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
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Now it's your turn...
Remember -- If I don't like it, it hits the bit bucket. I don't object to challenges or argument. Not that I need to defend what I do with and on my property, but I'm not paying to provide bandwidth to fact-challenged idiocy and witless pseudo-religious dogma masquerading as public policy positions. Nor do I condone treason or other pathologies of left-wing ingrates. If you can come up with a sensible argument based in facts and logic for your positions, put it out there. If not ... bit bucket.
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Two Things...
TO SAY ABOUT the so-called Tragedy of the -- scorn quotes -- "Commons." Well, OK, since that was one, let's make it three. Our Curmudgeon's alter ego, that guy Fran, has two more which we'll count as one.
What no one can privatize, no one has a reason to conserve.
What no one can privatize, no one has a reason to protect.
Which I sum up as: What everyone owns, no one owns. (True for all values of own.)
Which leads me to conclude that the Federal Government (at least) should be enjoined from owning real property outside of the District of Columbia, that all needs for land be met with leases, with the owners to be made whole from pollution issues.
Can you tell I have problems with the doctrine of sovereign immunity?
Mark Philip Alger
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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
Brother, can you spare a dime?
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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