the IDIOT

it's the principle, shirker

2009-12-05T14:44:00.012-05:00

liberty. for a political philosophy built on only one principle (nonaggression), distressing how many supposedly supporting that principle will drop it with ease. here's jesse ventura (.MP3 784 KB 00:01:14 duration) on the 20091202 opie & anthony show, helping to screw smokers as suits his royal preference.

in the following transcript i use "OAShow" for everyone else, since though i have an idea who's who, i loathe their show and don't feel like identifying definitely all by voice. usual transcription caveat about editing out stammers and some interjections, and smoothing out literal order of conversation:

ventura: hey, i gotta tell ya something though. i used to, because of freedom,

OAShow: yeah.

ventura: i used to really oppose the smoking in the bar thing because i thought, "shouldn't that be left up to the bar?"

OAShow: mm hmm.

ventura: you know, 'cause it's an act of freedom.

OAShow: i completely still agree with that, and i'm not a smoker. leave it up the fucking bar owner.

ventura: but... you know what though? i don't now.

OAShow: why?

ventura: because this summer, for some reason, i had to do three things at the bar. god was it nice! i didn't have to come home...

[laughter]

OAShow: we admit that it's nice; trust me.

ventura: wait, i didn't have to come home and immediately throw my clothes into the hamper because they stink. i didn't have to run in and take a shower because my hair smelled and my body smelled.

OAShow: we're with you.

ventura: and it was actually very enjoyable...

OAShow: you just explained something...

ventura: and i just sat and thought, "gol," you know, "they really shouldn't be able to do it, but it sure is nice that they have." [laughs]

OAShow: you just explained why people aren't protesting the war but they are protesting the doctor. it's not about not caring. it's about immediate self interest. it's like the doctor we see affecting us immediately, whereas the war is like, "eh", it's easier to not feel like you're being affected by that.

ventura: but, i got to admit: going to the bar without the smoke, god was it nice.

OAShow: [to norton, previous speaker] that was a good point [unintelligible].

OAShow: i liked it.

ventura: you know, your eyes didn't burn all night, you didn't come out coughing, and like i said, you didn't stink, ya know, and...

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TDil the fool

2009-12-04T16:35:00.005-05:00

according to tom dilorenzo,

Ask Al Gore His Opinion of Climategate . . .
Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo on December 4, 2009 07:06 AM
. . . and Secret Service goons will rough you up and drag you out of the building, while mindless sheeple (a.k.a., “voters”) jeer at you for questioning His Eminence. [...]

as evidence he embeds this video of jeering "first amendment" morons fucking up a hundreds-long book-signing line on private property.

advertising stupidity

2009-12-02T12:48:00.004-05:00

via LRC, this ludicrous non sequitur:

Pull US troops out of Afghanistan. Leave Iran alone. Legalise drugs. Get the government out of people's private lives. Say no to the bailout of Wall Street fat cats. As a menu of policy prescriptions, you might think that this all puts Ron Paul on the Soviet wing of the Democratic party. [...]

stunning evidence of a moron lashing out at his insane refusal to recognize "right" and "left" as essentially the same position: toward totalitarianism. so now the achingly obvious proposed direct opposite of totalitarianism becomes — wait for it — totalitarianism (i.e., soviet).

right. buzzword call.

tech and the delusion of copyright

2009-11-13T17:39:00.006-05:00

after you enjoy the stage crashing fan at 1:15 in this vid (super funny), savor the sea of video recorders. years ago fans with film/video cameras would've been trounced by security. now? hopeless!

can't stop the signal.

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GB II still making vit da funny stuff

2009-11-13T09:34:00.007-05:00

Bush warns of threats to freedom, economic growth

Former President George W. Bush, outlining plans for a new public policy institute, on Thursday said America must fight the temptation to allow the federal government to take control of the private sector, declaring that too much government intervention will squelch economic recovery and expansion. [...]

ha! dig this bit from the article:

[...] In one of his first major decisions on trade policy, Mr. Obama in September imposed a tariff on tire imports from China, making good on a campaign promise to the United Steelworkers union to "crack down" on imports that hurt American workers and industries. [...]

l'emperor GB II the marketeer would never have done something like that.

Poll: Southerners want federal help, fear for jobs

2009-11-11T08:54:00.002-05:00

AP:

A new poll shows Southerners are fretting about job loss and the economy, and don't think the federal government is doing enough to help. [...]

The poll of 866 people in 11 states found nearly three quarters of people wanted new government programs to create jobs and nearly two thirds thought states in serious financial trouble should get federal aid. [...]

This Dead America

lew rockwell, laughable bullshitter

2009-11-11T07:28:00.005-05:00

i figured out a couple of years ago that lew rockwell sees his position as similar to sam adams, a guy noted for his role in increasing american liberty via stirring up shit through whatever back-channel mob arousal "required".

if you wanted more proof that lew's full of shit on cult leader ron paul, here ya go:

Vintage Ron Paul

The straight-talk you won't hear from anyone else.

"won't hear from anyone else"? right. good job, lew. there are only thousands+ daily matching/eclipsing ron paul's avowed doctrine (one he doesn't live by).

the ron paul cult is built upon his personal demonstration of systematically violating the nonaggression principle. were he not a career statist, most in his cult wouldn't give a fuck what he said. they love that he's a "congressman", and consider him superior for it. through baby-brainwashing, they revere crime gang "officers".

and he is superior compared to the rest of that shit lot. markedly inferior, however, to those who preach the same and a better message while actively refusing to join the world's most forceful official crime syndicate. lew rockwell lies, and he knows it. ron paul is the best of the worst.

AVG 9 blows

2009-11-10T21:29:00.006-05:00

was a happy user of free AVG antivirus for years. crazy how a company can with a single horrible "upgrade" piss away a reputation. AVG 9 sucks. error flags from nowhere. multiple pointless reboots that solve nothing. two separate utility downloads to try to unscrew program-created errors.

even uninstalling was a 30-minute pain in the ass. AVG has apparently decided to become the next wearer of the symantec bloatware bullshitters crown, and their forum moderators [update: user volunteers, just learned] are more concerned with swatting users on the hand for not including enough information — soup nazi stye. AVG should be embarrassed.

career criminal/whore salivates over T-word possibilities

2009-11-09T09:21:00.003-05:00

this may be the most insane "news" article i've seen in months:

A senior U.S. senator on Sunday said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the U.S. military could have prevented it.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said initial evidence suggested that the alleged shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, was a "self-radicalized, home-grown terrorist" who had turned to Islamic extremism while under personal stress.
Mr. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, had opened fire Thursday at a soldier processing center at Fort Hood, Tex., killing 13 and wounding 29 in the worst mass shooting on a military facility in the U.S.
Mr. Lieberman, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," cautioned that it remained too early to draw any definitive conclusions. He said his comments were based on "reports that we are receiving" about Mr. Hasan's actions and comments.
The Army's top officer, Gen. George Casey, wouldn't rule out that the shooting was an act of terrorism, but cautioned against speculation at this point. "We all want to know what happened and what motivated the suspect, but we need to … let the investigation take its course," he told ABC News's "This Week."
Mr. Lieberman said that if news reports were true that Mr. Hasan had turned to Islamic extremism, "the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most-destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11."
"We don't know enough to say now, but there are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Mr. Lieberman added. [...]

why is his swill being "reported"? answer that and you understand nearly everything.

Ally McBeal free on iTunes

2009-11-06T10:55:00.004-05:00

despite problems here and there, and creeping lazi-cutesyness, Ally McBeal rules, and it's finally been released in the goonited states (apparently with its multi-source "copyright"-plagued music intact). during the promo period, get the first two episodes free via iTunes.

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demonstrated damage in the name of flu hysteria

2009-10-30T08:14:00.005-04:00

thanks to redskins cheerleader trainee desiree jennings for allowing cameras to document the horrendous destruction to her life via pharma-magic:

you can survive and flourish without regular intake of these nasty concoctions. for improved health eschew vaccines, antibiotics, pain killers, and similar brute force manifestations of the "put it in a can and spray it" modern american mental disease (affecting car repair as well). generally, the three best medicines are sleep, exercise, and — in seasonal areas — short-term exposure to cold.

you gave him the keys, lew!

2009-10-27T08:18:00.004-04:00

blabbermouth david kramer steps in it more than usual today with this bullshit post, quoted fully:

Good News in the War Against Drugs
Posted by David Kramer on October 27, 2009 05:47 AM
3 DEA AGENTS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN COPTER CRASH, FIRST DEATHS OF THIS KIND THERE
Three Drug Enforcement Administration agents were killed Monday when a U.S. military helicopter went down in the west of Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. The casualties mark the first DEA deaths in Afghanistan since the drug agency began operations there in 2005. Seven U.S. service members were also killed in the crash in the west of the country. Officials say the helicopter had left the scene of a fire fight with insurgents.
“DEA is an extremely tight family, and the death of these three brave [emphasis mine] agents is a devastating loss* for us,” DEA administrator Michele Leonhart said in a statement. “No expressions of grief can adequately convey the depth of the collective sorrow that we feel for their loved ones.”
In the same way that I wouldn’t have been upset 200 years ago hearing that some government agent was killed while trying to stop a Black slave from the South who was fleeing for his freedom; in the same way that, since I consider the U.S. attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are criminal actions and, therefore, do not support the U.S. soldiers cum murderers over there—nor have any sympathy for any U.S. soldiers who are killed over there; as a Libertarian I have no sympathy for any person killed while working for any gunvernment agency that is involved in preventing human beings from having control over their own bodies (which obviously includes what they put in their bodies). Does this make me a heartless person? No. It makes me an honest person.
“Brave” agents. Do you know what brave is? Standing up against all gunvernment tyranny—not just the obvious ones like our criminal military wars.
_______________________________
*How about the devastating loss to the families of many innocent civilians who die every day because recreational drugs are illegal and, therefore, has created a criminal class of people that commit murder during a robbery to support their drug habits? Without “brave” DEA agents to enforce the un-Libertarian drug laws, those civilians would not have been murdered.

dickboy kramer normally leads with his netnoob malapropisms and idjit-gimmick asterisk shtick, but today he decided to go full on against lew's overt doctrine and sense, wrongly. it is not "Good News in the War Against Drugs" when crime syndicate agents die as in this story, and only a tag-along idiot would make that publi-seeking leap under herbert spencer.

david kramer, you should 1) STFU, 2) get the hell off the LRC blog permanently, and 3) raise your dumbass head above the fence again, after years of contemplation and improvement, only on your personal blog. like many LRC wanks, you seriously need a personal blog. get there, moron.

if lew doesn't demand an edit/deletion on that post, i'll be surprised. check back and see!

LRC trots out another bootlicker

2009-10-27T04:27:00.005-04:00

this time it's brainwashed boy paul galvin, wanking off about "self-government" via the constitution.

Next year the country will go through another census. The people and the states – the creators and on-going sustainers of the federal government – have authorized this undertaking (U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2). The census should be seen not as a burden but rather as an opportunity for Americans to practice self-government. Let me explain.

he asserts, laughably,

We have agreed to be counted but the license ends there.

yeah? some fucker in the late 1700s signed my name for me? for you?

schoolboy idiocy. yet this collectivist tripe is regularly hurled by the mentally weak. i haven't agreed to the US constitution. never will. no honorable man would (see ron paul). that it's fun and sometimes worthwhile shoving in the faces of the despicable "sworn" gives it no independent value. the constitution blows, and has likely never been summed better than by lysander spooner in 1870.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain—that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

paul galvin gets on bended knee and in the span of a crap article moves about as backward from that inarguable truth as one can get, especially when supposedly writing for an anti-state site and using the epithet "statist" as if he's not one. if you believe the state has binding unilateral contract power, you're a statist.

duck quackers unite

2009-10-25T03:52:00.002-04:00

"public option" is among the more insidious language tortures rolling down the lemming pike this year. you may know with certainty that anyone using the term seriously is an irremediable flake. dan balz:

The resurrection of the public option is the latest and one of the most surprising turns in the long battle over legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system. Under assault for months, and declared on life support repeatedly in recent weeks, the provision for a public insurance option is unexpectedly alive as House and Senate leaders prepare to send their bills to the floor. [...]

blah blee bleh.

deniers, fuck off

2009-10-25T03:05:00.006-04:00

anyone who does the show-of-incredulity laugh-off routine when you assert that state kid prisons (AKA "schools") are indoctrination centers for the official crime syndicate, tell him to shove this embarrassment (jim fedako):

"The U.S. Census Bureau has created a Census in Schools program called 2010 Census: It's About Us. The program will provide educators with resources to teach the nation's students about the importance of the census so children can help deliver this message to their families." U.S. Census Bureau
Little Johnny sits attentively in his seat. Being in first grade, Johnny is very impressionable. And he really wants to please his teacher. So he gladly listens and repeats everything she says, taking it to heart as well as any young child can.

For her part, Ms. Jones believes in education. She hasn't engaged in the debate over the role of government in schools. She just wants to help her students succeed as best she knows how.

So when she receives a package of lesson plans [.PDF] from the U.S. Census Bureau, Ms. Jones doesn't even think to read between the lines. Instead, she decides to integrate the census into her social studies curriculum. It's topical and her students seem interested.

Ms. Jones reads the first lesson plan and follows the instructions:
1. Write the words good neighbor, law, and responsibility on the board. Ask: What do these words mean?
2. Ask: Are you a good neighbor? What laws do you know about? What does it mean to be responsible? Encourage a classroom discussion that reinforces the concepts of being a good neighbor and civic responsibility. Make a list on the board of different laws with which students are familiar (e.g., wear a seat belt, children must go to school, drivers must stop at red lights, etc.). (emphasis in original)
She then continues with the lesson. At the end, Ms. Jones transitions into the wrap-up: [...]

DiLorenzo, inventor

2009-10-23T18:05:00.003-04:00

puffer TDil writes,

Some time ago I invented the phrase "fascialism" to describe the American system of political economy.

this implies, though doesn't assert, he was the first to do so. appears he wasn't. this word is so obviously necessary and accurate (to shove under the noses of boneheads who insist that fascism and socialism are opposites) that TDil's invention, if true, simply puts him in line behind people who'd already done it. when i checked after my "invention" of the word in 2007, it had been done before, with no TDil in sight.

next stop, "the long tail"! gawd almighty. fire up the catchy-book-title machine and run with "your" word, dilorenzo.

the world to you, via LRC krimp david kramer

2009-10-12T14:43:00.009-04:00

when writing at LRC you're regularly swamped by adoring/congratulatory emails for nearly each post or article. takes a strong man to not let this transform him into a regal larry king, supposing every emitted syllable a gift bestowed from gifted head. here, the extra-voluminous david kramer gives you, the unwashed, the — wait for it — zapruder film!

Apropos the blogs that Lew Rockwell and I have done on the alleged phony JFK assassination autopsy photos, here—for those of you who haven’t seen it—is the famous film footage shot by the late Abraham Zapruder of the Kennedy assassination itself. Now, you too can judge where the multiple shots that killed Kennedy came from. [...]

newsflash for douchebags: probably two people in history could use "apropos" without sounding like david kramer, and it's "posts", not "blogs". internet lemmings live to throw around misused words like "boards" and "blogs" and "rip" and "burn". fuck you all.

Obama urges creation of agency to regulate financial industry

2009-10-10T04:14:00.005-04:00

yeah? i propose an agency to regulate your dumb ass. let's call it "the individual".

"I was caught in a debt-trap of predatory lending. . . . [...]," said Patricia Nelson, 64, a retired nurse from Waukesha, Wis., who introduced the president at the event.

in the newspeak of odumbaville, where everyone seeks above all to "effect change", "predatory lending" means "the devil made me do it" — kissin' cousin of the twinkie defense.

good news: the state is killing itself. death to official crime syndicates, courtesy of themselves.

BTW, morons, hitler effected change. check your inept language, if not your mush brains. now ding dang, y'all, let's grow those best practices and move onward to comity, reaching across the aisle, and reaching around the ol' reacharound.

How many people have you slept with? 2.8 million?

2009-09-23T18:51:00.005-04:00

"When we sleep with someone, we are, in effect, not only sleeping with them, but also their previous partners and their partners' previous partners, and so on," said Clare Kerr, head of sexual health at Lloydspharmacy.

"It's important that people understand how exposed they are to STIs and take appropriate precautions including using condoms and getting themselves checked out where appropriate."

that quacking twaddle indicates the zenith of the average "health professional". it is, of course, false. when transmission/infection rates reach 100%, that scare machine may be properly activated.

even during my AOL slut period, with HIV/AIDS and its attached lunacy (above) still being hyped, my concern over getting AIDS was, correctly, less than being hit by lightning. condoms may be the most ludicrously sanctified overdone health aspect in world history. even for preventing pregnancy they can be inferior. the same clods swilling the "sleep with all that partner's partners" nonsense live to swear that pulling out of and coming inside a vagina carry the same pregnancy risk. morons.

'recession is very likely over at this point'

2009-09-15T14:59:00.002-04:00

yayyyyy!

U.S. stocks pushed higher Tuesday helped by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's declaration the recession is likely over, with industrial and material firms once again pacing the day's move.

Stocks had drifted around the flat line for much of the morning as new measures of retail sales and New York-area manufacturing were better than expected. But wholesale-level inflation was surprisingly strong.

The market ticked higher in the early afternoon, however, as Bernanke said that from a technical point, the "recession is very likely over at this point." Bernanke made his comments during a question-and-answer session at the Brookings Institution. [...]

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TDil rides the wave

2009-09-14T14:16:00.009-04:00

count on language distortion to expose the heart. in a glom-on post at LRC thomas dilorenzo wields the execrable trendy noun form of "illegal":

It’s as Bad (or Worse) as You Imagined
Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo on September 14, 2009 10:39 AM
The Obammunistic health care proposals, that is. A friend sent me this blog by Michael Connelly, a lawyer who has read every word of the proposed legislation. Rationing, free health care for illegals, government-funded abortion, the abolition of medical privacy, and much worse is all in there, he says, contrary to what the lying media are telling you.

"heard it from a friend who-oo-oo
heard it from a fr-eh-end who-oo-oo…"

even that shit post he refers to — which, despite repeated requests from commenters, cites and quotes nothing of the proposed "law" — uses "illegal immigrants". that's bad enough, since the fedgoons have zippo "delegated power" to control immigration. trend-o distorter TDil takes it further and pretends that not only is acting counter to illegal fedgoon "law" illegal, it's a special type of illegal deserving of a person brand; the person is an illegal.

well, TDil the language rapist, who then is not an "illegal"? who does not daily break some "law", legal or illegal? disgusting.

the noun "illegal" is a term of distortion meant to comply with anti-immmigration bias of the speaker. of course, in the absence of private property the anti-immigration position of some LRCers is drivel, not defensible in the least on voluntarist grounds. LRC, of course, is predominantly "old right" liars posing as "libertarian". oh, and there's a great bogeyman in the sky; of him latin should be spoken.

control the premises, control the morons

2009-09-12T11:18:00.003-04:00

domination of fools begins with language corruption. NYT:

[...] While the Census Bureau reports that 46.3 million people living in the United States currently lack health insurance, [...]

"lack" implies unfulfilled desire or need. however, the coerced respondents of the illegally operating census bureau (as in bureaucrat) do not state whether they need or desire health "insurance" (another abused word). "lack health insurance" is sophistic "reporting".

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the twist rule

2009-09-07T14:59:00.005-04:00

modern movies have largely become a joke of "how many layers of 'twist'?" Think i have it down to a simple method now, made easier if you're watching via medium that tells you how much time's remaining.

generally, the max "twists" will be three. assuming 5 minutes for credits, when the movie appears to be over at 12 remaining, reverse villain(s) and hero(es). nineteen remaining, villain(s) and hero(es) are as they appear. twenty-six, add another flop, with apparently benign characters mixing in at the end.

yeah, it gets more complicated on the timing and character prominence, but that's a good rule-of-thumb for boredom and disgust. oh, and if it's a heist movie, throw in a "damn, you handed me an empty/worthless package when i had the gun on you" for every 12.7 minutes remaining, and multiply final smirk factor by 1.8. then watch the diet-coke lemmings say, "great twist!"

ellsworth toohey award of the week

2009-09-06T05:58:00.003-04:00

for clarence page, who puked up this disingenuous piece of shit:

After decades of criticizing public schools as places where hardly anybody learns anything, suddenly conservatives are upset that a 15- to 20-minute Web cast in schools might teach too much. [...]

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Candy Canes of Bamboozlement

2009-08-21T22:40:00.005-04:00

karen de coster writes about tom ridge admitting, "in his new book, to government manipulation of the 'security threat level'", then refers to her writing on the subject in 2006 and 2009. ol' "Sofreh-ye Pretta Aghd" (me) hit the topic in 2004, triggering mark corallo's ("Justice Department spokesman") embarrassingly sanctimonious delusional reply.

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