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Making irresponsibility pay

Political, Guns ·Sunday June 29, 2008 @ 21:11 EDT (link)

From: HD
To: Conservatives and Libertarians at MS
Subject: Why are we bailing these people out?

$300 Billion Foreclosure Rescue Plan Passes Senate Test Vote

So why do the rest of us have to bail out people who were dumb enough to buy a home they could never afford on some 5 year ARM or interest only loan? The way I see it is they get to sit in a home for 3 to 5 years with low rent and then walk away with a foreclosure. Bank gets the home back and they go rent an apartment which they should be renting in the first place.

From: VS

To buy votes.

From: HD

I heard this description of progressive liberals once which I think is pretty good:

Imagine 5 college kids go on a road trip, 4 poor ones and one rich kid. They all decide to pool their money and all decide to vote on what they will do. So the 4 poor kids put in a nickel, a quarter, a dollar and a quarter all saying they aren't being greedy, and emptying their pockets. The rich kid puts in $100 after emptying his pockets.
  1. How much you want to bet they all do what the poor kids want to do?
  2. How much you want to bet the rich kid pays the lion's share for it?

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
—Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
—L. Neil Smith

To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
—George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788

When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".
—Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolution"

Well, at least we won Heller; but actually the victory is an empty one. It went 5-4, when it should have been 9-0; along "party lines" (ideological lines), if you like, not according to the plain wording of the Constitution. This is not the granting (ha!) or even recognition of a new right; it is the long-awaited clarification of an existing right, and a clarification that never should have been needed if not for the Democrats' desire to subjugate the population.

On the same subject: an open letter to those who wonder why citizens would want to carry guns in public.

Lately, our pal Barack has been mangling the scriptures, and then attempting to malign Dr. James Dobson (founder of Focus on the Family). Shame, shame! He really shouldn't claim to be a Christian if he can't tell the difference between the Old and New Testaments, but then, I don't suppose his insane pastor had much time for boring stuff like that.

Books finished: Asterix and the Great Crossing, Queen of Sorcery, Magician's Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, Asterix and the Magic Carpet.

DVDs finished: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.