Metal Dad - Hardcore for Life

Keeping Us Safe From Terror

A flyer given to municipal employees of one of the northern Chicago suburbs. I think I should probably steer clear of Skokie for the next few weeks.


Tags: Chicago, NATO Summit, Statist Thugs

"Millions Of Our Children Are 'Graduating' From High School Dumb As A Rock..."

If you need any more good reasons to opt your children out of statist educational concentration camps...

Tags: Current Events, Education, Epistemological Child Molesters, Statist Thugs

What Are The Other 49 Waiting For?

At least one state is showing some courage and faithfulness to the constitution. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the corrupt Illinois state government to take a principled stand against encroaching fascism or unconstitutional attacks on personal liberty.



Tags: Current Events, NDAA, Nullification, Politics, Virginia

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

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

Women With Guns

Oklahoma mother protects baby by shotgunning intruder.

Tags: News, Pictures, Women with Guns

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Alex Smith of Flaming Pablum fame has a nice article on the upcoming reunion of the original line up of Black Sabbath. The possibility of a Rick Rubin produced album of new material is mentioned. Horns up!!

Tags: Alex Smith, Black Sabbath, Flaming Pablum, Heavy Metal, Reunions, Rick Rubin

Economic Inequality Or Just The Facts Of Life?

With the Occupy Wall Street protests going on, I hear lots of talk about "economic inequality." I was under the impression that economic inequality was just a fact of life. Some folks work harder than others, some folks inherit wealth, some folks use illegal or unethical means to acquire wealth, some folks get liberal arts degrees in theater or women's studies or Etruscan history.

"Daydreams of a 'fair' world which would treat him according to his 'real worth' are the refuge of all those plagued by a lack of self-knowledge.
Mises - The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, p. 15

Tags: Economics, Inequality, Mises, Occupy Wall Street, Politics

Panic Among The Phillistines

Full Disclosure: The title of this post comes from the title of an excellent book by Bryan F Griffin. It's a great phrase and I wish I had thought it up myself.

It's been interesting to read and watch the political pundits and doyens of the media take every opportunity to tell the poor, unenlightened masses that Herman Cain is "not ready for prime time."  While 9-9-9 is a catchy hook and his line that "if 10% is OK with God then 9% should be good enough for the federal government" was clever and made a good point, whether it's 9% or 99%, a tax is a tax. Taxes are money taken from your earnings under the threat of violence to your person and liberty. Taxes are theft perpetrated by the government.

Seems to me that the political class and the media are terrified that a candidate who is not a career politician might be more palatable to the public than the any of the lying and thieving whores who are trotted out regularly. Only the faces and names change, the underlying corruption and duplicity remains a constant.

Tags: Current Affairs, Elections, Herman Cain, Liars and Thieves, Phillistines, Politics, Taxes

Occupy This!

I've been watching the Occupy Wall Street events out of the corner of my eye with detached interest and bemusement and had a couple of thoughts:

A large part of it seems to be borne out of an incomprehensible nostalgia for the Sixties. Old professional hippies reliving the good old days and youngsters anxious to experience that time and place when "the whole world is watching!"

In my opinion, their targeting is inaccurate. I see lots of angst and angry waving of iPhones and iPads at capitalism. Free-market capitalism is not the problem since we don't really have free-market capitalism here. We have crony capitalism, corporate welfare, and  a government whose meddling in and attempts to control markets have led to the problems confronting us. Lobbyists bribe the thieves and liars in the Senate and Congress who craft legislation which perpetuates waste and fraud.

Occupy D.C. Occupy the White House, the Senate, and the Congress, that's the real root of the problem.

"There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.
Mises - Liberalism, p. 79

Addendum:
After writing and posting this I read a good article by Lew Rockwell on the Evil 1%. It's worth a read.
"The State is everybody’s enemy. Why don’t the protesters get this? Because they are victims of propaganda by the State, doled out in public school, that attempts to blame all human suffering on private parties and free enterprise. They do not comprehend that the real enemy is the institution that brainwashes them to think they way they do.

They are right that society is rife with conflicts, and that the contest is wildly lopsided. It is indeed the 99% vs. the 1%. They’re just wrong about the identity of the enemy."

Tags: Current Events, Economics, Liars and Thieves, Occupy Wall Street, Politics