By Nathan Barton
Good morning. Just a short column today, after being slow on writing for a couple of days., due to travel and many distractions. But here we go.
Canaanite front: Israel accepts truce plan; Hamas balks. The Hamas rejection came just minutes after Israel’s security cabinet decided to embrace terms set forward late Monday night by Egypt’s military-backed government. If it isn’t one side, it is the other. Neither side is telling the truth, without a doubt. Continue reading
By MamaLiberty
Not my problem. I’m sure a lot of people would consider that a harsh thing to say, but if you’ll stay with me a bit you should easily see that it is the only real answer to the whole “politically correct” thing sweeping this country and, incidentally, the world.
“You made me mad. You didn’t make me happy. I’m offended.” You can probably add a hundred more such phrases people use to control what you do, say and even what you believe. That’s exactly what happens when a few people can choose any word or object, assign a specific (often NEW and ugly) meaning to it, and then demand that nobody use that word or object because it “makes them feel”… whatever. Continue reading
By Nathan Barton
Good morning: it has truly been said that war is the health of the state, and today’s headlines prove it. Here are a few examples of the stupidity of government and its wars.
War on Some Drugs: There is a right way to do things, and a good many wrong ways to do them: government almost inevitably chooses the wrong way(s) to do something. Consider, for example, this last week’s “legalization” of marijuana for recreational use in Washington State, one of the more “progressive” states of the Fifty, but one in which voters nearly TWO years ago voted to legalize the selling, purchase, ownership, and consumption of cannabis. Continue reading
By MamaLiberty
The lawless religious right: Time to stop caving to their ridiculous tantrums
Salon – by Katie McDonogh
“The Christian right wants to live above the law, and so far they’ve been wildly successful at getting what they want. But the progressive left — led by a coalition of LGBTQ organizations — is finally poised to fight hard against the trend, and to push Congress and Obama to do the same.” (07/10/14)
The “right” wants to live above the law. So does the “left.” Congress and the President most certainly live “above the law,” along with all or most of the federal employees in the country, especially the alphabet soup gangs. Then there are all those cops who definitely live in smug defiance of any law that should punish them for harming innocents. State, county and city governments in general work hard getting around some laws, even if they can’t jump above them quite as easily as the “dear leader.” The folks on Wall Street, and a vast array of corporate entities don’t seem to have much problem ignoring the law that is enforced on the rest of us either. Continue reading
By Nathan Barton
Good morning and welcome to the end of another week. Let us briefly look at cities, economic matters, and of course, stupid government, remembering that much government just plain shuts down for the weekend.
John Ransom at Townhall points out what a wonderful example Chicago was last weekend, with 10 dead and 50 shot in what he calls “Happy Dependence Day.” Chicago is indeed the poster child for Tranzi philosophy and government, because of its corruption, its incest (business and all the levels of government), the sheep-like demeanor of its people, and the way it produces such FINE examples of humanity like the Fuehrer and his Consort and the Emanuels and Al Capone and Honest Abe: indeed a “worthy” successor of Babylon, Rome and Constantinople and Paris… Continue reading
By Nathan Barton
Good morning! Tensions rising again, both overseas and here. Let’s look at a few.
First, a brief look at Canaan and that part of the Islamic world wars. When you look at a map of the Middle East, at least seven (and depending on how you count them, ten) nations are engaged in a single connected war with multiple sides. Continue reading
By MamaLiberty
Sally had worked much later than she had intended to, and hurried as she crossed the dimly lit lobby to the front. The old security guard shuffled toward her to unlock the door, wishing her a good evening and admonishing her to be careful. She stepped outside and listened to him lock the door behind her, wishing she could have requested an escort to her car a block away. He was too crippled, and couldn’t leave his post anyway, but she still wished someone was with her. Continue reading
Good morning to all, after a long day and miles on the road, but seeing the beautiful almost-Irish green of the South Dakota Badlands and Short-grass Prairies (High Plains). Some news (a short selection today):
The statist School Nutrition Association has turned on Moochel and the school food mandates of the FedGov, saying they don’t work and want them repealed. Allies in evil turn on each other, eh? And millions of school children rejoice. They’d rejoice more if their parents started behaving like real parents and pulled them out of the state-ruined institutions of “learning” before it is too late. But even then, as the next story relates, the state still thinks that they (not the parents) control children. Continue reading
Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-28D: Stupid people and agencies
By Nathan Barton
Good morning, and enjoy the heat! Did you know that the recent cold spell is all the fault of man made global warming? The “polar vortex” is due to instability in the Arctic, which is caused by – that’s right – global warming. I mentioned in the last column that PopSci claims that the Antarctic ice is melting and will cause the sea level to rise by 10 feet – not inches, feet. But while people in Europe panic over melting glaciers in the Alps, a few historians have pointed out that in classical Roman times (First Century AD), there WERE no glaciers in the Alps. Of course, the true believers in global warming believe that WE are as stupid as their minions are. But we can easily figure out who is lying, can’t we? On to news: Continue reading →