RIFLEMAN'S JOURNAL - APRIL 2010
The World Sucks in So Many Ways
Back here I tried to raise an alarm about government fabricating a diagnosis of mental illness to facilitate oppression. Later came a graphic example of exactly that: "We and our ninjasuited bullyboy friends are going to steal your property and destroy your reputation, literally at gunpoint, and if you resist we'll just murder you. Because we can." Now we have this follow-up on the case. Do you see what's happening here? How can anyone who's a part, or in favor, of this unconscionable outrage live with themselves? Unless they truly are as evil as I've been saying? All we want is to be left alone. We have the right to defend ourselves, including from them, and this is casus belli.
But wait, there's more! What kind of perverted, power-drunk monster would taser a pregnant woman over a traffic ticket? Police are completely out of control and have engaged in open warfare against peaceable citizens. Cops kill, vastly more often than our kind. Police are the enemy. Treat them as such!
Disarmament Kills, Chapter MMCCCXLV.
Government only knows how to steal.
Pacifists. I know what they are.
OTOH, who's violent?
In Lighter News
Lemme just say, if you ever get an email from me that goes something like this:
I'm sorry for this odd request because it might get to you too urgent but it's because of the situation of things right now,We are stuck in london right now,we came down here on vacation ,we were robbed, worse of it is that bags, cash and cards and cell phone were stolen at GUN POINT, it's such a crazy experience for us, we need help flying back home, the authorities are not being 100% supportive but the good thing is that we still have our passport but dont have enough money to get our flight ticket back home, please i need you to loan me some money, i will refund you as soon as i'm back home, i promise.
...it means someone's somehow hijacked my address book and is sending false messages. I use, as best I can, proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and I would never set foot in London - or any other territory outside the United States of America - except possibly as a soldier in an army of liberation. ...Yes, that means I really have to get the hell out of Oregon.
Iowa gets Shall-Issue. Permits are infringement, but at least Iowans have regained a little ground.
Aurora, Part XI. Alms for the creative? I know I ain't John Ringo but at least I'm trying.
Why Does the World Suck?
Let's start with this blatant admission of contempt for the rule of law.
Even more ignorant bigots. Who's full of hate?
Even Wyoming ain't perfect.
Us vs. Them: "So Rep. Still, apparently, believes that the lives of elected officials are more worth defending than the lives of lesser mortals."
More of the same from Iowa. "Protect and Serve" who?
Oh we know who: Electrocute a 10-year-old, get paid vacation. How sick ARE these scum-with-badges?
In Lighter News
All those Type Something-or-Other shuttles I write about, and the Captain's Corona SUV, would likely be evolved from something like this. NASA was fiddling with the first in the 1980s, the second more recently, and the Soviets actually flew a scaled demonstrator. Now imagine over three centuries of development in advanced materials, efficient engines, etc., and yes you can have an orbit-capable family minivan. Stretch & skew, give it folding control surfaces like carrier aircraft have had for 70 years, and you can cram a platoon of Marines, or a comparable number of paying passengers, into one that will still fit in an 18x18x4.5m hangar. As for enough fuel to make synchronous orbit from the bottom of a Terra-type gravity well, that's being worked on too. And here's a clue what the fuel tank might be made of.
The World Sucks
More on Rep. Hare's contempt for the Constitution from St. Louis GRE.
Who's violent? I grow weary of asking.
NUKE THE ISLAND! Nuke it 'til it gloooowwss!
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Third World, who's gonna pay for this? I can hear the bleating from the American dunces now: "Butbutbut it's freeeee! It saaaaays so right theeeerrre!" Who pays the teachers? They have rent to make and children to feed too. "The gooooovernment pays them!" And WHO PAYS THE GOVERNMENT? Where does government get it's money? And then their eyes glaze over and they call you a racist. It's the same everywhere, in every age of history: Government only knows how to steal. That's what government is.
In Lighter News
The world didn't always suck. My .PDF archive should be updated presently.
Even Rasmussen is getting their nose rubbed in it.
Yyyyyeah, I'm not changing. The original purpose of my black background was a protest against government destruction of human rights and I'm keeping that. It is easier on my eyes too, and some of the commenters at the linked post agree; indeed I wish OpenOffice had a white-on-black setting, and I just now flipped CuteHTML. I'm open to suggestions on the story pages though.
One reason I like Opera over other browsers is the easy way to zoom in and out, with the +/- keys on the 10-key section of your normal keyboard. These past few weeks I've been doing much of my writing from bed, with wireless keyboard and mouse, with the monitor three meters away from my eyes. OpenOffice Writer allows one to change font size like any other word processor, and so does CuteHTML though you have to hunt for it (Tools -> Settings). Thus I can see what I'm doing from across the room. I have my monitor set to 1280x1024, and when I'm right up against the screen, sitting at the desk, I usually have it set to normal zoom - I like to see a lot of stuff on the screen at once, so I don't have to scroll as much. But sometimes eye fatigue strikes even there, and I zoom in anyway.
Someday I'll have a ginormous widescreen bolted to the wall....
Aurora, Part XII, is underway, and required a slight addition to Part I for continuity. I'm hoping for some action at last. Then in future episodes, if I'm capable of writing it, there's a revenge story in one character's hidden past. Once that's resolved, if it turns out I haven't bitten off more than my keyboard can chew, I might have myself a little war. Oh look here's Part XII now.
George Lucas is apparently some kind of moonbat now (Han Shot First! Dammit!), but before his neck took over his brain he had some pearls of wisdom for those who would call themselves creative. The one that applies here is, "Films stories are never completed, they're abandoned."
The World Sucks
Cops are useless at best. When they're not displaying a callous and deliberate disregard for human life.
More detail, and perhaps a bit less heat than light, on Hussein's Ready Reserve Corps.
In Lighter News
Going around the lists and the blogosphere, Johnny Jihad Can't Shoot. Compare to these rants; apparently most GovTroops can't either. But we can.
Asteroid mining is an old idea. Shoulda been doin' it long ago. Why ain't we?
I have (finally) created a GunPal donation account! Keeping the PayPal too.
A big problem with trying to write an Interesting Story is, you have to write an Interesting Story. Sometimes the Muse just spews and you hang on for the ride, cramming it through the aforementioned drinking-straw keyboard, but it's very easy to write oneself into a corner, or over a cliff.
The World Sucks
And so does Illinois, though there is something to be done about it.
Authorized Journalists, a not arms-related example.
You see dat? Dat can't be gud.
Neither can this: "It took us over two hundred years to accumulate HALF the current national debt; Obama doubled it overnight."
And all that's just the domestic suckage. There are other kinds.
Including Prohibition FAIL, Chapter MMMCDLVI.
In Lighter News
Stuff happening on the 19th.
Kitteh....
LOL.
Aurora, Part XIII. Somehow this doesn't feel like my strongest writing ever. But if you are entertained, please consider a charitable donation!
The World Sucks
Real gunfolk will remember the flap over intrusive questions from doctors about which Constitutional rights we exercise. Still happening. And now the Federal government is taking over healthcare....
Less government now. For example, "stupid and intrusive laws" designed mainly, or solely, to steal money from people who earn it and give it to people who don't. Leave people alone!
"Chilling effect on free speech"? Yeah, we got that.
Jew-hating Canadians? Canadians!?
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Arizona passes Firearms Freedom Act.
Not a purist like us, but mostly on our side: "The state of mind created by the Second Amendment is more powerful than any gun."
Science-fiction regeneration? Growing new limbs and organs? Yeah, we got that.
The World Sucks
Considering getting one of those tens of thousands of new jobs with the IRS? Think it over. "IRS officials and workers will say the tax code is not their fault - it is the fault of Congress - and they are only doing their jobs." Nuh-uh.
More on doctors operating far beyond their field of expertise.
"That governs best which governs least." But what do we have instead?
Something like this is what. Government only knows how to steal. At gunpoint.
Here's another from Stossel: What's crueler, stealing from the productive and giving to parasites, or leaving people the hell alone? Here's a hint. And here's a visual aid.
Here's another hint. Perhaps a Soviet-style collapse and breakup is the best we can hope for, in the long term. But how many millions will suffer before it happens?
I'm not unaware of Hussein snapping our Big Stick asunder. Sigh.
And more racism.
In Lighter News
Alien Life!!!1!! Kinda.
The World Sucks
More still on meddlesome doctors.
A little more on surplus military brass.
In the film, The Usual Suspects, there was a line: "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." I would differ: The greatest crime government ever committed was convincing the world it was necessary. We. Don't. Need. You.
You know what else we don't need? This country, and the people in it, got along just fine for generations before thieving murdering raping cops came along. Think about that.
Slander. Like there's anything less coming out of the halls of power these days.
And WHO'S RACIST!?
The Jew-hating-bungler-in-chief, that's who.
Much has been made - by some - lately about the deaths in 2007 of a couple Authorized Journalists embedded with throat-cutting child-murdering terrorists. My take: The United States military identified and destroyed enemies of the United States. That's what they're supposed to do. And that's exactly what they did.
In Lighter News
More on FFAs. Wyoming's actually has criminal penalties for infringing on RKBA.
Dr. Pournelle comments on nuclear power.
I have obtained a copy of Tom Kratman's The Lotus Eaters, third in his Carrera saga! This may be the fuel needed to lure the Muse back to tell me more of Aurora. Frankly I'm not satisfied with the last segment I wrote.
The World Sucks
"Just a few bad apples?" I don't think so.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK. "Remember: whoever approved this will be able to retire with a large pension which you will get to pay for, probably for the rest of your life."
Government only knows how to steal. And lie, of course.
Most laws are bad and most of the rest don't work.
More on "No-Nukes" Hussein: "Our nuclear umbrella is in tatters as another piece of paper proclaims peace in our time." (Ref.) "The naivete is stunning." Visual aid.
Thomas Sowell on multi-culti nonsense.
Not sure which section this belongs in, in the larger sense: more op-ed toons.
In Lighter News
Arizona gets (mostly) Constitutional carry (any day now)! And FFA. Hm, warmer than Wyoming... but a demographic-warfare battleground. Maybe the northern part, away from the border?
Something more positive on doctors and RKBA.
Envious of Kratman. "Write what you know" - he knows a lot.
The World Sucks
South Africa is still a basket case, and may foreshadow our own future.
Here is a long article on SCOTUS and the Constitution, specifically "living document" vs. "strict constructionism". Bookmarked for later reference. Government must be restrained.
Government health care - the Death Panel convenes.
Thoughts on Net Neutrality. Hmm.
In Lighter News
Powered armor from Starship Troopers (and so very many ripoffs and homages)? Yeah, we got that.
Must transcribe a bit from The Lotus Eaters, from one of the chapter headers:
Are your public schools a ruin? Never mind; you and your children don't count. Jobs gone? Electrical service spotty? Public transportation unreliable? News full of lies? Not to worry; the elites are well taken care of, behind their walls. And fear not for your elite, neo-aristocratic rulers' children. Those children will attend good private schools even as the elites subject yours to a system that, imposed by foreigners, would be a crime against humanity, an act of war.
But then, the elites are foreigners; even if they—purely notionally—share your citizenship, they have renounced all of its meaning. And the people owe them nothing, not even their lives. They are at war with you. You should fight back.
Without mercy.
Jorge y Marqueli Mendoza,
Historia y Filosofia Moral,
Legionary Press, Balboa,
Terra Nova, copyright AC 468
Kratman keeps interweaving little historical and cultural references I have to go look up. Educational.
The World Sucks
One should expect the bigots would be going after Knob Creek.
Quote o' the Day: "Government-coerced welfare is not the moral equivalent of charity."
Government-funded propaganda. Which means you're paying for it.
In my story I've not yet addressed what happens to the most populous parts of Terra, specifically China. I've hinted (bottom of page) as to what might happen. Now, it looks like the writing problem might be solving itself. Jeepers. And remember, that's a glorious worker's paradise of guaranteed "equality" and government "care". Click through for the UK MSM article. Feminists vote for collectivism why?
In Lighter News
Not all the Only Ones are Only Ones. But that's the way to bet. Very few don't deserve to have their faces stomped into the asphalt.
Dammit! Finished The Lotus Eaters, cliffhanger ending! Argh! Making do with Robinson's Red Mars, which is not as grabbing.
(Shouldn't'a shot first. Apparently Confederate SecState Toombs warned as much to Jeff Davis.)
There was nothing hidden about who was shooting at Sumter or why; the flags were unfurled, everyone knew which side they were on. I'm more worried about a Gleiwitz Incident framing us for some atrocity.
The World Still Sucks
Ever more bigotry and lies. How long until some apparatchik suggests a "final solution" to the "patriot problem"?
Only Ones. Face. Asphalt. Lessee, in today's batch, out of ten, I count one child molester and one serial rapist. In Friday's batch of eleven, two pedophiles, another rapist, and a wife-beater. That's beside the usual taser-happy nightstick-swinging hand-in-the-till road-rage murder-the-innocent don't-know-which-end-the-hot-stuff-comes-from cases. And that's just the ones that make the news. Nobody becomes a cop to help people. There are no good cops. They don't watchdog each other, they keep score. I have already theorized the existence of the National Police Brutality League. Here's their official logo:
Now watch, the scum will make t-shirts and wear them proudly. Oh wait!
Even more government health care. How's that workin' out for ya?
In Lighter News
Restoring the Constitution, a piece at a time.
I really think I'll have to try this.
The World Doesn't Look to Stop Sucking Anytime Soon
Rallies this weekend. (No I can't afford the Patriot's Day Appleseed this year.) But what good will they do? Prediction, which I fervently hope is wrong: One of the infiltrators we've been reading about, from their own sites, will shoot up a rally to fabricate an excuse for... well you know. Last time it was four years and over 600,000 lives. How many this time?
Who's a terrorist? And how are we supposed to tell?
Government only knows how to steal. Radio news today, official Oregon unemployment 10.6%, which means the real number is at least twice that. Including me. And the more government does to fix it, the worse it gets. What's my motivation?
Police are the enemy. They're not on anyone's side but their own. Treat them as such!
Government health care. Does anyone care?
In Lighter News
Kinda related, Red Dawn remake news.
Speaking of Hollywood, they rarely come anywhere near an accurate portrayal of Real Men.
Let's See How the World Sucks Today
Prohibition FAIL. Chapter eleventy-hundred-and-umpty.
"...[L]aw is often but the tyrant's will...."
Mandating defenselessness, For The Children.
Violent bigots. And their willing lap attack dogs.
And breathtaking hypocrisy. Where's the comparison I'm looking for... ah.
Quote o' the Day from comments: "Won't it just be awesome when 25 million illegal aliens get health insurance for free and 25 million American citizens are fined for not having health insurance."
"It" has happened here. "It" can happen again.
The definition of psychosis is a disconnect from, or inability to recognize, reality.
This sounds well and good, but what is a peaceable citizen supposed to do in a situation like this? With examples like these? What have we got to lose?
On top of all this, I am now completely out of money and still with no income.
In Lighter News
The Founders' intent. Some folks need remindin'.
What very, very little I've said about Rachel Marsten's faster-than-light technology mentions tachyons. But actual rocket-scientist Travis Taylor has written two whole novels based on quantum effects. Could this be the first step on that path?
This weekend, there is another anniversary of awesomeness.
Free ebook on Lunar colonization. "Free Luna!" (Ref.)
I'm finding Red Mars slow going, rather soap-opera-y to begin.
[thought=random] If Queen Isabella had been saddled with NASA, Columbus would'a been executed. Get government out of the way.
The World is a Giant Sucking Sound
It's tax day of course. How's it feel to be paying for Pelosi's armored limousine and Air Force transport? And the gourmet groceries those fat parasites ahead of you at the supermarket are buying with their welfare card?
Radio news reports more bigots calling police about tax protestors waving signs, calling it a safety hazard.
Police hate citizens and want them to die. No one becomes a cop to help people. They become cops because they want power and control. And loot. And other things.
And what do we get from them in return?
More bigotry toward the upcoming rallies.
D.C. is still a basket case. In many ways.
Codrea asks, "What the hell have we allowed to happen to us?"
Oh yeah, this will help the economy. If I had a job I couldn't afford to drive to it! As for your glorious worker's paradise of mass-transit, I once failed to get a job at CRIMSON FREAKIN' TRACE because the bus didn't run that early. >:-[
Meanwhile overseas, Obama hates our troops and wants them to die.
Victor Davis Hanson also rants.
In Lighter News
Arizona is almost there.
Talk about life imitating art.
The World Will Never Stop Sucking
A deliberate campaign of propaganda and disinformation. And a modest proposal.
Police hate citizens and want them to die. How much more blatant can it be? As for why they feel this way, why they don't want ordinary citizens to be able to defend themselves... I have a pretty good idea. It's not about "Protect and Serve", it's about power.
GOVERNMENT ONLY KNOWS HOW TO STEAL.
"It" has happened before.
He really does hate America. (And Israel.)
Really darn broke. Looks like IPSC next weekend is out too.
In Lighter News
Two of my fellow 'bloggers are Yuri Orlov and SMLE Fan. Some of my material comes from them. Recently Yuri sent this outrage graphically demonstrating how Government Makes Everything Worse Forever. I sent it back to him, CC'd to SMLE Fan, along with this 1995 tax outrage from Reason, exhorting them to 'blogrant themselves, 'cause they never post anything. SMLE Fan replied:
We send this stuff to you because you make an honest attempt to express your outrage. Yuri and I would simply write the word 'f***' 200 times (with perhaps an indent to suggest a paragraph), and nobody would understand.
We learn by doing, guys. Get in there and start swinging. ;)
Tea Party tax day AARs from Denver, Portland, Ohio.
More on Arizona and (sort-of) Constitutional carry.
Look at all that wasted space and unwieldy bulk. There must be a better way?
The World Sucks
Government exists to destroy lives.
"...[I]f their devil doesn't exist, they may have to invent one."
In Lighter News
Quote o' the Day, from The Magnificent Seven, UA 1960:
Farmer: "Even if we had the guns, we know how to plant and grow. We don't know how to kill."
Old Man: "Then learn... or die."
Little bit of sort-of improvement in Colorado, maybe. If one squints.
Arizona gets it, mostly. Some further restrictions to be swept into history's dustbin. My biggest concern would be the sadistic badgethugs who can't stand seeing anyone but themselves with any power at all. Law and the Constitution may be on the citizen's side, but what good will it do after he's been robbed and/or murdered under color of authority?
This is not a new idea. Yuri spelled it out two years ago.
But the World They Saved Now Sucks
Shortsighted selfishness in opposition to AZ's Constitutional carry.
No one becomes a cop to help people. It's been one long power-trip, always, all the way back to Wyatt freakin' Earp.
Military brass still.
In Lighter News
Working on Aurora, Part XIV. It's a revenge story, not starring the little alien squid (no, you haven't seen the last of him) or his hard-shelled blood-brother, and it's hard work making it not suck.
Not related to the current storyline: If you're writing about an Oppressive Eee-Vill Regime and need a real-world example, they're not hard to find.
But the World They Created Now Sucks
I see Wikipedia's feature article today is the Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995, and in the very first sentence they describe "American militia movement sympathizer Timothy McVeigh". Laying It On A Bit Thick Aren't They.
Quote o' the Day, from the opening scenes of Seven Samurai, Toho 1954:
First farmer: "Let's go see the Magistrate! Let's appeal to him!"
Second farmer: "What's the use? He'd only come after the bandits are gone!"
So why do we have cops? What are they for?
Oh. Yeah. This: "Officers are taught from Day 1 in the academy that guns are a threat," said [Emeryville Police Chief] James, whose association is sponsoring the [open-carry-ban] bill. Police hate citizens and want them to die. Police hate American values and want them destroyed.
And NRA is doing what?
In Lighter Less-Dark News
Private, individual, armed self-defense works. We don't need cops.
The old man in the film has that great line: "Find hungry Samurai." Wise old man. -Still, as an American, I prefer the message in Sturges' 1960 version, more plainly stated: people have to defend themselves and can't count on any hired muscle to do it for them (yes, I've read a little Machiavelli; mercenaries can be a cure indistinguishable from the disease, as we see with today's law enforcement community). There was a great scene with McQueen and one of the farmers:
Vin: "Yeah, I guess right about now you kind of wish you'd given your crops to Calvera, huh?"
Farmer: "Yes... and no. Both at the same time. Yes, when I think of... of what he might do. No, when I remember the feeling in my chest this morning as I saw him run away... from us. Man, that's a feeling worth dying for. Have you ever felt something like that?"
Vin: "Not for a long, long time. I, uh... envy you."
The World Sucks
It's not about guns, it's about control.
Why should I go back to work? What's the point?
In Lighter News
Second Amendment March AARs from Codrea, Charlotte GRE, Seattle GRE, Conservative Examiner, and the predictable hand-wringing from MSM, via The Wall Street Journal. I'm pleased my prediction of false-flag violence did not come about.
Meanwhile in Iowa, this candidate sounds good... but can any of them be trusted? Ever?
More on Arizona's Constitutional carry.
This here is real work.
"So far Wyoming has no Democrat announced for the November election, and the Republicans are fighting on a platform of who hates the Feds more." I really hate Oregon.
Apparently Kelsey Grammer is supposed to be some kind of not-commie now? I seem to recall some years ago, when he had some comedy show on NBC, he did a PSA spot bashing RKBA, something like asking a kid to name ten things guns were good for and the kid couldn't come up with any. Anyone remember that?
Just learned something about comparative web browsers. In MSIE, [Ctrl]-[+/-] zooms in and out. Ditto Firefox. [Ctrl]-[0] resets. In Opera, the +/- keys by themselves zoom, and * resets. In Opera, you can zoom each tab individually, but in Firefox the same zoom applies across all tabs. Another reason I like Opera.
The World Sucks
MSM, FFA, NRA, and another reason to leave Oregon.
"Home invasion; cop or not?" What's the damn difference? Cops are the biggest gang of thugs, thieves, rapists and murderers in history. And your taxes pay for them! And of course they want to be the only ones allowed to use force. It's a lot harder to rape and rob people who can fight back. In the latter case, if there's even the slightest possibility there may be some resistance, they naturally call in overwhelming force and the blatant threat of summary murder. These are acts of war.
More on the basket-case that is our nation's capitol.
Government school. Words fail. Also: "...the only way to be sure that no child is left behind is to see that none get ahead."
Global Warming Climate Change My Ass. Do these people listen to themselves?
Government only knows how to steal.
And the rent looms again, still with no income and now all resources exhausted.
In Lighter News
Another 2A march AAR, and more from VCDL, items 6 through 9.
"Writer's block is the rule, not the exception." I still can't remember if that was Issac Asimov or Harlan Ellison. Might've been Ellison, waaay back when he had an op-ed show on SciFi Channel when it was still new and worth watching. Anyhow, when the Muse falls silent, go watch a movie, possibly something not related to what you're trying to write - one never knows when the subconscious will belch something forth, or what will trigger it.
Swordfights.... A while back I read The Book of Swords by Hank Reinhardt and I can recommend it. The man knew what he was talking about, and even at 70-something years he could still demonstrate most of it by his own hand. Real swordfights were short, not the long slashing-clashing-dancing Hollywood stuff. Easier to write. ;)
Email's behind again, I'm stressing over unemployment and incomelessness and worldsuckage.
The World Sucks
Cleanse the island with nuclear fire. Note the unutterable sheepleness of the victim.Oh crap. Three years ago my sister and I spent a relatively pleasant four days stranded in Sheridan, Wyoming, waiting for car parts. It seemed to be a very nice little town. It just took a wrong turn.
Making propaganda pay. Meaning with your taxes.
This should happen more often. To them, not to us.
Oh look, another rapist-with-a-badge. What, do they actually teach that at the academies?
"If the badgethugs show up on your doorstep unannounced... you’re going to be automatically guilty if you resist." So we have nothing to lose. Even if we survive, our lives will be deliberately and maliciously destroyed. We might as well take as many of the fascist bastards with us as we can. -Let's expand this a bit. The enemy's reaction will be to use more force, to presume everyone is guilty of something and to fabricate charges and evidence to support that presumption. NEVER ENTERING THEIR MINDS is the notion that THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ARE WRONG. The biggest, most vicious gang of thugs in the world actually believe they're the "good guys". And that is too sick for words.
You know this actually makes sense. It fits the available evidence.
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More yet on Constitutional carry in AZ, and a reminder of who shouldn't have weapons.
A good cop. Heh.
"Libertarian" Neal Boortz gets smacked.
The World Sucks Constantly
Via Patriot Post, Quote o' the Day: "The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position." - George Washington
I guess that makes him a dangerous right-wing extremist who should be on a no-fly list, prohibited from buying firearms, and deserving of having all his civil rights violated by lying thugs who enjoy ruining people's lives.
Disarmament kills, and cops are still useless.
I wish they were just useless. Instead they're actively destructive. These are acts of war. How many innocent lives have been destroyed for "breaking" a "law" which should never have been written? Too many. And the destroyers laugh. Sick, perverted sociopaths, and you're paying them. -Recently on library disc I watched Valkyrie, the 2008 dramatization of the Stauffenberg Plot. One of the film's messages was, "We have to show the world we weren't all like him." Cops are showing us the opposite. And now even Sheridan, WY, is infested. "They'll be comin' after you, Josey. Ain't no place you can go to get away from 'em."
And that's really depressing.
Government health care. This also is an act of war.
In Lighter News
Remington makes a 1911. Um... I'm sure it's a decent pistol but 1911s are like ARs now, everyone is making one. A real breakthrough would be in reduced cost, like the Philippine clones.
The World Sucks Endlessly
And so does Illinois. Enemy-occupied territory.
Seditious? No. We don't want to overthrow the government; that's already happened. We want the government we're supposed to have, back.
Dangerous lies. We're not the ones spewing hate. All we want is to be left alone.
Government health care. I've said it before: America is becoming a third-world cesspit before my eyes and no one cares.
And there goes the rest of the Bill of Rights. And the cops laugh. And lie. And steal.
In Lighter News
Open Carry rally in Olympia, and a thumb in Brady's eye.
The World Sucks
No one becomes a cop to help people. That's not what it's about.
It's about this: "...[O]ne of the prime motivators of modern American militias: violent paramilitary police tactics that violate individual rights and put American citizens at risk." You thugs with badges - you are not "effect". You are cause.
In Lighter News
The benefits of private firearms ownership.
This week's Gun Talk featured substitute host Alan Gottlieb and guest Gary Marbut, discussing the Firearms Freedom Acts and touching on larger 10th Amendment and states' rights issues. I've just ripped the Commerce Clause out of my utopia's Constitution. Government must be restrained. Like any other vicious animal.
Best. Air. Combat. Story. Evar.
You know what'd be cool? A Ruger SP101 styled like a S&W M640. I mean built that way, from the investment casting, not some cheesy shroud extention from the grip panels. So you'd have a low-drag Ruger, nigh indestructible, extra beef to soak up the recoil, and when it's empty you can brain somebody with it.
Last weekend was the anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. Last night in email, while discussing with a reader Pearl Harbor, Nagumo, the lack of the third wave, and the subsequent course of the Pacific war, I received: I'd love to know what Yamamoto thought when he heard about [the raid]. I'm pretty sure I would then know how to say "Aw jeez, we're f*cked" in Japanese. And a couple months later they truly were.
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Government school. They want your children to be ignorant.
I'm sitting at my computer desk with my face in one hand wondering how I'm supposed to 'blog this, particularly the last few paragraphs. Words fail, except to say I Told You So. I knew this would happen. When I went back into the HTML file to insert a direct-link tag, I discovered I'd already written it the day I wrote that entry.
PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS A RACIST. And you can quote him on that.
The Fourth Amendment exists for a reason. And, "law is often but the tyrant's will". That governs best which governs least. The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. Yes, something must be done about the border, but wrecking what few civil rights American citizens have left is the wrong answer. Never judge legislation by what it's supposed to do, but by how it will, inevitably, be misused.
There are no good cops. Just ones who haven't been convicted yet. Here's another example.
Aaand there goes the First Amendment.
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Quote o' the Day, from Eric Flint on the front page of the Baen Free Library: "Any cure which relies on tighter regulation of the market — especially the kind of extreme measures being advocated by some people — is far worse than the disease."
Victory garden handbook. The way things are going, this could matter. (Actually the way things are going that's the next thing to be outlawed. How dare we peasants not be dependant on Almighty Government?)
I'm not the only 'blogger with money trouble. This guy is a curmodgeonly republitarian, one of Our Kind.
New catch-phrase. Which I immediately stole:
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$#%&* Bloomberg. And Chicago. It's about control.
"...[W]e cannot penalize our own law enforcement". And that's what's wrong with America. Because another cop just got away with murder. He should swing from a streetlight in front of City Hall until his corpse rots. And here's another gang of thugs: "A judge issued an illegal warrant for police to invade the private residence and rummage through the private belongings of a man who broke no laws, and we aren't permitted to know the judge's name in order to protect the judge's privacy?" And another: "Good Grief! How many criminals carry guns and badges in this society?" Starting to look like a majority. How many aren't getting caught, or even reported? Police are what they're supposed to be protecting us from.
First comment is the Quote o' the Day: "Sheesh. It’s gotten to the point where anyone who doesn’t have Obama’s DNA in their saliva is now considered a dangerous threat to justice and public safety." Related: anyone remember the National Socialist propaganda films showing Jews in a ghetto and comparing them to footage of swarming rats? Yeah, they got that.
ElmTreeForge often has a worldsuckage roundup exceeding this one.
Über-rant on government school. Your tax dollars at work.
BATFU and airsoft, still.
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Iowa gets Shall-Issue. But permits are infringement.
Gettin' uppity in Maine. Wasn't there something else from there a year or several ago? Like they came within a few votes of overturning some state tax and the bureaucrats panicked 'cause they might've had to look for actual jobs?
Pournelle on market forces. Competition is good.
Writing... can't be forced. Stare at the empty word processor screen as it mocks you, yech. You want to continue writing this story but the only flow you have is for something completely different. So... write that. Write what comes, even if it's not what you wanted. Anything to get the Muse talking. I have several files hotkeyed in my start menu: One for the current segment of Aurora, another for scraps and supplemental material for the same story, another for scraps of the Republic story in the larger sense (which spans centuries), another for a webcomic idea I'm not capable of illustrating, another general scrap file for whatever doesn't fit the others - two keystrokes and the file I want is loaded, so I don't waste precious time hunting for it while the Muse's whisper fades away. (I need a faster computer....)
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"...[E]very man, woman and child (or dog!) is exactly one 911 phone call or traffic stop or encounter-of-the-law-enforcement kind away from imminent death or dismemberment at the hands of a government compliance officer." (Emphasis added) See also William Grigg's latest. I'm seeing all the usual "conservative" sites and commentators lining up for "law and order" and increased authority for power-drunk sociopaths with badges. People who actually want to be left alone are being painted as dangerous extremists from one side, and at best ignored by the other. "There ain't no place you can go to get away from 'em."
"Thieves and murderers never would and never do regard any law of this kind...." One hundred thirty-eight years later and the prohibitionists are still sticking their fingers in their ears and going LALALA.
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Science-fiction-y nerve regeneration? They're working on it.
More on FFAs, specifically Oklahoma, and click through for a link to a central site.
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What... the Eff? We can't even milk our own cows now without armed thugs violating our homes, traumatizing our children, and stealing our property?
Oh look, more liars with badges. And another thief. And here's one who's only negligently homicidal (as opposed to the usual deliberation, or even-more-common complete lack of self-control). (Remember, they're the Only Ones Professional Enough to Handle Firearms. Not like us.)
Oh look, another mass attack in a self-defense-free-zone. Vegas bookies could give odds.
Buying votes, wholesale.
Why does anyone, other than the parasite class(es), live in DC? I mean Virginia's right there across the river. Most jobs I've had in my life had longer commutes.
Not arms-related, Pournelle contemplates recent jackbootedthuggery over the new iPhone prototype, and yet another chilling effect on free speech.
Speaking of thuggery, all over the net, ninjaboys called out to intimidate little old ladies. IS THIS WHY YOU BECAME A COP? ...Yeah. I bet it is. -Reports of this seem conspicuously absent from "mainstream conservative" sites. Thanks loads, fellas. We'll remember that when your staffers come around asking to put your campaign signs in our yards. >:-[
In (communist socialist collectivist redistributionist) China, "criminals" (like someone caught with a Christian bible) are often chopped up for parts. Now look! That wonderful unique cultural splendor is coming to America! We were warned, decades ago.
Ya know, that volcano in Iceland... perhaps the best thing that could happen would be to give Britain the Pompeii treatment.
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Rent is just barely covered. Electric bill is way behind, internet and car insurance bills coming due, running low on fuel.
Poor Bachelor Tips: Eating potatoes. First, get your big sack of spuds from the supermarket. Get a microwaveable plate or saucer. Don't peel them, there are trace nutrients to fend off scurvy and whatnot. I take a scrubbythingy and lightly wash them under hot water. Then I take the dollar-store paring knife and slice them open and into sections, still connected, to increase surface area. Then nuke them - trial and error for how long in a particular oven, usually several minutes. Spread the result open along the cuts you made and insert margerine (from the cheap supermarket tub), seasoning (garlic salt and black pepper), perhaps a topping (cheese-sauce powder from the supermarket bulk bins, or perhaps beef or chicken soup base powder). Beats starving.
Aurora.... There is so much to write, so much room, so many places to go. Probably more than I'm capable of generating. I know what I want to write, I don't know how. For example there's a reason Daisuke stumbled on the word "brother" and there's a helluva story in it - the revenge story I'm stalled on now. Prrg's had no screen time to speak of, he's just a TOS-Gorn-shaped cardboard cutout at this point. What about Ralph's family and how he doesn't get along with them? Could some of Sarah's family have survived the raid? Whole books could be written about Jack's smuggling. Maybe I need to not overthink, or overwrite, it. Maybe I started with too many characters.
[graphic photo warning] Science-fiction-y artificial skin? Working on it.
A coupla dozen petabytes in your wristwatch personal computer? Working on that too.
Bacon. Alarm. Clock. 'Nuff said.
2510 - Friday, 30 April 2010: There are still a few businesses around town who fly the RVN flag this time of year. Alas, their kids don't understand why, or care.
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And so does the UN: Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest." Words... fail. -No they don't: Why are so many raging, man-hating feminazis also rampant blue-flag-worshipping globalists? Don't they get it? Or does this speak to something deeper in their psyches? See also, including comments.
More lies, this time from Oklahoma.
Iowa Shall-Issue isn't so much "shall" after all.
Pournelle continues ranting: "The technical term for this kind of cooperation between government and big institutions is Fascism, and there's a considerable literature on how efficient this is as a way to make all the social classes cooperate and work together to solve the problems of society."
More lying thugs with badges. And more yet. And more, and even more. There are no good cops. There are no honest cops. Every one is a liar and a thief.
This is what I mean by criticizing "mainstream conservative" sites. Whose side are they on? And who do they think we are? In fairness, not all such outfits blindly deify the "Thin Blue Line" - this one at least bothered to report it.
More on the road to government body-snatching.
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I remain ambivalent about Arizona's new immigration law. The border must be secured; the United States of America is the best and finest nation ever created and it deserves to be defended from foreign invasion and demographic warfare. But at what cost? I'm reminded of Kratman's novel Caliphate. There are only a few ways out of the mess now, and none of them are nice. Speaking of which, this cartoon strikes me in the opposite way I think the artist intended.
Speaking of novels, reader sends Ringo/Ghost interviews. Screenplay? Ehhh, so many ways to go wrong....
Now why can't I meet a woman like this?
