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Don’t Be an Over-Awed Superstitious Vulgar… Judge for Yourself.

27 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Ask me what’s honour? I’ll the truth impart:
Know, honour then, is Honesty of Heart.
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Dignities and high sounding names have different effects on different beholders. The lustre of the Star and the title of My Lord, over-awe the superstitious vulgar, and forbid them to inquire into the character of the possessor: Nay more, they are, as it were, bewitched to admire in the great, the vices they would honestly condemn in themselves. This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine, 1775 [full text, citation below]

Now, prefix this to the every introduction. I’m talking to you; I’m talking to myself. What portion of ours is shackled to ignorance by notions of title, or bound to the betterness of fame, or even incarcerated by the slander of string-pullers?

~tdv, un-struck

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Randoms: In the Service of Serving Ourselves Up & Do Not I Know

30 Sunday Sep 2012

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“…to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Well, DID HE? …even try? @ 09.28.12 (ref art.II,§.1,c.8) 

Gone is the question, whether our neighbor is willing to enslave himself; ask are we willing to let him enslave us. @ 09.28.12

If Obama came right out and said “I’m a communist, I hate the Constitution, & you’re all fools”, people would STILL line up to vote for him. @ 09.28.12

Spareth the rod, render to State~> Delaware first State to outlaw spanking. ~It’s always only the beginning.

Because they can~> Obama and Congress Are Choosing to Cause a Recession by Amy Payne 09.27.12 Taxmageddon is Tyranny
Taxes require most exact impartiality; Yet no legislative ACT affords greater opportunity to trample the rules of justice. ~Madison,fed.10,par.08 

Great summary article~> Why the Fuss? Obama Has Long Been On Record In Favor Of Redistribution by Paul Roderick Gregory 09.23.12

Read~> Obama: ‘You Belong to Me’ … mostly, so shut up and let me “finish the job”  by Jeffrey Folks 09.26

Judging by the extent of September distractions, one can only imagine what’s coming in October. @ 09.25.12

Think this Obama train is chance?
(emphasis mine) from U.N. Speech: @

I know there are some who ask why we don’t just ban such a video. The answer is enshrined in our laws: our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech. Here in the United States, countless publications provoke offense. Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian, and yet we do not ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs. Moreover, as President of our country, and Commander-in-Chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so. Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views – even views that we disagree with.

Gotta keep them buzzwords harmonious, don’t ya know.
…and elsewhere this observation: Who Speaks Like This? by Bob Belvedere re: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” etc.

Because I just know, is the reason I seek to know why. @ 09.25.12
…or is it, that in reasoning to know why, I come to know that I didn’t just know? @

It is ENOUGH that we need constantly repel assaults on our liberty by our OWN. But they pander to muslims demanding the same object!? @ 09.24.12

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: The Formula Redux, Reduction in Terms, Ryan, & Rectitude

18 Saturday Aug 2012

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“There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude – in comparison with which the treasures of earth are not worth naming.” ~J. Hawes? @ 08.16.12
note: found this quote at Webster’s 1828 Dictionary; Definition of “Rectitude”

If you need a reason to be reasonable, then it is unlikely that you can be reasoned with. @ 08.16.12

Did you know that Hamilton considered the Preamble a better recognition of popular rights than any Bill of Rights? ~fed.84,par.8 @ 08.16.12
CotUS merely intended to regulate general political interests of the nation, not every species of personal & private concerns. ~fed.84,par.9 @ 08.16.12
Hamilton said of the Bill of Rights: “why declare that things shall not be done, which there is no power to do?” ~fed.84,par.10 @ 08.16.12
Ref: Federalist No.84 ~Alexander Hamilton

Fun with HashTags ~ 08.14.12 Edition ~ #ObamaDictionary
BUSINESS: 1) A bothersome piggy bank, 2) Labor union underling @
RADICAL: Any traditional activity or person @
FAILURE: The United States before Obama Monarchy @
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: Political focus group @
DEPENDENCE: 1) A high and virtuous calling 2) Perpetuity of the Democrat Party 3) Reparations by redistributive retribution @

Hope lies exclusively with the people, that they might awake from the dreams of his father. @ 08.12.12

Next VP Paul Ryan today: “We wont replace our founding principles, we will reapply them… We will honor You” @ 08.11.12
Related: His Jan’10 speech “Health Care in a Free Society” ~RESPECT for the founding principles.
Only a true Marxist progressive would view the support for America’s founding principles as radical. Wear it with honor, Mr. Ryan. @ 08.11.12
If Paul Ryan is radical, then socialism is the new norm, and the American experiment is dead. This is pure leftist progressive delusional spin. @ 08.11.12
It is Needed and Refreshing, Paul Ryan using his New Stage to expound our Founding Principles, natural rights, etc. Thank you, sir. @ 08.13.12

Yeah, maybe everything has already been said… but not everybody has heard it. @ 08.11.12

The only problem with reducing things to their simplest terms is that you really don’t have anything else to say when you’re done. @ 08.11.12

The last thing I’ll do, is the last thing I can. @ 08.10.12

“The liberal/progressive way…. is just not the American way.” ~ @Daggy1 That this needs saying, marks what they’ve done to us. @ 08.09.12

Repeal ObamaCare… Hell, let’s Repeal 95% of 20th century legislation, & all the 21st. Let the People & the States sort it out after that. @ 08.09.12

The formula we had, is the formula we have, And if we will, it shall secure us still, Our liberty to be greater again. DoI+CotUS= @ 08.09.12

Ever notice how every goodly intended Democrat scheme involves some sort of plunder? When are they Not in some or all pockets? @ 08.09.12

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: Reality of Rehabilitated Reason, Authority of Doubt

19 Saturday May 2012

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That which is beyond human reason is reason enough to… @

Doubt is the first impression of truth. @

Greatness rests in the aftermath of doing something at all. @

Reality finally teaches you that you are. @

The last thing I do is unlikely to be the thing I want to be the last thing I do. @

Reason, this was the victim, this action, a symptom. @

Time and again, we people delegate authority to our representatives, then must exercise our authority to protect ourselves from them. @

An oath, a contract, confirms honor’s will, or exposes honor’s want. @

We have so deliberated and rehabilitated the human design that it ceases its own consent to be. @

We are so drowned in policy and the politic that we cannot surface for a single breath of freedom. @

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.

Insatiable the De-Hallowed Halls

25 Wednesday Apr 2012

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So the literati, begotten of the other before the other, the special ones, and their providers, specials. Such the arrogant towers they inhabit, so wise, enlightened, so much the more, the higher, the tempest. Even God is beneath the lofty intelligentsia, for it is a heritage, to be posterity, ordained of men-gods.

Truly the superior specie, puffed to wealth by existence, by endowments they bestow upon mere mortals at their charge, engorged and gluttonous, fed by thieving hordes of like-minded power peers, fed by the measure of a life’s labor at the point of a guilt, they are the way and light and lone conduit to being their majesty.

Indeed, our charmed elite intellectuals, chins dripping marrow  of societal prey, assure their meal of its brightened morrow, which in turn concurs, despite the tone of its cracking bone, then, the lookers-on are persuaded that the scholar is starving, away wasting.

Scrubbed are the halls of hallowed learning, banished are the bodies of higher wisdom, replaced, erased, no, infected by parasitical propagandists, bent on the consumption of minds, while they remain palatable, and preemptive of their ripe and reasoned sovereign.

~tdv