One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato
An unarmed man can only flee from evil and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. -- Col. Jeff Cooper
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -- Carl Sagan (while not originally intended for rabid gun-banners... it fits!)
"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." -- [former] Texas State Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp (TX-54, 1997-2007).
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." -- George Orwell
"Son, When your in the dog house you just have to find a new place to bury the bone!! -- spaceghost's grandpa
"You can't have in a democracy various groups with arms - you have to have the state with a monopoly on power." -- Condoleeza Rice (she should know better)
"The Constitution may not be perfect, but it beats whatever the government is using."
"The firearm is a tool used to fight for freedom; blood is the price to purchase it; eternal vigilance is the debt we owe to preserve it. I have never defaulted on a debt and I’m not about to start." – Frank Antenori
I'm transplanted from TX to VA - an "open carry" state since 1607... -- anonymous arfcom member
"The absolute worst laws take Democrats to pass them and Republicans to execute them... and vice versa." -- Mary Syma (paraphrasing, as best and as close as I can remember)
"I am a libertarian with a small l and a Republican with a capital R. And I am a Republican with a capital R on grounds of expediency, not on principle." (friedman)
Just one final statement, I've been sitting here getting more and more fed up with all of this talk about these pieces of machinery having no legitimate sporting purpose; no legitimate hunting purpose. People, that is not the point of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting. And I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about all rights, all of our rights to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there. (hupp)
"In the year 2000.... Men will actually begin desiring women who have great personalities. In a related story, breasts will be renamed 'personalities'."
“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.” -- Justice Hugo Black
"Tattoos aren't for everyone, but they're too damn good for some people!" -- anon
"The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup." -- unknown
"It is, it seems, politically impossible for a capitalistic democracy to organize expenditure on the scale necessary to make the grand experiments which would prove my case — except in war conditions” - John Maynard Keynes
Girls are like pianos.....when they're not upright, they're Grand! -- Benny Hill
"One does not accumulate, but eliminate. It is not daily increase, but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity." -- Bruce Lee
We are so in debt to China that President Obama had to visit their president in his first year in office. It was an important meeting between the most powerful communist leader in the world and the president of China. -- columnist Ron Hart, writing in The Daily Caller
Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley
Yes eggs will be broken and omlets, once again, will fail to be made
"Patriots are not revolutionaries trying to overthrow government. Patriots are counter-revolutionaries trying to prevent government from overthrowing the U.S. Constitution."
In the long run, we're all dead. -- John Maynard Keynes
At least she spared us the tired old bromide about "wanting to spend more time with her family"...which would be who, the other two ladies in the first scene of "Macbeth"? -- Dave Williams| 6.10.10 @ 1:22PM
"Hoka Hey! Today is a good day to die." -- Crazy Horse
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." -- Goethe
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." -- Lao Tzu, father of Taoism, author of the Tao Te Ching (apocryphal), grandfather of Buddhism (apocryphal)
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." -- Ayn Rand14
"I wish people could make the distinction between what government has the authority to legislate and what they personally believe." -- random insight from a commenter at Reason.com
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has!" -- Martin Luther
Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns. -- Brainy gremlin from Gremlins II
Is ours a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools? -- James Russell Lowell
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be."
"The problem with a free market in currency is that it increases transparency and accountability. These may not be problems for you and me, but they are for people in power." -- Nick Sorrentino of The Liberty and Economics Review
"Anarchy does not mean no rulers, it means chaos, according to... our rulers."
Chickenhawk n.: One whose thirst for war is inversely proportional to one's proximity to combat. Also see: Boortz, Neal; Hannity, Sean; Shapiro, Benjamin; Kristol, William; Limbaugh, Rush; O'Reilly, William; Podhoretz, John...
Neocons are people who desire war, but know nothing about it.
"You know when the media reports on something you know a lot about and it makes you angry that they got most of the important stuff wrong? Now stop and think that it's probably that way for EVERYTHING, you just don't know enough to be aware of it."
White House chief propagandist Robert "Goebbels" Gibbs was grilled by the press corps for the administrations continued lack of transparency. When "Goebbels" was asked why the press wasn't allowed in, he responded:
"We'll have a nice picture from Pete (White House photographer) that will demonstrate that type of transparency."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle (attributed)
"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely." —Hesketh Pearson
"Disingenuous or not, the Democratic Party needs to DROP the assault weapons ban; most of these embedded prohibitionists have the same attitude toward guns as "abstinence-only" folks have toward sex: ignorance is pure, knowledge is dirty." -- SteveM, Democratic Underground
“If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in”
Dr. Cox: You are, in fact, a perfectly healthy 26-year-old doctor who keeps whining about how horrible his father was.
J.D.: Well, he did some considerable emotional damage, so...
Dr. Cox: Every one of our parents does considerable emotional damage, and from what I've heard, it just might be the best part of being a parent. Now, if some guy ever does put a ring on your finger and you're lucky enough to pop out a youngster, I'm sure you'll understand. But for now, believe me when I tell you I wouldn't care if this was the first time you ever met your daddy. Because, in reality... well, he could have done a much, much worse job.
Dr. Cox: I became a doctor for the same four reasons that everybody does - chicks, money, power and chicks.
Dr. Cox: Boy oh boy, does it look like you pissed off the wrong guy there, crunchy! And trust me, he'll make ya pay.
Dr. Clock: Oh, Dr. Kelso's all bluster. Underneath it all, I'll bet he's a sweetheart.
Dr. Cox: No no, underneath it all, he is pure evil.
Dr. Clock: Perry, no one's pure evil! I mean, yes, some people have a hard outer shell, but inside, everybody has a creamy center.
Dr. Cox: There are plenty of people, here, on this particular planet who are hard on the outside and on the inside!
Dr. Clock: So they'd have more of a nougaty center?
Dr. Cox: Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard fillings. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine.
Dr. Clock: [rubbing Dr. Cox's stomach and speaking in a sing-song voice] I'm touching your creamy center!
J.D.: You see, surgical and medical interns are kinda like two rival gangs. Not real gangs, more like those cheesy gangs you see in Broadway musicals.
Turk: This is the reason why your headache didn't go away: That's actually pronounced analgesic, not anal-gesic. Sir, the pills go in your mouth.
Dr. Kelso: Dr. Reid, this is not "Bring Your Problems to Work" Day. This is just "Work" Day.
Janitor: Some hooligan keeps disconnecting the alarm. I told Security to look into it. But no, no, they'd rather catch the guy who's stealing organs from the transplant ward.
Dr. Cox: Okay, think of what little patience I have as... oh, I don't know... your virginity. You always thought it would be there, until that night Junior Year when you were feeling a little down about yourself and your pal Kevin, who just wanted to be friends... well, he dropped by, and he brought a copy of "About Last Night" and a four-pack of Bartles & Jaymes and woo hoo hoo, it was gone forever - just like my patience is now.
Dr. Cox: ...And bam! The shine's off the apple. And that's when you find out that that pretty little girl you married isn't a pretty little girl at all. No, she's a man-eater. And I'm not talking about the "whoa-whoa, here she comes" kind of man-eater. I'm talking about the kind that uses your dignity as a dishtowel to wipe up any shreds of manhood that might be stuck inside the sink. Of course, I may have tormented her from time to time; but, honest to God, that's what I thought marriage was all about. So much so that, by the end of that relationship, I honestly don't know who I hated more - her or me? I used to sit around and wonder... why our friends weren't trying to destroy each other, like we were. And here, it turns out, the answer's pretty simple: They weren't unhappy. We were.
GD is the ARFCOM equivalent of Section 8 housing. What else would you expect from people in the projects? ~ TxLawDog
Do not call attention to yourself and invite the man into your life. ~ Bama-Shooter
As Mrs. Pelosi's senior health adviser, Wendell Primus, explained ... House Democrats would pass a series of 'fixes' to the Senate bill. The Senate would then pass the House reconciliation bill, sending amendments to President Obama to a bill that -- strictly speaking -- didn't exist, because it hadn't yet emerged from the House. The House would then retroactively pass the Senate bill as is. Democrats say this will all be kosher as long as Mr. Obama signs the Senate bill before he signs the reconciliation bill. 'There's a certain skill, there's a trick,' Mr. Primus conceded, 'but I think we'll get it done.' So even as Democrats themselves acknowledge that one reason the public hates ObamaCare so much is the corrupt tactics they have used to advance it through Congress, they still plan to try to land this Pelosian triple-handspring-quadruple pole vault to passage." --The Wall Street Journal
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-50658
"No man can satisfy any woman on Valentines Day because they don't have a penis made of chocolate that is wrapped in money and ejaculates diamonds."
"Campaign finance laws are a bit like gun control statutes: actual criminals continue to possess large stockpiles of weapons, but law-abiding citizens are disarmed." -- Glenn Greenwald, "What the Supreme Court got right," Salon, Jan 22, 2010. (http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/22/citizens_united/index.html)
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - Richard Bach
"Elephants and Asses screwing the masses." -- James William Maier, commenting on Brandi Duncan's photo, 01/24/2010 (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11021016&id=762675584&comments)
"In the year 2000.... men will actually begin desiring women who have great personalities. In a related story, breasts will be renamed 'personalities'."
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - Richard Bach
"[The United States] can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..." - President Bill Clinton March 1, 1993 during a press conference in Piscataway, NJ.
"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States repealing the Second Amendment to the Constitution." - H.J. Res. 81, Jan.27, 1993.
This thread is proof positive that crack doesn't smoke itself. -- Quintin (arfcom)
"I have the pleasure of drinking too much in my post-menopausal incarnation. I like tequila, really expensive kinds … straightup. I hate alcoholics and AA… If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze." -- Roseanne Barr
Geez, no wonder it takes so long - your statute has 15 disqualifying factors, only a few of which have anything at all to do with carrying a handgun. Unpaid parking tickets are apparently enough to disqualify you and strip you of your Article 1 Section 23 right to armed self-defense!! Unbelievable!
How does a defaulted student loan, an unpaid parking ticket, or unpaid child support have anything to do "with a view to prevent crime?!?"
Whoever drafted this law royally screwed gun owners and the Texas Constitution - 411.177(b) is essentially rendered utterly meaningless by its subparagraph (3). What's the point, except for show, of imposing a deadline on bureaucrats if there's no mandate associated with the deadline?
Here in New Hampshire, they have to either issue the license by the 14th day, or deny it for cause. Period. If it takes them longer than 14 days to make a determination, tough luck - they must, by law, issue it on the 14th day regardless, and then revoke it if a disqualifying piece of information turns up.
Not only that, Texas views a CHL as a "benefit" - "anything reasonably regarded as economic gain or advantage" - not a right, in spite of Article 1 Section 23.
You guys should consider filing 39.03 "official oppression" complaints against these deadline-violators: "intentionally denies or impedes another in the
exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege, power, or immunity,
knowing his conduct is unlawful;"
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=296255
Not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, "Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!"
1 Samuel 13:19
Sec. 23. RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in the lawful defense of himself or the State; but the Legislature shall have power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world"
"The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." - Samuel Adams, November 4, 1775
"I don't care what other people think of me because what is important is what I think of them." -- wganz, arfcom, quoting his grandfather
"We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." -- Abraham Lincoln
Don't think you aren't living under a tyranny just because your views coincide with the tyrant's.
"War is politics with blood; politics is war without blood," Gingrich said, citing Mao.
"Send me a fucking link now or suffer a fate so terrible entire libraries will have to be constructed to contain all the books your anguish will fill." --Dark Charisma
Originally Posted By Chas8008:
Originally Posted By damcv62:
If you killed it, dressed it, grilled it, and its sitting on a hot blondes bare ass drapped in bacon with a couple of full autos for arms, inside of your ammo fort, I'd say you would get 10's across the board.
Only if you use your own reloaded bullets.
"I think driving a deuce and a half with a load of strippers in the back to a Buger King drive thru to dine one the Dollar menu with a auto M-16 would work." -- Chas8008 arfcom
"If you killed it, dressed it, grilled it, and its sitting on a hot blondes bare ass drapped in bacon with a couple of full autos for arms, inside of your ammo fort, I'd say you would get 10's across the board." -- damcv62 arfcom
Originally Posted By Pat_Rogers:
A weapons mounted light will always have the advantages of:
Both hands on gun, just as in daylight
Reloading/malfunction clearance as in daylight
Faster to bring into action
Mounted coaxial with the bore
Any work guns i have use a weapon mounted light>
Additionally i have a hand held light for admin issues.
"Remember, a superior gunman is best defined as one who regularly uses his superior judgment and communication skills, so he doesn't find himself in situations which require the use of his superior gun and tactical skills!" -- John Farnam
"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity." -- Douglas Horton
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso
"There is a tremendous difference between shooting methods that work well when you're simply trying to put holes in the target and those that work well when the target is trying to put holes in you. Failing to understand this difference is a mistake that will get you killed if you ever have to use your handgun in a real armed confrontation." -- Col Applegate
"In a moral point of view, the superiority of frugality over luxury is indisputable." -- Frederic Bastiat, That Which Is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen, Ch.11 (2nd to last paragraph)
"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary." --Ayn Rand
"As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials." -- Newt Gingrich
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -- William Butler Yeats
I do not believe that having a firearm on my person 'invites' violence or trouble any more than simply carrying a wallet will some day cause me to be a millionaire. -- JB, KTOG forum
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." -- Kurt Cobain
Sometimes good people have to do bad things to bad people to prevent bad people from doing bad things to good people.
"With confidence, you have won before you have started." -- Marcus Garvey
"I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken."
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'" -- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th US President
"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity." -- Douglas Horton
"The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup." -- unknown
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
"The greatest thing a Father can do for his children is to love their Mother." -- Harold B. Lee
"It looks like we have accepted this notion [that] perpetual war leads to perpetual peace." -- Ron Paul, 2:10-2:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDQ-QXtXcg
"I can tell you one thing: If [Illinois] isn’t the most corrupt state in the United States, its certainly one hell of a competitor." -- FBI special agent Robert Grant
"If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor. Even the most cynical agents in our office were shocked." -- Robert Grant, special agent in charge of the FBI's Chicago office, quoted by the Chicago Tribune, characterizing Illinois' place "in the pantheon of political ...
"Only in politics would you bribe people to act, then declare that they'd better not be acting just to get the bribe." -- Neal McCluskey
"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -- George Carlin
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein
"Caucasians are not going to let their standard of living be destroyed by Negroes, Chinamen, Japs, or any other." -- Samuel Gompers
"[The American Federation of Labor was] the most wicked machine for the propagation of race prejudices in the country." -- early civil-rights leader A. Philip Randolph
"President Obama wants to put people in jail if they don’t buy health insurance. Give that man a peace prize!" -- Michael Cannon, article in Politico
NS: Do you have any advice for the nerds on how to get girls?
Phil Baroni: Do steroids, lift heavy weights, get contacts, go tanning. And stop playing all those gay f*cking video games. You can?t get pussy in front of a TV playing games with your geeky friends. Go out to night clubs and bars, hit the beach. If you got money, floss. Whatever you do, don?t be yourself.
"I don't care what the newspapers say about me, as long as they spell my name right." -- P.T. Barnum
"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand." -- Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"The, uh, ethics of, uh, business... can be summarised in... Yeah, um... See... Ethics are, uh... You know, the... the thing about ethics..." -- Eric, Billy Madison
1. "first do no harm"
2. "sometimes bad things happen and there is nothing you can do about it"
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
"So many things the government does are attempts to circumvent the bad things caused by something else they already do." -- The curious task, by Russ Roberts on October 6, 2009, in Financial Markets (Cafe Hayek)
"Capitalists with government help…the worst of all economic phenomenon." -- Ayn Rand
"The regulations are creating robber barons, they are creating capitalists with government help, which is the worst of all economic phenomenon."
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." -- A.J. Liebling
"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand"-Unknown
Karen, to Jack: "Oh you'll do it. You'll do it the same way any self-respecting woman does. Get on your back, point your heels to Jesus and think of handbags." -- Karen Walker to Jack [???], Will & Grace, episode ""
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. - Hunter S. Thompson.
Originally Posted By 82ND-ABN:
I voted green but it appears I am incorrect.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=926509&page=4�
I think this shows that if the Democrats hope to turn ObamaCare into "KennedyCare" and get it passed, it's not going to work.
Let the ‘Dims’ start calling it what it real is ‘Mary Jo Kopechne Care’! It’s a plan were they crash the economy leave us to drown in debt as they ‘swim’ away to live out their lives in comfort on all the money they stole from us!
Reid-Obama-Pelosi (Representatives of Peace)™ hereby motion that Obamacare be designated as the Kopechne-Kennedy Act (Since like Ms. Kopechne, it will leave America underwater...)
“A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot” ~ William Randolph
"The popularization and cultural preoccupation with trivial people and mere 'entertainment,' do not bode well for a nation that relies on a well educated and informed electorate to exercise responsible self government." -- David Codrea
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, 1788. ME 7:37
"A lot of people run a race to see who is the fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." -- Steve "Pre" Prefontaine
"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally." -- Nguyen Co Thach (1923-1998), Vietnamese foreign minister from 1980-1991 (whether this quote is verified or only attributed, I do not know for sure)
"MR. GERRY did not like the term National .... It brought to his mind some observations that had taken place in the Conventions at the time they were considering the present constitution. It had been insisted upon by those who were called anti-federalists, that this form of government consolidated the union; .... Those who were called anti-federalists at that time, complained that they were in favor of a federal government, and the others were in favor of a National one; the federalists were for ratifying the constitution as it stood, and the others did not until amendments were made [the Bill of Rights]. Their names then ought not to have been distinguished by federalists and anti-federalists, but rats and anti-rats." --
http://www.volokh.com/posts/1164942383.shtml
"Those who were called Anti-Federalists at that time complained that they had injustice done them by the title, because they were in favor of a federal government, and the others were in favor of a national one; the Federalists were for ratifying the Constitution as it stood, and the others, not until amendments were made. Their names ought not to have been Federalists and Anti-Federalists, but Rats and Anti-Rats." –– Elbridge Gerry (1744–1814), fifth Vice President of the United States, under James Madison (quoted in "The constitutional history of the United States," by Francis Newton Thorpe)
"Fundamentals are the crutch of the talent-less." -- Kenny Powers
"When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something. When you cannot do so your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory." -- Lord Kelvin
"Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell." -- Frank Borman
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” -- Marcus Aurelius
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." -- Thomas Jefferson (attributed but not found in his works)
http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Tyranny_is_defined_as_that_which_is_legal_for_the_government...(Quotation)
Originally Posted By SonOfNorway:
Originally Posted By c130montana:
BTW - An observation about frying the Holy Bacon: Yup, about half-way done. Turn & scratch nut-sack for 3
seconds - -turn back - IT'S BURNED!!!
Bacon is like a jealous woman, if you divert your attention to some other matter for a few seconds, she'll burst into flames
"We're everywhere. We see everything. The eye of AR15.com is lidless." -- SilentType, arfcom member
"Those who gauge the just price of an article by the labor, costs, and risks borne by the person who deals in or produces the merchandise are seriously mistaken; for the just price springs from the abundance or lack of goods, merchants, or money, and not from costs, labor, and risks." -- Saravia de la Calle (quoted in Jesus Huerta de Soto's "The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity)
"The value of an article does not depend on its objective nature but on the subjective estimate of men, even when this estimate is foolish." -- Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva (quoted in Jesus Huerta de Soto's "The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity)
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." -- Frederic Bastiat, The Law
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
"The greatest thing a Father can do for his children is to love their Mother." -- Harold B. Lee
"It looks like we have accepted this notion [that] perpetual war leads to perpetual peace." -- Ron Paul, 2:10-2:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDQ-QXtXcg
"I can tell you one thing: If [Illinois] isn’t the most corrupt state in the United States, its certainly one hell of a competitor." -- FBI special agent Robert Grant
"If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor. Even the most cynical agents in our office were shocked." -- Robert Grant, special agent in charge of the FBI's Chicago office, quoted by the Chicago Tribune, characterizing Illinois' place "in the pantheon of political ...
"Only in politics would you bribe people to act, then declare that they'd better not be acting just to get the bribe." -- Neal McCluskey
"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -- George Carlin
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein
"Caucasians are not going to let their standard of living be destroyed by Negroes, Chinamen, Japs, or any other." -- Samuel Gompers
"[The American Federation of Labor was] the most wicked machine for the propagation of race prejudices in the country." -- early civil-rights leader A. Philip Randolph
"President Obama wants to put people in jail if they don’t buy health insurance. Give that man a peace prize!" -- Michael Cannon, article in Politico
NS: Do you have any advice for the nerds on how to get girls?
Phil Baroni: Do steroids, lift heavy weights, get contacts, go tanning. And stop playing all those gay f*cking video games. You can?t get pussy in front of a TV playing games with your geeky friends. Go out to night clubs and bars, hit the beach. If you got money, floss. Whatever you do, don?t be yourself.
"I don't care what the newspapers say about me, as long as they spell my name right." -- P.T. Barnum
"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand." -- Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"The, uh, ethics of, uh, business... can be summarised in... Yeah, um... See... Ethics are, uh... You know, the... the thing about ethics..." -- Eric, Billy Madison
1. "first do no harm"
2. "sometimes bad things happen and there is nothing you can do about it"
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -- F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
"So many things the government does are attempts to circumvent the bad things caused by something else they already do." -- The curious task, by Russ Roberts on October 6, 2009, in Financial Markets (Cafe Hayek)
"Capitalists with government help…the worst of all economic phenomenon." -- Ayn Rand
"The regulations are creating robber barons, they are creating capitalists with government help, which is the worst of all economic phenomenon."
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." -- A.J. Liebling
"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand"-Unknown
Karen, to Jack: "Oh you'll do it. You'll do it the same way any self-respecting woman does. Get on your back, point your heels to Jesus and think of handbags." -- Karen Walker to Jack [???], Will & Grace, episode ""
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. - Hunter S. Thompson.
“A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot” ~ William Randolph
"The popularization and cultural preoccupation with trivial people and mere 'entertainment,' do not bode well for a nation that relies on a well educated and informed electorate to exercise responsible self government." -- David Codrea
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, 1788. ME 7:37
"A lot of people run a race to see who is the fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." -- Steve "Pre" Prefontaine
"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally." -- Nguyen Co Thach (1923-1998), Vietnamese foreign minister from 1980-1991 (whether this quote is verified or only attributed, I do not know for sure)
"MR. GERRY did not like the term National .... It brought to his mind some observations that had taken place in the Conventions at the time they were considering the present constitution. It had been insisted upon by those who were called anti-federalists, that this form of government consolidated the union; .... Those who were called anti-federalists at that time, complained that they were in favor of a federal government, and the others were in favor of a National one; the federalists were for ratifying the constitution as it stood, and the others did not until amendments were made [the Bill of Rights]. Their names then ought not to have been distinguished by federalists and anti-federalists, but rats and anti-rats." --
http://www.volokh.com/posts/1164942383.shtml
"Those who were called Anti-Federalists at that time complained that they had injustice done them by the title, because they were in favor of a federal government, and the others were in favor of a national one; the Federalists were for ratifying the Constitution as it stood, and the others, not until amendments were made. Their names ought not to have been Federalists and Anti-Federalists, but Rats and Anti-Rats." –– Elbridge Gerry (1744–1814), fifth Vice President of the United States, under James Madison (quoted in "The constitutional history of the United States," by Francis Newton Thorpe)
"Fundamentals are the crutch of the talent-less." -- Kenny Powers
"When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something. When you cannot do so your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory." -- Lord Kelvin
"Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell." -- Frank Borman
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” -- Marcus Aurelius
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." -- Thomas Jefferson (attributed but not found in his works)
http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Tyranny_is_defined_as_that_which_is_legal_for_the_government...(Quotation)
"We're everywhere. We see everything. The eye of AR15.com is lidless." -- SilentType, arfcom member
"Those who gauge the just price of an article by the labor, costs, and risks borne by the person who deals in or produces the merchandise are seriously mistaken; for the just price springs from the abundance or lack of goods, merchants, or money, and not from costs, labor, and risks." -- Saravia de la Calle (quoted in Jesus Huerta de Soto's "The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity)
"The value of an article does not depend on its objective nature but on the subjective estimate of men, even when this estimate is foolish." -- Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva (quoted in Jesus Huerta de Soto's "The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity)
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." -- Frederic Bastiat, The Law
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is." -- Ronald Reagan, from an interview published in Reason Magazine (July 01, 1975)
Texas - the only state to kick another country's ass! - USPcompact (formerly Boom's sig line)
"Dear Sir, There is a great hypocrisy in the morality arguments presented by most supporters of higher taxes on the rich. Most supporters are middle to low income citizens of wealthy countries. They envision a transfer of wealth from the rich to themselves. Their arguments would have a lot more moral authority if they advocated a transfer of wealth from the world’s rich to the world’s truly poor; say those living on less than $2000/year. So let me see people supporting that the tax on top US earners leaves America and goes directly to Africa, India and China. Ironically most of the supporters of high taxes do not even support a transfer of US money to India and China in exchange for products and services (“they took R jobs!”)." -- user "Event Horizon" at the Economist Debate "Should the rich pay higher taxes?" (17/04/2009 07:33:21am)
http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/142&sa_campaign=debateseries/debate21/ads/house/728
"If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess." -- Ronald H. Coase, "How Should Economists Choose?" Essays in Economics and Economists, p.27
"Nature undoubtedly responds to the theoretical predispositions with which she is approached by the measuring scientist." -- Thomas S. Kuhn, quoted second-hand from Ronald H. Coase, "How Should Economists Choose?" Essays in Economics and Economists, p.27
"There are natural curative processes in markets... right? Low prices are the cure for low prices. At low prices, people produce less and they buy more. Ergo, we're still not in the recession of 1991, we're still not in the Great Depression, so cycles are to a degree self-curing." -- Jim Grant, CNBC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv2ApOhFt6Q), 03:47-04:07
"I think zero is the wrong rate for almost any economy." -- Jim Grant, CNBC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv2ApOhFt6Q), 06:48-06:51
"There are no bad bonds, only bad prices." -- Jim Grant, quoting an anonymous bond trader, CNBC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv2ApOhFt6Q), 07:50-07:55
"If the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when there's too much unanimity of opinion, then one begins to worry about this," he said. "The Fed has proverbially been late." -- Jim Grant, CNBC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv2ApOhFt6Q), 10:13-10:23
Hamish: Where are you going?
William Wallace: I'm going to pick a fight.
"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing." -- Federation President, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
"It's a game of narcissist strip poker, and you're the thong." -- CBS Sports columnist Gregg Doyel
"Capitalism can run, even flourish, in a society of selfish cynics. But a non-market economy cannot." -- Paul Krugman
D.C.=District of Criminals -- Charles T. Neighbors at 6:41pm June 15, 2009, commenting on Carl Jonathan Bunce's FB post (http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=88367214073&h=HQ_Ld&u=WELiV&ref=nf)
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. -- Ron Paul
Fathers day is to thank your dad for having sex with your mom! Mothers day is to thank your mom for not swallowing you
The next fascism will not say "I am the fascism", it will say "I am the anti-fascism". (Ignazio Silone)
"[T]hat what a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent." -- Mass. Circular Letter of 1768 (found in Edward S. Corwin's "The 'Higher Law' Background of American Constitutional Law")
"the State, which subsists on taxation, is a vast criminal organization far more formidable and successful than any 'private' Mafia in history." -M.N.Rothbard
"The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State." - M. Rothbard
"I'm a liberal -- a real liberal, not a Progressivist -- who harbors conservative, liberal, libertarian, voluntaryist, and anarchist sympathies, and who strongly believes in property rights, individual rights, and 'small-f' federalism." -- me, on me
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
"I'm a dance on the bar and take'em all home kind of girl!" -- Tricia Quinn, on Facebook
"the State, which subsists on taxation, is a vast criminal organization far more formidable and successful than any 'private' Mafia in history." -M.N.Rothbard
"[T]hat what a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent." -- Mass. Circular Letter of 1768 (found in Corwin's "The 'Higher Law' Background of American Constitutional Law
The Humanitarian Face of the State, With Fangs
http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/humanitarian-face-fangs.html
"But the state lies in all the tongues of good and evil; and whatever it talks about, it lies - and whatever it has, it has stolen. Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth, and it snarls. Even its very entrails are false." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals." - Ron Paul
"Government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn’t first take from somebody else.” - Henry Hazlitt
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." -
Emma Goldman
"I don’t want to abolish government; I just want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into my bathroom and drown it in my bathtub." - Grover Norquist
"The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State." - M. Rothbard
"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights. " -H.L. Mencken
"It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright." - Murray Rothbard
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun with such men. -- Sam Houston
Score another victory for Hope over Change. -- Jordan, reasononline contributer
Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read. -- Zappa?
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~ David Friedman
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary” ~ Thomas Paine
"Where did our government goons get the right to field machine guns, if it wasn't delegated to them by the people? How could we delegate a right we don't have?" - Vin Suprynowicz
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft. – Don Feder
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. -- ALBERT CAMUS, Resistance, Rebellion and Death
Government ... can’t be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill. -- HELEN PREJEAN, Dead Man Walking
"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."
Anything that is too big to fail is too big to exist. -- Simon Johnson
"With conventional monetary policy having reached its limit, any further policy stimulus requires a different set of tools." ~ Ben Bernanke, April 3.
The Federalist Papers wrote the Constitution... The Anti-Federalist Papers wrote the Bill of Rights.*
* not literally
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop." -- P.J. O'Rourke
"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." -- The Dalai Lama
"Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. ...A simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak." -- George Orwell
"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws." -- Edward Abbey
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." -- Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, An Autobiography, page 446
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." -- Col. Jeff Cooper
"Even God is for guns, he could have struck down Goliath but instead he made David shoot him." -- unknown
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -- Anais Nin
"Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background." -- Richard Nixon's National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, "Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding," March 1972
"Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use." -- Richard Nixon's National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, "Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding," March 1972
"State laws should make the public use of marijuana a criminal offense punishable by a $100 fine. Under federal law, marijuana smoked in public would merely be subject to seizure." -- Richard Nixon's National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, "Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding," March 1972
"I worked hard to try to kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since." -— Former President Bill Clinton, Sept. 24, 2006
Remember in the Debates they asked him- "What would you do before taking this nation to war"?
Romney said he would consult a bunch of Lawyers-...
Ron Paul said he would Consult Congress!
-- Mike Eskew, replying to Brandi Duncan's "NPR: March Madness" post on Facebook at 7:32am March 26
"Al Gore may have invented the internet (lol, what?), but Ron Paul owns it." -- Chris Breaux, replying to Brandi Duncan's "NPR: March Madness" post on Facebook at 3:38am March 26, 2009
"The peculiar thing about drawing a line in the sand over the RKBA is that if you don't draw a line in the sand there, you will be unable to draw any lines in the sand ever again." -- Frost7, arfcom
"The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weaponsanything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine guncan only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these guns." -- Josh Sugarmann, Violence Policy Center (VPC), writing in a September 1988 report on "assault weapons" that he prepared for the Education Fund to End Handgun Violence
"Curse Your Rockin' Tits!" -- Kyle's dad, South Park
Technology has never been used to free the masses; always to further enslave them.
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”
“If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it”
“The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.”
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." -- Booker T Washington
"The problem with our economy is not that we're not borrowing and spending enough, and we need the government to do some more of that for us." –– John Cochrane, Economist, Vice-President of the American Finance Association, and Professor of Finance at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
"A trillion dollars..... is a terrible thing to waste." Sen. Robert Wicker (R-MS)
"When you borrow from Peter to pay Paul, you've gotta pay Peter some interest!" –– Alan Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; formerly Director of Economic Research at the Hudson Institute
"If bigger spending and more intervention was a recipe for economic growth, then France should be an economic tiger, and Hong Kong should be in the toilet, but instead it's the other way around." –– Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; formerly a Senior Fellow with The Heritage Foundation, and an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and the Senate Finance Committee
"Government is the number one growth industry." –– James A. Dorn, Cato Institute's Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Economics at Towson University; Editor of Cato Journal, and Director of Cato's annual monetary conference; also served on the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars under Presidents Reagan and Clinton (all of Reagan's second term; first two years of Clinton).
"The Court must be living in another world. Day by day, case by case, it is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Dissenting in Board of County Commissioners, Wabaunsee County, Kan., v. Umbehr, 1996)
How come antigun groups with few rank and file members, but massively funded by a few leftwing billionaires are "grassroots organizations."
But the NRA, with millions of members who each contribute a few dollars is "the gun lobby." -- Siobhra, Women & Guns forum
If Obama wants "childproof guns," let's see him mandate them for his Secret Service protection detail first. -- David Codrea
SHTF is long gun business. -- Augee, in a thread about SHTF handguns.
There is no chin behind Chris' beard, just another PMAG. -- Payback99, referring to Chris Costa
As for now we are not releasing any information on products that may or may not be in the works. We're always looking for new ways to improve on existing products and explore the boundaries of new ideas. Thanks. -- DrDrake
As for now we are not releasing any information on products, beards, gotees, pants, shirts, jackets, sunglasses, socks, shoes, and, underwear that Travis and I may or may not be wearing or in the works. We're always looking for new ways to improve on existing products and Bling, Bling and explore the boundaries of new ideas. Thanks. -- costa (Chris Costa)
"I don't have a lot of experience with vampires, but I have hunted werewolves. I shot one once, but by the time I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog." Dwight Schrute The Office (NBC)
"As for now we are not releasing any information on products that may or may not be in the works. We're always looking for new ways to improve on existing products and explore the boundaries of new ideas. Thanks." -- Magpul standard response
"Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt. That's the first thing they teach you-
"I think it’s a scandal that this president (Bush) did not authorize a renewal of the assault weapons ban." -Barack Obama, 10-21-04
then contrast that with his "what works in cheyenne may not work in chicago" comment.
"It makes no difference what men think of war... War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting the ultimate practitioner." CM.
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." -- Congressman Ron Paul M.D.
The only thing that you can guess about a broken down old man... is that he is a survivor.
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
"Give me ten hours to cut down a tree and I will spend the first six hours sharpening the axe." -- unknown
"International law is the law which the wicked do not obey and the righteous do not enforce." -- Abba Eban
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, so that my children may have peace." -- Thomas Paine
"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain." -- John Adams
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. -- George Washington, from his farewell address
"Independent central banks that are not politically accountable undermine democracy," Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
OBAMA: Let's be honest. Mr. Keyes does not believe in common gun control measures like the assault weapons bill. Mr. Keyes does not believe in any limits from what I can tell with respect to the possession of guns, including assault weapons that have only one purpose, to kill people. I think it is a scandal that this president did not authorize a renewal of the assault weapons ban. -- Illinois Senate Debate #3: Barack Obama vs. Alan Keyes Oct 21, 2004
***** Hunter's and "Hunter Rights". How can ANYONE who has survived the past 8 years of near FACISM under Bush, possibly want THE GOVERNMENT to be the ONLY ones who have weapons?
The Best Reason since the creation of the firearm to own one, is George W. Bush. He started 2 false flag wars JUST to suspend Habeas Corpus and legalize illegal wire tapping. He locked up journalists who criticized him and allowed torture to be practiced secret prisons.
If you can live through that and NOT want the option to defend yourself, you deserve the death camp you'll be thrown into.
That's going to be my question in when we are all tossed into the American Gulag. "Were you Anti-gun after Bush?"
If you answer "Yes", you get shived! -- Ratteler, on Digg
"My first priority will be to reinstate the assault weapons ban as soon as I take office. Within 90 days, we will go back after kitchen table dealers, and work to end the gun show and internet sales loopholes. In the first year, I intend to work with Congress on a national no carry law, 1 gun a month purchase limits, and bans on all semi-automatic guns."--Barack Obama, VPC Fund Raiser, 2007
Which of two kinds of fascism do you think is more dangerous - one stemming from a culture's or a people's feeling of inferiority, or one stemming a culture's or people's feeling of superiority?
If a country possessing a fascism of inferiority got into a war with a country possessing a fascism of superiority, all else bemg equal, which do you think has a better chance of winning?
"You can be a good looking guy with a good job, nice car and clothes and still not get laid, whereas you can be an average looking women and have a decent chance to screw Charlie Sheen." -- Adam Carolla, Love Line, ca. late '90s
"There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue." — Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, September 1929
Bumper Sticker: "Driver carries more than $20 worth of ammunition.
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
“The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”- ABRAHAM LINCOLN (17 September 1859)
"Ultimately, as I say in the book, that the Republican Congress swapped policy for power and.... in the end.... achieved neither." -- Alan Greenspan
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
"We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." -- Frederic Bastiat
"We spend way too much time considering caliber, projectile weight, MV, BC and type, and not anywhere near enough time considering that the terminal resting place of that projectile is more important than all the rest of it combined." -- Pat Rogers, arfcom member
And if you don't do this and if I don't do it, one of these days, you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children, what it once was like in America.... when men were free. -- Ronald Reagan
"You don't pay taxes - they take taxes." -- Chris Rock
"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government.... and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws." -- Edward Abbey
"The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual." -- Friedrich Hayek
Gladstone to Benjamin Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, sir," said Disraeli, "On whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
"If you prepare for the worst, all surprises are pleasant."
"So in life you get what you deserve? Not always, a few of us devoutly hope. On the other hand, come the November elections, the Republican Party may get exactly what it deserves from disgusted voters -- namely, a swift kick in the pants. Whereas, on yet another hand (assuming any more are available), it is necessary to ask whether the voters deserve what they'd get by giving the Republicans what they deserve. The mind, as so often is the case in politics, boggles." -- William Murchison, writing for Human Events, 05/09/2006
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14678
"Neoconservatism is being rejected across the country, as those who supported the bailout are coming to find. If the Democrats manage to get a landslide majority in Congress this November, it won't be so much a mandate for their beliefs as it will be a repudiation of false conservatism." -- Matt Hawes, blogging for Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty
"I mean, these guys don't have a clue. Here we've got the Federal Reserve.... and, and Paulson.... who've made mistake after mistake after mistake and been wrong, wrong, wrong.... and we're going to them and saying 'Oh, what do we do now?' I mean, Bernanke said under oath, every year for the last two years, "There's no problem in the housing market." Paulson said the same thing. And now we're going to them and saying 'Oh, what do we do now?' Oh, please!" -- Jim Rogers, on Bloomberg News
"Thank you, Congressman. Um, first of all, I actually agree with you about the price-fixing in the Depression. I think there's a pretty wide consensus that the National Recovery Act and the setting of -- fixing of -- wages and prices was a counter-productive step and I agree with you there....."
"I think what we have here is a fleet of helicopters, and Ben Bernanke said that he could always re-inject credit into the market." -- Ron Paul on Fox Business, Oct. 14, 2008 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qzUtPq8pLE)
John McCain and Barack Obama have been asked twice -- once in the Mississippi debate and again on Tuesday night -- what their priorities would be. McCain flat-out refused to choose, arguing that the United States can do it all. Obama mentioned energy, health care and education but did not acknowledge that he might have to choose among them.
Similarly, they declined to spell out what sacrifices they might have to ask Americans to make, beyond moderating their energy use or easing their demands for Washington-financed projects.
It was a stunning rejection of reality. David Broder, "Running from Reality" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100802929.html)
"repudiation of the false conservatism of the Republican Party."
"Neoconservatism is being rejected across the country, as those who supported the bailout are coming to find. If the Democrats manage to get a landslide majority in Congress this November, it won't be so much a mandate for their beliefs as it will be a repudiation of false conservatism." -- Matt Hawes, Campaign for Liberty blog
“There are three reasons to own a gun. To protect yourself and your family, to hunt dangerous and delicious animals, and to keep the King of England out of your face.” ~ Krusty the Clown
Lisa: The second amendment is just a remnant from revolutionary periods, it has no real meaning today
Homer: You couldn’t be more wrong Lisa. If I didn't have this gun the King of England could just come in here and start pushing you around. Do you want that, well do ya?
“Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.” -- ?
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce;... The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, int he ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state." -- James Madison (from The Federalist, No. 45)
"It was a stunning rejection of reality." -- David Broder, writing in the Washington Post, describing both candidates' refusal to comment on national priorities should they become President.
"He's got a groove, like he's walking down the aisle to marry the country." -- some media numbnuts during the Inauguration
Terry Gilliam
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they`re maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
Hollywood is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people. All they want to do is say no.
It`s hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I`m not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven`t been sympathetic to mine.
My problem is I`m like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix. I want to be taken into some place, some world, some idea that I haven`t thought of or imagined. And it doesn`t happen.
I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don`t care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.
(on future use of CGI in his films) "Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he` s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it`s when you`re now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you`re controlling every moment of that, it`s just death to me. It`s death to cinema, I can`t watch those Star Wars films, they`re dead things."
All I do is hunt. I want to be thrilled. And I`m not being thrilled at the moment. So I`m being old and bitter and curmudgeonly, because I want sensory buzz and I`m not getting it!
Terry Gilliam
"I finished filming on the last film last week. For the final shot I walked along a blue corridor with a blue background behind me talking to someone who wasn't there." Daniels said of his last scene as C-3PO
"We are all ambassadors of the bullet and if you don't play the part, you strengthen the stereotype and weaken us all." -- crashburnrepeat (4/12/2005)
"People like you do more to hurt gun rights than ten democrats." -- THR-Thumper, chewing out an irresponsible young arfcommer (4/3/2005)
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." -- Henry Kissinger, Nobel Peace Price recipient and all-around despicable human being
Janet Jackson said in an interview she’s supporting Hillary Clinton for president because she said it would show all those people who don’t trust a woman in the White House. But to be fair, when Hillary lived there, she didn’t trust women in the White House[, either].... -- Jay Leno
“If Bill Clinton wishes in the future to complain about historical inaccuracies, I suggest he first answer one question: What handwritten notes, and by whom, were on the three copies of classified documents (out of five) that Sandy Berger chose to steal and cut up with scissors in 2003, smack in the middle of the 9/11 commission’s investigation? When we know the answer to that question, Bill, then and only then will you be entitled to complain about historical inaccuracies in the record.” —Maggie Gallagher
There are no such things as problems...... There are only unique opportunities for innovative solutions. --Jake Syma.
------------------------------------------------
a clean desk is a sign of an empty mind........ unknown.
------------------------------------------------
My version of 911 in an emergency is preceded by a 'M1' and ends with 'A1' --GrimStories, at survivalforum.com
------------------------------------------------
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. --Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
"The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams)
Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
"Work seven days a week and nothing can stop you." --John Moores
"Immortality consists largely of boredom." --Zefrem Cochrane
"Accept, adapt, and act. This is the key to everything." --Pendekar Paul DeThouars
"Insufficient facts always invite danger." --Spock
"A finite game is played for the purpose of winning; an infinite game is played for the purpose of continuing play." James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
"Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries." James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
"Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style." --Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The Rules
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." --Paul Mua'd D'ib
"All vague notions must fall before a pupil can call himself a master." --Bruce Lee
"We're gonna need a bigger boat." --Roy Scheider, Jaws
"Hatred is an indulgence, a very inefficient emotion." --Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale
"Do or do not. There is no try." --Yoda
"The fatal shortcoming of this age is that it has no heroes." --Sho Fumimura, Sanctuary
"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research." --Wilson Minzer
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." --Albert Einstein
"For hundreds of years, writers have been giving it away like warmhearted country girls in the big city, and it is not astonishing that their lovers (that is, the publishers) balk at giving a mink coat when a pair of nylons will do the job." --Mario Puzo
"Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes." --John LeCarre
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares must be content to spend their lives plowing for those who don't." --Anonymous
"Don't ever let yourself think that reading equates with experience; the menu is not the meal." --Jeff Mountjoy
"Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin." --Stephen King
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." --Erica Jong
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its dark side." James Baldwin
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." --Eric Hoffer
"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise." --Gore Vidal
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." Jonathan Kozol
"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so." Lord Chesterfield
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." --Eric Hoffer
"The question isn't, 'Are you paranoid?' but, 'Are you paranoid enough?'" --Max Peltier
If you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you." --Terry Pratchett
"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you're allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered your style." --Fred Astaire
"Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least." --David P. Gardner
"Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals." --Watterson Lowe
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses." --Jean Cocteau
"A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it." --Simone Weil
"The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss." --Terry Waldron
"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable." --Robert Heinlein
"At least once every human being should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from the supermarket, that safety does not come from policemen, and that news is not something that happens to other people." --Number of the Beast, by Robert A. Heinlen
"In a crisis people do not rise to the occasion, but rather default to their level of training" --Jeff Cooper
That is the real essence of the European constitution. It is not that people know that it will be used to promote "markets" or that they know it will be used to promote socialism. It is that they sense it will create a political entity whose actions cannot be predicted or controlled. That is the overall sense that actually seems to be uniting Europe, and uniting it in opposition to the constitution. The one thing you hear from both left and right -- from French socialists, Dutch euthanasia advocates, and British conservatives -- is the sense that the European constitution creates a political elite that is not accountable to its subjects. --Robert Tracinski at TIA Daily (posted by forkum, of "cox & forkum" fame).
------------------------------------------------
The only difference between the living and the dead is that our judgment has been delayed. --unknown
------------------------------------------------
We don't have states anymore. We have provinces fully subordinated to the authortiy of a central government. Our state representatives just don't realize it yet. --1Andy2, arfcom member
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." --John Lehman
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." --Laurence J. Peter
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." -- Dorothy Parker
[to two members of the KKK]
Jim: Oh boys, lookee what I got heyuh.
Bart: Hey, where the white women at.
Jim (The Waco Kid), and Bart (Gene Wilder, and Cleavon Little, respectively), Blazing Saddles (1974)
-------------------
Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
Mongo (Alex Karras), Blazing Saddles (1974)
-------------------
Jim: You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
Jim (The Waco Kid), Blazing Saddles (1974)
-------------------
Charlie: They said you was hung.
Bart: And they was right.
Charlie and Bart (Charles McGregor and Cleavon Little, respectively), Blazing Saddles (1974)
-------------------
Taggart: Piss on you, I'm working for Mel Brooks.
Taggart (Slim Pickens), Blazing Saddles (1974)
-------------------
Jim: Another twenty-five years and you'll be able to shake their hands in broad daylight.
Jim (The Waco Kid), Blazing Saddles (1974)
-------------------
Hedley Lamarr: My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention.
Taggart: Ditto.
Hedley Lamarr: "Ditto"? "Ditto," you provincial putz?
Hedley Lamarr and Taggart (Harvey Korman and Slim Pickens, respectively), Blazing Saddles (1974)
-------------------
Henchman: We'll head them off at the pass.
Hedley Lamarr: Head them off at the pass? I hate that cliché.
Henchman and Hedley Lamarr (unknown and Harvey Korman), Blazing Saddles (1974)
------------------------------------------------
"It is the man who takes his time and uses his sights that wins the gunfight." --Bat Masterson
William H. Bonney: You remember the stories John use to tell us about the the three chinamen playing Fantan? This guy runs up to them and says, "Hey, the world's coming to an end!" and the first one says, "Well, I best go to the mission and pray," and the second one says, "Well, hell, I'm gonna go and buy me a case of Mezcal and six whores," and the third one says "Well, I'm gonna finish the game." I shall finish the game, Doc. --Emilio Estevez, Young Guns II
------------------------------------------------
"War is less costly than servitude. The choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." -Jean Dutourd
"God made all Men, Samuel Colt made them equal."
------------------------------------------------
Black Rifle Disease makes a heroin addiction seem like a vauge wish for something salty.
You're paranoid until it actually happens, then you're just prepared..... --Dace, arfcom member
If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us is capable of governing someone else?" -- Ronald Reagan
"Those damn Russians, they captured smarter Germans then we did!" --[unknown American General] after the Soviets launched Sputnik
"Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance" --Patton, but only in the movie version of his life
"Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics" --Omar Bradley
"A punch protects itself" --Rommel (?)
"If I must choose between peace and righteousness... I choose righteousness." --Teddy Roosevelt (?)
'From this day to the ending of the world, we in it shall be remembered. We lucky few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.' --Henry V
'Ask anything of me but time' --Napoleon Bonaparte
"War is hell" --General William Tecumseh Sherman
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." --George Washington
"It is absurd, impolitic, and inhuman to burn a city you mean to occupy" --Henry Clinton
"It is no disgrace to be defeated. It is a disgrace to be surprised." --Frederick the Great
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost. --Benjamin Franklin
Lean forward. It's always better to fall on your face than on your backside. --M. Cox
My logisticians are a humorless lot...they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay. --Alexander
The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics. --Tom Clancy, Red Storm Rising
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" - Hunter S. Thompson
------------------------------------------------
Soylent Green is people! --Charlton Heston as Det. Robert Thorn, from the movie Soylent Green
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government...............
.........Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.............
..........Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? --George Washington, from his farewell address (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm)
"this country started going to hell when people started shitting indoors" --an old mountain man
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."
--Thomas Sowell
"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."
--Ray Bradbury
"As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something."
--Hagar the Horrible
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
--Shana Alexander
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
--James Baldwin (i always thought it was "dark side")
Texas has no public land. I visited Texas once, I was told that the State Tree of Texas is the NO TRESSPASSING sign. --FightingHellfish, arfcom member
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -Claire Wolfe
“You know Dude, I myself dabbled with pacifism at one point. Not in Nam, of course”
Jumper Cable Owners are paranoid about dead batteries, just like Gun Owners are paranoid about criminals.
Hard work often pays off over time, but laziness pays off right now.
"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." --Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp of Texas
"[The Second Amendment] is not a right granted by the constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." --United States v. Cruikshank, (1876)
“A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.” --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." --Mahatma Gandhi (Autobiography, by M.K. Gandhi, p.446)
"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." --The Dalai Lama (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times), speaking at the "Educating Heart Summit" in Portland, Oregon, when asked by a girl how to react when a shooter takes aim at a classmate
".... it is interesting to note that of the 150 or so law enforcement officers killed every year in the U.S., one in four is shot with his own weapon. The moral of that is: If you are defending yourself with a gun against someone bigger than yourself, be much less scrupulous about shooting him than police officers have to be." -- John Derbyshire
“If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” --Winston Churchill
What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become justices of this [U.S. Supreme] Court. Day by day, case by case, [the Court] is busy designing a constitution for a country I do not recognise. --Scalia
... this [Supreme] Court has [assumed] the power, not merely to apply the Constitution but to expand it, imposing what it regards as useful "prophylactic" restrictions upon Congress and the States. That is an immense and frightening antidemocratic power, and it does not exist. --Scalia, dissenting, Dickerson v. United States
We can't have SCOTUS Justices that make political rulings; they need to make legal rulings. As long as they continue to make political rulings, the process of appointing Justices will continue to be politicized.
Paul Revere? Ain't he the Yankee who had to go for help? -- Old Texas Joke.
"In tactics, it's not important whether you go left or right, It's important why you go left or right."
- Gen. A. M. Gray, USMC
"Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective
conscience does violence to the individual and is the first
step toward totalitarianism." --Herman Hesse
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
--Edward Abbey
We have seen what happens when a few people take a stand - Ruby Ridge, Waco. The government doesn't use equal and opposite force to crush revolt, it uses massive and overwhelming force to make an example of those who dare take a stand. --A_G, arfcom member.
"We [the media] are the ones that determine what the people's attitudes are. It's in our hands"
~ Ted Turner,
Most Americans don't want nor can they handle the full measure of liberty that is their birthright. and we must suffer for their foolishness
The US Government has been using "security contractors" aka mercenaries for many, many years. Many of the large defense contractors make most of their money doing some form of this, although they are usually more trainers/advisors than actual operators. In Iraq there's almost as many private security consultants as there are active military and they have taken about as many losses as the military. Contractors cause less political problems since there isn't nearly as much news coverage if they get killed and since they want to be there you don't have the familiy back home calling their congressman to complain that little johnnie can't make it home for Christmas.
The drive for robots:
"There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This would be if every machine could work by itself, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation."
- Aristotle, from his justification of slavery in Politics
"He's youthful, got a great head of hair. I don't use these words often, but he's a pretty man. But when those terrorists with their anthrax come riding over the hill on their saber-tooth tigers with Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers on their rumps, who do you want standing there? The lean mean killing machine (that's me)? Or your local news anchor?" -- Darrell Hammond as Dick Cheney on SNL's parody of the Vice Presidential debate, referring to John Edwards (played by Will Forte)
------------------------
A whole herd of great quotes from the SNL skits "Florida Stop," aka "Kerry Campaign Stop, South Florida" (http://snltranscripts.jt.org/04/04aflorida.phtml) and "Tough Guy" (http://snltranscripts.jt.org/00/00ptoughguy.phtml).
"I will not compare the 'decision' to making sausage because it would excessively demean sausage makers." -- excerpt from memorandum opinion of Senior United States District Judge Robert Propst, commenting on the Eleventh Circuit's reversal of his ruling in United States v. Robison (2007). Instead of accepting the remand, he transferred the case to another district judge.
"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people." -- Justice William O. Douglas
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx
(can't remember who said it first, but I'm pretty sure it's not original; it also may not be an exact quote... sorry)
"We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating." -- more context from TheStraightDope
On the one hand, after looking at the context, I don't think it's something he should have to apologize for; on the other hand, I don't see how it's too dissimilar from what Juan Williams said, either.
"The 'trick' of the intersection of economics and policy is truly about finding the right set of incentives." -- me, commenting on Reason Magazine's Facebook post, responding to a poster named Shannon.
I know someone said it before me, I just can't remember...