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NeoNote — Tain't Mine

This is from an email exchange I had recently.

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Bill of Rights Day

Let them be remembeblurb as cowards who only dablurb attack unarmed victims.

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This looks promising

I stumbled across a very interesting looking website.

No Compulsion. Where Islamic Tyranny Meets Liberty.

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Remembering the San Bernardino Victims

I did not humble myself and acknowledge the sins of my skin color.

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NeoNote — Let them be forgotten

I realize the man is trying desperately to make his mark.

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The money thing

It’s the only campaign finance scheme that blurbuces the size of government, returns power to the voters, and keeps local money only in politics.

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Who is racist now?

I did not humble myself and acknowledge the sins of my skin color.

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Prince Charles Wrong on Syria

I realize the man is trying desperately to make his mark.

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Cruz becomes

This is from an email exchange I had recently.

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What strategy?

No, I don’t think it’s the best solution.

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So Why Not Impeach?

No, I am not exaggerating.

Although the Imperious Leader does.

When he isn’t lying.

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Victimhood drek

Keep law simple and absolute.

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Holding up prices

Keep law simple and absolute.

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She can speak for herself

We need to test our ideas again and again.

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This is why John Kerry won't call it a treaty

John Kerry and the State Department do a semantic shell game to avoid the law.

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Another place I talk Christianity

I wouldn’t want people to think I was hiding something.

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Coward

Ever wonder why the Imperious Leader doesn’t ask before he commits the country?

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Moore stuff

The green movement and the climate change crowd can’t stand dissent

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Adequate

Mind you I still wasn’t getting the service I paid for, but it was so much better than what I’ve had for the last few months. I almost caught myself sending them a thank-you.

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Obama the racist

Remember the President Obama who was supposed to end racism in the United States?

Well, neither does the Imperious Leader. The NY Post has the story.

A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”

Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.

This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.

Notice how it’s selected minorities.

It gets worse. Here come the technocrat planners.

Now even ZIP codes are racist, and according to this race-obsessed administration, you're racist for living in a suburban area with little public housing. And it plans to change that.

In what may be the most ambitious social-engineering project undertaken by the federal government, the administration is mapping every neighborhood in America by race. The stated purpose is to use the data to compel local officials to loosen zoning laws and build more public housing, thereby offering more poor inner-city minorities better opportunities for housing and education.

But the unstated purpose is forced racial integration. The suburbs are just too white for Obama and his race-mongering social engineers. They think they "geospatially discriminate" against minorities, never mind that more and more middle-class blacks are flocking to them on their own.

The ham-handed government project is led by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Last week it proposed new rules requiring counties and other entities receiving federal grant dollars to "affirmatively further fair housing" in the suburbs for minorities. Grantees who fail to comply will be denied federal funding.

At the same time, HUD is pressuring suburban landlords to accept Section 8 housing vouchers.

They’re doing it for your own good.

Think about this. We have a government that claims it’s fighting racism by tracking people by the color of their skin.

It’s not helping people. It’s locking them into victimhood.

The Imperious Leader and the Federal government has already decided that no matter what, certain “races” can’t succeed without help from The Man. They are not good enough. They can never be allowed freedom.

This is what your government is saying. Are you willing to listen?

Or will you take your natural born freedom?


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Introducing the Love Gov

Recently someone sent me some videos from the Independent Institute where government is portrayed as an abusive boyfriend.

They are amazingly good. Take a look for yourself.










The videos say it better than I can.

Be sure to share with your friends. And maybe some of the enemies you trust.


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Zero. Zilch. Nada.

I am absolutely certain that abortion should not be funded by taxpayers. Nor should organizations or companies providing abortions. Nor should companies that provide birth control.

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Only Matters

Race only matters to racists.
     — Kent McManigal, The lie matters because of politics

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Outstanding

In some ancient polytheistic societies, the worst punishment that could be meted out was to erase a person’s existence by no longer speaking or writing their name and erasing any reference to them. It was thought this also negatively affected them in the afterlife. As a matter of personal policy, follow this concept and this is why I have not named the shooter in this article. However, The Honored Dead do deserve to be known…
     — Cara Schulz, Facing Violence in Chattanooga: Two Heathens Share their Experience
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Simple question

Legal does not mean free.

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Better?

Stars above and Earth below, it’s the Faith Triumphant all over again!

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I want it understood

I’m standing against government licensing marriage.

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George Takei brooks no dissent - updated

They attack the person and avoid discussing the ideas.

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Battle flag - updated

The question remains, why was the flag acceptable last year but is not acceptable this year?

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That Judeo-Christian thing

I do criticize the Christians who constantly take refuge in that tired phrase “Judeo-Christian heritage.”

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The weak, the poor, the minority…

We’re so conditioned to expect the government to “save us” that we overlook government oppressing us.

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Giving away the choice

We ceded our right to choose our morality to government functionaries.

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It's not going to be fixed by government

Okay, the Supreme Court hosed the country on Obamacare.

It’s not going to be fixed by government.

So maybe it’s time to stop waiting for someone to save us?

After all, the Federal government works for the citizens.

If the citizens don’t want Obamacare and the FedGovs keep forcing it on us, then there is one question left.

Why is there still a Federal government?


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When bad service is the best option…

My ISP is Cable One.

In my case, the
last mile problem is more like the last hundred mile problem. Cable One specializes in rural locations, and my town is about as isolated as you can get. Most of the connection is a microwave uplink.

The “high speed” internet on the bill says 5 megabits per second download. Now I can hear you urban types sniggering into your Starbucks.

After about 9 a.m. and until about 8:30 p.m. on weekdays that “high speed” is lucky to break 1 Mps download. After 8:30 p.m. and on most weekends, my “high speed” might break .30 Mps.

Yes, that’s point three zero megabits per second.

Oddly enough, that’s about the break even point for Netflix. Much slower than that and even standard resolution black and white TV shows start stalling. And then there is Apple TV and Apple Movies, which can take hours to load under those conditions.

Some nights the download speed drops well under .09 megabits. About three or four times a month it drops to .02 megabits or lower. That’s when it’s barely usable for web surfing and email.

This isn’t something that recently happened. It’s been going on for years. The Cable One reps will lie through their teeth about the service being available. The number for the local office
always routes (through the internet) to the national help line which may or may not connect you to a real person. It’s not until you recite their little checklist before they have a chance to run through it that the service reps start listening.

I’ve replaced all my internal cable and connectors with professional grade, about three or four notches above the junk Cable One uses to connect the outside of the houses to their system. I own my cable modem.

Here’s the scary thing. It’s literally the best available here.

Now in part this happened because the city signed an exclusive deal with a cable company that was bought by another company that was acquired by another that merged with Cable One. Cable One has the coaxial cable monopoly.

Assuming that the “net neutrality” thing is applied, I fully expect the cable bill to at least double.

I’m debating if I want to call and complain again. The service the last few days has been worse. Now that could be because of the solar storm.

But I really want some competition.


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“We need to put the American flag down”

Identity politics and power through guilt will ALWAYS demand more no matter what is given…

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Abundantly clear

The free market doesn’t have government regulation.

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Nutcase

About the South Carolina church shooting. We know enough now.

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NeoNotes — Impress Me

You want to impress me, come up with something more than "the Bible told me so.” Don't make threats about judgement and eternal flame. Don't tell me about the changes it's made in your life. Don’t tell me how it’s “saved you.” Don’t tell me how you have the hotline to the “Almighty." 

And don’t tell me “it’s God’s judgement” when you’re the one spouting the words.

Tell me about the changes your faith makes in the world around you. Tell me what you do that makes the world better than when you got here.  Tell me how your faith manifests through you. 

Tell me about how you pass it on.

If that "Living Word" exists, it has to be in the hearts and souls of those people who have really embraced it. It's not in a dusty book. The verses don't matter except to show you the way. Tell me what lives behind those printed words. Tell me how you turned your sacrifice into a blessing.

Tell me about love. Tell me about the love you showed today.

Your actions show that. 

Your next choice starts now.
     — from the private journal of NeoWayland
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Flagging some questions

The “Confederate” flag (actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia) was raised over the capital of South Carolina by a Democrat governor in protest over the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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The narrative is not the tragedy

I’ve been asked why I haven’t commented on the South Carolina church massacre.

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Token - updated

With one move, the Imperious Leader’s administration tokenizes half the human race.

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One thing that can keep you free

Just because something is legal doesn’t mean that it is just.

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Decreed

The Imperious Leader literally decreed that non-profits must contribute to green technologies.

What happens when they don’t?

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Slow down the fast track

The Imperious Leader expects the American people to swallow the shit to get the good parts.

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Watching the headlines #3

“Doctors' Criticism Of ObamaCare Silenced By ACA Bureaucrats”

“Save the Bees: Eliminate Biofuel Mandates”

“Obama To Circumvent Congress With ‘Gag Order’ On Firearm Coverage”

“You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History”

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Leave them alone

Give government all the power you think is necessary. Watch as the one person who you think can’t be trusted with that power commands it against everything you hold dear.

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Core detail

Nope.

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Racism Today

Nope.

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No dissent, or The content of his character

Rhyd Wildermuth has shown me his character.

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Should the government…

Nope.

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Disarming

Does that person threaten you or yours?

Does that person take or damage your property?

Then why are you trying to control them?
     — NeoWayland
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Stop the denial

Marriage licenses exist so that the licenses can be denied.

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Accept but not celebrate

I won’t celebrate.

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Global warming destroyed the environmental movement

And it was all based on a lie.

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Not anymore

You can't childproof the world. The best you can do is world proof your children.
     — anonymous
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Power

Thorium is much, much, much more abundant than uranium.

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Imperial

They’ve forgotten that their power comes from the people.

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Drought conditions does not mean climate change

There are deserts here that have been deserts for ten thousand years.

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99 years of dollar signs

This barely touches on the basics, but it should show some general trends.

A 1915 dollar has $23.24 in purchasing power today. Gold averaged $18.99 per troy ounce.

A 1940 dollar has $16.77 in purchasing power today. Gold averaged $33.85 per troy ounce.

A 1950 dollar has $9.94 in purchasing power today. Gold averaged $34.72 per troy ounce.

A 1965 dollar has $7.52 in purchasing power today. Gold averaged $35.12 per troy ounce.

A 1980 dollar has $3.06 in purchasing power today. Gold averaged $615.00 per troy ounce.

A 1999 dollar has $1.43 in purchasing power today. Gold averaged $278.98 per troy ounce.

A 2008 dollar has $1.11 in purchasing power today. Gold averaged $871.96 per troy ounce.

A 2011 dollar has $1.07 in purchasing power today. Gold averaged $1571.52 per troy ounce.

I’ll spare you the accounting explanation. What you should take away from this is that government rigs these prices so it can draw profit on your loss. Between the currency and the price of gold, you’re losing money.

It gets worse.

When it comes to “investments” on anything from a bank passbook account to stocks to bonds, if your return on investment (ROI) is less than the inflation rate, then you are losing money and government gets the difference.

It’s a rigged game. You can’t win except with very high stakes and if the government backs your play.

So this entry ends with a simple question.

Who rigged the game?

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Ordinary people doing ordinary good

These last couple of weeks I’ve had things that have needed to be taken care of. Nothing major, just things that claimed my time and attention.

Well my companions (bless ‘em both) knew how stretched out I was. They also knew how important my semiannual Hair of the Bear thing was. Especially for someone who isn’t naturally social, a gathering can be a real lifeline. So they took care of it.

I’ll admit it threw me to be “hosting” and not actually cooking. And there were more people there than I would have invited on my own.

But (and this is the important bit), those marvelous ladies saw that I wasn’t going to be able to pull an event together at the last minute. So they did something about it.

When the histories are written, it’s always the Great Man on the White Horse. It’s the grand speeches. It’s the Glorious Deeds on an epic scale.

No one talks about what really holds our culture together. Ordinary people doing ordinary good. The small kindnesses given without a hope of reward. The things folks choose to do out of their own hearts because it’s the right thing to do.

There are many more of the small kindnesses than there are of the grandiose hooplas. It’s not the impressive things that we must cherish, it’s the the everyday actions. The things that people will do without being asked.

Ordinary people doing ordinary good. That’s the moral choice.

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NeoNotes — Tyranny of the absolute

If the choice is between the absolute on the left side or the absolute on the right, I am going to pick freedom despite both
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All Or Nothing

It’s a scam.

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NeoNotes — I wish more people were.

I'm for live and let live.

I wish more people were.

You should live your life as you choose. Just don't expect me to celebrate it because it is your life after all. And don't go after your neighbor because of the lawn he planted or the socks he wears or where he spends his Tuesday nights.
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The Return of Jim Crow

In the sixty years since the Civil Rights movement, the Left has entirely perverted the whole notion of civil rights. Civil Rights as the Founders intended meant the right of all citizens, regardless of race, color, religion, sexual, gender, etc., to be free of government constraints (although the government’s police powers certainly required the government to protect citizens when others amongst them worked to injure them or constrain their basic freedoms). Civil Rights as the Left demands it has become an all powerful government that is responsible for redistribution wealth, property, access to government and even happiness, from whites to blacks.
     — Bookworm, American Christians are the new blacks; and Leftists own the new Jim Crow movement
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Victim privilege - updated

Over the past few years I’ve been accused of white privilege and male privilege.

I’ve been told that my ideas reveal my unconscious bias.

I’ve been told that simply by living my life as I choose, I force others into a world that isn’t fair.

I’ve been told that I can’t quote people if they don’t match my skin color.

I’ve been told that my ideas of justice are antiquated.

I’ve been told that my words are code words for other ideas.

I’ve been told that I must watch carefully lest I hurt someone.

I think those people lied.

I think that by limiting the topics we discuss, those people seek power.

I think that’s why they choose the words we’re “allowed” to say.

I think that’s why they redefine the words as needed.

I think that’s why they pick the people who are allowed to talk.

I am tired of it.

Chris Hernandez had a great piece at The Federalist.

Yes, f*** your trauma. My sympathy for your suffering, whether that suffering was real or imaginary, ended when you demanded I change my life to avoid bringing up your bad memories. You don’t seem to have figured this out, but there is no “I must never be reminded of a negative experience” expectation in any culture anywhere on earth.

If your psyche is so fragile you fall apart when someone inadvertently reminds you of “trauma,” especially if that trauma consisted of you overreacting to a self-interpreted racial slur, you need therapy. You belong on a psychiatrist’s couch, not in college dictating what the rest of society can’t do, say, or think. Get your own head right before you try to run other people’s lives. If you expect everyone around you to cater to your neurosis, forever, you’re what I’d call a “failure at life,” doomed to perpetual disappointment.

Oh, I should add: f** my trauma, too. I must be old-fashioned, but I always thought coming to terms with pain was part of growing up. I’ve never expected anyone to not knock on my door because it reminds me of that terrifying morning decades ago. I’ve never blown up at anyone for startling me with a camera flash (I’ve never even mentioned it to anyone who did). I’ve never expected anyone to not talk about Iraq or Afghanistan around me, even though some memories still hurt. I don’t need trigger warnings because a book might remind me of a murder victim I’ve seen.

So I am going to call those folks on their victimhood. And I am not going to be nice.

I’m not responsible for their trigger moments. I won’t guard their safe spaces.

It’s time for people to grow up and take responsibility.

Or die waiting for someone to take care of them out of pity.

Power by victimhood depends on the other guy’s guilt.

I thought I had a lot more to say on this. But it’s pretty simple really.

I won’t feed the victimhood anymore.
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Watching the headlines #2

“CNN ATTACKS Duke basketball coach for NOT speaking out against new Indiana Religious Freedom law”

“Everybody's Lost Their Goddamn Mind Over Religious Freedom”

“The overblown hypocrisy of Tim Cook's business boycott of Indiana”

“Sounds like Apple’s CEO needs to disable the ‘hypocrite’ app on his iPhone”

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Dancing grannies demand freedom

The official titles don’t matter, aunts and grandmothers hold a community together.

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We finally hear Moore

You should read it all, it’s very good.

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Discriminate now

So let’s talk about discrimination.

Assume for a moment that I owned a second hand bookstore. It provides a decent living, but only because I put so much time into it.

One day a new customer walks in. He wants to order ten copies of The Turner Diaries. I politely tell him I don’t carry those books and that’s he’s welcome to find something else on the shelves. He snarls at me and leaves.

Within a week he’s filed a lawsuit against me for discrimination.

Let’s make it a little more complicated.

I go to the Christian bookstore across town. I ask for Adler’s Drawing Down the Moon. I know they should carry it, the chapter on Isaac Bonewits Cult Danger Evaluation Frame would be invaluable to ministers and pastors and church leaders. But since it’s a Pagan book, they don’t carry it and won’t order it.

Should I snarl and leave?

Should I sue?

Say I am hiring someone for my bookstore. It comes down to two candidates, a young man who is a little too interested in World of Warcraft and a young lady who doesn’t seem to have learned to cover her nether regions well. If everything else is equal between them, I know I’m going to get and keep more customers with the guy than with the girl.

They may come in to gawk at the gal, but they won’t buy stuff from her. Now if she was dressed neatly and showed respect for herself and the people around her, chances are she could outsell the guy. But if she’s the spectacle and the reason people come in to the store, customers won’t care about the stock.

Should she sue to get a job from me?

We discriminate all the time. We pick that Thai place over the one that’s closer because the food is better. We pick the mattress that works for both sleep and sex. We put our favorite song as a ringtone on our phone.

These are matters of individual choice and they should remain so.

If my neighbor is gay, should he only be allowed to date women? Isn’t he discriminating?

If I buy hamburger, should the National Egg Board sue me so I buy eggs instead?

If I turn left when I come home from the post office, should the merchants on the right side demand that I shop with them?

We can’t let society draw those lines for us.

Personal choice. Personal responsibility. Otherwise it’s slavery by another name.


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Voting

Remember the goal is FREEDOM. If the institutions don’t work towards that goal, we need to get rid of the institutions.

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NeoNotes — Answers & Questions

I’ve long since concluded that no one has all the answers or even most of the questions.
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By the content of their character

Obama lies. But that’s not the real problem.

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Dirty Water

Nothing to do with morality and everything to do with vote pandering

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Watching the headlines #1

Sacrificing rationality to sound vaguely important

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Free Range Kids

“You can’t childproof the world. The best you can do is worldproof your children.”

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Rebellion isn't free

Today I’ll talk about the Free Market Rebellion.

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Bottleneck

America’s internet doesn’t have the problem you think.

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Apple sneaks up on the competition

It’s not about Apple, it’s about the free market.

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Liberty Beats "Internet Freedom"

Absolutely great.

Same thing I said a couple of weeks ago, only put better.



Hat tip Cafe Hayek.

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If government doesn't trust you…

What changed?

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Government FREAK out

What changed?

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Military honor

Our military is mostly honorable people who want to do the right thing.

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Vandalism messes with my vigil

Cut one fiberoptic line and two-thirds of Arizona is isolated.

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The last, best hope

I’ve called the internet the last, best hope for humankind.

Yes, I caged the line from Babylon 5. It’s still true though.

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from crux № 2 — defining liberty

It’s not a right unless the other guy has it too.

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FedGovs go after the internet

There’s a secret plan.

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You are not entitled

I may not have heard it all, but I have heard enough.

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Drones

If the drone flies over your property, can you shoot it down?

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Going after the cash

Follow the money

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Isn't this racist?

Why don’t liberals get the blame for their words and actions?

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Would you live in tyranny?

“Papers, please”

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Don't trust public science - updated

Fudging the numbers again

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Pocketing climate change

It only takes a simple program and a scientific calculator to show the holes in the climate change models

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Tyranny of the 16th

Bookworm is looking for scapegoats

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The Return of Real ID

In Washington there are no bad ideas, just zombie ideas that keep getting resurrected.

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We can afford it? Not really.

Funny how much politicos want to spend your money.

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Reply to a Bookworm Rant

Bookworm is looking for scapegoats

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The Doctrine, the Dogma, the Ideal

I do dissent

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Stockman takes Wilson to the woodshed

Woodrow Wilson was not right.

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Honor in giving truth

I think that most people make mostly good choices.

Mostly.

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Whoops

I told people that Christianity didn’t mean much unless you were a Christian. It might even drive people away from a good cause.

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Choosing for themselves

More than one stream.

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Will you?

What’s been missing.

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State of discord

The Imperious Leader lied.

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Bright and shineys

Baubles & distractions

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Leap of faith

My goal isn’t winning internet arguments, it’s freedom.

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When truth is dissent

Very silly.

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Boom!

Now they are worried.

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Capitalism isn't

I believe that economics and morality should be based in free choice.

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Greener than thou

Power to control

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Human Lives Matter

So no matter what I’ve said before now, no matter what I’ve done before now, if I fail to do this now, I’m racist.

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NeoNotes - Choose your right

I believe that economics and morality should be based in free choice.

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