When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar; you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Category: Politics
Friday Quote – KrisAnne Hall
If exercising my right to keep and bear arms, my right to freedom of speech, or my right to religious liberty makes you uncomfortable, just remember… The exercise of rights is only uncomfortable to two classes of people – tyrants and slaves. Take a moment to classify yourself.
On This Independence Day
A local clown who managed to get herself elected to the House of Reps (because they can smell their own?) proved why we needed not only a Declaration of Independence from the old giver , but a Bill Of Rights for the new one.
I’m also worried that someone who is frightened by people making fun of them online is a Congress-critter. Because they make such great laws when they’re frightened (cough, PATRIOT Act, cough).
So, to Miss Rhinestone Cowgirl, let me make this clear:
You’re stupid and your momma dressed you funny for so long your confused about real style.
Oh, and fuck you very much.
The Dining Wars
The owner of the Red Hen, infamous for refusing service to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, wrote an op-ed in the WaPo to declared that new social rules apply as to who should expect service in “respectable” establishments.
Quote:
So when the day comes that the world feels returned to its normal axis, I expect we’ll see fewer highly charged encounters making headlines. In the meantime, the new rules apply. If you’re directly complicit in spreading hate or perpetuating suffering, maybe you should consider dining at home. (Emphasis added)
That sounds nice, except the definition of hate has been twisted beyond recognition by people like the author. Moreover, I very much doubt that she would support a restaurant refusing someone like Jessie Smollet. His hoax did a lot to spread hate on both sides.
She speaks a lot about firms needing to recognize their values, but it’s clear from her tone that only counts if it’s the values she wants people to have.
From my libertarian side, I can support her not wanting to serve people she thinks do not share her values or those she considers evil. (But I repeat myself.) However, like the free speech debate, this bifurcation of those deemed worthy and not worthy in the marketplace does little to help the political atmosphere.
Friday Quote – P.J. O’Rourke
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats.
Friday Quote – Murray Rothbard
It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.
Friday Quote – Fredrich Hayek
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes, necessarily, the supreme rule.
The Mob Rules
CNN pontificates on how the mob attacks people online without knowing the whole story.
Does this mean CNN will no longer participate in gleefully promoting any half-baked viral story that confirms their worldview?
I don’t believe that either.
Friday Quote – H.L. Mencken
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.
This was about Prohibition, but it seems eerily accurate about the War on Drugs.
Alabama Poised to Abolish Marriage Licenses
Via friend Sean on the Book Of Face comes this article on Alabama’s House Of Representatives passing a bill that would essentially abolish state issued marriage licenses.
Under the bill that passed today, couples wanting to get married would submit to the probate judge a form that includes an affidavit saying they meet the legal requirements of marriage and the probate judge would record that as the official marriage document.
It also takes out the requirement that a minister or similar position be the officiant of the ceremony.
There is criticism from the left – justifiably- that this is an end run around making some probate courts actually do their job and issue licenses to same-sex couples. Honestly, I don’t care if that’s the reason, if this is passed.