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The deadliest criminals in America call themselves Drug Warriors.
– Dale Amon
Here are some insights sent in by Samizdata reader George Guttman. Agree or disagree, they are reasonable points to make:
So the father of American Taliban member John Walker says “he is just a 20 year old kid”.
Well so are the US Marines we have had to send to Afghanistan to protect ourselves from “kids” like that. Come on, take some responsibility.
Why is September 11th referred to as a “Tragedy?” Let’s call it what it was…A terroristic act of war…kinda puts an angle of reality on it.
Why is a US military tribunal “wrong” for foreign terrorists… when it is also what US military personnel face.
Over on Mind over what matters, fellow bloggista Jay Zilber makes a remark that caught my eye whilst I was surfing the mimetic waves looking for interesting tubes and eddies in the zeitgeist:
TOUGH CHOICE? I’ll make it easy for you. Aaron Sorkin without crack is like a day without sunshine — and besides, The West Wing is, and ever shall be, so September 10th.
Interesting. So September 10th. Yes, I know exactly what he means.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
– Robert A. Heinlein
It seems that Harry Potter is taking over like cocaine in the 1980’s. The Devil Girl confesses her addiction:
I am wrapped up in my Harry Potter […] I’ve been reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets all night and day. I am going to finish it so I can read books 3 and 4. This is worse than crack, I swear. (Not that I’d know, but, uhm, well anyway..)
Everyone was so concerned about a few cases of anthrax, they missed something truly virulent spreading across the world.
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
– J. K. Rowling (…whom the Samizdata Illuminatus happens to think is rather desirable)
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness Positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
– Thomas Paine (1776)
Level playing fields are for those who lack the wit to find one tilted in their favour.
– Bob Lewis
The future isn’t as far away as it used to be
– Dale Amon
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle
– Edmund Burke
Yeah, you…Dawson of Dawson.com…
Your e-mail address link is phucked. Fix it or we will send Natalie Solent and her well armed husband around to sort you out.
It seems that ‘People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) feel that to be a good Christian, one must refrain from eating meat. There is even a Christian Vegetarian website.
Now as a libertarian, I regard vegetarianism as a totally acceptable life style choice for other people and I am not knocking it…however it is not something I choose to follow myself. I shall stick to my omnivorous ways.
I just have one question… if vegetarianism matters one jot to Christianity, then why did Christ perform the miracle of turning five loaves and two fishes into many in order to feed the multitude (Matthew 14)? Why not five loaves and two tofu cubes?
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