WWBTR Day is now over.

I thought you guys might enjoy this. This is from a free financial newsletter that I get from Porter Stansbury:



"Are you God stansberry? You can't be made to care what happens. But whoever is elected the outcome will affect your life and your childrens lives. There is always a better choice and to not to take advantage of that oppurtunity is pathetic. Your like a little child whining and whimpering. 'I wont' vote! I won't vote! I Unless I have a perfect Canidate. We have a saying down here in Arkansas as they do in Tennesse also I'm sure. 'If you can't run with the big dogs stay on the porch' So throw your dog in the race and get out and vote." – Paid-up subscriber and "a Man who is darn sure gonna vote." Gordon Davenport

Porter comment: Unlimited democracy is nothing more than mob rule, dressed up with lawyers. Our founding fathers rightly feared their limited republic would devolve into the kind of unlimited democracy we have suffered under since 1913. I absolutely fear for my child's future. And my own. I'm fairly certain our current government will be insolvent in about a decade – if not sooner. This will cause our country enormous difficulties. But my participation in the farce of an American election will not bring our government any legitimacy, nor will it restore my liberty.

Neither of the two main political parties have any intention, or incentive, to return our central government to its traditional, limited footing. As long as my neighbors can vote themselves my wallet (via sharply progressive taxation and estate taxes), as long as our government is allowed to create unlimited deficits (unauthorized taxes on future generations), and as long as the government controls the supply of the only legal tender, there will be no liberty in America.

In my eyes, our government is nothing more than a bunch of thugs, no different than a street gang, except for sartorial splendor and the awesome power of their arsenal. Reading this, I can imagine most of you will doubt my sincerity... or perhaps my sanity. That's because you don't deal directly with the federal government. Unfortunately, I have. For the most part, the people in government are nothing more than gangsters.

How did this come about? How did the land of the free become the home of whipped dogs, a group of people so consumed with their own lazy comforts that they'll submit to almost any indignity, from their phones being tapped to their estates being plundered? Where are the Americans who founded this country and built it? Where are the Americans who wouldn't tolerate a 2% tax on tea and would have been horrified at the very idea of an income tax? Where are the Americans who volunteered their lives, their fortunes, and their honor rather than see their precious liberties trampled upon?

We have forgotten our traditions and our heritage and lost the civic vitality that made us the greatest nation on Earth. Instead, we submit to the prattling of an Alaskan housewife, the incoherent ramblings of a plagiarist from Delaware, and we've become enraptured by the junior senator from Illinois, a man who has never even held an honest job for one day in his whole life.

You ask why I do not participate in such flim-flam. You ask why I don't join the mindless parade of the rubes. I ask: Where has your dignity gone? I might not be able to throw the yoke of our tyrannical government off of my back, but I will not dignify my own subjugation by pretending to choose it.

Can we have But Bill Gates Will Kill Teh Hobos Day then?

http://www.libertystickers.com/produ...n-ron-paul-SH/

sweet

but I'm still waiting on multiple orders of Ron Paul t-shirts and sweatshirts

if that stuff ever arrives, I'll probably get that sticker as well

Dear Nancy Pelosi,
please read chapter XIV of Economics in One Lesson titled "Saving the X Industry"

Do any of you guys ever get so tired after staying up for like 60-72 hours that you see the electrons moving on the computer screen?

Also, I dont know if it's just me, but sometimes you get really (what you think) are genius thoughts in your head while your simultaneously daydreaming, but your also really falling asleep as this is going on (half awake day-dreaming/half asleep) and then when you snap back to reality a couple seconds later they're gone.

All I know is, tonite is gonna be one hell of a night.

No sleep + booze + extracurricular activities = fun

Kennedy blocking Clinton is awesome!

We need a general chatter thread... I have a question for the old people. How much influence is a filibuster or the threat of a filibuster going to be now, with it being the Republican's only tool? I bet they're glad McCain helped save it from Bush a while ago.

In case you didn't think it was news, you heard it here first:

Dog bites man.

What do the Obama supporters do now?

I gotta say, I'm amazed at my friends who hate Bush for his violations of civil liberties, getting all giddy and excited about the election of a man who voted for the same violations!! its baffling!

I just started reading atlas shrugged for the first time, pretty excellent book so far. I assume most of the folk here have already done so?

lol

Yesssssssssssss soon your education will be complete.

Your conversion from Green Party member to capitalist pigdog is going very well.

Next up, a 30-page summary of Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State.

I'm probably alone on this but I preferred The Fountainhead.

something something darkside.... something something complete

I enjoyed it quite a lot. There are a lot of parallels to today. The writing style isn't the best, but it didn't bother me when I read it. Rand is a bit kooky on a few issues (the rape fantasies are quite odd), but it was nice to read. I originally read it when a girlfriend I was dating in college went home for the summer and told me that it would be "worth my while" to read it. Read the Fountainhead and Atlas in 2 weeks total, which is very unusual for me as I never read much before that. I flew out to see her in North Dakota and the btich dumped me the day I got there.

Maybe she was hoping you'd try something Kooky

She couldn't dump you on the phone and save you the trip?

I'd hit...

Hm. Maybe not.

Yeah- that's what pissed me off most. I got some super cheap ticket too, so it was non-refundable, and would have cost me an ungodly amount of money to get home. I was 19 and stuck with her for a week after that. Not only that, her dad lost his job and they moved in with her Aunt. So they have a tiny house that only 2 of them lived in with her Aunt, her parents, her brother, her, a ton of pets (2 bedroom and a basement).

I had to drag it out of her- she was kinda distant from me when her and her dad picked me up. I thought it might just be because her dad was around. I finally got alone with her and start holding her hand and she pulls away and says "Don't". I was like "wtf? I haven't seen you for 6 weeks, and 'don't'? "Oh, I don't want a boyfriend anymore".

It was pretty messed up. I know her dad had some kind of mental illness, and I honestly think traces of it might have been in her. He ended up killing himself a few years later. I saw her at a party right before I was graduating, and she told me she was totally a bitch to me and deserved me hating her. She went from a party animal in high school to spending all her time studying (and not wanting to date anyone) when she met me. Then she went to partying again and wanted to become a stripper. Then she wanted to be a housewife in California. I think she's in dental school now and married.

You sure do know how to pick 'em. First an Ohio State fan, then this girl.