quoting some of this at your anti-Muslim bloodfest?

They won’t build it! Hardhats vow not to work on controversial mosque near Ground Zero

oy. you shall have no other gods before me but 9/11.

well, chest-buffeting buffoons, if you’re going to be pissed and oh so civil-religious over 9/11, put away your fedgoon flags and slap yourself with some real; damned few muslims are “terrorists” (whatever that means), but 100% of fedgoons rule by force and are a willing part of the company who, after promising for hundreds of years to protect your worthless asses, fucked all away to a level shaming even the most incompetent pizza delivery driver. (more…)

he pretty much nails the dilemma facing all toward-totalitarianism pukes. almost fun watching the morons switch sides to match their crotches.

Private Property Rights and “The Mosque”

Posted by Bill Anderson on August 15, 2010 12:54 PM

Apparently, the lines are drawn with President Obama’s recent declaration of tepid support for the Islamic center to be built near the “Ground Zero” 9-11 site. Many Republicans, obviously, are using this to spread fear and gets votes, but the Democrats easily could debate the GOP on the Republicans’ own intellectual ground, yet it seems that the Dems are incapable of so doing.

What is that argument? It is the simple invocation of private property rights. (No, the Islamic center would NOT qualify as an “externality” under any current definitions.) However, neither Obama nor his fellow Democrats are willing to do that, since “Progressives” believe that private property rights generally are oppressive and must give way to “public interest” arguments. Now that we have a real-live property rights issue, the Democrats are intellectually bankrupt and the Republicans are outright craven. What a choice.

how the LRC/LvMI children swoon over “Judge Napolitano”, loving his goon title, always adoring their smoking-jacket guild codes. professor schzmurfl, how lovely to see you! doctor wharbenfhratzen, you are presenting a paper at this conference? doctor-representative paul, your truly exceptional holiness! pope ratzmyass, consecrate my shorts!

fucking horrible.

recommended

not a huge fan of jan helfeld, and liberty geeks will see this setup a mile away, but please find me a vid more clarifying than this 2-min clip:

completely destroys the exalted holy foundation of that shit rag the “United States Constitution”. how has it taken hundreds of years for this message to be widely distributed? no more wait, baby.

well, i’ve had it with morons bleating “Broken Window Fallacy”, in error, every lone indicator they sniff. this post will be updated with whatever fun bullshit’s written to me in the comments of this vid from here.

as with much argument, asserting BWF w/o foundation is simply cowardly straw man for the sole purpose of making your opponent look stupider than his argument alone. what appeals so strongly to “BWF!” bleaters is precisely how obviously stupid the fallacy is. however, it’s so stupid that even most stupid masochists of the state don’t assert it outside of their holy war fixation. the BWF-bleaters want the associated absurdity tainting their opponents without the opponents meeting all the criteria of BWF, the most outrageous of which being acclaim for and defense of a destruction layer before the layers dealt with as a complete package elsewhere in bastiat’s book.

my initial comment on the vid: (more…)

boston.com:

The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote. [...]

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The Importation of Intelligent Thought

Posted by Butler Shaffer on July 25, 2010 03:07 PM

My wife and one of my daughters prevailed upon me, this morning, to make a trip to our favorite French restaurant to pick up some wonderful French pastries for them. The woman who waited on me at the pastry counter was probably in her fifties, with a decided European — probably German — accent. After boxing up my selections, she informed me that the charge was “$13.90.” I replied that “1390 was probably an interesting year.” She responded “that was after the Dark Ages,” to which I added “yes, but the Dark Ages were not as bad or as ‘dark’ as we have been conditioned to believe.” She agreed, reminding me that 1390 was “about the start of the Renaissance.” As I drove home, I wondered with how many other persons I would have to engage in such a conversation to get similar responses.

“Intelligent Thought”. WTF. $13.90? “ah yes, i’ve something for that. ahem…

“Probably an interesting year!”

pant. pant.

“oh well, sir, allow me to retort. and here i go.”

ponder the probable instant orgasm if his verbal noise partner had quoted a latin phrase. there’s a nirvana anecdote for the smoking jacket crowd.

was stunned yesterday reading this accurate headline, rare for its construction:

Daughter urges Okla. voters to not vote for father

most self-styled grammarians leap to their “look at me” buzzers and nearly trample one another to be the first to smooge, “forsooth, a split infinitive. oh dear.” (more…)

blackmail is a market transaction. buying silence, tiger woods allegedly ups the payout to his ex. gloria “worthless cunt on wheels” allred greases deals for her clients to remain silent.

why “legal”? only because these deals went through guildists, anointed by the official crime syndicate. how many more of these obvious exposures are required before herbert p. normalon sees there’s no difference between this and any offer to withhold for money the publication of information peaceably obtained?

the “crime” of blackmail is yet another barbaric relic preserved via the disgrace of fools who believe everything they’re told in “higher education” or courtrooms.

chris manion’s apparently lost it. this post is worse than on its face, for he used to know aristotelian logic.

Pride Goeth Before The Fall

Posted by Christopher Manion on May 16, 2010 02:42 PM

The word “tragedy,” properly employed, denotes a particular genre of drama or literature that features a main character defined by one dictionary as a person “impelled by moral weakness or psychological maladjustment” – or hubris — “exaggerated pride or self-confidence.”

So I find it interesting that a Detroit police chief calls the shooting of seven-year-old Aiyana Jones by a SWAT team member “a tragedy of unspeakable magnitude to Aiyana’s parents.”

So Aiyana’s parents are the ones “impelled by moral weakness or psychological maladjustment… and exaggerated pride or self-confidence”?

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