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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Miscellany: 10/23/14

Quote of the Day
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Joshua L. Liebman

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Nancy Pelosi's Bare Cupboard of Federal Waste via John Stossel
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From Catherine Saunders Mueller on Drudge (see voting machine problem below): Being From Illinois and the Chicago Demomob, er, I mean Chicago area, I can understand how this happened. When my late husband and I were discussing his coming death and the arrangements, he told me, "Just don't take my body back to Chicago. I never voted for a Democrat in my life and I don't want to start after I'm dead."

Voter Fraud in Colorado: Project Veritas Is Back



It's Bush's Frankenstein



Why the Minimum Wage Is Immoral



Stupid Government Spending Tricks

#2 Giving Rabbits Massages 

From the Wastebook:
A  group  of  rabbits  received daily rub downs from a “mechanical device that simulates the long, flowing  strokes  used  in  Swedish massages.”  The  National Center  for  Complementary and  Alternative  Medicine  of  the National  Institutes  of  Health  provided  $387,000  for  the  two  year project  which  ended  in  April 2014.
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(Libertarianism.org). The progressives are wrong about economic liberty.
So people with more money have more speech rights and legal fictions are people... that libertarians believe this non-sense shows their sociopathic detachment from reality.
The fact that I freely choose to associate with other people to express some relevant point of political speech must not be arbitrarily restricted based on the nature of the source (individual, group, for-profit or nonprofit) or the media. Whether or not we choose to express our speech in a costly format is based on an assessment of net benefits. I don't have less freedom of speech as an individual if I have fewer resources any more than I have less property rights because I can't afford a penthouse or an estate instead of a condo or single family home. It's clear that any restriction on political expression is in the corrupt self-serving interests of career politicians, given the natural advantages of incumbency, including access to local media. The way we limit political corruption is through process reforms like rotation of committee assignments and chairs, limited terms, competitive bidding, and legislative transparency and through structural reforms, like limited resources and functions of government and minimal, uniformly applicable policies.

(Drudge Report). COOKED COUNTY: REPUBLICAN VOTE MARKED DEM
They thought it had been calibrated. None of the dead people complained when their votes showed up Democratic...

(LifeSiteNews). Synod confusion ‘of the devil’: Archbishop Chaput
 ANd don't expect us to accept your brainwashing.
This Statist mutated construct of  "marriage", co-opted by activist gays who are desperate for public validation of their lifestyle, demonstrates the fact that gays are so insecure in their own traditions and fundamental constructs that they have to imitate the heterosexual constructs of marriage and family. If they were really secure in their identity, they wouldn't resort to corrupt force of the State.

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Courtesy of Gary Varvel via IPI
Courtesy of Bob Gorrell via Townhall
Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists

Linda Ronstadt, "Back in the USA"