Archives for the ‘Politics’ Category
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
As a legally naturalized citizen of these United States, and a trained disciple of the cult of big government, my first thought upon reading an article stating that the world would prefer a President Obama was why the hell should I care what choice the rest of the world would make if they got to [...]
Tags: baghdad, behemoth, cult, Democrats, disasters, disciple, first thought, hell, kosovo, men and women, mistake, mogadishu, national guardsman, naturalized citizen, republicans, rest of the world, stake, united states government
Posted in 21st century, Apropos Rumination, Current Events, Global, Government, Ideas, Memewars, Nanny State of Mind, Political, Politics, United States | 5 Comments »
Monday, 8 September 2008
Whether we’ll admit it or not, we are a communist nation. As such, no one is free to fail. No one is free to succeed either. In fact, no one is free at all. We are all pawns in the hands of the politicians - those proud men and women who tell us that they [...]
Tags: apparatchiks, bailout, bear stearns, communist nation, fannie freddie, fannie mae, fannie mae and freddie mac, investment markets, irregular intervals, jim rogers, nationalization, parasite, pawns, presidential candidates, proud men, public private partnerships, ruling party, schemers, tipping point
Posted in Apropos Rumination, Banality of Bureaucracy, Current Events, Government, Memewars, Political, Politics, Rampant Consumerism, Signs of the End Times, United States | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
You may not have noticed, but America is in trouble. Our credit is overextended. Our military is overextended. Our welcome in the rest of the world is overextended. Civil liberties are disappearing and it’s only a matter of time before people start vanishing too. As a group, we’re getting fatter and lazier. Our political system [...]
Tags: abdication, beginning of the end, Democrats, executive branches, fiscal policy, foreclosure, inspiration, integrity, jack cafferty, mccain, perfect storm, phil gramm, recession, republican candidate for president, republican party, republicans, rest of the world, umbrella, whiners
Posted in 21st century, Apropos Rumination, Banality of Bureaucracy, Correct Me Please, Current Events, Federal Wars, Government, Ideas, Political, Politics, Trevordamus, United States | 1 Comment »
Thursday, 28 August 2008
It’s true that Barack Obama loves guns. But only for the privileged politician and bureaucrat classes. You see, without guns, the bureaucrats would get a lot less cooperation fighting all the wars they are engaged in. Gun control is not about protecting us from each other. Gun control is about protecting bureaucrats from their subjects.
You [...]
Tags: boondoggle, bureaucrat, chicago tribune, drug use, extreme stance, federal legislation, gun regulation, gun rights, illegal substances, illinois residents, mentality, national legislation, pet issue, prescription abuse, social injustice, social injustices, u s senate, war on drugs, War on Poverty, war on terror
Posted in About Libertarians, Apropos Rumination, Federal Wars, Global, Government, Ideas, Memewars, Nanny State of Mind, Political, Politics, War on Drugs, War on Guns, War on Intelligence | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Thomas Friedman’s Theory of McGlobalization has been proved wrong.
One minor casualty of the recent conflict in Georgia was the doctrine of peace through McGlobalization — a belief first elaborated by Thomas Friedman in 1999, and left in ruins on August 8, when Russian troops moved into South Ossetia. “No two countries that both had McDonald’s [...]
Tags: barack obama, cult of personality, democratization, farrar straus and giroux, former soviet republics, international oil prices, kgb man, king thomas, lexus and the olive tree, liberal democracy, members of nato, relative stability, rule books, russian troops, thomas friedman, universal history, vladimir putin, warsaw pact allies
Posted in 21st century, Apropos Rumination, Memewars, Military, Political, Politics | 2 Comments »