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Add new commentFrom the Mouths of BabesSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 2003-01-31 03:25.
by Bill St. Clair
This is a true story. None of the names have been changed. Shortly before we moved into our house, in the fall of 1991, we had some wood delivered. The soon-to-be former tenants were still living in the house, Maria Cristina and Yaqin (Yah-keen) and their round-about two year old son, Elias John. The house was heated with a wood stove in the basement, so we had some split wood delivered to prepare for the coming winter. I went there one day to stack the newly delivered wood, and Elias John came out to help me. He could just barely pick up one split log, so I told him, "That's heavy". For a while after that day, whenever he saw me Elias John would say, "Bill. Heaaavy." A little while later, we cut down some trees behind the house to make room for a septic field. When the house was built, the owners included a composting toilet with a big composting tank under the sink. Maria Cristina and Yaqin didn't use that. They used a chemical toilet that sat where the regular toilet sits now. I went there one day to stack some of the newly cut wood. I found a nice wooden platform near the house and started stacking wood there. On about the third trip, I discovered that it wasn't a platform. It was some boards neatly laid over the hole where they dumped the chemical toilet. One of the boards broke, my foot went through, and thoobt, I was hip deep in muck. Something about the surprise of it caused me to find it incredibly funny. I laughed out loud for at least a minute. Elias John and Maria Cristina came out and saw me, right boot and pant leg turned a glistening brown, laughing uproariously. For a while after that day, whenever he saw me Elias John would say, "Bill. Poopoo." add new comment | quote | 2310 reads
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QuotesEvery man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission. -- L. Neil Smith Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. -- L. Neil Smith Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents. -- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report (PDF) on gun control laws Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap") "A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim." -- L. Neil Smith Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP" Why Did It Have to be... Guns? Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put. If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you. If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims. What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him? -- L. Neil Smith "Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you." -- Mike Vanderboegh Also from The Atlanta Declaration: ... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party. -- L. Neil Smith This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion. -- Vin Suprynowicz The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war. -- Bill St. Clair |
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