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QOTD: James Altucher on Signing Petitions

Posted on February 20, 2014 | Comments Off on QOTD: James Altucher on Signing Petitions

“Petitions are just lists of people on future firing squads.”

—James Altucher

(Parker here. Those people are at the wrong end of the rifle.)

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The Solution to High U.S. Healthcare Cost is LESS Government Intervention, Not More

Posted on December 29, 2013 | Comments Off on The Solution to High U.S. Healthcare Cost is LESS Government Intervention, Not More

For the argument, click through for an article at The Heritage Foundation. A quote:

The United States does not have a private-sector health insurance system, let alone a functioning competitive market for insurance or health services. In fact, the federal government has been the dominant force in American health care for decades, long before the recent massive expansion of the government’s role in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [Obamacare]. Through overly restrictive policies, Medicare, Medicaid, and tax subsidies, the federal government has dominated the operation of the U.S. health care system for the past half-century. It is primarily federal policies that are responsible for driving up costs and making health insurance unaffordable for so many Americans.

You’ll read how Democrats helped deregulate the airline and trucking industries, leading to lower consumer costs.

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QOTD: Joe Rogan on Guns and Security

Posted on December 22, 2013 | Comments Off on QOTD: Joe Rogan on Guns and Security

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

—Joe Rogan

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QOTD: Rudyard Kipling

Posted on December 12, 2013 | Comments Off on QOTD: Rudyard Kipling

 

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man —
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began: —
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

—concluding stanzas of Rudyard Kipling’s “Gods of the Copybook Headings”, 1919

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QOTD: Fred Reed on American Fear

Posted on December 5, 2013 | 1 comment

Something strange is happening in the United States. A Canadian friend recently said, “I can remember when Americans weren’t afraid of everything.” Just so. Don’t run on the playground because you might fall. Don’t roughhouse because you might get a bruise. Don’t go outside at high noon because you might get skin cancer. Don’t swim after eating because you might get a cramp. If a child draws a soldier, call a SWAT team because he is a murderous psychopath. Don’t ride a bicycle without a helmet. Fill in the deep end of the pool because someone might drown. Supervise everything. Control everything. Fear everything.

If these are not the neurotic fears of women and capons, please tell me what they are. Such run the schools. They make policy.

—Fred Reed

 

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QOTD: Jerry Pournelle on Federal Bunny Inspectors

Posted on October 17, 2013 | Comments Off on QOTD: Jerry Pournelle on Federal Bunny Inspectors

(Context: The 16-day partial U.S. government shutdown ended a few days ago.)

Rejoice. The Bunny Inspectors, after a two week paid vacation, are back on the job. They will be paid for their “furlough” as if they had worked full time, with no loss of time off, and they can go back to watching stage magic shows to be certain that no thaumaturgist uses a rabbit in his performance without a Federal license from the Department of Agriculture, unless, of course, the rabbit is killed as part of the performance in which case no Federal license is required. I wish I were making all this up, but I am not. It’s the law. They will also inspect back yard rabbit cages where people who keep pet rabbits have their stock, and if anyone sells a pet rabbit without a Federal license the cost is about $5000 per bunny. If you kids keep rabbits, make sure they give them away rather than sell them. It is possible that they can sell rabbits for slaughter without a Federal license, but check with your lawyer before they do it.

                                            —Jerry Pournelle

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QOTD: Herschel Smith on Drug Legalization

Posted on September 25, 2013 | Comments Off on QOTD: Herschel Smith on Drug Legalization

“If you want to legalize drugs of all kinds, then be my guest, right after you turn around socialized medicine and forswear forever my fiduciary responsibility for support for any drug addict or funding of their medical care.  While my hard earned money is confiscated by the power of a badge and gun to support people who will not support themselves, then those people (the recipients of my money) should expect me to be involved in their lives.  My involvement will be as obnoxious and overbearing as I can possibly make it – right up until you no longer want my involvement, and then at that point I will assume you no longer want my money either.  I’m good on both accounts.  Leave me alone and I will leave you alone to do what you want.”

—Herschel Smith

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QOTD: Thomas Jefferson on Liberty and Tyranny

Posted on September 10, 2013 | Comments Off on QOTD: Thomas Jefferson on Liberty and Tyranny

When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

—Thomas Jefferson, author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence

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QOTD: Alanis Morisette on Eating and Antibiotics

Posted on August 22, 2013 | Comments Off on QOTD: Alanis Morisette on Eating and Antibiotics

how ’bout getting off these antibiotics
how ’bout stopping eating when I’m full up

—first 2 lines of Alanis Morisette‘s song, “Thank You”

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QOTD: Are You Sure You Don’t Have Anything to Hide?

Posted on June 24, 2013 | Comments Off on QOTD: Are You Sure You Don’t Have Anything to Hide?

“The Heritage Foundation recently launched an informational campaign to raise awareness of overprosecution and regulatory overreach, appropriately called “USA vs. You” (www.heritage.org/usavsyou). Heritage reports there are now more than 4,500 federal criminal laws on the books, and a whopping 300,000 federal criminal regulations. Throw in state statutes and local ordinances, and our governments have criminalized everyday life to the point that everyone is breakin’ the law — and subject to egregious abuses of authority.

Take the 2011 case of 11-year-old Virginia resident Skylar Capo. She rescued a baby woodpecker from a cat and brought the bird inside a home improvement store, so it wouldn’t suffer in the heat of her mother’s car. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent also was at the store, Heritage reported, and read the riot act to Ms. Capo and her mother for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The Capos released the bird upon returning home and notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Yet that same agent, with a Virginia state trooper as backup, showed up at their house two weeks later to serve notice of a $535 federal fine and possible jail time. Public backlash led to all charges being rescinded.

—Editorial at Las Vegas Review-Journal

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