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If you meet Liberal Democrats trying to claim that after the local government elections that Britain now has three-party politics, tell them that after the European elections it actually has four-party politics; and their party is fourth.
I have long thought that Liberal-Democrats deserved to be rounded up and kept in high security prisons. However, a friend suggests a more useful alternative. Why don’t we use genetic engineering to breed a four-headed hydra with the likenesses of Hayek, von Mises, Friedman and Reagan? It could seek out Liberal Democrats, wrap itself around them, and suck the collectivism out of them. The discarded husks could then be shredded and recycled as packaging for the fast food industry.
Do not cooperate with attempts by the state to take your property without prior consent… and have some fun playing with them in the process.
Never get between a dog and his favourite lamp post
– Unknown
[A]ny time you hear the term “consumer advocate”, think “government advocate”.
– Ted Schuerzinger
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on.
– Billy Connolly
There have been rumoured Dale Amon sightings in the Irish bars of Manhattan. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid…
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion
– Seen used as a signature on a games forum
Spotted in Friday’s print version of the Evening Standard:
Mr Blair’s two security advisers, Sir David Omand and Sir John Stevens, tell us each week that such bombs [in public places] are “unavoidable”, to exonerate themselves in advance from blame. They tell us to be fearful and vigilant. But they do nothing physically to protect us.
There are no walls going up to block Oxford Street from car bombs. There are no sniffer dogs at Holborn Tube or scanners at the entrance to Trafalgar Square. The citizens of London are being told, in effect, to look after themselves and don’t blame the Government. Meanwhile Sir David and Sir John spend millions protecting those for whom they work.
– Simon Jenkins
In other words: You are cannon fodder. The state is not your friend.
Have a cheerful weekend.
With thanks to Guy Herbert
Spotted at Samizdata.net HQ, a well known Samizdatista demonstrates multi-tasking…
… he may well have also been touch-typing on a laptop under the table using his toes.
She gazes at the moon
The fragrant earth remains
Tears and thunder fall.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master
– George Washington, whose birthday it is today
The ballot boxes are the coffins of freedom. We will not take part in the funeral of freedom.
– A text message circulating on Iranian mobile1 phones yesterday
1 = US: cell phone
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We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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