"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
I think one can fairly infer Jerry Pournelle’s view of the place of the “feddle gummint” (my term, not his) in our lives by this reference to the FDA,
“My own view is that government should enforce truth in advertising, and if someone says his product is snake oil and most people think it’s worthless, but there are some who believe it can revive the dead, the FDA should insist that the stuff is actually made with oil squeezed out of snakes and otherwise get out of the way. I understand that mine is not the most popular view and is unlikely to be adopted.”
This is intended to be a practical manual of instruction for the American layman who has taken no regular part in politics, has no personal political ambitions, and no desire to make money out of politics, but who, nevertheless, would like to do something to make his or her chosen form of government work better. If you have a gnawing, uneasy feeling that you should be doing something to preserve our freedoms and to protect and improve our way of life but have been held back by lack of time, lack of money, or the helpless feeling that you individually could not do enough to make the effort worthwhile, then this book was written for you.
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The book is currently being sold by Baen Books in a bundle with Taxpayer’s Tea Party by Sharon Cooper and Chuck Asay. The cost for both books bundled together in any of a wide range of eBook formats is just $8. I’m currently reading my copy of Take Back Your Government in my web browser in the html version.
Each new bill before Congress haqs the potential for expanding the bureaucracy to implement the bill and, Das Buros steht immer, that is, once a bureau or agency or arm of the “feddle gummint” is filled with bureaucraps, the shit just never seems to get hauled out (bureaucracies tend only to expand, not contract–or even disappear when the ostensible reason for their creation disappears).
That alone, it seems to me, is reason enough to proceed very, very slowly when about to create a whole new bureaucrappy, like that which would accompany “feddle gummint” illegal (unconstitutional) meddling in health care delivery.
Oh, and then there’s the whole enumerated powers thing that congresscritters seem to have (deliberately) swept under the rug. “Look over there. Don’t mind that Constitution thing we’ve hidden behind a curtain of bullshit.”
…for surviving dealing with politicians *spit*, Mass MEdia Podpeople, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and other Loony Left Moonbats through the end of 2009 and beyond:
Build on these essentials with other items–perhaps a full hazmat suit.
Concerns about Obama’s disingenuity on the issue of illegal alien coverage under his proposals for nationalizing health care are misplaced. Sure, he does probably intend to offer amnesty (by some less loaded term in order to deny that it is in fact amnesty, just like Bush II tried to do) so illegals would be covered under his grab of 15% of the economy, but that’s not the disturbing thing.
No, as he’s made clear, by appointing crooks and liars and thieves (Oh, my!) to cabinet and other positions of power, and by not just his constant lies but the way he lies and uses the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind as his own unreconstructed Pravda, he fully intends to make the US just like Mexico in at least one very important regard: he is remaking the US government over at warp speed into the same kind of kleptocratic kakistocracy that is Mexico’s criminal organization operating under the legal fiction of being a “legitimate government”.
Thinking on the current administration’s apparent views on terrorism and terrorists, I’m reminded of a contrary POV “Ding Chavez”–a character in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six–articulated about getting inside a terrorist’s mind,
“…the best thing about the inside of a terrorist’s mind was a 185-grain 10mm hollow-point bullet entering at high speed.”
Or, as a bumper sticker I saw not recently said, “Marine Sniper: You Can Run, You Just Die Tired.”
…to the Left Coast: ACORN just keeps the “Counseling for Pedophile Sex Slave Ring” advice rolling in! Glen Beck had it at the top of the hour @5:00 Eastern 09*15-09, and you can find it now at Biggovernment.com.
Coming soon, a new super hero movie about Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe Exposing the Evils of ACORN and Our (Poisonous)Nut-in-Chief? *heh*
Remember, this is a guy–The 0!–who promised ACORN “a place at the table,” who has a longstanding symbiotic relationship with ACORN, who has held clinics for ACORN on using Alinsky’s tactics for radicals and has represented them in court cases to force banks to give risky loans (you know, the kinds of risky loans that eventually brought down the Fannie Mae house of cards, etc.?).
Birds of a feather should be tarred with the same brush. (Yeh, I mixed the metaphors. So? Metas are for mixing, sometimes. *heh*)
Once an investigation starts, as has apparently already been started in Brooklyn, who knows what may come of subpoenaed records? Once one card falls, perhaps even Eric Holder won’t be able to derail a RICO investigation. And if THAT were to start, all The 0!’s longstanding ties to ACORN will eventually come out. Teapot Dome Scandal? Watergate? Penny-ante stuff. If this gains juuuust enough traction, it can
make investigations of the rest of The 0!’s past more likely
quite possibly bring about a change of administration before Inauguration Day, 2013.
Free range pigs frequently eat acorns–after all, oaks are relatively plentiful in many of the world’s forests and their nuts are nutritious, but,
“…Raw acorns contain high concentrations of tannic acid, so their taste is bitter, and some varieties can in their raw state be toxic to humans.”
Pecans, however, are delicious and nutritious right out of the shell; no other processing is needed for they contain no poisonous chemicals naturally.
Just so the political ACORNs are toxic, while the newly-discovered political PECANs are highly (politically) nutritious, without the harmful toxins of (political) ACORNs. Oh, PECANS?
People Eagerly Crushing Acorn Nuts
As you can plainly see, PECANs are for (the) People.
