Beats the crap out of me.

Interesting comment:
Reply from the Daily Bell:
No. This is exactly the point, and one we have been making for years. The truth-telling of the Internet is a process. The frustration with the system is like the ocean. The political structure is like a dike with holes and the water will pour through. If one hole is plugged another will open up. Eventually the dike will burst. It has nothing to do at this point with leaders or with movements or even with their subsidence. The pressure is too great. It is a process and is not finite but ongoing. It is history and it has happened before.”
http://www.thedailybell.com/1301/Dick-Armeys-Tea-Party-Coup.html

It’s true, and the data packet networks may be the only hope.

Trouble is, statist ideas spread at the same speed, and there are a lot more statists than anarchists.

Remote cabins in Montana are cheap now, although not really affected by the housing crisis.

Right now the state is desperately scrambling to gain control of the Internet, and they will probably destroy it, as they destroyed radio. But the market always wins in the end, and there will be some newer, better version of the Internet to destroy them.

Remember, it’s government gangsters vs every brilliant kid with every new piece of technology in the world. The kids might not know much theory, but they do know that they don’t have to submit to stupid rules designed by their inferiors.

We live in an age where ideas spread around the world at the speed of light. 150 years, my foot.

In fact my fantasy for this November is that neither tax-eater party gets a majority in the House, as the sheeple finally awaken and send a couple dozen independents there. That forces a new majority alignment and Ron Paul is elected Speaker of the House. Well, you “gotta have a dream for your dream to come true…”

Hoppe’s book exposing the principle cause of our decivilization has been out for 15 years now. Can we stop arguing over political tactics as if this book did not exist?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AP_POLL_UNLOVED_GOP?SITE=TNKNN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Where to even begin….?

The story is within this story.
The underlying issue is not that Repubs are still hated more than Dems (although the AP would hope that’s what you get from this).
No, the hidden story is the implicit recognition that citizens (those polled) expect the government to fix the mess.
Further, Bush is blamed more… Obama is blamed a bit less…. Incredible. That the respondents don’t get the correct answer? No, there is no correct answer; the dichotomy is an absurdity — the nonsense that the so-called economy is the makings of one human being.

Those polled want the government to fix this, and dollars-to-donuts they don’t mean move toward a free market.
What a way to kick off the weekend.

Well, I look at it this way: (i) There’s no single historical example of this scale of reform in the direction of liberty, but lots of examples of promises to do so. (ii) These very same politicians are the ones who masterminded and ran the government during the Bush years, which were the worst this country has seen until now. (iii) The Republicans had several chances to show that they were serious about liberty in the form of supporting Ron Paul, and they have failed to do so every time.

In other words, (i) history warns us, (ii) these guys are clearly being opportunistic, not genuine, and (iii) they themselves have rejected liberty-minded reforms in recent memory.

Excuse me for being a bit “too cool for school” here. I’m calling BS on this pledge, and in five years you can return me the favor by admitting you were terribly mistaken.

And then he expanded it.

This reminds me of the movie, “Kingpin” where Woody Harrelson’s character is explaining to Randy Quaid’s character that tobacco companies wouldn’t lie about their product since if you died, then they wouldn’t have any more customers.

Well, wonder no more! Here’s what he actually said (translated into modern American English):

A. “Get back to work, slave. That field won’t plant itself.”
B. “I like conscription. Compulsory armies are much more convenient to work with, compared to voluntary militias.”
C. “Pay my organization a cut of your whiskey proceeds, or this army and I are going to kill you.”

Tell me again why I should support the U.S. government?