Gabrielle F. Dolly (Callsign: Baby Troll)
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Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line - and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
--Jesse Helms

GABRIELLE F. DOLLY
(Callsign: Baby Troll)

Mark Philip Alger (author)

MARK
PHILIP
ALGER
(Author and
Seven-Percenter)

Repeal It!

Dissent is born from the simple reality that government must prove its case to us, NOT vice-versa.

--Dolly's current fave aphorism, stolen from Dante

The Cloud Observatory
Friday, August 13, 2010

Observation #906...

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Friday, August 13, 2010

YOU!...

MUST Read. This: Bill Whittle -- The Iceberg.

And I do mean YOU.

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Friday, August 13, 2010

Seems as Though Friday the Thirteenth...

FALLED ON A FRIDAY this month. This year.

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Friday, August 13, 2010

I Swear I Still Think...

THAT KATHRYN Limbaugh bears an uncanny resemblance to Tricia Helfer. Have they ever been seen together in one place at the same time? I mean, this is important! Did the Rushmeister marry a Cylon?

BSN, all the best to the happy couple.

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The Cloud Observatory
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Observation #905...

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Quote of the Day...

It is time to stop being polite to these people.

--Flea

Or, as Rodger, the Real King of France, puts it, You're not Islamophobic? Whyever not?

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Harry Ried, Racialist...

EXTRAORDNIARE ANNOUNCES that he cannot imagine how anyone of Hispanic ancestry can be a Republican. Right. Hispanic folk don't appreciate family, church, integrity, hard work, fair dealing, playing by the rules.

Actually, I have trouble understanding why anyone of American ancestry would be a Democrat.

You mean Americans don't appreciate the breakup of the family, dependence on the leviathan state, tax slavery, civilizational decline, dirty double dealing self aggrandizing political whores trashing the Constitution for their own filthy gain?

Er... Yes, Dolly. Something like that.

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The Cloud Observatory
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Observation #904...

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

I Tend to Remain Silent...

ON A GOOD MANY SUBJECTS where you, Gentle Reader, might suspect I might have an opinion to offer. The principle reason for this is that there are a good many subjects on which I find it difficult to maintain a calm demeanor long enough to get out a coherent paragraph without descending into... well, the kind of spittle-flecked derangements frequently evidenced by the Left.

Who do that whole thing quite well themselves without any help from me. As Borepatch takes note of.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Buzzword of the Day...

MEDIA PICKS UP a military term -- "optics" -- in order to sound tough, hip, edgy, and with-it... saying "the optics" of Michelle Ma Belle's peregrination to Spain look bad.

I know how the military is using the term these days, but they are also probably better aware than the media where the word comes from. Being's how your latter day journolist would have barely passed Rocks for Jocks and looks down on Real Science and Other Forms of Practical Knowledge as being Things We Don't Do.

Optics, you see, is the branch of physics that deals with the transmission of light. More specifically, the bending of light. Through prisms and lenses and other cool tricks and devices.

But well... Yes, your perspective on a matter does have a lot to do with the lens you are viewing it through.

And, from where I sit, the media's optics look really bad. Warped. Achromatic. Astigmatic. Anamorphic.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Problem With This Thesis...

ADVANCED VIA a chin-pulling session in the Wall Street Journal is that those who style themselves the "betters" of the American people are nothing of the sort. (In fact, if someone tries to persuade you he is anyone's better, you are well-advised to suspect just the opposite.) And the examples cited bear that opinion out. Those who would lord it over the American people are, as a group (always a problematic assessment, I know), themselves ignorant, bigoted, stupid, arrogant, given to shooting their mouths off from the hip with little or no provocation, and just generally wrong.

When Nancy Pelosi denigrates the Tea Parties as crazy people "carrying swastikas" she's either engaged in deliberate disinformation or she's swallowing whole the media lie. She's displaying like a red baboon's ass her manifest prejudice and arrogance.

When Nanny Bloomberg insults the intelligence of the 61% of New Yorkers who oppose the Cordova Mosque, he either ignores or is ignorant of the fact that the project is a deliberate stick-in-the-eye provocation and is seen as such by the very "moderate" Muslims he seems to seek to placate with his mealy-mouthed nonsense. The American people merely take at their word a group of people whose faith and creed instructs them to spread it by the sword and who have declared war on us in no uncertain terms. Nanny Bloomberg seems to be living in a La Lal Land in which it is possible and even sensible to ignore such threats, to discount global opinion when it makes him uncomfortable inhis prejudices. (Is it prejudiced to accept a man's view of himself at face value?)

And that went on very much longer than I intended.

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The Cloud Observatory
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Observation #903...

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Hummers...

ORDINARILY THE WINDOWSILL between the bookcases on the east wall of the study at Casa d'Alger is reserved for the cats. It's curtained off and private and, during hot summer days, probably the warmest place in the house -- a feature the cats seem to appreciate in an otherwise chillilly-refriglerated house. But every once in awhile, I hear a little chittering conversation going on between a couple of them, and I'll open the curtain behind them to look out the window and see what's piqued their interest.

Toni hung up a hummingbird feeder on the front porch earlier this year. It went through pretty much all of the first batch of hummingbird "food" (red sugar water, essentially) by evaporation. As far as we could tell, we got exactly ZERO visitors.

But here lately -- the last couple of days -- we've been seeing little thumb-sized critters with sewing-needle beaks and wings that are not even moving slow enough to blur hovering around the thing.

Now, the cats freak out at the sight of a bird in the birdbath out in the middle of the yard -- maybe fifteen feet away. Imagine how excited they get when something not only appears in their field of view MUCH closer, but also appears to violate the laws of physics as cats understand them. Damned things HOVER.

Won't stand still for a camera, either. I got one shot of one on the OTHER side of the feeder. Took two more because it was so small I couldn't see it in the camera's viewscreen. Didn't know it was gone.

So be vewwy vewwy quiet. I'm hunting hummers.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Bawney Fwank...

(I ALMOST QUOTED Dick Armey's freudian slip, but decided at the last minute that it would be tacky.) Bawney Fwank, (you old drama queen), says that government is simply those things that we decide to do together.

Which is a very twee formulation. Just so cute and precious! But you know it's utter bullshit.

The nation is a republic (if, as Dr. Franklin put it, we can keep it) for the reason best exposited by Churchill's aphorism that democracy is three wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for lunch. (If that even WAS Churchill. Did anybody get a good look?)

That is, if "we decide together" to enslave our fellow citizens so that they must work for our maintenance while we while away the time doing nothing much productive at all... That's. Not. Right. I know it; you know it; the American people know it. But, if we decide to do it together, well who's to stop us from camel-walking down the old goldbrick road to wish fulfillment city?

Hmmm?

Well, it's that thing that Bawney seems to be utterly bereft of: principle. And if that's hard for you to wrap your head around, it's written out in convenient prose for you to refer to.

Remember? You swore an oath to it?

And you know...? We have a word for people who try to subvert that, as you do when you go against its strictures to "do what we agree to do together." It starts with a "T" and it rhymes with "Benedict Arnold."

KnowwhutImean?

So you're saying that Democrats are unprincipled, corrupt, lying, treasonous SOB's. And B's.

Well... Yes.

So quit beatin' around the bush and furlin' come out and SAY it!

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

All It Takes to Nuke the Basic...

CONCEPT BEHIND the watermelon movement (altogether now: green on the outside, red on the inside) is this simple question: Pollution is a crime against property. Why then do all of the so-called "green" solutions result in a weakening of private property rights? And why (as we have learned more recently) are the places where environmental damage is the worst those places where private property rights have been the weakest, and those places where the state has trammeled its citizens' rights of free exchange in open markets most severely?

Oh, come ON, Alger! You know you can't confuse a leftist with facts! It only makes their eyes big as saucers and spin around and around and around.

Thank you Dolly Christian Anderson.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

It’s Hilarious to Me That...

DEMOCRAT POLLSTERS are finally realizing what I was saying 35 and 40 years ago: the reason that local tax levies get voted down at such a rate is that those are the only ones within reach of the electorate. Protests. Cries for help. For the rest of what the political class visits upon We the (Little) People, the voters grasp at the straw of divided government and hunker down as best they can. It takes a near revolution for politicians to wake up to this? Idiots.

We are headed for a tidal wave the dimensions of which we have yet to determine.

-- Pat Caddell

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Warning: Graphic, As They Say...

GRAPHICS at the link.

In case -- yanno -- you need help getting a head of steam up this AM.

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Monday, August 09, 2010

Got News For Ed Markey...

HE SAYS THAT Global Warming "deniers" should start their own country.

Sorry, Ed. You're late to the party. We already did.

Now GET THE FUCK OUT!

Fascist butt monkey!

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Sunday, August 08, 2010

Why Izzit?...

THAT REALLY OUGHT to be done with echo, kinda like the old "You Don't Have to Be Jewish" company's routine "Where is it Written (itten-itten-itten)?" Why (why) Izzit (izzit/izzit/izzit)?

But I degrease.

Why is it that people who couldn't reason their way out of a paper bag can style themselves intellectuals solely on the basis of their Ivy League sheepskins, while those who not only could but do on a regular basis are styled the hoi polloi because they might work with their hands?

Just sayin's all.

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Sunday, August 08, 2010

This Is Entirely Too Apropos...

This instance spotted at Instapundit.

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Saturday, August 07, 2010

People Have Been Remarking...

ON AL FRANKEN'S -- after all, remarkable -- behavior while presiding over the Senate.

And, yes, Franken isn't funny -- hasn't been funny since.... ever. Yes, he's abysmally ignorant and proud of it. Yes, he is a typical Democrat, failing upward at an ever-accelerating rate. Yes, he stole that election with the help of ACORN and should be in prison orange instead of Brooks Brothers gray. BUT...

(You knew there was going to be a "but...")

In this case, I think his behavior has merit. It reminds us what a bunch of clowns THAT WHOLE BODY is.

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Saturday, August 07, 2010

The Millions Whom Stalin Ordered...

EXECUTED OR SENT to Siberia went wondering if Uncle Joe knew the horrors being committed in his name...

"I feel really confused, I don't understand how something like this is possible. I can't imagine that at the top of the Obama administration that they realize that something like this is happening," Jamieson told CNN.

Silly rabbit. You are sadly lacking in imagination.

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Saturday, August 07, 2010

What IS It With These...

DEMOCRATS AND THEIR marriages of convenience. First Kennedy and Clinton and now -- apparently -- Obama.

And they all come with the... not so much CHILDREN as ISSUE.

Indeed, Dolly. Indeed.

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Saturday, August 07, 2010

Reading About the Cordova House Protests...

AT THE PEOPLE'S cube, I it occurs to me that, if the voice of the people is still ignored by Our Betters™, maybe we should let the thing go ahead -- subject to all the promised monkey warfare, such as delays in building permits and inspections, the refusal of patriotic skilled tradesmen to work on the project, and so forth -- and then, when it's up, tag it.

I mean, when you can't keep bridges and subway trains from getting a fresh coat of graffiti once a week, why should a stick-in-the-eye mosque be any different?

I bet somebody could do a brisk business in stencils of the image of Mohammed with a bomb on his mind.

I bet after the first gang tagger struck, there'd be mobs of Moslem thugs roaming the streets surrounding the site.

Oh, goody. Gang warfare. Great for community relations.

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The Cloud Observatory
Friday, August 06, 2010

Observation #902...

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Friday, August 06, 2010

Quote of the Day...

SPEAKING TRUTH to assholes department:

I want us all to see what the Muslim mind is really like. Purposely provocative, inconsiderate, discourteous, and insensitive.

Bernie at Planck's Constant
Quoted by Kathy Shaidle

(Hat tip: Our Very Own Flea.)

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Friday, August 06, 2010

Wait! What?...

A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT declared unconstitutional?

Sounds to me like the judge is unconstitutional.

Or his ruling, one.

Whatever. It's out of order, however you put it.

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The Cloud Observatory
Thursday, August 05, 2010

Observation #901...

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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Look On My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair...

BOREPATCH ALWAYS has something to say, and generally says it well. I don't comment nearly as often as I should, because I really don't have much to add. And, true, Wednesday's essay is no exception. But I have a tangent to throw on the pile.

Jackstraws: yeah.

That's not a tangent; that's a non sequitur.

Right. That wasn't my tangent. This is:

I have a solution to the problem of an overwhelmingly large Federal Bureaucracy. It is one that will be viewed and demogogued as draconian (by people with no clue how the actual Draco would have dealt with them), but I view that as a feature. You can tell when you've made a hit when your opponent yelps at the sting.

Freeze Federal spending. No baseline budgeting, no current-services baseline. Freeze. Not one dollar more next year than this.

Disable (opposite of Enable) those departments viewed In the Right as being dedicated to unconstitutional purposes. Render without force those regulations the department has promulgated via the Federal Register. Don't shut them down, simply remove their authority to act. Forbid their bureaucrats to interact with the public. Freeze their budgets. Freeze their hiring. Allow their work force to draw down by attrition. Permit those who remain to serve out their careers in office at their current levels of compensation and benefits -- no increases. Permit them to draw the benefits promised them. But deny them any purpose or future in their vocations. Nor may they be hired by any government department left enabled.

No. New. Spending. New revenues are to go toward paying off the national debt -- including unfunded obligations, such as Social Security and Medicare.

What departments would be on your list?

What do you reckon we could save?

Politicians talk about hard choices, about having to make the politically tough decisions. Do you suppose, if the people demanded this with the kind of clarity shown this week in Missouri, those choices would be a tad less hard? Politically... more tender?

People threaten that we cannot vote the leviathan state out of existence. How sweet would it be to prove them wrong?

Cross-posted at Eternity Road.

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Thursday, August 05, 2010

As Out Curmudgeon Tirelessy Reminds Us...

THE ORIGINAL MEANING of the word obvious was overlooked.

Talk about a genius for the obvious.

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The Cloud Observatory
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Observation #900...

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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Observation Number 900...

TODAY'S CLOUD OBSERVATION is Number 900 in the series. In case you're interested, it was taken in November of 2004 at the place I call the Cloud Observatory -- the Comisar Pavilion at Alms Park in Mt. Lookout, Cincinnati, overlooking the Ohio River near Columbia, the first settlement in the Three Rivers area.

If I had been posting these steadily, five days a week, 900 posts would be roughly equal to three-and-some years. However, I've been posting them more desultorily since 2005. (Observation #1 is dated June 16, '05.)

It all started when I was thinking about a line in a Dolly story, about how Dolly likes to go out in a grassy field on a day with blue sky and white, puffy clouds, and keep her cloudwatching chops up. 'Cause you never know when that hot job will come open -- running a cloud observatory. It seemed to me like such a great idea that I'd like to open a place up. Go into business for myself, running a cloud observatory.

Then, on a whim one day, I took a jaunt up to Alms Park. Hadn't been there in a dog's age. Actually: 15 years or more. And I found -- to my great delight -- that some elves had been in and built, of all things, a cloud observatory -- right on the breast of a hill with a magnificent view across Fort Thomas in Kentucky to the Southwest, whence come all the really cool clouds around here.

The rest, as they say, won't make it into the history books. I don't have the time or energy to post one every day -- even every week day -- but I do when I can. I hope y'all enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoy posting them.

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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

You Know Considering...

HOW APPARENTLY and abysmally ignorant national legislators as a group are of the law, I'm forced to speculate as to whether these assertions of ethical innocence might be honest. Maxine Waters, being as both willfully ignorant and pig-stupid (and that's an insult to pigs, as most of you know) as she is, really might not know that what she did is a violation of ethics rules.

Yebbut. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Mebbe so, Baby Doll, but Waters has been getting away with total and utter disregard for the law -- i.e., the Constitution -- for her entire career in Congress. By now, it must be a pretty comfortable state for her.

Not sayin' she should get away with it, just pointing out that, on top of all her other mental non-accomplishments -- or even negative accomplishments, if you can feature that -- this is really not much different.

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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Quote of the Day...

Islam is a serial murderer of entire cultures and peoples. This is what is has done throughout its entire history. Those whom it does not destroy, it enslaves, diminishes and impoverishes. Islam cannot be 'reformed' in the light of humanity and freedom. Were that so, it would no longer be Islam. For its psychopathic regard and treatment of women alone, Islam is an abomination and worthy only of extinction.

Ward Dorrity at
Roger's Rules

It should be noted here that this not to say that any speaker is, by uttering this truth, automatically urging the murder of Muslims -- the old "Do you really want war with One Billion Muslims?" dodge. The answer is, "No." But should go on, "But if One Billion Muslims seek war with me, rest assured they will get it.

Further: I sincerely doubt that One Billion number. The census is far from reliable in the first place -- the reporters being well-known and proud liars -- as is the sincerity of the profession of faith of all that Billion suspect in the second. Forced conversions being, as the Berra-ism goes, not worth the paper they're written on.

Which might be a clue as to why the fanatics among them are so fervid in trying to shepherd the flock. Those who stray being so thick on the ground, y' see...

Mm-hmm.

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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Surely It Couldn’t Be...

BECAUSE THOSE OF THE politically favored persuasion are more ethically challenged? That their sense of entitlement tends to lead them astray? Or is it that the Democrats currently leading Congress -- if leading it can be said to be -- are, in truth, themselves racist?

The article shows a screen grab from a television ad which asks "Why are only black congressmen being investigated?" That is known in some circles as begging the question. There are white congressmen being investigated -- mine (Jean Schmidt) not the least.

But, surely... It can't be that the black congresscritters are more prone to criminal activity than their white counterparts? Generations of excusing black criminality as being nothing more or less than what's to be expected from former slaves crowded in horrible ghettos and oppressed by the white power structure?

(Never mind the countervailing trends among all other racial groups.)

If you encourage a behavior, excuse it, subsidize it, evennn, is it not reasonable to expect to get more of it?

Not to say that those of African heritage are -- racially -- more criminally inclined. Not to say that there is no finely developed moral sense. Only to say that those who have swallowed the encouragement, excuses, subsidies, and so-on and gone into government might have social attitudes that lead to this behavior?

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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Well! Da Doll Is Soitenly...

GONNA TAKE THIS bit of sartorial guidance under advisement.

I mean, not only do I have to make my own clothes on accounta th' boobage, I also have t' worry 'bout where to hide m' gat. I c'n use all the help I c'n get.

When I'm off duty, 'course. When I'm working... well. There's nothing to make a girl feel sexy like sportin' a skin-tight, black-leather-and-kevlar catsuit. And a full-auto ten-mil. And real bitchin' Doc Martens.

I'm a tactical high-maintenance bitch.

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Saturday, July 31, 2010

So… Taxachusetts...

HOW DOES IT FEEL to be more racist than a bunch of Georgia crackers?

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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Teaching Involves Repetition...

TEACHING SLOW STUDENTS involves endless and even tedious repetition. This lesson has gotten tedious long ago, but you lot don't seem to be getting it. Herewith, please find a review.

If you support Democrat politicians or policy, you are an enemy of the American People, consorting with traitors, and the most corrupt and perfidious poltroons and fools to ever hold high (or low) office. Case in point.

And, if you lie down with dogs, you're gonna get up with fleas.

Please write this in your notes. You will be responsible for knowing this material. It will make up virtually ALL of your grade. The Board exam in November could determine the course of the rest of your life. Get it wrong, and you're stuck in a rut on the road to misery and civilizational decline.

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Friday, July 30, 2010

Can You Smell a Setup?...

(UNNAMED) FEMINISTS are offended by and demand the withdrawal of beer ads objectifying hot babes.

Instantly guaranteed a brazilianfold increase in the number of eyeballs seeing the ads.

Very agile, Howie.

Said feminists being in the employe of the brewer's ad agency. Or, if not, they should demand a cut.

Sheesh!

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Friday, July 30, 2010

The Chick in the Sound Bite...

SAYS IT LIKE it's supposed to tug at our heartstrings, "My parents are illegal immigrants and they're treated like criminals."

Got news for you, chica: they are criminals. Own it.

Just thought you should know.

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Friday, July 30, 2010

You Know That Quiz...

THAT'S FLOATING AROUND? Are you a hippie?

I took it.

ZERO

And I was a hippie -- well, a wannabe -- back in the day.

Go figure.

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Thought Balloon...

ON READING this post at PowerLine...

How come nobody thought to bring these guys up on charges of fraud? Intent to defraud> Obtaining government jobs and money from the Treasury under false promises? False premises, evennn?

Hmmm?

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The Cloud Observatory
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Observation #899...

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

I Did Not Know That...

THESE RAIDS WERE going on across the nation. But now that I do, several things occur to me.

First: these are an infringement upon liberty.

The Ninth Amendment insures that unenumerated rights are not to be disparaged. In the Declaration of Independence, the writers (some of whom also participated in the framing of the Constitution) affirmed that among our (including but not limited to...) inalienable rights are those of life and liberty. Therefore, it can / may /should be argued that the Ninth Amendment specifically affirms and protects a right to liberty.

Liberty: autonomy: immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
freedom of choice; "liberty of opinion"; "liberty of worship"; "liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases"; "at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes"
personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression

We may, therfore, take it as given that the right to liberty is a part of our Original Intent. So definitely a part that the Framers held it to be Self-Evident.

Included in liberty must surely be the right to engage in free commerce with all and sundry, in any object and at any price the market may allow, without hesitation, delay, or let on the part of the state. Yes, this does imply that laws against markets in drugs are unconstitutional. It also means that the state has no lawful authority to limit the citizens' access to arms. Suck it up.

Second: in the article, it is alleged that officials from several states (Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois) colluded to institute a strategy of raiding private associations for the distribution of farm products. This is a conspiracy in restraint of trade. If the Congress can claim to be legally permitted to force a farmer to destroy crops raised for his personal consumption because his consumption of it denies his custom to interstate commerce, certainly we can claim that the states have no authority to regulate agriculture, since it impinges on interstate commerce, which is the exclusive purview of Congress.

And, yes, I will quite easily turn right around and argue that Congress does not have the lawful authority to regulate private exchanges wholly contained within one state. Arguing different theories in the same case in different venues is a long-established legal practice on which no shame should attend, especially not in the defense of liberty. The purpose of governments, (this, too, is a part of our founding intent), is the preservation and defense of liberty, and all activities which neither defend or protect liberty are perversions, not to be tolerated under any circumstances. All tactics toward these ends are appropriate.

So let's hear no more about "compelling state interests."

However. There is in the United States Code a law requiring that those who conspire to deny the free exercise of civil rights are subject to fines and/or imprisonment. There is even a provision for doing so under color of law, which disposes of the idea of sovereign immunity. These are the sections in code so famous in these parts: 18USC241-242.

Third: the assumption that governments have the legitimate power to regulate what a free people may choose to exchange among themselvs is specious and a gross perversion of the purposes of government (see liberty above). Yes, this does mean the FDA, the USDA, the DEA, and the rest of those regulatory edifices that so eat up our sustenance and trammel our liberty.

So what do you do about it? How do you struggle against a program of subversion going back over 100 years? How do you respond?

The Chicago Way.

When they pul a knife, you pull a gun. When they put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue. When they infringe upon your liberty and trammel your rights of association and commerce, you attack their right to exist.

Works for me.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

In the Mail Tuesday...

JONI MITCHELL'S album Hissing of Summer Lawns from... well, I'll thank [him/her] privately. But... thank you nonetheless.

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STRANGE FICTIONS
TEENAGE PUNDIT
THE THEOCRATS BLOG
D.C. THORNTON
TIPPEROGRAPHY
TOM RANTS
UNALLIED
THE UNREPENTANT INDIVIDUAL
VERISIMILITUDE
THE VICEROY'S FUGUESTATE
VOX BABY
WADE'S WORLD
WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?
WHAT'S THAT SMELL
WHITE PERIL
THE WILL TO EXIST
THE WRIGHTWING
THE YOUNG CONSERVATIVES

The structure of this blogroll is most assuredly meant to endorse a particular worldview, attitude, and imputed pecking order -- mine. Get over it.

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Since 21 April 2002

DEFIANCE

WOODY'S GUITAR

This machine
kills fascists.

--A graffito inscribed on Woody Guthries guitar.

"¡No pasarán!" became an international anti-fascist slogan (used by British protestors during the October 1936 Battle of Cable Street, for example), and is still used in this context in some political circles."

--Wikipedia

The use of the speech by Gandalf from The Fellowship of the Ring in resistance to the neo-fascist "national health care" power grab by the American Democrat party becomes ever-more apposite in light of this.

THE THREEPER CREED

We will not disarm.
You cannot convince us.
You cannot intimidate us.
You can try to kill us, if you think you can.
But remember, we'll shoot back.
And we are not going away.
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Your move.

DAMNED A-WELL TOOTIN'

Damned right I'm an enemy of the state. Aren't you? Why the hell not?

Just so's y' know: I didn't pick the fight.

--Our Very Own Baby Troll

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MY LIBRARY THING

QUOTATIONS
FROM DA DOLL

My name is Gabrielle Dolly and I approve the contents of this blog.

I'm little, but I'm loud.

All helicopters are black after midnight.

Yes, a broken clock is right twice a day, but it is still broken.

No, I don't want to live forever, but neither do I want to spend the rest of my life dying.

Screw feminism; celebrate your babe-ness.

If you've got 'em, flaunt 'em. And, Baby, I got 'em.

Get some on ya. More usually does the trick.

Yeah, I'm anti-war. Trouble is, the enemy isn't. So, what're ya gonna do? Bleed on 'em?

You look to me like somebody who actually believes that there's no such thing as a stupid question.

"Life's too short to box with stupid liberals. Trouble is: there ain't any smart ones."

Okay. Here's how this works: If all you got's a hammer, pretty soon, every problem starts to look like a nail. Folla? 'N' if all you've got is government, pretty soon every solution starts to look like oppression.

Beauty may be only skin-deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

You may not be able to impose democracy on a country, but you sure as hell can impose socialism. Stop it!

READER ENDORSEMENTS

...[A]ssholes like Mark Alger... --some random anonymous feckwit on another blog

Welcome to the Dept. of Information, Mr. Alger, and sorry about the delay. --Emperor Darth Misha I

...the coveted "Silver Snickerdoodle of Excellence" ... --Ith of Absinthe and Cookies

Cincinnati novelist Mark Alger is one of nature's noblemen, and one of the best writers on the Web. Treat yourself. --Francis W. Porretto

Mark Alger is a writer, who just happens to blog. And if you're not checking him out you're doing yourself a disservice. --Raging Dave

Mark Alger's Baby Troll Blog, whose look at life and the world around him, along with pithy comments from the effervescent Dolly, deserve to be on everyone's required reading list. --Guy S.

YOUR QUOTE HERE

SIG-BLOCK QUOTES

"Society has no right to be unjust to a single one of its members, ... the whole society minus one, is not authorised to obstruct the latter in his opinions, nor in those actions which are not harmful, in the use of his property or the exercise of his labour, save in those cases where that use or that exercise would obstruct another individual possessing the same rights."
--Benjamin Constant

"Individual liberty; Individual Responsibility."
--Russell Means

"When you want to blather away into the ether, collecting the accolades and shunning the negative response, you're not advocating for speech to be free -- you're advocating for talk to be cheap."
--Jane Galt

"A leftist idea can be recognized by three earmarks, It will be:
1)Founded in ignorance,
2) Focussed on irrelevance,
3) Engaged in wishful thinking.
--Mark Alger

4) "And threaten use of the coercive power of the state to extract compliance."
--Arnold's Corrollary (ed.)

"I could tolerate leftists if they had any coherent ideas for a better way to do things. But they don't. They cling stubbornly to failed brain-fart dreams that have been attempted over and over again with disastrous results, but they never learn. When better ideas come along, they simply screech and holler at them, then fling feces like the monkeys they are."
--Acidman

"All the extravagance and incompetence of our present government is due, in the main, to lawyers.They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizen has a lawyer behind it. If all lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half."
-- H.L. Mencken.

Can you demonstrate one time or place, throughout all history, where the average person was made safer by restricting access to handheld weapons?
--Joe Huffman.

APHORISMS
PASSED

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
-- Barry Goldwater

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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-- Thomas Jefferson

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1776

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At the core of modern liberalism is the spoiled child -- miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
--P.J. O'Rourke

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[W]e're not facing a set of grievances that can be soothed and addressed. We're facing a radical ideology with unalterable objectives: to enslave whole nations and intimidate the world. No act of ours invited the rage of the killers, and no concession, bribe or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder.

On the contrary, they target nations whose behavior they believe they can change through violence. Against such an enemy there is only one effective response: We will never back down, never give in and never accept anything less than complete victory.
--President George W. Bush

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THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
--Thomas Paine

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"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."
----Texas State Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp

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One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that "violence begets violence." I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure -- and in some cases I have -- that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.
--Jeff Cooper

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The only sure way to get the money out of politics is to get the power out of government.
--Mark Alger

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When Obama says he wants to "spread the wealth," you can be sure it's your wealth he's talking about, not his.

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Carry your gun - it's a lighter burden than regret.
--Breda

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Only fools speak of "climate change" as though it were something remarkable or frightening. Climate is change.

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To all the hogs at the trough in DC: You don't get to waive my rights.

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In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell

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It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace, Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
--Patrick Henry

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