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This is a chilling story. Go and read it, then come back here and tell me government is not big enough and doesn't have enough control over your life, and mine.

This could happen to you. this weekend.

Tomorrow.

Or tonight.

Remember: "Ignorance of the law is not an excuse." In other words, you're expected to know and obey every stricture of the entire corpus of your locality's ordinances, your state's law, the U.S. Code, and all of the regulations published since the beginning of the Republic in the Federal Register.

You've got a lot of reading to do. Get busy. (Void where prohibited by law.)

I have now turned off the automatic user request feature on the board, because it seems that the vast majority of users of that feature were obvious spammers. I don't like spammers very much.

So, the only way to get an account here is to ask via e-mail. Ask nicely.

The procedure:

1: Ask for a user id that might possibly be a real name, or at least a real word.
2: Use an e-mail address that actually works.
3: Send an e-mail to me from that e-mail address proving you're someone who has something more than spam on their mind.

You may mail me with your request at medaryrequest (clever user name, isn't it?).

Then the little curly-cue at-sign. This one: @.

Then yahoo.com.

Put it all together into an e-mail address, and send something coherent to me if you want commenting privileges here. I don't check that account all that frequently though, so you'll have to be patient.

And remember, I'm still picky about who my friends are.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

As State controls become more plausible, more far-reaching and more effective, the tendency of democracy is to succumb to the demagogue becomes ever more pronounced.

On the round table on NBC's "Meet The Press":

MS. MADDOW: I think it's--I think we always lament the sharpness of our partisan divide. I don't think there's ever been a time where we felt very "Kumbaya" for the--as, as left and right, except for bad reasons, because the country was facing real adversity. And I think that the left/right fight is healthy. I mean, I, as a, as a liberal, I want conservatives and the Republican Party to be robust and, and participating in a, in a strong argument that, that advances the country's interests. I'm not hoping for the demise of my enemies. I do think that we've got vituperative language, language on both sides, and I think it should be damned on both sides.
. . .
MS. MADDOW: I, I do think that there's a little bit of reckoning that needs to happen on the right for Sarah Palin's success. I mean, she was the vice presidential nominee, she is going to sell a kazillion books and she is the biggest brand name in Republican politics still right now. And she's chose--the person who's writing her book, her last--the last person who she co-authored a book with was called "Donkey Cons" and it was co-authored with a guy who's widely believed to be and I believe him to be a white supremacist. So she's chosen Lynn Vincent, who's written a book with a white supremacist, to write her book, and she's the biggest name in Republican politics.

Uh. OK, Rachel. You say you oppose "vituperative language" but in nearly the next breath on the very same TV show go way, way out of your way to accuse Sarah Palin of being a "white supremacist" by the most tenuous (and by the way quite possibly defamatory) guilt-by-association.

Whatever.

I assume for Maddow's next circus act she'll be "damning" herself.

By the way, Maddow's unnamed "white supremacist" is none other than Robert Stacy "the Other" McCain.

If that's all they've got on Vincent and McCain and Palin, Maddow and her gang are about to experience their worst nightmare--an energized conservative/libertarian coalition with a charismatic leader who are all sick and tired of the unending innuendos and slanders and lies of Maddow and the rabid left. And I think they know it.

UPDATE: I get a coveted Rule 2 link from The Other himself.

My God, THAT'S why they are afraid of him! He's THE OTHER! AIEEEEEEE!!!!!!

On October 4, 2005, I posted:

This is just a bit tardy, but . . . Snookums and I took our honeymoon (our FIRST honeymoon, anyway) in Paris. Yes, the one in France. Here are a few pictures:

The French referendum on the European Union was going on while we were there. I wanted to get a picture of Oui and Non posters together and caught this one from the top of a tour bus:

Snookums and I (and some other guy at right) in a mirror in Versailles:

Next, a typical Paris street. Actually, some of them are more picturesque than this one, some of them aren't, so this one is pretty much average.

Of course, any trip to Paris includes an elevator ride to the top of the Eiffel Tower:

Sunset in Paris, from the top of the Eiffel Tower:

(You didn't think all of these blasts from the past would be about dreary politics, did you?)

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Remember that true liberalism insists on protecting the individual from tyranny of every variety, and that tyrannies are almost always imposed…by democratic means.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota owes much of its recent explosion of growth to South Dakota's extremely loose usury laws.

Continued after the "read more."

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

A person who maintains that the State should solve, by necessarily coercive methods, any problem that individuals are capable of solving voluntarily, is…the very opposite of a liberal. The essence of tyranny is reliance on external, as opposed to internal, compulsion.

For the children.

For the government.

From Gay Patriot:

1 - A rich, famous brother of a Democrat President who drives drunk off a bridge and murders a young woman who was not his wife: OKAY

2 - A famous Hollywood Director who intoxicates, then rapes a 13 year old girl, confesses to it and then runs from the law for 30 years: OKAY

3 - A Democrat President who sexually harasses an intern under his employ in the Oval Office then lies under oath: OKAY

4 - A Republican Congressman who texts with 17-18 year old boys but never met them: NOT OKAY

5 - A Democrat Senator currently with leadership status who was the elected “Exalted Cyclops” in the Ku Klux Klan and repeatedly used racial slurs on television until he became too old and his words slurred: OKAY

6 - A Republican Congressman who yelled at a President who happens to be African-American: NOT OKAY

7 - A Democrat school teacher, now Presidential “Safe Schools Czar”, who did nothing when a teenager told him of dangerous sex habits with older men: OKAY

8 - A Republican VP candidate whose underage daughter becomes the target of rape jokes by liberal Late Night talk show host: OKAY (and hilarious!)

9 - A liberal Late Night host sexually harassing employees on his staff: ALSO OKAY

Admittedly, there are some who might find such a list from a site called "Gay Patriot" a tad ironic. I don't. Judge accordingly. (Something about "what responsible adults do in the privacy of their own homes . . . ") See, there's "tolerance" and then there's tolerance. There's a difference.