Quotes of the Week

From the Light:

“Wonderful, is it not, the state is empowered with the unique ability to investigate its own lies and the power of the media and academia to demonize any who would question its veracity, and the support of Boobus, whose livelihood depends on the state’s power to redistribute the wealth of the nation from producers to parasites.”
Michael Gaddy
　
“The foremost or indeed the sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

“We'll never see confession and penance from chickenhawks, because they have no guilt. And it's a lot easier to admit guilt than shame. And chickenhawks' shame and cowardice is something they will not, cannot, admit. So they project it onto others.”
Bob Wallace

“Religion has no business being the basis of any rule that is applied to those who do not follow that particular religion. What is "moral" to one religion is "an abomination" to another. Stick with the few rules that predate and transcend religion: Don't initiate or accept force, and don't initiate deceit.”
Kent MacManigal

“Government is overhead. Government doesn't generate a profit or produce any marketable goods or services to willing consumers. It simply redistributes other people's money – or other people's jobs - and ensures the cream is scraped into its own pocket in the process.”
Garry Reed

“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can’t all be worth dying for.”
Joseph Heller

“Who lines their pockets, and what are their goals? That is what we always want to know for actual political science, let alone Fed analysis.”
Lew Rockwell

"Stay out of the way as government dies and be prepared to fight any new Rulers who arise to "fill the void". Make sure there is not ever a "power vacuum" by keeping power where it belongs: in the hands of the individuals."
Kent MacManigal

"The world is expensive enough just to conquer, let alone subsidize. Pax Americana was never a sustainable system, we run the Jim Morrison of empires, and not a thought is ever wasted for any consequences past the immediate."

C. J. Maloney
　
“I, on the other hand, don’t really give a f*ck.”
Don Emmerich, commenting on the useless hubbub over Sarah Palin’s Newsweek photo.

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From the Darkness:

“Under the proposal, the U.S. Department of Transportation would do for transit what it does for airlines and Amtrak: set and enforce federal regulations to ensure that millions of passengers get to their destinations safely.”
Washington Post, about the coming nationalization of subways and intrastate light rail systems

“In a globalized world there is no domestic solution.”
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Head of the IMF.

"It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession."
B. Obama [Then why did you help create such a debt?!]

"We have now reached a point where humanity is approaching the brink of disaster."
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the U.N. Population Fund's executive director

"With conspiracy talk-show host Alex Jones leading the way, one of the most disturbing trends in 2009 has been the resurrection and proliferation of some of the same anti-government conspiracy theories that so riled up domestic extremists in the 1990s.”
From a recent report from The Anti-Defamation League

“Well, I think domestically a threat that we’re facing right now is the dithering and hesitation in sending a message to the terrorists that we’re going to claim what Ronald Reagan claimed. Our motto is going to be: “We win, you lose.” The way that we do that is allow McChrystal to have the reinforcements that he’s asking for in Afghanistan. That sends that message to the terrorists over there that we’re going to end this thing with our victory. We need to start facing Iran with tougher and tougher sanctions that need to be considered.”
Sara Palin, the so-called “Rogue.”

“2009 is also the first year of global governance, with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis. The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet.”
Herman Van Rompuy, EU President.

“The decision to try the 9/11 defendants in a civilian court opens up the likelihood that the defendant's right to what is called "discovery" will require providing the defense team with intelligence that will surely make its way back to terrorist allies. These trials should be held in military courts where no such rights exist. Their crimes were acts of war (didn't we go to war as a result?), not the acts of ordinary criminals.”
John F. McManus, president of The John Birch Society

“Well, all the money is fungible, but I think that would be a stated purpose of adding some additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000. They have done incredibly well and I think that it’s important that we pay for it if we possibly can.”
Carl Levin, contemplating how to pay for the USG’s never ending wars.

"This is something we have to do. We're required to maintain order and keep the peace."
Ozark, AK Police Chief Jim Noggle, defending the use of a taser against a 10 year old girl.

Image Review of the Week

A lowly house servant who is also a President:




X marks the spot for secession:

Terrorists are everywhere:

Useless pomp and ceremony is soooooo tiring:

Militarists are nothing if not fashion conscious:

Conflicting or complimentary messages?

Silent protest through looks of disgust:

Killers For Jeezus just can’t be thanked enough:

Pain is the name of the game:

Is there anything spookier than a military memorial.....

.....where a precious, individual soul is remembered as nothing more than feet that marched, a head that followed orders and a weapon that killed on command?

Dee-Fence:

The size of his lies keeps growing:

“Rogue,".......or Retard? Sage,.......or Sell Out?

What to make of the world? Something to fear or something to embrace?

Statist Art

I noticed this picture hanging on the wall of a local secondary child indoctrination center. At the bottom of the drawing it reads:

“THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE CONTROLS THE NATION”

Goebbels and Goering couldn’t have said it better. What’s ironic is at the moment I was viewing this picture, the indoctrination center was in lockdown while drug sniffing canines cruised the hallways looking for contraband.

So, is it a cradle…….or a prison?

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:

“Nothing is so dangerous as an army in the midst of an unwarlike nation; the excessive love of the whole community for quiet continually puts the constitution at the mercy of the soldiery.
It may therefore be asserted, generally speaking, that if democratic nations are naturally prone to peace from their interests and their propensities, they are constantly drawn to war and revolutions by their armies. Military revolutions, which are scarcely ever to be apprehended in aristocracies, are always to be dreaded among democratic nations.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

“Civil government is the mortal enemy of humanity and civilization. It cannot be otherwise. The very institution of civil government violates the very principles that civil government is instituted to protect. It is a contradiction and an affront to mankind.”
John Sampson

“The only way to effectively bring about a revolution for the betterment of mankind is to reach the individual. The message is simple: You are freedom. You are peace. You are love. You are truth. You mustn’t wait for anyone else. You mustn’t be afraid. You mustn’t worry that mass murderers are continually lauded as bringers of peace. It will continue.”
B. R. Merrick

“There is effectively no difference in principle between the actions of the Nazis, or communists, or the American government. It’s hardly even a matter of degree anymore; the gap is closing. All governments everywhere and throughout history are essentially the same. Thousands of years of experience have proven they can never be 'reformed.' Their basic nature denies any possibility of such outright. They can only be abolished altogether. The survival and the advance of free humanity depends upon it.”
Alex R. Knight III

“What could be more wrongful, more immoral than that — the intentional killing of human beings in order to achieve a political-welfare goal?”
Jacob Hornberger

“Decision-making by those who risk their own property not only localizes the impact of wrong choices, but allows people everywhere the freedom to copy those who succeed.”
Butler Shaffer

“Money should never be forced on someone. No one should dictate what you 'should' use as your money, nor should they limit you to one type of money. Let the market choose the money that people trust and want. Even if that means some would choose to accept printed paper IOUs backed but nothing but a promise from a group of thieves that the money is 'good', that is their choice. In this case, ‘seller beware!’”
Kent McManigal

“Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words ‘chaos,’ ‘accidental,’ ‘chance,’ ‘unpredictable,’ are conveniences behind which we hide our ignorance.”
Harlow Shapley

"The existing nuclear threat isn’t the threat of 'private nukes.' It’s the threat of stolen 'public nukes.'"
Thomas L. Knapp

"There is no way a psychiatrist [Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan] - basically an intellectual desk jockey - shot off hundreds of rounds with two pistols and hit about 40 people without being subdued by someone [at Ft Hood]. Come on! He wasn't a trained assassin or a special ops commando shooting up a mall. He would have had to reload and that means putting one of the pistols down and reloading the other with seasoned combat vets in that deployment center. It only takes seconds to reload, but it only takes a second to subdue him."
Anonymous retired army Capt. who served 7 years in the 173rd Airborne

“We are a society of people who have gone down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter and March Hare and believe that somehow contrary to basic mathematical laws like one plus one equals two the economy can be improved by taking money from one person and giving it to another or by dropping it from a helicopter. Given their drunken social state, it makes perfect sense to them.”
Don Cooper

“New American nations, formed from the seceding United States, would be little pinpoints of light and liberty. If their only guiding principle was to not make the same mistakes that the US government made over the last 150 years, they would be destined for success.”
Russell D. Longcore

“Totalitarianism is therefore not specifically a system of government, but a way of organizing society by means of a powerful, centralized modern state. It requires a mass media, education, and political culture in which the state—that is to say a class of bureaucrats and officials governing a large geographic area—takes over every aspect of civil society. “
Michael Kleen

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
Charles Mackay

“The military is the state's apparatus of murder and property destruction. The welfare state is an instrument of social demolition. They really are complimentary sides of the same debased coin.”
Will Grigg

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From the Darkness:

"The most important thing, when attempting to overcome barriers, is: Are the nation states ready and willing to give competencies over to multilateral organizations, no matter what it costs?
This world will not be a peaceful one if we do not work for more global order and more multilateral cooperation.”
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel

"It's not that we're celebrating Obama. We're celebrating America living up to it's creed that all men are created equal”
Albert Turner Jr, Perry County, AL commissioner, commenting on proclaiming Monday, November 9 as an official holiday celebrating the election of the nation's first black president. [......well, half-black, anyway.]

“There are tens of thousands of [Nidal Malik] Hasans all over the Western world -- from Brussels to Berlin and from Burgos, Spain, to Birmingham, U.K. For them, Sept. 11, 2001, was a conspiracy cooked up by the CIA and Mossad, Israel's external intelligence service.”
Arnaud De Borchgrave

"Only a president can offer the condolences of a nation. In a moment of crisis and sorrow and anger, only a president can soothe raw emotions, allay fears, elevate a senseless act into a call to action, and offer the assurance that — as his aides put it Monday — no stone will be left unturned.
This is by far the biggest test of Obama's ability to fulfill the role of consoler in chief."
Todd J. Gillman, Dallas Morning News

“Their life's work is our security, and the freedom that we all too often take for granted. Every evening that the sun sets on a tranquil town; every dawn that a flag is unfurled; every moment that an American enjoys life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- that is their legacy.”
B. Obama, “honoring” those murdered at Ft Hood.

“The Army is a growth industry.”
Col. Stephen Carney, head of ROTC at Norwich University, Northfield, CT.

"Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that, uh, we see devastation on a daily basis. You don't blame a group."
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley

"The Army is basically paying the Taliban not to shoot at them. It is Department of Defense money."
Anonymous American executive, explaining how trucks supplying US troops in Afghanistan are protected.

"Our national security in the year 2030 is absolutely dependent upon what is going on in pre-kindergarten today."
Rear Admiral James Barnett, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

Image Review of the Week

Smiling tyrants = less freedom on the horizon:

Let music fill the fields.....

.....instead of marching armies:

Why not pass on the parade…… and pass on some wisdom?

Carbon capture goes extreme:

Twenty years after one wall came down.....

.....there are more walls than ever:

Leviathan’s favorite cannon fodder:



Obamatrons applaud their health care victory:




Too bad they couldn’t have their weapons when they were alive:




Crocodile tears for the dead meat.....

…..while looking for more recruits to fill the graves:

Bad influences. Don’t let your kids hang out with the wrong crowd.....

.....or rotten babysitters:

Nothing novel on the news front- just historical reruns, .....

.....annoying tyrants, .....

.....and timeless pleas for common sense:

The jackboots haul away our last hope:

Blinded and clueless.....

.....while repeating war chants and mantras:

Militarists are ga-ga over O-ba-ma:

Who next will be consumed by the fiery beast of war?

Listen to your rulers- they know best:

Passing on the meme- Killing and war is just fun and games:

The Prince of Hypocrisy

Emperor Obama demands a comprehensive review of last week's shootings at Ft. Hood. Quoting His Highness, "If there was a failure to take appropriate action before the shootings, there must be accountability." Is that so?

When are the Commanders in Chiefs going to be held “accountable’ for executing unconstitutional wars of aggression and occupation of other countries? When are they going to be held “accountable” for their lies, and murders of innocent civilians?

When will they be held “accountable” for the proven hatred and desperation created among their victims?

When are those who disallow soldiers even carrying side arms for self-defense going to be held “accountable” for their idiocy

Where is the “accountability" for the Emperor’s economic “stimulus” program that has resulted in MORE unemployment than he predicted if this stimulus was not initiated! Where is the “accountability” for these incompetent, inaccurate predictions and their damaging consequences?

It’s always the underlings carrying out the policy of the ruling oligarchs who are punished, rather than those who create that policy. It’s always the ruled who are expected to suffer in silence and feel “gratitude” toward their benevolent leaders for “trying” to help them.

But then, that’s “democracy.”

Dallas has at least one of these unaccountable criminals living within its city borders who is welcomed with open arms and fawning respect. He, however, deserves the same treatment Italians gave to Mussolini.

Let’s All Watch The Death Parade!

Let’s all watch Boobus wave his war flags and chant his slogans.

Let’s all watch the unconscionable chicken hawks cluck with delight.

Let’s all watch still more people die to satisfy the blood lust of the war cult.

Let’s all watch the deceived masses cling to the belief that violence is their salvation.

Let’s all watch the loud, rejoicing accolades offered to those who defend and empower our enslaving political masters.

Let’s all watch the kidnapped youth, captured by the allure of nationalism and “service,” squander their lives in servility.

Let’s all watch what’s left of civilization slide further into collective barbarism.

What a show!