Advice is like snow;
the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into,
the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From the New Blog
Initially I didn't intend to reprint content from the new blog, but I've decided that I need to promote the content more, at least for a limited time. Clearly my former 74 or so Twitter followers have not followed me to the new blog, and I didn't necessarily expect them to, because it's inconvenient to go to a different URL. . However, even during these promotion period, my new blog posts are usually posted earlier, and I don't necessarily reprint all of a post's content:
There are innumerable things about Trump I despise, things he's said or written. It goes beyond his adolescent behavior, his crude tweets, his economic illiteracy, his unprincipled, phony populism. But when Reason quoted him as saying "Take the guns first, go through due process second.", I'm done with him. That's anti-constitutional authoritarianism. It's theft. It's a material violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and he as POTUS vowed to uphold the Constitution. He may think he's tough act in this variation of "act first, and apologize later", but no, you don't have a "right" to prejudge someone who owns a weapon, that they are going to use it to commit a violent crime.
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Since I no longer have to abide by Twitter's arbitrary 140 or 280 character limit, I'll do what I want in this format: call the above an abridged rant. (Technically on Twitter, I could have done a workaround, like capture the rant in an image.)
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It turns out the Coward of Broward County, 54-year-old Scot Peterson, who failed to take on N. Cruz, the alleged Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter, is retiring to a $52-70K/year lifetime pension. We need serious public sector pension reform in this country.
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One of the moderators of the Pro-Life Libertarians FB group mentioned taking a softer tone in how he approaches the abortion issue, mentioning the in-your-face (abortion) abolitionists. I have always been pro-life. Even graduating with top honors from OLL, a Catholic college, a few years after Roe v Wade, I was in a photo-finish for the highest GPA in my graduation class with a strongly pro-abort premed coed. Two professors even privately admonished me on my allegedly strident views. I've had to deal with the fact that 2 of my best friends are pro-aborts. I take a softer approach in my blog, focusing on the theme of choosing life.
One of my nieces married an abolitionist, and I think I accepted his FB friend's invitation after the wedding. I soon found my news feed almost obsessively swamped with dark abolitionist posts. (I know you don't have to follow a "friend's" posts.) I cautioned my niece a couple of times he really needed to tone this stuff down. There's more to the story (including my niece posting on a different topic), but I was about to "de-friend" him when he beat me to the punch, but not before issuing a long personal attack over my "hypocritical" pro-life views. I don't let punks or trolls yank my chain, but seriously, dude, I was pro-life before your mother chose to bring you into the world.
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| via Ron Paul |
Conservative Comedian Shows Ignorance of College Students on Gun Policy and Events
Facebook Corner
(Pro-Life Libertarians). Can't wait for the Trumpertarians to defend this autocratic bullshit.
It's not just that Trump is another authoritarian Barry "I've got a pen and phone" Obama wannabe. The SOB was complaining of a lack of due process over the last few weeks when it came to losing a member of his staff over allegations of physical abuse to former spouses. (I don't think he was talking about the victims having their day in court). And he still supports eminent domain, years after almost stealing Ms. Coking's property to make room for limousine parking at his casino.TRUMP, JUST NOW: “take the guns first, go through due process second."— kelly cohen (@politiCOHEN_) February 28, 2018
Milton's Son David Friedman
DEAD WRONG: Plastic bags are worse for the planet than their alternatives
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Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists
Frank Sinatra,"Oh, Look At Me Now"
