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Randoms: Perspective of Value, Deviant Defaults, Our 20th

06 Monday Aug 2012

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It’s sad that the state has become so embedded in American life, that people who simply wish to be left alone with their liberty are rebels. ~tdv @ 08.04.12
It is Unnatural, the new normal condition of life-by-state-designed & rights-by-state-defined. ~tdv @ 08.04.12

Required Reading~> Basic Concepts of “Government” by Publius Huldah …as is everything else on her blog, “Understanding the Constitution“. Really a fine resource.

Discourse that assumes special liberty for some, will finish as it started, arguing liberty for none. ~tdv @ 08.03.12

Great Article~> Conservatives Have a Secret  ~by Daren Jonescu 08.03.12

“I would not my unhoused free condition, Put into circumscription and confine, For the sea’s worth.” ~Shakespeare @

Thanks hon, for 20 years today, for our great kids, for love; my friend, my wife. ~tdv @ 08.01.12

Liberty never gets tired, or old, as someone is born every day to embrace it. Liberty doesn’t age, or become obsolete, it is only abandoned. ~tdv @ 07.31.12

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Milton Friedman – on Greed; to Phil Donahue ’79
…priceless. h/t & thanks Rush Limbaugh

Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed?…
The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus…
In the only cases in which the masses have escaped the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade.
If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it’s exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that…
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? You know, I think you take a lot of things for granted. Just tell me where in the world you find these angels who are going to organize society for us?

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Read~> DEA Gone Wild … ~Un-Frigin-Real…
h/t http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=42280 

“Your driver was shot in your truck,” said the caller, a business colleague. “Your truck was loaded with marijuana. He was shot eight times while sitting in the cab. Do you know anything about your driver hauling marijuana?”
[…]
And without Patty’s knowledge, the Drug Enforcement Administration was paying his driver, Lawrence Chapa, to use the truck to bust traffickers.

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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.

Some Things Never Change

02 Thursday Aug 2012

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Allow me to present one of those old things we read, and then instantly recognize the text as having absolute application to current times, as having a striking timelessness of truth, of reality, and even evoking eerie images and voices of individuals as they campaign for authority vested by the people. You are of course free to draw your own inferences.

Plainly, this 225 yr. old article sounds like today, in a way. You can figure out how, if you want. :]

Reference paragraph 17: Federalist No. 6: Concerning Dangers from War between the States by Alexander Hamilton 1787 (my emphasis)

From this summary of what has taken place in other countries, whose situations have borne the nearest resemblance to our own, what reason can we have to confide in those reveries, which would seduce us into the expectation of peace and cordiality between the members of the present confederacy, in a state of separation? Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, the weaknesses, and the evils incident to society in every shape? Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct, that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?

max·im  noun  \ˈmak-səm\
1: a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct

practical maxim
1: The Constitution of the United States

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: Preservation, Prism of Liberty, Liberal Force, and People Aint Food

06 Friday Apr 2012

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“Let Liberty be the Prism.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Liberty is the American Entitlement.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“The Wisdom of Liberty is Expressed by its Reciprocity.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Conservatism preserves Americanism, liberalism reigns it in.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Conservatism is Americanism, for it finds the wisdom of liberty paramount, and the precursor to government.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Liberalism is socialism is government primacy.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“What remains when the power of government is removed from liberalism?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“America is the most charitable nation on earth, and we gladly and responsibly help our fellow man. So why do liberals insist on force?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Do liberals prefer force to sway because their ideas are unconvincing, or because they are naturally inclined to force their designs?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Ever notice how liberal causes always have, or seek to have, the force of government behind them?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Americanism will not be managed.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“The State, the state, assertive omnipotence, insistent omnipresence, assumed omniscience, little god…” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Willfully giving up your liberty to gov’t is like volunteering for prison.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“2700 pages in PPACA (obamacare). I can say “comply” in 6 characters, and I’m not even a tyrant. hmm” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Justice is relative, and a tyrant cannot function alone.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Can somebody please tell me the Truth, so I can ignore it and vote for hair? Wait… skin… yeah skin. No… teeth… I’m for teeth.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“A Civil Society is what separates us from food.” ~tdv (@subconch)

Randoms: Wisdom Goes Where it Wants

18 Sunday Mar 2012

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“Everybody’s a Writer… not even me.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“All creations, of mind, by soul, of heart, by hand, are for malicious destructive, for watchful sanctuary, for wise utility.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“If you awoke, and no time elapsed, would you have ever slept?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Suffrage of conscience, indeed of confidence, assumes and requires comprehension of both.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“With every new person I follow (on twitter), I am assured that America is not dead.” ~tdv (@subconch)

So the same ilk, interpreters by invented intent, also invent intentions open to interpretation? Or are these interpretables an intended diversion from the invented intent? ~tdv (comment at proteinwisdom.com) RE: Originalism and Law

“The destiny of the archaic knows its own will, and the novelty o’ America thru holds still.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“It is only the was or weren’t till it is or aint, when it is was again or never been.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“What the gov’t sells us is never what we bought.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Shhh! Don’t tell the left, but I know the secret to their success in Nov.2012…”ShutUp and Stop Doing Stuff”… it’s a no-brainer…” ~tdv (@subconch)

“IF truth be relative, THEN choose your family wisely, ELSE orphan yourself without.” ~tdv (@subconch)

Randoms: Emotion, Self-Determination, and Something About Time

11 Sunday Mar 2012

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Remarkable how prevailing, primary emotion tends to override reason amongst various detached emotions. So say I, no why. ~tdv (@subconch)

Interesting how the least qualified liver of life is the very liver of life. ~tdv (@subconch)

Freedom can only be destroyed by Herself, and today, she is not disposed to this recklessness. Do not equate illness with inevitability. ~tdv (@subconch)

I can’t let go of the can! The elec. opener is supposed to hold it, but I just can’t let go. Just can’t trust the machine… ~tdv (@subconch)

Today is then ago since, and tomorrow’s wherefore whilst. ~tdv (@subconch)

Defer to the wisdom of a child… or… nothing like a good fart joke… ~tdv (@subconch)

I’m not as think as you smart I am. ~tdv (@subconch)

Dogs don’t have foreheads, I tell ya! (@subconch)

How can you say that you know what I’m doing, when I don’t even know wherewith I am going? ~tdv (@subconch)

The American People don’t need progressives to make progress. Freedom from you is all we need. ~tdv (@subconch)

A vote is but a means, to a means, to an end. The end is but a refuge for Liberty. ~tdv (@subconch)

Ignorance… Stupid

01 Thursday Mar 2012

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Have you ever stopped to think how truly stupid you are! Really, look in the mirror, and you will find the greatest example of idiocy known to man. And if you think ignorance equals stupidity, then I’ve proven my point.

Ignorance is unawareness, unfamiliarity, obliviousness. It is the lack of knowledge… of something specific. Stupidity, like yours, is foolishness, inanity, futility, absurdity. Stupidity is the lack of intelligence, that is, the lack of common sense and the ability to reason. Textbook you.

Ignorance, is textbook all-of-us. Every day, I am reminded of my own ignorance, and if I were to ignore it, or think it nonexistent, or claim I am incapable of it, or attempt to hide it, well, that would not only make me stupid, like you, but it would also make me a liar, like you.

So let me just say that I am not ignorant of the reality of my own ignorance, nor am I ignorant of the true ignorance of everybody else, and with this knowledge of shared ignorance, I will at first strive to become less ignorant than I am, and second I will guard myself against the idiocy of ignored ignorance that is inherent in people like you.

If ignorance is bliss, and ignorance dismissed, then this is remiss, and knowledge is missed… and you’re stupid.

Your idiocy is only useful when you are ignorant of its purpose.

Enlightened, less ignorant. ~tdv

My Sagacious Offerings

27 Monday Feb 2012

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Nobody cares what I think, unless I pay them to, or they are my kids, so nobody cares what I think.

~tdv 02.27.12 @subconch

Randoms: Philosophy of a Question Mark

21 Tuesday Feb 2012

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Latest Random Tweets by subconch (tdv). Please Follow.
Note: These quotes are All Original, piles of my pile of think.
Caution! May cause paralysis or debilitating fungal growth.

“Regret is a mechanism of survival.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“We firmly believe what we believe… until somebody convinces us otherwise.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Work can suck, til it’s done, or til you get paid. That’s just two rewards.” ~tdv (@subconch)

Dad!!! No!!! You’re gonna do another thought!!! (@subconch)

“When faced with a female inquiring as to your favorable opinion on the manner of her attire, it is ill-advised to respond with “I guess”.” ~tdv (@subconch)

Congratulations! Gov’t runs the rest of your life, too ~tdv (@subconch): 50-Cent Stamp

“We only have but a life’s limit of destinies of will to explore.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Freedom aint easy. Liberty aint lazy.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“We were free to speak, but our souls were washed to silence, comforted to amnesia. O’polit persuade our identity away.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“IF eyes are the Window To The Soul THEN ears are the channel to wisdom.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Soul universe, illusive illusions, subtiny reflections living sphere, but a life’s limit of destinies to explore.” ~tdv (i know…) (@subconch)

Search for Truth, Notes to Self

17 Friday Feb 2012

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Ever growing search for understanding, ever confirming ignorance, will ever overwhelm, even overpower your mind, even heavy your heart. Take notice these potent evers, that you keep humble hold knowing the limits on your knowings, and the knowings of others.

Do not let the evers and evens of this reality dispirit the quest, though, as it is a noble, even necessary thing, enriching and defining humanness itself.

While the fleetings of attentiveness and leakings of data persist, the whole of a man mature, yeah, increasing your power over and of you, bettering expressions.

Truth, bent by time, to and from truth, merely the empirical is and was, is the ultimate object of your pursuits. Expect the consumption of an enormity will only acquire an atom of truth, and you shall have some contentment.

Always remember the relativity of truth in the environment of men, and consider the motive of truth’s deliverer, trusting first the atoms of your soul, given you at once by God, and grown by you with wisdom.