December 2011
70 posts
“The parasite hates three things: free markets, free will, and free men.”
– Andrew Ryan (born Andrei Rianofski)
“Ron Paul is vilified for missing a few paragraphs out of hundreds of newsletters...”
– Hosanna Myers (via riverofliberty)
And then those same people blame Ron Paul policies for the messes caused by their thousand-page bills.
(via evilteabagger)
“This last is not a coincidence: in regard to social issues, “inflation” does not...”
– Ayn Rand (via the-capitalist)
“The government has no source of revenue, except the taxes paid by the producers....”
– Ayn Rand (via the-capitalist)
Gold embroidered hat-wearing Pope, carrying a... →
iosepos:
thai-madness:
To me, the most offensive part about this is when he says that “we must dismount from the high horse of our ‘enlightened’ reason”. Umm…no, I’ll keep my reason, thanks.
Lololol
Inb4 shit storm: China, Japan to Back Direct Trade... →
Japan and China will promote direct trading of yen and yuan without using dollars and will encourage the development of a market for the exchange, to cut costs for companies, the Japanese government said.
Japan will also apply to buy Chinese bonds next year, the Japanese government said in a statement after a meeting between Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in...
The Smallest Minority.: Things I own and can... →
iosepos:
daisysnotebook:
Things I own and can control:
My attitude
My accomplishments
My personal character
My style
My choices
My body, and with that comes the things that I’ve earned from my labor and the things I’ve chosen to acquire with the fruits of my labor.
My mind, and with that are the thoughts that…
Umm, yes. ^^^
“Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to...”
– Ayn Rand (via the-capitalist)
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be...”
– P.J. O’Rourke (via evilteabagger)
CNN talks to Ron Paul about the Newsletters
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, have you stopped beating your wife?
Ron Paul: I never beat my wife.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, do you advocate wife beating?
Ron Paul: No, I don't.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, are you going to deny wife beating?
Ron Paul: I don't deny anything. I don't beat my wife. I don't advocate wife beating.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, who advocates wife beating?
Ron Paul: I don't know, but it's not me.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, have you stopped beating your wife?
Ron Paul: I don't beat my wife. Your network asked me about it yesterday. Why don't you just replay the answers from yesterday?
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, are you going to deny wife beating with metal clothes hangers?
Ron Paul: Huh?
CNN 'reporter': How do you beat your wife?
Ron Paul: I don't.
CNN 'reporter': Dr. Paul, have you stopped beating your wife?
Ron Paul: Sorry Gloria, I gotta go do something useful. Bye.
“What I want Paul detractors to confront is that he alone, among viable...”
– Grappling With Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
Every Paul supporter and detractor should read the whole thing.
(via jeffmiller)
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via shatteringstereotypes)
“Both “socialism” and “fascism” involve the issue of property rights. The right...”
– Ayn Rand (via the-capitalist)
“A = A motherfuck”
– Ayn Rand (via gaysama)
and aristotle too
I’m so self destructive. Irrational.
I would trade the world for the love I had again, but I may have lost it through the burden of my internal failures.
It’s going to be a long night.
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the “transcendent” and all who...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
“The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that’s absolute, the one that...”
– Christopher Hitchens. (via anarchyagogo)
“To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while...”
– Aristotle, Metaphysics (via untilasinglesolitonsurvives)
NDAA Provisions Being Tweaked To Address Civil...
therift:
liberalsarecool:
President Obama (and a few key members of Congress) did not let us down and I am very happy to say this. I was very concerned with the language written in the NDAA. This is still not on the Senate website. Naturally - things can change, but it does appear as if the message landed over the course of the past few days with Democrats.
See the language that was...
Just so that you are all aware, the 2012 National...
a-petro-manifesto:
>Hey Liberals, a Republican President is dismantling our personal freedoms, engaging in military adventurism, and is bailing out big banks!
>Hey Liberals, a Democratic President is dismantling our personal freedoms, engaging in military adventurism, and is bailing out big banks!
Ron Paul's "Steady Upward Trajectory" leads to...
laliberty:
From the generally reliable Public Policy Polling:
Gingrich has dropped 5 points in the last week and he’s also seen a significant decline in his favorability numbers. Last week he was at +31 (62/31) and he’s now dropped 19 points to +12 (52/40). The attacks on him appear to be taking a heavy toll- his support with Tea Party voters has declined from 35% to 24%.
Paul meanwhile...
“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a...”
– Ayn Rand (via the-capitalist)
Christmas Should be More Commercial →
a-petro-manifesto:
by Leonard Peikoff
Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as “materialistic”; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor) that no one takes seriously.In fact, Christmas as we celebrate it...
FACT: Genderfluid people must stay hydrated at all...
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It ain't just "a few bad apples"
statehate:
Tonight, I attended a presentation hosted by the Orange County Public Defender’s office on “Police Misconduct and (Ab)Use of Force,” given by Larry Smith, a retired police officer who several years ago began working as an expert witness in police use of force cases. He presented a ton of information on Tasers, police brutality, corruption, cover-ups, abuse of power, false arrest,...
positivelypositivist:
i blame capitalism that i can’t get laid because capitalism forces people to think of other people as commodities, not people, and it just so happens people think i am like a cheap 99 cent trinket commodity as opposed to a Gucci purse or a Prada suit or whatever those rich fuckers like to wear that everyone oogles over
The point of this post is also not to higlight my...