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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: Teresa Heilevang on July 15, 2008, 05:16:48 PM
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This caught me a bit off guard and brought me back to a very vital point of our countries future. I did research the author and all is true of his credentials. With our economy going down the hole and oil skyrocketing and day to day expenses getting greater and greater I had gotten sidetracked off of the most important thing!!!!!
Thomas Sowell, an African American, was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem . As with many others in his neighborhood, he left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the service, Sowell entered Harvard University , worked a part-time job as a photographer and studied the science that would become his passion and profession: economics.
After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University (1958), he went on to receive his master's in economics from Columbia University (1959) and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago (1968).
In the early '60s, Sowell held jobs as an economist with the Department of Labor and AT&T. But his real interest was in teaching and scholarship. In 1965, at Cornell University , he began the first of many professorships. His other teaching assignments include Rutgers University , Amherst University , Brandeis University and the University of California at Los Angeles , where he taught in the early '70s and also from 1984 to 1989.
Sowell has published a large volume of writing. His dozen books, as well as numerous articles and essays, cover a wide range of topics, from classic economic theory to judicial activism, from civil rights to choosing the right college. Moreover, much of his writing is considered ground-breaking -- work that will outlive the great majority of scholarship done today.
Though Sowell had been a regular contributor to newspapers in the late '70s and early '80s, he did not begin his career as a newspaper columnist until 1984. George F. Will's writing, says Sowell, proved to him that someone could say something of substance in so short a space (750 words). And besides, writing for the general public enables him to address the heart of issues without the smoke and mirrors that so often accompany academic writing.
In 1990, he won the prestigious Francis Boyer Award, presented by The American Enterprise Institute.
Currently Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute in Stanford , Calif.
Obama and McCain
by: Thomas Sowell
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober-- if not grim-- assessment of where we are. Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.
This year, none of us has that luxury. While all sorts of gushing is going on in the media, and posturing is going on in politics, the biggest national sponsor of terrorism in the world-- Iran-- is moving step by step toward building a nuclear bomb.
The point when they get that bomb will be the point of no return. Iran 's nuclear bomb will be the terrorists' nuclear bomb-- and they can make 9/11 look like child's play.
All the options that are on the table right now will be swept off the table forever. Our choices will be to give in to whatever the terrorists demand-- however outrageous those demands might be-- or to risk seeing American cities start disappearing in radioactive mushroom clouds.
All the things we are preoccupied with today, from the price of gasoline to health care to global warming, will suddenly no longer matter.
Just as the Nazis did not find it enough to simply kill people in their concentration camps, but had to humiliate and dehumanize them first, so we can expect terrorists with nuclear weapons to both humiliate us and force us to humiliate ourselves, before they finally start killing us.
They have already telegraphed their punches with their sadistic beheadings of innocent civilians, and with the popularity of videotapes of those beheadings in the Middle East .
They have already telegraphed their intention to dictate to us with such things as Osama bin Laden's threats to target those places in America that did not vote the way he prescribed in the 2004 elections. He could not back up those threats then but he may be able to in a very few years.
The terrorists have given us as clear a picture of what they are all about as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis did during the 1930s-- and our 'leaders' and intelligentsia have ignored the warning signs as resolutely as the 'leaders' and intelligentsia of the 1930s downplayed the dangers of Hitler.
We are much like people drifting down the Niagara River , oblivious to the waterfalls up ahead. Once we go over those falls, we cannot come back up again.
What does this have to do with today's presidential candidates? It has everything to do with them.
One of these candidates will determine what we are going to do to stop Iran from going nuclear-- or whether we are going to do anything other than talk, as Western leaders talked in the 1930s.
There is one big difference between now and the 1930s. Although the West's lack of military preparedness and its political irresolution led to three solid years of devastating losses to Nazi Germany and imperial Japan , nevertheless when all the West's industrial and military forces were finally mobilized, the democracies were able to turn the tide and win decisively.
But you cannot lose a nuclear war for three years and then come back. You cannot even sustain the will to resist for three years when you are first broken down morally by threats and then devastated by nuclear bombs.
Our one window of opportunity to prevent this will occur within the term of whoever becomes President of the United States next January.
At a time like this, we do not have the luxury of waiting for our ideal candidate or of indulging our emotions by voting for some third party candidate to show our displeasure-- at the cost of putting someone in the White House who is not up to the job.
Senator John McCain has been criticized in this column many times. But, when all is said and done, Senator McCain has not spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America .
On the contrary, he has paid a huge price for resisting our enemies, even when they held him prisoner and tortured him.The choice between him and Barack Obama should be a no-brainer.
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At a time like this, we do not have the luxury of waiting for our ideal candidate or of indulging our emotions by voting for some third party candidate to show our displeasure-- at the cost of putting someone in the White House who is not up to the job.
Senator John McCain has been criticized in this column many times. But, when all is said and done, Senator McCain has not spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America .
On the contrary, he has paid a huge price for resisting our enemies, even when they held him prisoner and tortured him.The choice between him and Barack Obama should be a no-brainer
Thank you again Marshal'ette, you have a great way of "Keeping it simple" .......
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Ah yes, the Dr is one of my weekly "must reads" regardless of the topic. I've read most of his books on economics. A great mind and communicator. You can find most of his past articles/commentaries in the Jewish World Review archives.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp)
Another great thinker is Dr Walter Williams.
Alf
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Another good read is Larry Elder. Here are links to his RKBA part 1 and part 2 article
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder070308.php3 (http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder070308.php3)
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder071008.php3 (http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder071008.php3)
Also here's his article on why black Americans shouldn't support Obama. This might not sit well with some because he rips the Democratic Party up one side and down another.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder062608.php3 (http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder062608.php3)
And for a list of all his articles going back to 1998
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder1.asp (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder1.asp)
Alf
Questions I'd like to ask: "Tell me Senator Obama, is socialism really the best way to determine the distribution of health care services?"
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Columns, books, quotations, and more:
http://www.tsowell.com/
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So true.
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Thanks for the TSowell link, Middle Man. I don't think I realize he had a web site....such as it is.
I did notice that for all his "columns" he links to JWR. Hopefully, when Benyamin L. Jolkovsky who own JWR passes on, somebody will keep the web site going. It probably has the largest compendium of conservative columns in one collection of any place on the WWW.
Alf
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What does this have to do with today's presidential candidates? It has everything to do with them.
One of these candidates will determine what we are going to do to stop Iran from going nuclear-- or whether we are going to do anything other than talk, as Western leaders talked in the 1930s.
There is one big difference between now and the 1930s. Although the West's lack of military preparedness and its political irresolution led to three solid years of devastating losses to Nazi Germany and imperial Japan , nevertheless when all the West's industrial and military forces were finally mobilized, the democracies were able to turn the tide and win decisively.
But you cannot lose a nuclear war for three years and then come back. You cannot even sustain the will to resist for three years when you are first broken down morally by threats and then devastated by nuclear bombs.
Our one window of opportunity to prevent this will occur within the term of whoever becomes President of the United States next January.
At a time like this, we do not have the luxury of waiting for our ideal candidate or of indulging our emotions by voting for some third party candidate to show our displeasure-- at the cost of putting someone in the White House who is not up to the job.
Senator John McCain has been criticized in this column many times. But, when all is said and done, Senator McCain has not spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America .
On the contrary, he has paid a huge price for resisting our enemies, even when they held him prisoner and tortured him.The choice between him and Barack Obama should be a no-brainer.
Puppy poop.
Thomas Sowell has rarely written anything not worth reading but this column certainly ranks in that category.
First, the conventions have yet to be held. Sure, they are quaint archaic relics from another age, but if THE PEOPLE really, really put their minds to it they can find and nominate a candidate worth support.
Second, I will not be stampeded into selling my soul because of the almighty exigent circumstances argument.
If we can not have a Constitutional Representative Republic worthy of our death collectively or individually then at the end of the day it does not matter who destroys it- the Jihadists, the Nanny Staters, the Bolshevik Henpeckers et.al.
The lesser of two evils is still evil and years of lesser evil has brought us to the brink of complete evil.
Cry PANIC! and loose the gerbils of gibberish.
I care not one wit.
Best regards,
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First, the conventions have yet to be held. Sure, they are quaint archaic relics from another age, but if THE PEOPLE really, really put their minds to it they can find and nominate a candidate worth support.
Second, I will not be stampeded into selling my soul because of the almighty exigent circumstances argument.
If we can not have a Constitutional Representative Republic worthy of our death collectively or individually then at the end of the day it does not matter who destroys it- the Jihadists, the Nanny Staters, the Bolshevik Henpeckers et.al.
The lesser of two evils is still evil and years of lesser evil has brought us to the brink of complete evil.
Cry PANIC! and loose the gerbils of gibberish.
JohnJacobH:
Come back to the real world and put your gerbil back in his cage.
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Cry PANIC! and loose the gerbils of gibberish.
Fantastic phrase! Gerbils of Gibberish... Ha! ;D
I think you may have just named my next record.
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JohnJacobH:
Come back to the real world and put your gerbil back in his cage.
The real world? It is not my gerbil it is Shakespeare's to start. ( Cry Havoc! and loose the dogs of war!) A good play. You may want to attend a performance.
OUR real world begins in mid 20th Century when an Army of 6 million Jews and 6 million "undesireables" voted with their feet and walked right into Nazi death camps and died because they had neither the wit nor the will to act to change a very weak movement when it was very, very weak.
They decided to wait for "someone" (the United States) to save them and by time the saviours arrived it was too late.
Fifty years later it matters not if you are a 68 year old levee commissioner in flooded Iowa or a 68 year old woman in New Orleans living peacefully in her home post Katrina. You WILL be mugged by the "authorities" who wear uniforms, carry guns and wear badges, on order of the Mayor or the Governor until they are reassured you WILL comply with whatever THEY think is the law.
We, the peasants, are now blessed with our first widely publicized "faceless bureaucrat" by name of Lon Horuichi in photographed, fingerprinted and Social Security Numbered America. This Government employee has been involved in at least (one?) operation where they "killed the children to save them"
You ( and all of us) are exactly one traffic stop, one "code violation", one accounting infraction,one TSA incident away from discovering this 21st Century Real World armed with tasers, guns and gulags.
If you think word games between Tweedledee and Tweedledum will somehow magically change this real world overnight in any way but the worst, you live in a fantasy and are unreachable by any normal means of communication.
Live long and prosper, if you can.
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Please file this under "Things That Make You Say WTF?!?"
Why are you so afraid?
They are just words. By your estimation they are words of a dumb person. So ignore them. Move on.
Enjoy your life. Avoid stupid people in large groups at all cost.
You can not or will not refute them. But somehow you feel compelled to denigrate them.
Seems like a lot of wasted effort to me.
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We should refute the info , not the person, ie Dont shoot the messenger. What makes this forum so good is we can attack the subject , not the poster, . PLEASE UPHOLD THIS .
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The real world? It is not my gerbil it is Shakespeare's to start. ( Cry Havoc! and loose the dogs of war!) A good play. You may want to attend a performance.
OUR real world begins in mid 20th Century when an Army of 6 million Jews and 6 million "undesireables" voted with their feet and walked right into Nazi death camps and died because they had neither the wit nor the will to act to change a very weak movement when it was very, very weak.
They decided to wait for "someone" (the United States) to save them and by time the saviours arrived it was too late.
Fifty years later it matters not if you are a 68 year old levee commissioner in flooded Iowa or a 68 year old woman in New Orleans living peacefully in her home post Katrina. You WILL be mugged by the "authorities" who wear uniforms, carry guns and wear badges, on order of the Mayor or the Governor until they are reassured you WILL comply with whatever THEY think is the law.
We, the peasants, are now blessed with our first widely publicized "faceless bureaucrat" by name of Lon Horuichi in photographed, fingerprinted and Social Security Numbered America. This Government employee has been involved in at least (one?) operation where they "killed the children to save them"
You ( and all of us) are exactly one traffic stop, one "code violation", one accounting infraction,one TSA incident away from discovering this 21st Century Real World armed with tasers, guns and gulags.
If you think word games between Tweedledee and Tweedledum will somehow magically change this real world overnight in any way but the worst, you live in a fantasy and are unreachable by any normal means of communication.
Live long prosper, if you can.
Aristotle once commented that he thought the world (in his time) was going to hell too. I wonder if anyone ever told him that he was sounding paranoid?
To this thread, Sowell is on target. This election is not about the self-perceived reflection of moral or conservative “righteousness” that any of the “peasants” in the electorate have or had. As Sowell said, it’s about which of two candidates can protect our nation the best.
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The real world? It is not my gerbil it is Shakespeare's to start. ( Cry Havoc! and loose the dogs of war!) A good play. You may want to attend a performance.
OUR real world begins in mid 20th Century when an Army of 6 million Jews and 6 million "undesireables" voted with their feet and walked right into Nazi death camps and died because they had neither the wit nor the will to act to change a very weak movement when it was very, very weak.
They decided to wait for "someone" (the United States) to save them and by time the saviours arrived it was too late.
Fifty years later it matters not if you are a 68 year old levee commissioner in flooded Iowa or a 68 year old woman in New Orleans living peacefully in her home post Katrina. You WILL be mugged by the "authorities" who wear uniforms, carry guns and wear badges, on order of the Mayor or the Governor until they are reassured you WILL comply with whatever THEY think is the law.
We, the peasants, are now blessed with our first widely publicized "faceless bureaucrat" by name of Lon Horuichi in photographed, fingerprinted and Social Security Numbered America. This Government employee has been involved in at least (one?) operation where they "killed the children to save them"
You ( and all of us) are exactly one traffic stop, one "code violation", one accounting infraction,one TSA incident away from discovering this 21st Century Real World armed with tasers, guns and gulags.
If you think word games between Tweedledee and Tweedledum will somehow magically change this real world overnight in any way but the worst, you live in a fantasy and are unreachable by any normal means of communication.
Live long prosper, if you can.
You got this one wrong John. Randy Weavers 14 year old son was actually firing at US Marshals who had killed his dog when they killed him, (and one marshal killed the other because they were not PROPERLY trained in fire and movement)
FBI sniper Lon Horuichi killed Weavers WIFE, granted she was holding a baby at the time but the child was unharmed.
While it is only one detail that one inaccuracy could lead others to question your entire chain of reasoning.
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You got this one wrong John. Randy Weavers 14 year old son was actually firing at US Marshals who had killed his dog when they killed him, (and one marshal killed the other because they were not PROPERLY trained in fire and movement)
FBI sniper Lon Horuichi killed Weavers WIFE, granted she was holding a baby at the time but the child was unharmed.
While it is only one detail that one inaccuracy could lead others to question your entire chain of reasoning.
There are three or four versions of the story at this site. Pick whichever one you choose to believe. I briefly met and talked with Randy Weaver and I believe him to be an honest man.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/randy_weaver/12.html (http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/randy_weaver/12.html)
The account by Kevin Harris also comes from a statement he later dictated to Sara:
“Me (Kevin Harris) and Sam followed Striker through the woods until we came out on the road that forks off the one Randy was on. Striker reached the corner first, then Sam, and then me. A camouflaged [sic] person was in the road and he shot Striker. Sam yelled 'You shot Striker, you son of a bitch!' And they pointed a gun at Sam. Sam opened [sic] fire. I took cover behind a stump and Sam headed up the road toward home. It appeared [sic] as though Sam had been wounded in the right arm. The men were still shooting at Sam, so I shot one of the sons of bitches. After they killed Sam one of the Fed's jumped out of the woods and for the first time declared he was a federal marshal. The Fed's then grabbed their wounded and left. I then headed home up the road and spotted Sam's body laying in the road without a doubt shot in the back.”
In a separate statement later given to the FBI, Harris said that he raised his rifle and fired at Degan after he saw Sammy had been shot. Harris then heard Degan call out that he had been hit. Harris claimed that after he fired at Degan, the shooting came to a halt for a few seconds before he heard another shot. Sammy "yelped," then was silent. Harris said he fired one more shot in front of a camouflaged man “to scare him." Harris remained behind the stump "approximately ten more minutes," when he heard "the sound of a vehicle down the hill." He then retreated to the Weaver house. About 15 minutes later, Randy and Vicki Weaver, along with Harris, retrieved the body of Sammy Weaver.
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Aristotle once commented that he thought the world (in his time) was going to hell too. I wonder if anyone ever told him that he was sounding paranoid?
You have met and exceeded your quota of ad hominem with me. When you can maintain a reasonable level of decorum in our conversations we will resume our talks. Not before.
Until then understand the difference between paranoia and tactical or situational awareness. A deer, a coyote,a racoon, a flock of geese or just about any other critter that moves from the treeline into an open field is not paranoid, they tactically and situationally aware of potential threat. As Colonel Cooper would say: they are in Condition Yellow.
No one said anything about the "world going to hell". The world will be here long after we are all gone just as it was before any of us arrived.
Nothing in this Presidential Election has any bearing on how much overhanging liability I (and you for that matter) personally face from an overzealous government employee bent on boosting his/her brownie points with an increasingly feral institutional government culture.
Maximum Mike Sullivan is "acting director" of the BAFTE in the Administration of George W. (the Good Republican) Bush.
The President could replace him tomorrow. He chooses not to do so.
Dr. Sowell chooses to make the best of a bad situation. I do not.
If it takes a peak load stress test to diagnose and repair the Constitution then so be it.
Why worry about what I think? We all know John McCain will win because he has the support of people like you and Thomas
Sowell. My thoughts are not relevant.
Enough already.
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Aw. Just when I thought we would go from quoting Julius Caesar to horticulture lessons with Romeo and Juliet. Hey, you may want to read Shakespeare sometime.
Ad hominem eh? Sorry if calling you “paranoid” wounded you. However, when you post …
“…from an overzealous government employee bent on boosting his/her brownie points with an increasingly feral institutional government culture.”
“You WILL be mugged by the "authorities" who wear uniforms, carry guns and wear badges, on order of the Mayor or the Governor until they are reassured you WILL comply with whatever THEY think is the law.”
“…blessed with our first widely publicized "faceless bureaucrat" by name of Lon Horuichi in photographed, fingerprinted and Social Security Numbered America. This Government employee has been involved in at least (one?) operation where they "killed the children to save them".”
“You ( and all of us) are exactly one traffic stop, one "code violation", one accounting infraction,one TSA incident away from discovering this 21st Century Real World armed with tasers, guns and gulags.”
… you sound paranoid. Not any color code of “tactical”. Just a simple, garden variety of paranoid.
John, as you glance over your shoulder for the jack-booted ATF thugs or the lucky TSA guard that is begging to give someone an open cavity search, there is hope yet for us to have "reasonable decorum". We can agree on your closing statement.
“Why worry about what I think? We all know John McCain will win because he has the support of people like you and Thomas Sowell. My thoughts are not relevant.”
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There are three or four versions of the story at this site. Pick whichever one you choose to believe. I briefly met and talked with Randy Weaver and I believe him to be an honest man.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/randy_weaver/12.html (http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/randy_weaver/12.html)
The account by Kevin Harris also comes from a statement he later dictated to Sara:
“Me (Kevin Harris) and Sam followed Striker through the woods until we came out on the road that forks off the one Randy was on. Striker reached the corner first, then Sam, and then me. A camouflaged [sic] person was in the road and he shot Striker. Sam yelled 'You shot Striker, you son of a bitch!' And they pointed a gun at Sam. Sam opened [sic] fire. I took cover behind a stump and Sam headed up the road toward home. It appeared [sic] as though Sam had been wounded in the right arm. The men were still shooting at Sam, so I shot one of the sons of bitches. After they killed Sam one of the Fed's jumped out of the woods and for the first time declared he was a federal marshal. The Fed's then grabbed their wounded and left. I then headed home up the road and spotted Sam's body laying in the road without a doubt shot in the back.”
In a separate statement later given to the FBI, Harris said that he raised his rifle and fired at Degan after he saw Sammy had been shot. Harris then heard Degan call out that he had been hit. Harris claimed that after he fired at Degan, the shooting came to a halt for a few seconds before he heard another shot. Sammy "yelped," then was silent. Harris said he fired one more shot in front of a camouflaged man “to scare him." Harris remained behind the stump "approximately ten more minutes," when he heard "the sound of a vehicle down the hill." He then retreated to the Weaver house. About 15 minutes later, Randy and Vicki Weaver, along with Harris, retrieved the body of Sammy Weaver.
I don't much care what any one claims, The Autopsy took a 9mm bullet out of the Marshals back that left an entry hole through his BACKpack. Weaver and Co. don't seem to have injured anyone.
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I don't much care what any one claims, The Autopsy took a 9mm bullet out of the Marshals back that left an entry hole through his BACKpack. Weaver and Co. don't seem to have injured anyone.
Okay, so what is the problem?
This is what I said:
This Government employee has been involved in at least (one?) operation where they "killed the children to save them"
Both you and Harris seem to agreed US Marshalls killed Sam Weaver. Ipso, ergo and therefore Lon Horiuchi was involved in at least one operation where they "killed the children to save them."
I stand vindicated. As always.
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Sorry if calling you “paranoid”.
Bingo! Thank you for your freely offered confession! Book'em Dan-O. Your honor, the people ask remand.
While you sit in jail and pay exorbitant fees to a lawyer to spring you I will reiterate my previous reiteration:
You have met and exceeded your quota of ad hominem with me. When you can maintain a reasonable level of decorum in our conversations we will resume our talks. Not before.
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We should refute the info , not the person, ie Dont shoot the messenger. What makes this forum so good is we can attack the subject , not the poster, . PLEASE UPHOLD THIS .
Point taken. Apology offered, and previous post removed.
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Okay, so what is the problem?
This is what I said:
This Government employee has been involved in at least (one?) operation where they "killed the children to save them"
Both you and Harris seem to agreed US Marshalls killed Sam Weaver. Ipso, ergo and therefore Lon Horiuchi was involved in at least one operation where they "killed the children to save them."
I stand vindicated. As always.
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You're not married are you .
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"While you sit in jail and pay exorbitant fees to a lawyer to spring you I will reiterate my previous reiteration:
You have met and exceeded your quota of ad hominem with me. When you can maintain a reasonable level of decorum in our conversations we will resume our talks. Not before."
Reiterate a previous reiteration? Paranoid and redundant is no way to go through life John.
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You're not married are you .
;D ;D... Well.. if he is.. she should borrow my gun, knives and rolling pin.. LOL
I have listened to all of this and as usual.. I got confused. ??? ( what else is new) ::)
I am considered "paranoid" by some of my friends. Because.( as you all know) I distrust BATF and anything else that the the Government has their nasty little corrupt fingers into. There isn't any part of them that I would trust as far as I could throw them.
I don't know much about the Lon Horuichi person or the events. I've read a little bit and I will read more on it.
Do I think that someday... “You ( and all of us) are exactly one traffic stop, one "code violation", one accounting infraction,one TSA incident away from discovering this 21st Century Real World armed with tasers, guns and gulag
Yes.. I do.
I... living and being in a small town in backwoods country America will probably be the last to feel it.. but yes... I believe that if the world keeps going as it is.. we are in for a hell of a fightin' ride.
Paranoid? Probably...
But I prefer to call myself aware and mentally ready.
Did my statement make any sense to the course of this thread ..or an I still in a state of confused confusion. ???
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M'lette :
What makes sense …
A shot of distrust can add balance. To this, caution is fine but when one takes it to a constant, slathering distrust of ________ (fill in the blank with appropriate government agency, family, farm animal, etc.) it takes away from the present. This creates an unhealthy mental state.
As a side discussion to this thread … I find it interesting if not somewhat comical that there is a fair amount of gun owners that worry about Jan Reno coming through their door and hearing the “snap” of a rubber glove going on her heavy right hand. Can it happen? Sure. Anything can happen but really are the odds that it will? Tell you what, I will send JohnJ a dozen roses and a box of chocolates if and when Jan gives me an open cavity search.
Again, worrying about the future is a waste of time. Sure, be prepared but don’t go off the deep end because the balance you seek will be lost. Enjoy the moment. Remember, you are living someone's dream.
What doesn’t make any sense is that you are a grandmother. God Lord girl …. That new picture of you makes you look like you are under thirty!
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hahaha ;D ;D Under 30..
god.. don't I wish~~
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Intellectualism aside for the moment, Marshal'ette makes it great..to be straight..and my regrets..to them that ain't.
Mac.
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I think the Ruby Ridge thing was a travesty and blatant mis use of the law. Several really bad decisions on both parts created a situation that once started would not stop. Its one of those clashes between people who think they are within the law, and those sure they are enforcing the law. There are many instances like this that are not as widely publicized because the duration is too Short for media to react. Just my .02
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You're not married are you .
Depends on what you mean by married. As my FIRST ex actually once said in a moment of complete flusteration:
"Just because it turned out the way you said it would, does not mean you are right!"
I have GOT to work that into a satire somehow!
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;D ;D... Well.. if he is.. she should borrow my gun, knives and rolling pin.. LOL
I am considered "paranoid" by some of my friends. Because.( as you all know)
Aw, come on. One riot, one ranger that is all it takes.
If you must know she has her own guns, knives and rolling pins including a nifty little .410 shotgun her mother used to shoot 23 out of 25 trap clay pigeons back in the 50's or 60's.
Last I checked one of the rolling pins was made from marble. I, on the other hand, purchased and use the family cast iron frying pan.
Try not to let anyone label you paranoid. It is a cheesy putdown from people who have little to contribute and spread it around to others under the guise of "cool" like a virus. If friends are infected you have an opportunity to educate them into a better way of thought.
Just saying.
Best regards,
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Reiterate a previous reiteration? Paranoid and redundant is no way to go through life John.
Gee, hard to believe it is already time to post this again. It always cracks me up.
http://johnjacobh.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/smart-donkey-in-a-gorilla-suit-gets-clock-cleaned-appropriately/ (http://johnjacobh.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/smart-donkey-in-a-gorilla-suit-gets-clock-cleaned-appropriately/)
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Fantastic phrase! Gerbils of Gibberish... Ha! ;D
I think you may have just named my next record.
Many thanks! I do what I can to help whenever possible. Send all royalties and consulting fee compensation C/O Michael Bane, Downrange TV.
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Yall are killing me with your ponterfillation, and your fluxuation of the English language. Last I checked this was a GUN forum . Get back to basics men and ladies.
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Yall are killing me with your ponterfillation, and your fluxuation of the English language. Last I checked this was a GUN forum . Get back to basics men and ladies.
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Here's a gem from Dr Sowell's recent column:
If an informed citizenry is the foundation of democratic government, then a misinformed citizenry is a danger.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWE0ZDg0NGI0MWYyMzc2MGZmYjlmOTYxMzc2YjdkMjg=
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I have long been of the opinion that BHO is really Jimmy Carter repackaged. Today, Dr. Sowell goes on compare BHO and Pres. Peanut with the failings of one of Americas earliest socialist Presidents, FDR. (Let's not forget Woodrow Wilson was our first socialist President.)
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell090208.php3
Senator Obama's statement that "our economy is in turmoil" is standard stuff on the left and in the mainstream media, which has been dying to use the word "recession."
Not only has the economic slowdown failed to reach the definition of a recession, the most recent data show the U.S. economy growing at a rate exceeding 3 percent — a rate that many European economies would die for, despite our being constantly urged to imitate those countries whose end results are not as good as ours.
Barack Obama's "change" is a recycling of the kinds of policies and rhetoric of the New Deal that prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s far beyond the duration of any depression before or since.
These are the same kinds of liberal policies that led to double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates and rising unemployment during the Carter administration. These are "back to the future" changes to economic disasters that need repeating.
Make no mistake, the political rhetoric of FDR was great. For those who admire political rhetoric, as so many of Barack Obama's supporters seem to, FDR was tops. For those who go by actual results, FDR's track record was abysmal.