Some Gratitude, Please?

by Mike Blessing [gunssavelives@comcast.net]

A short while ago, I wrote an article titled “Wipe Your Own Ass, America” [ Myspace / Xanga ] which also ran in The Libertarian Enterprise. Maybe I haven’t been placing my articles in the right places (easily remedied!), but I haven’t received any hate mail over it.

Which is a shame, as I love hate mail.

The reason that I keep expecting hate mail over articles like this is that so many of the welfare state’s “clients” see the “charity” that they receive after it’s taken by coercion from America’s Productive Class not as charity, but as a right — something on the same level as speaking your mind, worshipping your deity of choice (or not worshipping a deity), or owning and carrying weapons.

Sorry, folks, but your addiction is just like any other, such as caffeine, nicotine or heroin — in the end, it’s a choice — no one forces you to sign up for the various programs so you can receive loot from my paycheck.

What I would like is a small measure of gratitude. I’m not asking for much — just a little “thank you” note on occasion. If that’s too much to ask (as would seem to be the case), I can make a proposal to make that gratitude mandatory in the form of a Constitutional amendment –

Any person receiving funds from public sources without providing any product
or service in return shall write a “thank you” note at least one time per year,
addressed to the taxpayers, as a condition of receiving those funds.

Of course, that amendment isn’t likely to pass, but like my proposal that recipients should be required to prove that they’re physically unable to wipe their own asses before receiving public funds (linked to above), just discussing the idea brings out the nature of the system and its advocates.

Still, there’s other ways to have fun with ideas like this — proposals like this make for good bumper sticker slogans.

Now, we’ve all seen the bumper stickers, posters and T-shirts with the “Thank a Vet” theme –

I’m proposing a similar campaign here –

THANK A TAXPAYER

FOR YOUR HANDOUT

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Mike Blessing [Myspace site and Xanga site] has been promoting libertarian positions and philosophy for ten years since moving to New Mexico in 1994, and is Executive Heretic for KCUF Media [Myspace site and Xanga site].

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NOTES

1. Reposted –
   1. Personal blogs – WordPress

   2. KCUF Media – Xanga
   3. The Libertarian Enterprise : Number 441 – 28 October 2007

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Roger Kulp wrote on the [Ron Paul] meetup board (Here’s the direct link):

Sorry.But just as I am no longer a libertarian (Call me an an anarcho-Proutist.) ,there is no way I can support Ron Paul anymore.Six months ago,yes,but no more.

To say nothing of the fact,I believe in separation of church and state.I am an athiest.Ron Paul is a blatant theocrat.This alone is why he must be stopped at all costs.Forget every other issue. See what the God-o-meter has to say: http://blog.beliefnet.com/godometer/index.html

I guess you missed this part –

Somewhat surprised to hear Dennis Kucinich speaking against the separation of “spiritual values” and state in yesterday’s Democratic debate, God-o-Meter did some digging and discovered that the Catholic Kucinich grew up studying the lives of the saints and Scripture in Latin. In 2004, The Christian Science Monitor called him possibly the “most overtly spiritual of the Democratic candidates.” Oh what a difference three years makes.

If Paul is a theocrat, at least he reads and understands the Constitution, unlike Dennis the Twerp.

I also believe in the separation of corporation and state. American capitalism,isa creation of American government,with whom they have had a symbioticrelationship since the days of Alexander Hamilton.Something Paul wouldnever do.Ron Paul is an educated guy.He has read Mises and Rothbard,yethe holds up Milton Friedman,as a paragon of the free market.Nothing isfurther from the truth.I went last night,and am starting to lean moreand more towards Kucinich. Not ten minutes into his talk,Kucinichcondemns the corporate s tate.He won me over right there.

When has Kucinich EVER read Mises OR Rothbard?

Here’s a fun little read: http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/wmtstudy.pdf
Would Ron Paul talk about this ?Or would he blindly agree with Rockwelland his ilk ? Kucinich said as long as we continue to shop atWalmart,for cheap Chinese junk,China will gladly bankroll our wars.

How do any of the subsidies mentioned in the report pass Constitutional muster?

And how many of the subsidies are handed out at the state and local level?

Ron Paul’s worshiping of the “free” market,is why he will not condemn Blackwater.What proof do I have ? See this : http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr120401.htm He has yet to come out with anything newer on Blackwater.He has been much too quiet on the subject.

Last time I checked, Dr. Paul has been hammering the Administration on the Iraq Occupation, which is a major source of Blackwater’s income.

And just how bad would Blackwater be if the company wasn’t contracted to the Bush Administration?

Then in the Q&A he talked about how American puppet governments in LatinAmerica were only an extension of the genocide Columbus and his ilk haddone 500 years earlier,which was why he would agree with abolishingColumbus day,once he was President.

Who here is stopping you from packing up and moving to Europe?

Who here is stopping you from turning over your home, car and other possessions to the nearest tribe of Siberian-Americans?

Watch this,if you have the guts.
Video here

Ever hear of TinyURL ? (Look it up on your own — and wipe your own ass for a change, while you’re at it.)

He also agreed American treatment of Mexicans,through illegal wars of conqueston Mexico,the Bracero program,NAFTA,CAFTA,are an accumulation of 160+years of maltreatment of Mexican people,as bad as anything done tonative people or African Americans.Kucinich agreed with this, and saida high-tech border wall will only compound these atrocities.The polaropposite of Ron Paul. And the 2 reason I cannot support Paul.As ananarchist,I do not believe in borders.The border issue alone,proves RonPaul is a bigger statist than Kucinich.

The noise about illegal immigration is simply addressing the symptoms instead of the cause.

As for “Ron Paul is a bigger statist than Kucinich,” I guess you missed Dennis’ proposal following the Virginia Tech massacre to ban civilian possession of handguns ?

Remember that Dennis is an avowed enemy of the individual right to own and carry weapons –

http://kucinich.house.gov/Issues/Issue/?IssueID=1557weapons

By signing up with the Kucinich campaign, you’re giving the same sort of jack-booted thugs that were killing people at Kent State, the 1985 MOVE house in Philadelphia, PA, Ruby Ridge, Waco and Rainbow Farm the power to point at your name on a computer screen and say, “This one dies.”

When will you post a “NO GUNS IN THIS HOUSE” sign in your front window or lawn?

Kucinich would be bigger than Ron Paul if he had half the grassroots supportPaul does.Capitalism is a failure.Socialism/communism is afailure.Conservatism is a failure. (Libertarianism is now coopted as asubsidiary of “The Conservative Movement.” Thanks in large part,to RonPaul.) Only Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich realize that we need tomove on beyond all of these failed ideologies.

Who’s “we” here?

And why is libertarianism “now coopted as a subsidiary of ‘TheConservative Movement.’” ? I haven’t considered myself a conservative for ten, twelve years now.

Sure, there are issues where libertarians and conservatives agree, just as there are issues where libertarians and liberals agree.

So I guess the conservatives will say that “Libertarianism is now coopted as a subsidiary of ‘The Liberal Movement.’” ?

Wendy McElroy calls Ron Paul supporters “Paul bearers of the libertarian movement.”I think that sums it up quite well.

Got a link?

Tom Knapp‘s commentary against Ron Paul actually makes some sense, from a libertarian perspective –

The truth is out there . . . but is it waaaaaay out there?
Incredibly Stupid Statement of the Day, 06/14/07

If it weren’t for L. Neil Smith advocating that the LP nominate “None Of The Above” for president and cross-endorse Ron Paul, I most likely wouldn’t be supporting Dr. Paul — Instead of a Speech

Ron Paul and Hillary Clinton are not so very far apart on health care.Bothare corporate shills.Guess what ? As an ex-libertarian,I believe inKucinich’s commie plan ! (GASP!) I have personally seen what highcopays from private employee- mandated health plans can do to someonewith severe chronic health problems. In this case my sister.She has adebt in the high five figures,due to compounding medical bills.She willbe paying on this like a mortgage for decades.Ahh the beauty of the”free” “market”!

Just ask Sala what a great deal she got while under the care of the British “National Health Service,” which is kind of like what Dennis wants to institute here in America.

I suspect that the main reason he’s not supporting Medicare Part D is that it was George Bush II that signed it into law, and not Al Gore or John Kerry.

Feel free to join the fray at these lists –

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/anti-libertarians
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ex-libertarian

Ron Paul has been largely silent about American nuclear disarmament.Kucinichopenly supports it,and retooling labs like Sandia and Los Alamos forpeaceful means.Where is Ron Paul on this ?

Where in the Constitution are the labs mentioned in the first place? I’m guessing that the labs are covered under “forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings” ?

Another note — visitors have to register and log in to view his links page —
http://www.denniskucinich.us/links.php

    Login required
    Sorry, to access this area you need to be logged in as a user.

What does he have to hide there?

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NOTES

1. Reposted –
   1. Personal blogs and micro-blogs – Blogspot / WordPress

   2. KCUF Media – Xanga

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Rock Fight V at Channel 27 and the Launchpad

A Hymn Before Battle, by John Ringo

The
Lives of Dax is an anthology set in the Star
Trek franchise, specifically the Deep
Space Nine subset. This particular book covers the
life of Dax
through its first “incarnation” (Lela) to its most recent (Ezri), in
the order of occurrence in the character’s life.

Ezri
– “Second star to the right . . . by Judith
& Garfield Reeves-Stevens — This is the story that sets
the stage for the rest of the book. It takes place on the Deep Space Nine
station shortly after Jadzia Dax was killed, and Ezri is
still getting used to playing the host role as a “joined” Trill. Ezri
is in one of DS9′s holosuites,
seeking out Vic
Fontaine for advice. Ezri reveals to Vic that she had never
intended to be a host, but that the host originally planned for Dax was
killed, and Ezri was the only Trill available in the time needed.

Lela
– First Steps by Kristine
Kathryn Rusch — Lela was Dax’s first host in the 2060′s AD (or
CE, if you prefer) – shortly after the events of
First
Contact and is the first female elected to the
Trill ruling council. During her term, she manages to convince the
council of the error of its policy of Trill refusing contact with any
other spacefaring species except the Vulcans.

Tobin
– Dead Man’s Hand by Jeffrey
Lang — Tobin is a passenger aboard the starship
Heisenberg, en route to Alpha
Centauri, in the 2150′s (the
Earth-Romulan
War is mentioned), as the ship is ambushed and boarded by
hostile Romulans.

Emony
– Old Souls by Michael Jan
Friedman — Leonard
McCoy is attending Ole
Miss, and not sure what he wants to do with his life. His
roommate is Sinnit Arvad, a native of Tessma IV — Sinnit insists that
he’s the best at everything, and pushes himself to put some
accomplishments behind the attitude. When Sinnit loses a gymnastics
competition at Ole Miss, he tries to kill Emony Dax, who is one of the
judges.

Audrid
– Sins of the Mother by S.D. Perry
– Audrid Dax writes a letter to her host’s daughter, Neema, detailing
the circumstances of how Neema’s father was killed on a top-secret
joint Trill / Starfleet mission to a comet. The mission was commanded
by Capt.
Christopher Pike, and probably took place in the 2250′s. The
landing party finds signs of a lifeform that seems related to the Trill
symbiots. The mission takes a turn for the worse when the new lifeform
turns out to be hostile, and takes over the body of Neema’s father
through his spacesuit. Pike and the other team
members kill the host, and the whole mission is covered up.

Torias
– Infinity by Susan
Wright — Torias Dax is working for Starfleet’s research and
development division to build a warp-ten-capable stardrive. Everything
looks OK in simulation — real-life flight tests
turn out to be a different story.

Joran
– Allegro Ouroboros in D Minor by S.D. Perry and Robert
Simpson — Joran Dax is a composer working on a particularly
difficult piece, while police investigator Verjil Gard is tracking down
the first serial killer that Trill society has seen since they
harnessed electricity.

Curzon
– The Music Between the Notes by Steven
Barnes — Curzon is stationed at Pelios Station as a
diplomat, and Ensign Benjamin
Sisko is assigned there as supporting staff. Curzon is there
negotiating with the Bactricans, who want to join the Federation, when
a living ship from the Azziz shows up and docks at the station.

Jadzia
– Reflections by L.A. Graf –
This story is a follow-up to the DS9 episode Invasive
Procedures, where Dax is stolen from Jadzia. In the story,
Jadzia and Capt. Sisko go to the Trill homeworld after Jadzia’s sister
Ziranne ends up with a symbiote. They track down Verad, who stole Dax
away from Jadzia in the episode, finding him in a mental institution,
only to discover that a sort of black market in
symbiotes has sprung up, where they are swapped from host to host, kind
of like a time-share plan.

Ezri
– “. . . and straight on ’til morning” by Judith
& Garfield Reeves-Stevens — After Ezri tells all of this
to Vic Fontaine, she realizes that everything will work out after all,
and that the previous hosts’ memories weren’t as overwhelming as she
had thought.

I have a few quibbles with the way the Trill conduct business –

1. The way the hosts seem to be considered a bit
   disposable reminds me of the Stargate
   franchise, only that the Trill symbiotes don’t confer to the hosts any
   special powers such as regeneration, longevity, or increased speed and
   strength.
2. How can anyone be surprised that some sort of black
   market in symbiotes would develop? Everyone in Trill society is told
   that being a host is the be-all and end-all of life from the time they
   can understand speech. Add to that the facts that not everyone is
   biologically capable of being a host, and there’s a limited supply of
   symbiotes. Duh.

None
of this is any fault of the above authors — they’re limited by the
storytelling framework created by Roddenberry and Co. that holds the
fallacious doctrine of altruism up as something to aspire to — look at
the way that Sisko treats Quark, for example.