Image Review of the Week

Apparently, walls aren’t punishment enough:



More troops for more tears:



Looking for someone to harass, molest and terrorize:



"Too see.....



.....and listen to the wicked.....



.....is already the beginning of wickedness."

Confucius



Climate kooks freak out.....



.....over some melted ice:




The victims of Prohibition keep piling up:



"He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko



Feeling crowded?.....



.....Make yourself some space:



Magnets for rotten vegetables:




TSA mongrels come in all breeds:




Guilty of something, to be sure:



Not all appreciate The Gangster of Love:



Murdering gangsters steal Joe’s heart:

Shooting off your mouth can be counter productive:

DART the Dinosaur

Tempers are still hot and the blame game is still underway after DART’s failure to adequately transport thousands of Texas/OU football fans to the Cotton Bowl this past Saturday. Many folks did not arrive to the game until halftime or later, despite leaving for the site hours in advance.

DART’s initial response was to blame its customers- "Customers will learn the tricks of riding." How typical! Exactly what “tricks” are appropriate- sitting up on our hind legs and begging for a multi-billion dollar “rapid” transit operation to function efficiently and quickly? Or are your customers mistaken over the meaning of DART’s acronym- “Dallas Area RAPID Transit?” Perhaps it should be “Delayed And Retarded Trains.”

DART has been a parasite in Dallas for over 25 years, leeching off the area’s economic base. Everything in Dallas cost individuals 1% more (through a special sales tax) to satisfy the appetite of this thieving beast. Their pockets are so deep they’ve got loot to spend on exotic and questionable art.

Soviet-style, centrally planned, one-size-fits-all transportation systems, like DART, will ALWAYS fail to meet the needs of individuals. Being a tax subsidized monopoly, DART has absolutely NO incentive to improve or modify their service, as they are completely unaccountable and free of competition. No private competition will arise because no one can compete with a government subsidized agency. The people who actually use the “service” are paying well below market rates for their transportation, subsidized by the tax serfs who have no use for “mass transit.”

It’s WAY past time to close down and euthanize this tax eating dinosaur and sell its assets to the private sector who will truly service the transportation needs of the public.

All together now……
GOVERNMENT SUCKS!!!!!!

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:

“It's a very telling fallacy: the collectivist's concept of the national economy is represented by a single pie while capitalists envision a vibrant economy of unlimited pies.”
Garry Reed

"If a government is not legitimate, can it command your obedience? Were the victims of Al Capone’s extortion efforts in any way obligated to yield to his demands? True, those demands were not backed by any law save that of the gun, but how does that differ from demands made by an organizations which has thousands of laws, but pays no heed to those which might impair it, and makes new “laws” to justify itself."
Paul Hein

“Central planning does not work. Larger entities that use force and coercion to make others do the right thing lead to national prison camps disguised as nation-states.”
William Buppert

“The statist political agenda, if implemented, would logically lead to total control of the economy and to a far lower standard of living for us and our children; yet somehow we are expected to treat statist theft demands with honest and reasoned debate under the rules. We often pretend that statist positions are simply "mistaken" and that they actually can be persuaded from their ultimate mission by some fact-based argument or clever journal article citation. Given recent public policy events (bailouts, stimulus bills), however, that belief seems extremely naïve.”
Dom Armentano

“It's not compassion to steal from some to give to others. It is using violence to accomplish your ends, which, in this case, only delays necessary pain. No new wealth is created. It is merely shuffled around from spot to spot by force.”
Lew Rockwell

“In the name of stamping out racism or sexism in people’s minds, or eliminating poverty or violence, people ardently demand statism and poverty-inducing taxation/regulation, all enforced by violence. Only the abstraction, the state, allows them the means to rationalize acting upon these dark fantasies by creating a collective morality that is an inversion of the neighbor-to-neighbor kind.”
David Calderwood

“War is more than merely the health of the state — it’s the original template for how government “works.” The incentives are all geared toward doubling down on hubris, throwing good money after bad, and sacrificing blood and treasure — others’ blood and treasure, of course — without end to the cause of holding on to domestic political power.”
Thomas L. Knapp

“When justifications for war become almost endless – oil, hegemony, women's rights, democracy, revenge for 9/11, denying bases to al Qaeda, and protecting against terrorists – war becomes the path to peace.”
Paul Craig Roberts

“The Nobel peace committee should retire, and turn over its huge funds to some international peace organization which is not awed by stardom and rhetoric, and which has some understanding of history.”
Howard Zinn

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From the Darkness:

“We know we still have a lot to do, in conjunction with nations around the world, to strengthen the rules governing financial markets and ensure that we never again find ourselves in the precarious situation we found ourselves in just one year ago.”
Barry Obama [The rules already in place didn’t work. Why would more make any difference?]

"Private markets for goods, services, labor and securities do mostly self-correct; but panic, driven by the acute fear of the unknown, feeds on itself and disarms these stabilizing tendencies. In this situation, only government can protect the economy as a whole, because most individuals and companies are involved in the self-defeating behavior of self-protection."
Christina Romer

“The new Elders will have to rescue America from the precipice. They’ll have to be mature, think of the collective, of the country as a whole.”
Peggy Noonan

“In today's world a central bank is an essential economic tool. Without the Fed's power to lend, to pump in and pull money from the banking system, to control the commercial paper market and inflation, and to influence the currency, this nation would be at a serious disadvantage.”
David Weidner's. Market Watch

“The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee

“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize.”
DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse

“I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honour. In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself.”
Mohamed ElBaradei, commenting on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Image Review of the Week

Any politician in his youth:



Lincoln mislead a generation.....



.....and we’re still burying his dead:




Strategically located, .....



.....extravagantly equipped, .....



.....and accountable to no one, .....



.....THEY organize .....

.....THEY seek.....



.....THEY locate.....



.....THEY detain.....




.....THEY persecute.....




.....and WE fight back.....



any way WE can:



It's a no-go for the 5-ringed circus:



Bernie Madoff gets his:



"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
Mother Teresa

The state wants your children- any way they can get them:

The Medicine Man, still tryin’ to sell his scam:



Speak out against state sponsored murder- get put in a cage:



All that’s missing is the manure:




“Do I think that the press should publish such photos? Not yes, but hell yes on afterburner.” [The Rogue certainly will.]
Fred Reed




Pelosi head check. Is it hollow?



Bungling bureaucrats even aggravate the dead:



Yes, We Can!................. Kill For Peace!




"Learn from yesterday, live for today, .....




.....hope for tomorrow. .....

.....The important thing is not to stop questioning."

Albert Einstein

Watch all the little piggys line up at the trough:

Another heart warming homecoming:

Fly the wrong gang colors and risk being pursued:

DVD Reviews

The Soloist:
A true story about a mentally ill homeless man in L.A. who also happens to be a brilliant cellist. He is befriended by a local newspaper columnist who writes about and becomes personally involved in the man’s life. Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx pair up well together.
Recommended

Gran Torino:
Clint Eastwood is still the man. Who better to play an embittered, alienated senior citizen who resists change and no longer recognizes the world in which he lives.
Recommended

The Great Buck Howard:
John Malkovich plays a mentalist performer well past his peak of popularity. An amusing look at fleeting fame.
Recommended

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seasons 1-6:
Larry David (co-creator of “Seinfeld”) stars in this hilarious comedy series about himself. The show has a continuous stream of fresh characters, each one seemingly more hysterical. There is no script. The actors instead follow a detailed plot outline and spontaneously provide the dialogue. The choicest confrontations are when old buddies David and Richard Lewis go after each other. It’s going to be a long, excruciating wait for Season 7 to be released.
Recommended

John Adams:
Superbly written and acted HBO miniseries that examines the life of the founding father. It was a pleasure to see the dialogue was not dumbed down to accommodate the ignorant masses of the present. The contrast is so clear between the highly educated, intellectual debate of that time with the clueless jokers who now inhabit Capitol Hill. The attention to period detail is excellent, right down to the swarming flies and moist, sweating brows on a hot, July, 1776 Independence Hall. Paul Giamatti is beyond brilliant as Adams and Stephen Dillane is his equal as Thomas Jefferson, the quiet, soft spoken revolutionary.
Recommended

Shooting War:
A comprehensive look at the film makers and still photographers of World War II.
Recommended

Goodbye Solo:
A taxi driver befriends one of his fares who seems intent on committing suicide.
Recommended

Be Here to Love Me- A Film About Townes Van Zandt:
A documentary that examines the life of the gifted songwriter. Some writers and poets seem to have that rare gift of channeling thoughts and emotions from some unknown, spiritual place. Townes Van Zandt was one of the few.
Recommended

Howard Zinn- You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train:
This is a biographical documentary of the writer and anti-war activist’s life. I’ve never read any of Zinn’s books, just a couple articles. Though his analysis of the obscenity and uselessness of war is as accurate and eloquent as any writer’s, his continuing belief in a benevolent state is very disturbing.
Recommended

The Golden Boys:
Good acting from several veterans of the craft, but a weak story.
Not recommended

The Peace!
This 2003 documentary, made during the troubled months leading up to the Iraq War, examines the peace movement through interviews with activists, historians, and intellectuals. It makes you wonder where are all these people are six years later.
Recommended

12:
The Russian version of 12 Angry Men. Great dialogue and animated acting. Make sure you can read subtitles quickly- the words come at you fast and furious.
Recommended
　
Retribution Road:
Within 30 seconds of viewing I could detect this was going to be a grade-B western. Not bad acting, but uneven enough to downgrade it to that status. Some of the audio sounds like it was recorded with an I-Phone.
Not recommended

Amexicano:
A nice independent film about two day laborers in Queens- one a second generation Italian, the other a recent illegal Mexican immigrant. An enjoyable film about friendship, integrity and humanity.
Recommended

Image Review and Quotes of the Week.......

........will be on indefinite hiatus.

Just too much travelin' and shootin' goin' on.........

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:

“We in America need to hear many voices telling us that it is self-defeating to become like an enemy in order to defeat an enemy. As Germans learned under Hitler and Russians learned under Stalin, it is the internal enemy – the unaccountable elite that controls a country’s government – that is the worst and most dangerous enemy.”
Paul Craig Roberts

“Adult people who beg that their mere inconveniences be regulated by the surrogate Mommies and Daddies of the bureaucratic state have no right to whimper and whine when they finally wake up and find that their freedoms are gone forever."
Garry Reed

“You are always, at all times, in every situation, obligated to dowhat you deem right, no matter what so-called "government" and"authority" and "law" have to say about it. And when the tyrantsand control freaks, authoritarian thugs and megalomaniacs, try totell you that are an evil, nasty, despicable criminal and traitorfor daring to think for yourself, you have a right and duty tostand firm, and say, with confidence, "You are not the boss of me!"

Larken Rose

“If the achievement of a free society is to require that a million bleeding heads of torturing tyrants, damnable dictators, pandering politicians, sadistic generals, privileged policemen, criminal soldiers and psychotic, irresponsible “servants” be hoisted on pikes to surround the palisades of the free cities, count me in for the headsman’s role, for I will not dwell in my ice-cream-and-flying-ponies fantasies so long as to preclude my own action toward the attainment thereof.”
Mike Gogulski

“The police are your enemy- unless and until they stand up and refuse, unequivocally, to participate in any more violations against peaceable people, no matter what their bureaucratic masters demand. No excuses. The lines are drawn between the people and the state.”
Kent McManigal

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From the Darkness:

"We cannot tolerate outsourcing of state employees," she said. "We cannot tolerate privatization of our state employees' jobs."
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

"Every day we delay in implementing this strategy and increasing the number of troops there - which we all know is vitally needed - puts more and more young Americans who are already there, their lives in danger.”
John McCain, on sending still more troops to the failed war in Afghanistan.

“From a technical perspective, the recession is very likely over at this point."
Ben Bernanke

"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American."

Jimmy Carter [Senility is never becoming for a politician.]