Metal Dad - Hardcore for Life

Neocon Warmongers and Corporate Statists

Against my better judgement I watched the GOP debate last night. The chest thumping and sabre rattling over Iran by three of the participants was unsettling. I know the Republican party loves wars and deficits as much as the Democratic party loves wealth transfers and taxes so it shouldn't have been surprising.

"History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents. . . . A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."
Mises - Omnipotent Government, pp. 6–7

"The essence of so-called war prosperity; it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income."
Mises - Nation, State, and Economy, p. 158

Tags: Corporate Statists, GOP, Liars and Thieves, Mises, Neocons, Warmongers

Hunting And Gathering

or Lunchtime Listening

Monoliths and Dimensions

We're back on the drone/doom tip after a Krautrock binge and no one does drone better than Sunn O))).

Tags: Doom, Drone, Lunchtime Listening, Sunn O)))

An Interesting Take on Illegal Immigrants

I am ambivalent about using the term "undocumented" since it is so politically correct. But as the descendant of a couple of folks who strolled across the Rio Grande and settled in Texas to work, pay taxes, and raise a family I found this a fascinating article.

"Women also make this trip, for the same reason: to send money home for their kids. Don't, please, tell me about oppressed co-eds at Dartmouth."

Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Family, Fred Reed

This Is So Wrong On So Many Levels

Tags: Defective Theology, Fish, Politics, Religion

That's The Way I Like It Baby, I Don't Want To Live Forever

Motorhead- Ace of Spades

None Dare Call It A Police State (cont.)

Thought this was an informative and interesting article. It should be a surprise only to folks who have been too preoccupied with American Idol or Survivor or the GOP primary circus currently underway. Stay entertained and keep thinking there really is a two-party system. Keep thinking that your votes really count and the lesser of two evils is a viable choice. Ignore the fact your government can indefinitely detain you without due process of law at the whim of the current president. Ignore the fact that the State wants to create a network of informants and spies out of citizens.

Tags: NDAA, Police State, Politics, Spies, The State

None Dare Call It A Police State

I'm really glad I don't have to fly for my job. There's no way I would consent to being scanned and no goon of either gender is going to grope me. I find it amazing that as our civil liberties are being vaporized at an alarming rate people just seem to go along with whatever the "authorities" require. Morning in Amerika? I think it will be Mourning in Amerika when people realize how much freedom they have given up in the name of "being kept safe from terrorism." Seems more likely that I will terrorized by a functionary of the state than a member of the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. The enemies of freedom are alive and well at the airport security terminals, the White House, the Congress, and the IRS. The present administration has given itself the power to detain indefinitely any citizen they deem a threat or even assassinate a U.S. citizen on foreign soil without due process. As Waco demonstrated, the State has no qualms about executing citizens in our own country without due process.

Refuse, Resist, Don't Submit.

Tags: Police State, Politics, Resist, Sheep

Best Definition I've Read Lately

State: n. , a gang of thieves writ large; a territorial monopolist of compulsion and ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and exploitation in the form of expropriation, taxation, and regulation of private property owners; the group within society that claims for itself the exclusive right to rule everyone under a special set of laws that permit it to do to others what everyone else is rightly prohibited from doing, namely aggressing against person and property.

H/T Stop the State

Tags: Definitions, Politics, Stop the State, The State

Mises Quote Of The Day

"Majorities are no less exposed to error and frustration than kings and dictators. That a fact is deemed true by the majority does not prove its truth. That a policy is deemed expedient by the majority does not prove its expediency. The individuals who form the majority are not gods, and their joint conclusions are not necessarily godlike."
Mises - Omnipotent Government, p. 47

Tags: Government, Majorities, Mises, Politics

Tempus Fugit

or Lunchtime Listening

I do take a break from making my ears bleed quite often. If anything, my musical tastes are quite varied. So even though I don't usually eat lunch (too lazy to make one, too cheap to buy one. as long as there's coffee i'm good) this was playing during my lunchtime.

Bud Powell - Ultimate Bud Powell


Tags: Bud Powell, Jazz, Lunchtime Listening