1. Moonstruck by Edward M. Lerner

2. Disturbed: A book by Amy Charron

3. Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman

4. Firefly

5. Squidbillies

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1. Re: Libertarian ideas gone berserk

   As many as want to “join” – all I would ask as far as paperwork goes is that prospects disavow the initiation of force or fraud against anyone else for any reason at any time as a way to get things done, whether it’s building roads, providing food, energy or medical care, running a school, or dealing with thieves and murderers.

   As for a description, just about every libertarian has their own ideas on how things would be set up and proceed – see Unanimous Consent and the Utopian Vision by L. Neil Smith.

   See also the Unanimous Consent Covenant.

   Recommended reading

   • The Law by Frederic Bastiat (or anything else by him)
   • The Probability Broach and Roswell, Texas by L. Neil Smith

2. Re: Tea Bagger

   I’d like to know if the Tea Party movement will continue as a viable force in American politics.

   • 2009 – 15,000 people showed up in Albuquerque
   • 2010 – 15,000 people showed up in Albuquerque
   • 2011 – 2,200 people showed up in Albuquerque

   Maybe I did call this one when I attended the ATP’s Patriot Action Team meetings – I challenged the others present to not bite on the hook offered by the GOP and get reeled in, as happened in 2001 after George Worthless Bush took over the White House.

   What happened between 15 April 2010 and 15 April 2011 such that attendance dropped so much – aside from the GOP taking control of the U.S. House, the Governor’s Mansion in Santa Fe, and other political offices?

3. Re: Tea Bagger

   Colonel Robert F. Cunningham said:
   

   Mike,

   You’re right about the numbers … I was there … and found the problem brewing long before it began to spill.

   SOME of the TEAP leadership required THEIR version of Jesus – or else – they wouldn’t pass on your emails, comments, advice, et cetera; wouldn’t post them either; regardless of how accurate or apropos.

   I’ve heard this sort of thing from a friend (who isn’t a big Tea Party guy, by the way) who’s been promoting Gary Johnson, only to have people say, “He doesn’t go to church.”
   

   When and IF they get off the “Jesus or else” kick, they may become wise enough to see the danger we’re neck deep in.  But I doubt that will ever happen.

   My friend who is promoting Johnson likes to ask these people “How much will you worry about Johnson not going to church after Obama’s policies have you eating out of a dumpster?”

4. Posted to Elisheva Levin’s Facebook Wall –

   As for Muslim threats against Obama and George XLIII (Bush), why would they take action against the people who can really do (who have actually done, at this point!) the sort of damage against America that Osama and the Forty Al-Qaeda could only dream of?

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano

2. Cavuto

3. Justified

4. Adult Swim: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Squidbillies

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1. Re: Libertarian ideas gone berserk –

   The least that you could do is link to the actual article, crappy as it is.

   As for the author’s comment that
   

   “I’m sick of the free pass given the libertarian blather, ‘The state is the only source of coercive power,’”

   I’d like to see some evidence of libertarians actually saying this.

   This is worth a laugh, as well –
   

   “Libertarianism does a great disservice to the debate about the most productive relationship between the state and private sector, which is an ongoing challenge as economies and societies evolve. It simply denies that the private sector is intrinsically dependent on the state for key functions for it to perform well, and ignores the fact its ideal of a minimal state does not scale at all.”

   So if private people set up an enclave (or just build their homes and businesses close enough together) on the Moon, on Mars, at the Earth-Moon L4 or L5 points, in Antarctica, some sort of oceanic platform (such as the Seasteading Institute has in mind), or whatever, it’s predestined to be either a company town that “gouges the workers” or a squalor-covered pesthole unless they form some sort of government, then agree to tax and regulate each other?

   I’m going to assume that’s the premise you’re operating under when you post this garbage.

   And YES, you are allowed to write your own material on occasion, as opposed to copying and pasting other people’s stuff.

2. Re: What do government unions want from the Democratic Party? –

   What do government unions want from the Democratic Party?

   One word (what they always want) – MORE

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano

2. Cavuto

3. Adult Swim: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Squidbillies

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