tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post1255993000584705701..comments2017-04-13T04:47:21.148-06:00Comments on Pro Libertate: Washington's Kleptocratic State: "More Communist Than China"William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-9432831954307182162008-09-12T12:15:00.000-06:002008-09-12T12:15:00.000-06:00Republicans have been in favor of Socialism for a ...Republicans have been in favor of Socialism for a long. long time. There's very little about this country and how it operates now that is not Socialism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-75700369880467934352008-09-11T15:03:00.000-06:002008-09-11T15:03:00.000-06:00Republicans seem to be okay with the idea of socia...Republicans seem to be okay with the idea of socialism when they're the ones being bailed out of a mess (i.e., FannieMae and FreddieMac).bbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-59462076557212499022008-09-10T05:55:00.000-06:002008-09-10T05:55:00.000-06:00I feel as though I am merrily a passive witness to...I feel as though I am merrily a passive witness to a slow motion catastrophe. You cant believe what you are witnessing and you just hope that the "flying debris" wont impact your little space. Yet you intuitively know that eventually it will and the fallout will destroy everything around you. The key question is - what do you do about it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-65471512368412261922008-09-10T05:22:00.000-06:002008-09-10T05:22:00.000-06:00Incidentally, the river I havedescribed is on the ...Incidentally, the river I have<BR/>described is on the Texas Gulf<BR/>coast, the San Bernard river.<BR/><BR/>Best of all however is that I live<BR/>next door to the only honest pol<BR/>to serve in a hundred years: Ron Paul.<BR/><BR/>Yes, I live in Ron Paul's fighting<BR/>14th district and I get to STICK IT<BR/>to the government every couple of years<BR/>by voting him BACK into office.<BR/>I love it.<BR/>Go Ron! GO!Will Blalocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-50142600989443611732008-09-10T05:15:00.000-06:002008-09-10T05:15:00.000-06:00Another story to add to Lemuel Gulliver's list:I l...Another story to add to <BR/>Lemuel Gulliver's list:<BR/><BR/>I live on an inland waterway that<BR/>is used to barge petroleum products.<BR/>During George H.W. Bush's presidency<BR/>we had 2 oil spills from barge collisions.<BR/>Also, during H.W.'s term there was<BR/>a "double hull" barge bill in congress<BR/>that was repeatedly being stalled.<BR/>After H.W. Bush left office the bill passed.<BR/>Guess who owned (heavily invested in)<BR/>the barge company that was spilling<BR/>oil into my river? Guess who sold<BR/>all of his stock in same barge<BR/>company before leaving office?<BR/>Correct! H.W. Bush!<BR/>Hollywood barge company was the most<BR/>cited barging company in America<BR/>during Bush's term due to spills<BR/>and violations. Corrective measures<BR/>were stalled in congress until<BR/>H.W. sold his stock and left office.<BR/><BR/>Aside from the coming of Jesus Christ<BR/>to judge the quick and the dead,<BR/>America's greatest hope is the total<BR/>abject collapse of the fiat dollar.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the article.Will Blalocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-58519755561561016482008-09-09T13:19:00.000-06:002008-09-09T13:19:00.000-06:00Funny how financial illusions fool even the klepto...Funny how financial illusions fool even the kleptocrats. They thought that their unprecedented GSE bailout -- taking $5 trillion of impaired assets onto Usgov's balance sheet -- would finally stop the illiquidity spiral.<BR/><BR/>But barely 48 hours later, almost half of Lehman's stock value has vaporized in a single day -- rhyming with what happened to Bear Stearns in March, just before its jakeleg $29 billion bailout.<BR/><BR/>Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound, eh Hank? Why not just take a page from the Japanese plan and establish "Price Keeping Operations" -- minimum prices for all assets? Call it a "People's Market" for a "People's State" -- a/k/a "Mark to Marx."<BR/><BR/>Who woulda thunk that a "conservative Republican" businessman president would turn out to be a frickin' commie?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-42661581484211494762008-09-09T09:08:00.000-06:002008-09-09T09:08:00.000-06:00..."let him get Hooverized." Al "Ozoneman" Gore 11......"let him get Hooverized." Al "Ozoneman" Gore 11/2000no one in chargenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-51132286119552318282008-09-09T07:55:00.000-06:002008-09-09T07:55:00.000-06:00Very impressive article on 911 athttp://www.thecon...Very impressive article on 911 at<BR/><BR/>http://www.theconservativevoice.com/<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/5fb68kteacher.parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00740668904926516649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-87227185151670557682008-09-09T06:32:00.000-06:002008-09-09T06:32:00.000-06:00@Sic Semper: I'll see your bicycle and raise you a...@Sic Semper: I'll see your bicycle and raise you a couple of years.<BR/><BR/>I have the good fortune to live in a state which restrains its various police agencies somewhat more than the average. Who can say how long that will last? Here's hoping in the coming chaos we become a refuge of relative liberty. I am too cynical to expect much more than that.Brokenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12866635425857133740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-81606737247034129822008-09-09T06:10:00.000-06:002008-09-09T06:10:00.000-06:00It's interesting how fully the nominal 'business p...It's interesting how fully the nominal 'business party' (the Republican party) has signed on to the idea that the government is the creator of wealth -- and the idea that the gov't has to provide a "safety net" (in this case for bankers and shareholders).<BR/>Not that the Democrats' instincts are any better. Witness how T. Boone Pickens has already bought Nancy Pelosi, anticipating a trillion dollar payoff.Lloydnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-43294189527928608572008-09-09T04:43:00.000-06:002008-09-09T04:43:00.000-06:00This morning brings the news that Senator Dodd is ...This morning brings the news that Senator Dodd is going to hold a hearing on the GSE bailout. He wants to know "where the regulators have been for the past eight years." His House counterpart Rep. Frank is going to hold a hearing, too.<BR/><BR/>Doesn't this perfectly follow the screeching dictum of the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland: "Verdict first; trial later"? Or "Bailout first; hearings later" if you will.<BR/><BR/>Someone should remind these simpering, gray-helmeted parliamentarians that Fannie and Freddie were CONGRESSIONALLY- CHARTERED companies. So where have our KongressKlowns been for the past forty years? Fellating each other in the cloakroom?<BR/><BR/>Senator Shelby, quoted in Bloomberg, completely cracks me up:<BR/><BR/>------------<BR/><BR/>Fannie counted $20.6 billion in so-called deferred tax credits toward its $47 billion of regulatory capital as of June 30, according to company disclosures. Freddie applied $18.4 billion in deferred-tax assets toward its $37.1 billion in regulatory capital in the second quarter.<BR/><BR/>Fannie and Freddie have posted four straight quarterly net losses totaling a combined $14.9 billion and have said they anticipate more. The tax credits don't have any value unless the companies are generating profit.<BR/><BR/>"That's not even real money," Shelby said.<BR/><BR/>------------<BR/><BR/>Oh, Senator? You know those peachback paper "dollars" that you're counting in? That ain't real money either, pal!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-22866410635698124562008-09-09T02:09:00.000-06:002008-09-09T02:09:00.000-06:00The best trick of the ruling class is getting Joe ...The best trick of the ruling class is getting Joe Sixpack and Jane Handbag to think they have their interest at heart. That is laugh out loud funny. I feel sorry for anyone who believes some sugardaddy santa claus exists in gov. who cares about them or their offspring. I feel bad for the children coming up the debts that they didn't run up that they'll have to pay it might even inspire some real change.suffering the tyrantsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-28115254755962173182008-09-09T00:16:00.000-06:002008-09-09T00:16:00.000-06:00PS: Dear Will,You will like this true story. Put i...PS: Dear Will,<BR/><BR/>You will like this true story. Put it up or not as you wish. Barrick Gold of Canada is today one of the richest gold-mining companies in the world. For years, throughout the Reagan and Daddy Bush administrations, Barrick tried without success to buy a gold claim in Nevada from the Interior Department. In November 1992, having lost his bid for re-election, Daddy Bush forced through the sale of the claim to Barrick. The value of that gold deposit (which theoretically belonged to the US people,) at today's prices? $30 billion. How much Barrick paid the US Treasury for the claim? $10 thousand. Not a typo: Ten grand. <BR/><BR/>Six months after leaving office, guess who became a Special Consultant to Barrick Gold? Right. George H.W. Bush. How much his fees were? Nobody knows - he is a private citizen and only the IRS can access that information.<BR/><BR/>Bruce Babbit's (Clinton's Interior Secretary's) opinion of this deal: "The biggest gold heist since Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Too bad. All legally signed and filed.<BR/><BR/>Nice work if you can get it, no? And we wonder why they are all so eager to get elected to "public office."<BR/><BR/>Yours sincerely,<BR/>Lemuel Gulliver.Lemuel Gullivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-65053990372959294902008-09-08T23:48:00.000-06:002008-09-08T23:48:00.000-06:00Will,Nobody can top (in a manner of speaking) your...Will,<BR/><BR/>Nobody can top (in a manner of speaking) your own comment, #2 up above. You are priceless! Thank you for that moment of sunshine.<BR/><BR/>You said it all. Nothing to add.<BR/><BR/>You know, in anticipating the erasure of the parasitic classes from the face of the earth, I am reminded how good it feels to have a really fine bowel movement. You with me here? You know that feeling of relief I'm talking about?<BR/><BR/>I sometimes wonder to myself if the sight of spraying brains and spilling guts will be hard on my delicate sensibilities, but then, I think about that bowel movement and say..."Nah. It'll feel sooooo good!!"<BR/><BR/>A new day. A breath of fresh air. A return to freedom and the community of man.<BR/><BR/>Ah, I can feel the turds moving within me already.<BR/><BR/>Soon.<BR/><BR/>Yours sincerely,<BR/>Lemuel Gulliver.Lemuel Gullivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-5383933599122657762008-09-08T22:46:00.000-06:002008-09-08T22:46:00.000-06:00A couple random thoughts . . .It has been several ...A couple random thoughts . . .<BR/><BR/>It has been several (many by some measures) years since I read Marx ten planks of the communist manifesto. But, I remember at the time I felt that we here in amerika had implemented them all - fascism/marxism-lite.<BR/><BR/>I liked the observation that there will be "A dramatic escalation of enforcement efforts (involving traffic, parking, code enforcement, and "quality of life" measures) by revenue-starved municipal and county governments". I have noticed this on the highway lately as the radar detector goes off much more than a year ago - motorists have always been easy money to the state. <BR/><BR/>I did have the opportunity recently to see a speed trap on my evening bike ride, and as in the past, made my view of such distasteful conduct pretty obvious - unless "hey parasite, take that s*** somewhere else" didn't penetrate the state consciousness. Sometimes it is good to be almost 50 on a bicycle :), what are they going to do?<BR/><BR/>Sic Semper TyrannisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-67381280117625746422008-09-08T21:57:00.000-06:002008-09-08T21:57:00.000-06:00You know, this is actually starting to be pretty f...You know, this is actually starting to be pretty funny-assuming you have enough to provide food and shelter for yourself. The disjunction between the girl with the library fine and the criminal activities of the elite are too much for me to get my head around. <BR/><BR/>Joseph Conrad captured this incongruity perfectly in Hear of Darkness: "By Heavens!-there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick."Zachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-57661645436973619812008-09-08T18:16:00.000-06:002008-09-08T18:16:00.000-06:00'The proliferation of predatory, extortionate meas...'The proliferation of predatory, extortionate measures of this kind at the local level reflects a trend I described nearly a year and a half ago: A dramatic escalation of enforcement efforts (involving traffic, parking, code enforcement, and "quality of life" measures) by revenue-starved municipal and county governments.' -- Will G.<BR/><BR/>Here's another example. I live in a town with a municipal water department. After moving out of my house while renovating it, water usage went way down. But the water department, not believing the meter, continued to send "estimated bills" based on previous consumption.<BR/><BR/>Eventually, I caught on to the scam. I informed them that water consumption had declined dramatically, because no one was there to use water. But they refused to back down from the phony estimated bills .. and I refused to pay.<BR/><BR/>Finally, they threatened to list my house for tax sale for an unpaid, fraudulent 19-dollar water bill. I threatened to take them to small claims court, and the bureaucrats relented (after claiming that the meter was broken, was running backwards, needed to be replaced, etc. ... anything but acknowledging the simple, obvious facts which I had already furnished to them in five (5) separate letters).<BR/><BR/>Two lessons can be derived from this:<BR/><BR/>1. Avoid government utilities if at all possible. Private utilities are government regulated. Government utilities regulate themselves, meaning they can ride roughshod over you.<BR/><BR/>2. As Will points out, there is one law for the elite, and one for the little people. Or to generalize, the constitution (specifically, the 14th "equal protection" amendment) has been suspended. <BR/><BR/>A nation without the rule of law is a banana republic. A nation which tolerates rule by decree (as in the GSE bailout, which was simply announced to Congressional 'leaders') is a banana republic.<BR/><BR/>The jakeleg GSE bailout means massive debt, and massive dilution of the dollar's value. One can only follow the Realtor's mantra: "BUY NOW, BEFORE PRICES GO UP."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-22691707635048629722008-09-08T16:24:00.000-06:002008-09-08T16:24:00.000-06:00What a disgrace associating that man in the pictur...What a disgrace associating that man in the picture with HH. HH had success in other chapters of his life as opposed to the man pictured who has been a silver spoon fed, teat sucking, reptile from day one-if that is possible.ran_with_herbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-74461391339268611492008-09-08T15:16:00.000-06:002008-09-08T15:16:00.000-06:00Will,The problem I have with you is that you make ...Will,<BR/><BR/>The problem I have with you is that you make it very hard to write anything original. All I can do is link to your entry with a note, "What he said."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-62369310884025467622008-09-08T14:37:00.000-06:002008-09-08T14:37:00.000-06:00dugg.The only consolation I have is knowing Jim Ro...dugg.<BR/><BR/>The only consolation I have is knowing Jim Rogers made a killing shorting FNM and FRD stock. <BR/><BR/>Watch for the dollar to weaken and oil to strengthen soon.Bearded Spockanti-state.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-81731625748963679462008-09-08T13:54:00.000-06:002008-09-08T13:54:00.000-06:00The above poster has it right. My family and my h...The above poster has it right. My family and my home are my lines in the sand. Attempt to take either of them and there will be bloodshed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-48619802965115806562008-09-08T13:29:00.000-06:002008-09-08T13:29:00.000-06:00If, tomorrow, the government announces it's going ...If, tomorrow, the government announces it's going to nationalize all of the US automakers, guaranteeing the continued employment and salaries their workers, and the pensions of their retirees, would there be any significant public outcry? I don't think there would be.<BR/><BR/>Americans are not committed to freedom, and certainly not free markets. They are quite happy when the state uses its power to redistribute money, especially when it spends on in things they see as benefiting them personally or on highly visible public projects that they see as "bringing in money into the area" (stadiums, convention centers, etc.).<BR/><BR/>So, I can't image any significant resistance to the idea of nationalizing our auto manufacturing industry. It would be sold as "saving domestic manufacturing," "keeping good jobs in the US", etc., which the average voter doesn't have the discernment to object to.<BR/><BR/>It will take a collapse like the one you speak of to get people to wake up, but I'm not sure even that will do it, with the government-controlled public schools and the media there to blame it on capitalism and greedy speculators.Ben Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06862093407696443942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-72467553425469626152008-09-08T12:42:00.000-06:002008-09-08T12:42:00.000-06:00Hey everyone Digg Will's Article:http://digg.com/b...Hey everyone Digg Will's Article:<BR/><BR/>http://digg.com/business_finance/Washington_s_Kleptocratic_State_More_Communist_Than_Chinaphenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08196203763445455491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-57153421165964455282008-09-08T12:41:00.000-06:002008-09-08T12:41:00.000-06:00I would think taking a person's home for forgettin...I would think taking a person's home for forgetting to pay a ticket could be a life threatening situation for all involved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-44240065790598489782008-09-08T12:30:00.000-06:002008-09-08T12:30:00.000-06:00Soooo then, A collapse won't happen before the ele...Soooo then, A collapse won't happen before the election -- wouldn't be fair to the ruling party, certainly won't happen during the holidays -- too much money changing hands.<BR/><BR/>Looks like it's going to be a cold winter no matter the outside temprature.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com