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Randoms: Taken by the Taken

23 Sunday Sep 2012

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On the outside of dignity, on the inside of manipulated, lies the coddled cowering servile mass that once was the Great American Character.

Power has been transferred to ignorance. Receptive control is the spoil of war on liberty.

Infiltrators displace the representative republican principle with the mockery of washed masses.

Silence from the captains of industry is a machine of their oppression, by us our suffrage, or on us their complicity.

“Just politics” & “Just Spin” are aphorisms for preemptive unapologetic unaccountability.

~tdv

Note: The preceding random musings are mine. ~tdv (@subconch) The links take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

More on Poisons to the Blessings of Liberty

28 Tuesday Aug 2012

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In 1998, the Code of Federal Regulations ~ 134,723 pgs, 201 vols., 19 feet of shelf space. In 1970, the CFR only 54,834 pgs. @ 06.12.12
Ref: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/fedregulations.htm 

Obama launched 3,611 new regulations, 106 of them “major”, meaning EACH COST ECONOMY OVER $100 MIL/YR @ 08.12.12
Ref: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/06/08/is-obama-turning-the-economy-around/ 

Obamacare: 2700 pgs., Dodd-Frank: 850 pgs. (1864 Banking Law: 29 pgs., 1913 FedResAct: 32 pgs., 1933 Glass-Steagall Act: 37 pgs.) @ 08.12.12
Ref: Too big not to fail  on the Dodd-Frank Act, from the Economist

Federalist No. 62, paragraph 16 (emphasis mine):

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed.

Government Growth as Per Capita Spending (~yr:‘05$/person) ~1800:$32 ~1900:$170 ~1950:$2,022 ~2000:$7,152 ~2012:$10,433 @ 08.12.12

EPA Costs Manufacturing Sector $117 Billion! Total Federal Regulation costs $500B ~wonder how many JOBS (people) that is? @ 08.12.12
Ref: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/21/4744381/nera-report-finds-increasing-number.html 

BY WHAT AUTHORITY does this tyrannical federal monstrosity LOWER our standard of living?! Sure’n Hell NOT by We the People! @ 08.12.12

~Updated 08.30.12 to remove twitter embeds. Tweets are linked with the usual @ symbol.

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There ought to be a law against “There Ought to be a Law”

Randoms: Recurring Infiltration, Grateful Dad, a Voice

07 Thursday Jun 2012

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Democrats cannot be trusted to present themselves, so they cannot be trusted to represent us. @ 06.07.2012
Related: Obama’s Third-Party History 06.07.2012 By Stanley Kurtz

Ignorance is by design, and it is the primary appliance for control. @ 06.07.2012

Wealth that progressives took from the U.S. is gone forever, no refunds, and we will have to earn it all over again. Think about that. @ 06.07.2012

If our political rivals can use the law to silence us, then there is no law… or liberty. @ 06.07.2012

Communism & socialism, rejected, then liberalism & progressivism, rejected. What will be the #NextLeftistLabel? Oblivionism? @ Symbioticism? @ 06.06.2012

The Democrats make promises that taxpayers can’t afford, and when the money’s gone, and goodies cut, the parasites get mad at Republicans? @ 06.06.2012

Thanking God, and the professionals in American medicine, for the many lives I love. @ 06.06.2012

Is political science the same as social engineering? just ask’n @ 06.06.2012

Wonder where all the radical libs will go when they are reduced again to a fringe? @ 06.06.2012

Organized thugism will get thuggier still, but as Wisconsin proved today, the people are DONE taking their sh!t. @ 06.05.2012
Related: Wisconsin’s Walker survives recall by wide margin posted 06.06.2012 by foxnews.com

Can’t ignore our “progress” in the eyes of communism.  @ 06.04.2012
Short Video~> Grinding America Down posted 07.07.2011 by The Right Scoop

They are tiny bits of time, but time nonetheless, so I’m grateful when someone attends to my words. Thanks for following. @ 06.03.2012

Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

Randoms: Popularity of Trust, Institutionalized Chaos, Owing the Fallen

31 Thursday May 2012

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They lie, or they are wrong, or they lie because they were wrong. Why don’t you bother to check? Or does it matter? @ 05.31.2012
I wonder, is there any limit to the devotion we have to all those wonderfully popular people? @ 05.31.2012
It’s painful to learn that someone you adore is really an a$$hole, but is it not usually self-inflicted pain? @ 05.31.2012
Popularity should not precede trust, or assume dissimilar competence, and if it earns these titles, it should still be checked on. @ 05.31.2012
When we elect a president who is ugly as sin, & utterly unlikable, yet humbly & faithfully executes his Constitutional duty, we’ve arrived. @ 05.31.2012

Obama called Romney to congratulate him… according to SWAT team source. :] @ 05.30.2012
Related: Why this #BrettKimberlin Thing Matters 05.25.2012 by Jimmie Bise, Jr.

I have no desire to govern men, which seems a chore, and no want to rule them, which is plain immoral. @ 05.30.2012

Manipulative, institutionalized chaos has swallowed up the beautiful chaos of liberty. @ 05.30.2012
Men are frozen, slaves to the arbitrary complexity of the state. @ 05.30.2012
Most are oblivious to it all, being trained and reared thus, and blissfully wait for the next order of their humanity from the glowing. @ 05.30.2012
Of those who see it, some care not, and others, seeking to know, are drowned by convolution, even if it is their craft. @ 05.30.2012

If you ever needed a reason NOT to be a LIBERAL, this Chris Hayes idiot at msnbc is IT. @ 05.28.2012

Remembering the Fallen, & that Liberty has never been free, & that we owe Them a respect for it. #MemorialDay @ 05.28.2012

Note: The preceding random musings are mine. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

Randoms: Popular War on Empirical Denial, Nanny Riddle, Turd Sales

11 Friday May 2012

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If you are so inclined, please pray… He will know why. Thanks.

I can control a thousand random outcomes in each of the daily lives of 300 million individuals. Who am I? (hint: I’m expensive) @

Ours is not a revolution… but a quelling of one. @

Liberty is never having to say you are free. @

I think it’s becoming Popular again to be fundamentally American. So Go and be COOL! @

Every once in a while, we are forced to identify ourselves, to define our hearts, and align. Now is good. @

Politics, it’s basically turd sales, varying lump sizes, & we always get more than we bought, & it costs us more than we thought… flush @

If you hate your country, and see progress as undoing Her founding principles, then maybe you should move. Progressives,  Occupy movement: We’re not listening! @

We know that our founding principles work… because they already have. Sell your scheme somewhere else. @

Note: The preceding random musings are mine. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

Randoms: Unnatural Pecking Order and Inferior Greatness

03 Thursday May 2012

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My excellence and expertise are secured by the absence of your expectations. @

There is a natural and chaotic hierarchy among men, it is never static or predestined, and only arrogance sets out to control it. @

Stutopia [stoo.tow.pee.uhh] n. 1. A visionary, politically and socially perfect state, designed for the stupid, by the smart (see: liberal) @

How is educational elitism any different from racism? Do they not both find wholesale inferiority outside their ilk? @

If you wish to be ruled, then submit, but don’t demand that the rest of us cower beside you in frailty. @

Common is the sense that we are common, but what we have in common does not make it so. This is common sense. @

To Democrats, some people are worthy and everybody else is punished. This is tyranny. @


Note: The preceding random musings are mine. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.


Control: Influence Without Regard for Will

02 Wednesday May 2012

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Control, as I’ll name it here, and in the context of the human, is influence without regard for will. Influence is effect on human thought or deed.

Without the need of any expertise, though I am of course an expert, I’ll add that being controlled is universally abhorred by the human species,  so much so that we may violently reject it. And of influence, it seems commonly tolerated, I suspect for its lack of mandate.

So our baseline is complete. People hate control, and don’t mind influence… (think that again)

But we find this truism wanting, when thought on, as how can control be so completely reviled while being so completely partaken, and so many of our expectations contingent on controlling the will of others?

Does influence lead to control? Does control enhance influence? Are influence and control truly parted? Do we even recognize our controls? When is control an absolute necessity, and where is the line? What are the motives for controlling and submitting to control? Is influence acceptable?

Might we consider for ourselves in our regular judgments and interactions, being mindful of the apparent separation of influence and control, respecting the sovereign will of ourselves and themselves, whether or when are we driving or driven by the machineries of control.

~tdv

Randoms: Future Nostalgia and the Current of Change

20 Friday Apr 2012

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“Sticks are fascinatingly nostalgic, for playing therewith is an isolated remnant of freedom.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Govt is its own best customer.” ~tdv (@subconch)

Well that’s it. My child is officially a weapon, or as spin would have it, a licensed driver. Let us pray… (@subconch)

I am your posterity, and wondering what exactly you achieved by selling me out. (@subconch)
I am your posterity, and I hope you enjoyed the blessings of my liberty. (@subconch)

What happens ~after~ you have consumed all the wealth, and there is no more to take? (@subconch) #ows #democrat ~ #utopia #despotism

“The advocate for Socialism is the promoter of failure, but not his own.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Forward progress requires reverse progressivism.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Independent thinking is reserved for me.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Ideology is vacant where power is corrupt.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“What I want to be when I grow up is what I want to be.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“No crisis justifies the theft of blameless liberty.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Self-destructive behavior always corrects itself, right after it’s too late.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Anger is consumptive, and its end, presumptive, lest it be instructive, and thereby productive.” ~tdv (@subconch)

Randoms: Tax Day and the Representation of Pillage

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

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“In the absence of mutual trust, it is reasonable to restrain our potential powers over one another.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“April 15th, another hash mark on the cell wall, in a life sentence for posterity.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Shut up. Sign Here. Gimme. Mine. Shut up. Vote. Gimme More. Or Else. Frugal. Thrift. Mine. Pay. Work. Shut Up. More Voters to Buy. April 15.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“April 15th is to December 25th as Theft is to Giving.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Maybe there’s harmony in selective ignorance?”~tdv (@subconch)

“April 15th is to July 4th as oppression is to liberty.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“retribution is at the beginning and end of re.dis.tribution” ~tdv (@subconch)

The Box is Good

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

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The box is good, we love our box, we do. We live for the box, the box lives for we, and we have bliss in this. The box is of our making, but we know not how. We are in, they are out, better they just tell us what and how. Just us and our box maketh we. We’re just here, that’s how it be.

The box has sides. Dare not take the sides, for they hide us well from that conflict and this. And the sides have no cuts for us to peek thru and out, and we know this is good for us, not seeing. A drawing on the left side gives us our looking, and it’s good, even changes at times.

The box has a bottom on which to stand, but we prefer to lie upon it. They say the bottom is weak, and we believe, and distribute our weight evenly. The top, well, that’s the best of the box. It’s blue like sky, makes us free and open, like we like to be.

The box is good. Cannot ever leave, but we are free, in this box, are we.

~tdv