by Runaway Slave | Dec 17, 2011 | Libertarian Curmudgeon, liberty, police state
A great many of your tax dollars are invested in a lot of new wiz-bang wowie hardware for tracking terrorists. This creates a tremendous incentive to find terrorists. It’s like local SWAT teams. If you don’t use your SWAT team you will have a lot of...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 15, 2011 | Government, government jobs, Libertarian Curmudgeon
The statistics in this video explain why an orderly roll back of government is so unlikely. Government workers not only earn twice as much as the mules pulling the gravy train, they could soon outnumber us. They most certainly can outnumber us at the polls.
by Runaway Slave | Dec 13, 2011 | bailouts, Bubble, Education, Libertarian Curmudgeon
I have a college degree that I earned 40 years ago. I can honestly say it has never earned me a cent. Whatever the government pumps easy money into will eventually find itself in a price bubble. Housing is the most recent and most obvious bubble, but it’s not...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 12, 2011 | Libertarian Curmudgeon, Ron Paul
Ignore the fact that Ron Paul has accomplished so much without the help, and often with genuine hostility of the mainstream media. If the ABC talking heads are saying he can win in Iowa, he’s probably pulling further away from the field of $100 haircuts every...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 11, 2011 | freedom, Government, Libertarian Curmudgeon, National Defense Authorization Act, police state
I’m not a big fan of MTV, but I agree with them on Police State issue. Seventy five years ago this scene or some variation of it happened to millions of people just like you and me. The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act authorizes this type of...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 10, 2011 | Government, Libertarian Curmudgeon
This is an excerpt from Milton Mayer’s book “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45.” It contains a frequently quoted short passage that many may have seen elsewhere, but it is rare to see that passage in context. Does it sound at all...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 4, 2011 | fascist, freedom, Libertarian Curmudgeon
(more reasons to drop facebook, Myspace…..) Invasive Cyber Technologies and Internet Privacy: Big Brother is only a “Ping” or Mouse Click Away By Tom Burghardt Global Research, October 11, 2010 Antifascist Calling… – 2010-10-10 As they...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Only two Republicans are against the US military arresting and detaining and imprisoning US citizens indefinitely without merit or trial. And yup, our wonderful Junior Senator Rand Paul is one of the two. Story here. “Detaining citizens without a court trial is...
