Two images based on the furor this week.
To the media: your quisling reporting on how the organizers deserved it is sickening and shows how little moral courage you have to even admit your cowardice.
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Will Spencer
I could never be a conspiracy theorist; conspiracy theorists believe in government competence.
Will Spencer
H/t Miguel on the Book of Face
Friday Quote- Robert Heinlein
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom.
Robert Heinlein
It’s that willing to fight that’s the kicker.
Friday Quote- Fleming Rose
The only right you should not have in a democracy is the “right” not to be offended.
Fleming Rose, author
I’d also throw in any “rights” that require the forcible taking of a person’s labor or treasure to give to others, such as the “right” to healthcare or the “right” to food.
Friday Quote – James Monroe
The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
James Monroe, Founding Father and President of the United States
Friday Quote – Marko Kloos
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
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Marko Kloos, in this post
Friday Quote – Aaron Levenstein
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Professor Aaron Levenstein
Friday Quote – Kevin Folta
It’s easy to stand against a technology with a full belly and 20/20 vision.
Kevin Folta
Friday Quote – Frank Herbert
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Frank Herbert
Friday Quote – Steven Dubner
People respond to incentives, although not necessarily in ways that are predictable or manifest. Therefore, one of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences.
Steven Dubner
H/t Chris Byrnes on the Book of Face