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[evensgrey]

They could at least hire "nuns" without absurdly fake boobs, tattoos over 60% of their bodies, and 8 million piercings...

Yes, that would help.

While fine as fetishes go, tattoos and piercings really don't go with the nun thing very well.  At least, not on ALL of them.

[Gumba Masta]

Unless they're Biker Nuns from Mars. Have a Snickers.

[MrBogosity]

"Being a Libertarian in elected office is like being the designated driver in a room full of drunks." --R. Lee Wrights

[AnCap Dave]

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[MrBogosity]

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[AnCap Dave]

So a friend of mine apparently found a rather interesting item while looking through one of his great uncle's books. Apparently he wrote a poem during the time of the Great Depression.

[Ibrahim90]

well, since you had to broach the subject, a favorite anecdote (not a quote, but hey, it works):


FDR himself often mentioned this one story about a businessman who hated the New Deal, and how every day he'd buy a newspaper from a kid, stare at it's front page, and throw it away, cursing.

eventually, the Kid asked him: "why are you just looking at the front page?", to which the businessman replied:

"I'm looking for a Death".

"But sir, you know the deaths are listed in the Obituaries, right?

"Son, you better believe this death will be on the front page!"

evidently, not many people were eager to go with the New Deal...

[Lord T Hawkeye]

While I don't agree with him on religion, C.S. Lewis did have some nice quotes otherwise.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. "

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Talking to a friend though I dont' take credit for the idea.  That honor goes to Stefan Molyneux.

This is why I support the notion that you have no right to any technology newer than the oldest belief you embrace
If you wanna support collectivism, get off the internet.  That's WAY too new fangled for you.
hate capitalism?  Turn your car in and buy a trabant
still believe in religion?  Here's your bucket of leeches next time you need to see the doctor
  Think "unnatural" is inherrently evil?  Next time you wanna travel, start walking!

[MrBogosity]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-shermer-god-20111104,0,877363.story

It's time to drop the God talk and face reality with a steely-eyed visage of the modern understanding of the origin of freedom on which the United States was founded and continues to be secured. God has nothing to do with it. If you want freedom and security, you need the following:

The rule of law; property rights; a secure and trustworthy banking and monetary system; economic stability; a reliable infrastructure and the freedom to move about the country; freedom of the press; freedom of association; education for the masses; protection of civil liberties; a clean and safe environment; a robust military for protection of our liberties from attacks by other states; a potent police force for protection of our freedoms from attacks by people within the state; a viable legislative system for establishing fair and just laws; and an effective judicial system for the equitable enforcement of those fair and just laws.

[MrBogosity]

"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that,' as if that gives them certain rights...It's simply a whine. It's no more than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well SO FUCKING WHAT?" --Stephen Fry

[MrBogosity]

"It's the loneliest feeling in the world. It's like walking down an empty street and hearing the sound of your own footsteps, knowing that all you have to do is knock on any door and say, 'If you let me in, I'll live the way you want me to live, and think the way you want me to think,' and all the blinds will go up, and all the doors will open, and you'll never be lonely again." --Inherit the Wind

[AnCap Dave]

"Like those clouds, a man's heart can't be bound by the will of others."

"Living in a safe, protected place may give you a sense of security but you'll never know true beauty until the filth of the outside world."

- Juuza of the Clouds "Juuza Gaiden"

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-we-ruined-occupy-wall-street-generation/

John Cheese unleashes the torrent of anti-bogons yet again.   In the first 2-3 items at least.

Except for #2 which is by all accounts a correlation causation fallacy and a fail; and something long refuted by the fact that we're currently in the most severe depression/recession since the Great Depression; while ignoring all the creators of indie content that don't need to be funded by Hollywood.
(For a more thorough refutation:  http://mises.org/daily/5025/The-Fight-Against-Intellectual-Property )

[MrBogosity]

And ignoring the fact that when Napster came out we were at the height of a VERY big bubble.