Sometimes, you're wrong.

Tags: truth ∙ either/or ∙ solution ∙ progressives ∙ conservatives ∙ corruption ∙ ideas ∙ person ∙ life or death

““Every government program will be more expensive and more expansive than anything you had in mind when you proposed it. It will be applied in all sorts of ways you never dreamed of.””
     — Harry Browne, Principles of Government

Tags: Harry Browne ∙ goverment ∙ expensive ∙ expansive

““Power will always be misused. Give good people the power to do good and that power eventually will be in the hands of bad people to do bad.””
     — Harry Browne, Principles of Government

Tags: Harry Browne ∙ goverment ∙ power ∙ misued

““Government doesn't work. Because government is force, because government programs are designed to enrich the politically powerful, because you can't control government and make it do what's right, because every new government program soon wanders from its original purpose, and because politicians eventually misuse the power you give them, it is inevitable that no government program will deliver on the promises the politicians make for it.””
     — Harry Browne, Principles of Government

Tags: Harry Browne ∙ goverment ∙ does not work

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: restitution ∙ compensation ∙ John McCain ∙ Arizona ∙ Senate ∙ zoning law ∙ housing ∙ farmers’ market ∙ racism ∙ DoJ ∙ sexual harassment ∙ Great Pinecone ∙ Vanity Fair ∙ Hillary Clinton ∙ Scott Adams ∙ censorship ∙ GMOs ∙ Rose Marie ∙ Newt Gingrich ∙ election

““Government must be subject to absolute limits. Because politicians have every incentive to expand government, and with it their power, there must be absolute limits on government.””
     — Harry Browne, Principles of Government

Tags: Harry Browne ∙ goverment ∙ limits

Tags: Al Gore ∙ election ∙ Arizona ∙ climate change ∙ artic blast ∙ United Airlines ∙ UK ∙ Roy Moore ∙ gun law ∙ Ron Wyden ∙ #MeToo ∙ marijuana ∙ alcohol ∙ radical feminists ∙ occupational licensing ∙ victimhood ∙ freedom ∙ self destructive ∙ intel community ∙ Don Boudreaux ∙ Claire Wolfe ∙ Homeland Security ∙ no-go zones ∙ radical Islam ∙ Sheila Jackson Lee ∙ fake news

Tags: ordinary ∙ illegal ∙ Donald Trump ∙ United Nations ∙ israel ∙ homicide ∙ Chicago ∙ liberal policies ∙ wealth effect ∙ income equality ∙ blockchain ∙ voter fraud ∙ police union ∙ electric bikes ∙ healthcare

❝❝Pardon, I don't think anyone is capable of judging what is and is not a "real" religion. I can't tell you how many times certain Christians have told me that my faith isn't real.

Pauline Christianity is something completely different that what Yeshua Ben Yosef preached. Gnostic Christianity is something completely different yet again. Which is true? Who knows? Who am I to judge what happens between someone else and the Divine?

I think these are the wrong questions. Christians are much nicer when they aren't the only game around. From what little I've seen, the same applies to Muslims.

I think what matters is how we treat others, especially others who do not share our faith and culture. Ramming it down other's throat by force will cause resentment. That's where some monotheists go wrong. It's not that they have the True Faith™, its that no other faith can be allowed. Because of their Greater Understanding and enlightenment, they can break society's rule for the Greater Good. Thou shalt not dissent.

Climate change alarmists stole the game lock, stock, and barrel. It's common for some of the radical feminists too. If anything, I think it indicates a weakness in the argument. Their faith isn't strong enough, they can't convince others, so it must be forced.

Getting back to Christianity, how much would history have changed if Constantine hadn't made it the state faith? How would it have developed if it had stayed one faith among many? How much of the Official® was really about politics and controlling the populace?

Could it be that control is really the issue?❞❞

Tags: cross posted ∙ Christian ∙ Christianity ∙ Christians ∙ Christian bash ∙ Gnostic Christianity ∙ Constantine ∙ Muslims ∙ thou shalt not dissent ∙ enlightenment ∙ radical feminists ∙ climate change alarmists ∙ Yeshua Ben Yosef ∙ Pauline Christianity

Tags: israel ∙ UNESCO ∙ Christmas card ∙ bitcoin ∙ regulation ∙ charity ∙ volunteers ∙ healthcare ∙ University of Minnesota ∙ Christmas ∙ humor ∙ Santa Claus

““People get offended by different things, but just because something offends you, doesn't mean the whole world has to change to accommodate you, so I would say please be more tolerant.””
     — Mark Wivell, Family asked to remove 'offensive' Jesus sign from their Christmas display because it offended a neighbour

Tags: Mark and Lynn Wivell ∙ offends ∙ tolerance

Family asked to remove 'offensive' Jesus sign from their Christmas display because it offended a neighbour

““A family has been asked to take down a sign with the name “Jesus” from their Christmas display, after a neighbour reportedly claimed it was offensive.

Mark and Lynn Wivell said their homeowner’s association had made the request after they put up the display outside their home in Adams County, Pennsylvania.

"As part of our Christmas decoration, we would display the name Jesus to point out to everyone that we in this family believe that the reason for the season is to celebrate the birth of Jesus," Mr Wivell told the FOX43 news channel.””
     — Henry Austin

Tags: clipping ∙ Henry Austin ∙ religion ∙ holiday display ∙ Christmas ∙ Adams County ∙ Mark and Lynn Wivell

““Good men don’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.””
     — The Doctor, A Good Man Goes to War

Tags: Doctor Who ∙ good man ∙ rules

❝❝Cutting taxes only makes the problem worse unless they cut spending.

Personally I don't think Congress should get paid unless they bring spending in under income. I'm also in favor of liens against their homes and seizing their bank accounts.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: taxes ∙ spending cuts ∙ Congress ∙ liens ∙ seizing

“Why legal guns can’t be banned from (Delaware) state parks”

Tags: Craig Anderson ∙ Delaware ∙ guns ∙ state parks ∙ clipping ∙ maxims

Although I do not celebrate Christmas, this will be the last headline roundup until Tuesday. It's almost impossible to find interesting news stories this close to the holiday.

Tags: Christmas ∙ news

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: Obama administration ∙ Rand Paul ∙ special counsel ∙ Trump campaign ∙ Uranium One ∙ FBI ∙ corporate debt ∙ corporate accountability ∙ tax reform ∙ George Orwell ∙ stock market ∙ HHS ∙ higher education ∙ Bob Corker ∙ mainstream media ∙ rumors ∙ lies ∙ innuendo ∙ fake news ∙ California ∙ high cost ∙ Russia ∙ Congress ∙ Hezbollah ∙ Christopher Steele ∙ Donald Trump

U.N. Vote Rebukes U.S. for Jerusalem Move

““The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday for a resolution effectively rebuking U.S. President Donald Trump for recognizing the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and pledging to move the U.S. embassy there.

The vote came despite threats by Mr. Trump and U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley that the U.S. would take punitive measures, such as reducing foreign aid and cutting contributions to the U.N., against countries voting in favor of the resolution.

The General Assembly resolution didn’t explicitly refer to the U.S., instead asserting that unilateral decisions such as Mr. Trump’s have no legal effect and must be rescinded. In the vote, 128 countries voted in favor and 9 against, with 35 abstaining.

“We will remember [the vote], when so many countries come calling on us to pay even more and to use our influence to their benefit,” Ms. Haley said during the General Assembly debate, adding the emergency meeting and the vote were signs of disrespect toward the U.S. for exercising its sovereignty by deciding to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. She said the vote wouldn’t affect Mr. Trump’s decision.””
     — Farnaz Fassihi

So let's talk about this.

The UN has absolutely no power to interfere with the internal affairs of any member nation.

In the past, the UN has meddled for "humanitarian reasons" or to prevent greater violence. That hasn't worked out well at all.

Most of the money and most of the military might of the UN comes from the United States. Overwhelmingly so. If the US decided to take it's toys and go home, not only would the UN have to move, but it's ability to act would be less than a fifth of what it is now.

Since it's founding, the UN has tried to steer the World towards one world government. American elites have pursued globalization along the lines of the European Union. But centralized unaccountable bureaucracies seldom work. That in turn leads to more government, more technocrats, and even less accountability. For the last thirty years, globalization has be the goal.

Trump is going to disrupt things.

Tags: Farnaz Fassihi ∙ clipping ∙ guest content ∙ United Nations ∙ European Union ∙ globalization ∙ Donald Trump ∙ Nikki Haley

❝❝Every moral absolute I’ve ever encountered depends on cultural or religious assumptions that probably aren’t shared by all people present.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ absolute

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: Export-Import Bank ∙ taxes ∙ Obamacare ∙ data breech ∙ Chappaquiddick ∙ Ted Kennedy ∙ Senate ∙ crony capitalism ∙ GMOs ∙ United Nations ∙ Jerusalem ∙ Sweden ∙ gang rapes ∙ tax bill ∙ income tax ∙ public schools ∙ fake history ∙ Facebook

Standard Approved Government Solution

Tags: Harry Browne ∙ goverment ∙ limits ∙ does not work ∙ power ∙ misued ∙ control ∙ expensive ∙ expansive ∙ 2003

““What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a God.””
     — William Shakespeare

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““Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.””
     — Patrick Henry

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““A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.””
     — Camille Paglia

Tags: Camille Paglia ∙ man ∙ manhood ∙ masculinity ∙ risky ∙ elusive ∙ revolt ∙ confirmed ∙ coerced ∙ sensitivity

““Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men.””
     — Elisabeth Elliott

Tags: Elisabeth Elliott ∙ man ∙ women ∙ calling ∙ relieved ∙ grateful

““The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.””
     — Michael Cloud

Tags: Michael Cloud ∙ power ∙ abuse

Tea Company Exchanges Fair Trade Status For Giving Back Directly to their Farmers

““Tiesta Tea’s co-founders and marketing director just got back from installing a water well for our company’s hibiscus farmers in Nigeria.

Words can hardly describe the feeling of seeing thousands of villagers so genuinely happy to receive one of life’s basic necessities: water. Giving back directly to that community made a life-changing impact, not only for our farmers, but on our entire company.

To summarize our experience, we defied the US travel recommendations and traveled to northern Nigeria (Kano and Jigawa states), an area known for unrest and harsh conditions. With the Boko Haram activity in the region, we knew this would be a risky journey.

Our visas were denied through the typical US process. Driven by our determination to give back, however, we had to work with the Nigerian government directly to receive a visa upon arrival.

As a loose leaf tea company, we get all of our hibiscus from farmers in Jigawa, Nigeria, who produce the best hibiscus in the world. Nigeria is one of the few countries that can produce hibiscus because of the hot, dry climate required to grow it.

Learning that women and children spend up to 5 hours every day walking 2-3km to collect water to use for cooking, cleaning, and drinking, we recognized the opportunity to give back to our hibiscus farmers.””
     — Rachel Heinzinger

Tags: Rachel Heinzinger ∙ Boko Haram ∙ clipping ∙ Tiesta Tea ∙ water well ∙ hibiscus ∙ Nigeria

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““Duty is the essence of manhood.””
     — George Patton

Tags: George Patton ∙ duty ∙ manhood ∙ man

““The lesson taught at this point by human experience is simply this, that the men who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down. Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within.””
     — Frederick Douglass

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““We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shirking the rough work that must always be done.””
     — Theodore Roosevelt

Tags: Theodore Roosevelt ∙ man ∙ manhood ∙ iron qualities ∙ positive virtues ∙ resolution ∙ courage ∙ indomitable will ∙ power ∙ shirking ∙ rough work

“This video looks at the concerning trend toward the sexualization of children through shows like Big Mouth, provocative toys like Bratz, and the dangers of advocating acceptance of attraction to children.”

Tags: Roaming Millennial ∙ video ∙ guest content ∙ child sexuality ∙ sexualization of children

Tags: net neutrality ∙ Hezbollah ∙ Millennials ∙ Karl Marx ∙ laundering money ∙ used cars ∙ CDC ∙ Uruguay ∙ drug lords ∙ USAPATRIOT ∙ banned ∙ homeless ∙ charity ∙ starup culture ∙ marijuana ∙ Barack Obama ∙ cocaine ∙ government ∙ perverse ∙ sexualization of children

““The way of a superior man is three-fold: virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.””
     — Confucius

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““Private and public life are subject to the same rules—truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.””
     — Robert E. Lee

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“Marine's wife finds way to include deployed husband in touching Christmas card”

Tags: Ethan Sacks ∙ holiday ∙ Christmas card ∙ Marine ∙ Andrew Smith ∙ North Carolina ∙ clipping ∙ picture ∙ Andrea Smith ∙ Camp Lejeune ∙ Leslie Owen

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Funny how that only works if there is a liberal President

Tags: Christopher Carbone ∙ clipping ∙ Cameron Millar ∙ Edinburgh ∙ Scotland ∙ crowdfund ∙ bionic hand

““No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity, for he is not permitted to prove himself.””
     — Seneca

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““We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.””
     — Theodore Roosevelt

Tags: Theodore Roosevelt ∙ man ∙ timid peace ∙ victorious effort ∙ never wrongs ∙ neighbor ∙ friend ∙ virile ∙ stern strife ∙ life ∙

““Giving money and power to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.””
     — P.J. O'Rourke

Tags: P. J. O’Rourke ∙ money ∙ power ∙ politicos ∙ whiskey ∙ car keys ∙ teen age boys

““The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.””
     — Thomas Sowell

Tags: Thomas Sowell ∙ socialism ∙ argument

““What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.””
     — Thomas Paine

Tags: Thomas Paine ∙ cheap ∙ lightly ∙ value

““A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.””
     — Winston Churchill

Tags: Winston Churchill ∙ man ∙ consequences ∙ obstacles ∙ dangers

Demonstrating that certain modern liberals don't understand economics

Tags: Aristotle ∙ friendship ∙ young ∙ old ∙ noble

Tags: eminent domain ∙ #MeToo ∙ K9 ∙ bad cops ∙ sovereign immunity ∙ qualified immunity ∙ sexual harassment ∙ places of worship ∙ DHS ∙ chemical tests ∙ parishioners ∙ surveillance cameras ∙ border wall ∙ cellphone surveillance device ∙ GPS ∙ siezed ∙ Federal Labor Board ∙ franchise ∙ internet services ∙ asset forfeiture ∙ bitcoin

Tags: calendars ∙ sex workers

What does it say about Bill Maer? - updated

Tags: maxims ∙ mutual ∙ voluntary ∙ exchange ∙ consenting activities ∙ consenting adults ∙ regulation ∙ license ∙ legislature ∙ economic disparity ∙ KYFHO

“The Tea Act: The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party”

Tags: calendars ∙ 1773 ∙ Tea Act ∙ Boston Tea Party ∙ painting ∙ guest content

““Walk toward the fire. Don’t worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks. But if you keep going, you’re sending a message to people who are rooting for you, who are agreeing with you. The message is that they can do it, too.””
     — Andrew Breitbart

Tags: Andrew Breitbart ∙ speech wars ∙ Isaiah's job

This is bar none my favorite picture version of this George Orwell quote. The guy's expression sells it. He didn't expect it, and now he has to think about it.

And yes, it influenced me. It's probably my favorite Orwell quote.

Tags: George Orwell ∙ picture ∙ guest content ∙ memes ∙ do not want to hear

You should know these rights. You should defend these rights.

Tags: Bill of Rights ∙ First Amendment ∙ Second Amendment ∙ Third Amendment ∙ Fourth Amendment ∙ Fifth Amendment ∙ Sixth Amenedment ∙ Seventh Amendment ∙ Eighth Amendment ∙ Ninth Amendment ∙ Tenth Amendment

““If you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead.””
     — Penn Jillette

Tags: Penn Jillette ∙ picture ∙ guest content ∙ Utopia ∙ sharp right ∙ sharp left ∙ money ∙ sex ∙ memes

❝❝I'm not allowed to share her story while she still lives, but my mother was amazing. While other women were complaining and expecting someone to save them from Terrible Injustice, Mom faced down the obstacles and changed things. Not by protesting, but by quietly demanding the same respect she gave. I learned the aunts and grandmothers theory of history by watching her. She's retired now (for the fifth time) and I am now her caregiver. I'm still terribly proud of her.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Mom ∙ respect ∙ aunts & grandmothers

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: Christian ∙ campus ∙ mass shootings ∙ Las Vegas ∙ shooting ∙ The Satanic Temple ∙ lawsuit ∙ State Department ∙ Hillary Clinton ∙ religion ∙ surveillance ∙ Congress ∙ net neutrality ∙ competition ∙ University of Iowa ∙ Faith organization ∙ humanist ∙ atheist ∙ climate change ∙ hate crime

Odd tactic from the Grand and Glorious Imperious Leader

Tags: Diné ∙ oppress ∙ Native American ∙ capitalism ∙ borrow ∙ Voting Rights Act of 1965 ∙ Western Civilization ∙ pluralism ∙ choice ∙ responsibility ∙ clear title ∙ Hernando De Soto ∙ American Dream ∙ government ∙ Amerindians ∙ the Rez ∙ victimhood

““I am an American and a Patriot. I am my country's keeper. The President and Congress report to me. And so - I will stay informed and involved. Ignorance, apathy, and complacency are my enemy. I will make my voice heard and not just at election time. Silence is the same as consent in the face of oppression. I can make a difference. I matter.I am an American and a Patriot.””

Tags: picture ∙ American ∙ patriot ∙ President ∙ Congress ∙ informed ∙ involved ∙ ignorance ∙ apathy ∙ complacency ∙ enemy ∙ voice ∙ election ∙ silence ∙ consent ∙ oppression ∙ memes

Regular readers know that I've agreed and disagreed with Mrs. Bookworm before. She's one of my daily reads, and I am a semi-regular commenter at her site.

Well, she's done an excellent piece on The pathetic legacy of feminism’s Women’s Liberation Movement, Here's an excerpt.

““The Women’s Liberation Movement, that bridge between Second and Third Wave feminism, might be summed up as follows: We are women and, with enough government programs, public service announcements, and Planned Parenthood outlets, we can eventually be invincible!

Except after forty years of this “you are woman, you are strong, you are invincible” yadda, yadda, yadda talk, the daily sex scandals are revealing that the whole empowerment thing has been a sham. It turns out that, when confronted with an unprincipled alpha male, women are weak. Women do not fight back when these brutes sexually bully, humiliate, or assault them. Women are victims not warriors.””

The whole piece is worth your valuable time. And if you aren't a regular reader, give her a try. You may not always agree, but she does make you think.

Tags: Bookworm ∙ feminism ∙ Women’s Liberation Movement ∙ clipping ∙ guest content

How hate and debate came to a Connecticut mosque

““The night of Nov. 14, 2015, was not the first time Ted Hakey, 50, went into his backyard in Meriden, Connecticut, and fired guns to let off some steam. It was the night after a deadly terror attack in Paris, and Hakey was furious.

So he shot his Springfield Armory M1A .308-caliber rifle into the air. Some of those shots hit the Baitul Aman Mosque next door. Luckily, no one was in the building at the time.

“I wanted to scare ’em, but the shots that hit were never supposed to hit,” says Hakey, who admits he harbored significant hate for Muslims back then. His Facebook posts reflect that well enough.

Prosecutors used some of those posts to build their case against him. The shooting got him six months in jail on federal hate crime charges, but leaders of the mosque argued he should be forgiven and not even serve jail time. Dr. Mohammed Qureshi, the mosque president, expressed this feeling to the judge at Hakey’s sentencing.

For 29-year-old Zahir Mannan, the criminal case was an opportunity to show Hakey and anyone else paying attention — which by then included the national media — what Islam is really about.””
     — Arthur Nazaryan

Tags: Ted Hakey ∙ Zahir Mannan ∙ Meriden, Connecticut ∙ guns ∙ hate crime ∙ Arthur Nazaryan ∙ Baitul Aman Mosque ∙ forgiven ∙ ohammed Qureshi ∙ islam

Thoughts before election day

Tags: Nazis ∙ Nikki Haley ∙ Michelle Cretella ∙ Fox ∙ Disney ∙ transgender ∙ Bill O'Reilly ∙ sexual harassment ∙ rumor ∙ arrested ∙ 11 year old ∙ Carterfone ∙ Carterfone ∙ net neutrality ∙ Senate ∙ Republican ∙ Roger Stone ∙ state and local taxes ∙ sex trafficing ∙ sex workers ∙ Maggie McNeil ∙ Donald Trump ∙ Republicans ∙ culture wars ∙ bad cops

Tags: Roaming Millennial ∙ video ∙ guest content ∙ Masterpiece Cakeshop ∙ Jack Phillips ∙ discriminate ∙ wedding cake

❝❝Faith and religion don't stay in the nice neat boxes and cabinets we make for them. Syncretism happens, even if it offends the True Believer™.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ faith ∙ religion ∙ syncretism

Tags: goverment ∙ reason ∙ eloquence ∙ force ∙ servant ∙ master ∙ apocryphal ∙ George Washington ∙ memes

““We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.””
     — John F. Kennedy

Tags: John F. Kennedy ∙ open market ∙ American people ∙ fear ∙ unpleasant facts ∙ foreign ideas ∙ falsehood ∙ truth ∙ competitive values ∙ alien philosophies

You didn't think they were serious, did you?

Tags: politicos ∙ left-wing ∙ right-wing ∙ children ∙ fighting poverty ∙ family values ∙ fighting drugs ∙ goverment ∙ bigger ∙ Harry Browne

Tags: student loan debt ∙ deficit ∙ Republicans ∙ Roy Moore ∙ Donald Trump ∙ Uber ∙ TSA ∙ Real ID ∙ FBI ∙ perjury ∙ Obama administration ∙ Trump campaign ∙ polar bears ∙ price gouging ∙ accusations ∙ Georgia ∙ collapse ∙ lawmakers ∙ bitcoin ∙ bubble ∙ special counsel ∙ Glen Reynolds ∙ Lisa Page ∙ Peter Strzok ∙ shopping mall ∙ commercial real estate

Works like a charm.

Tags: maxims ∙ religion ∙ mainstream ∙ authentic ∙ legitimate ∙ faith ∙ concede

“Protectionism at play? Politicians say food trucks are "unfair competition" for restaurants.”

Tags: ReasonTV ∙ video ∙ John Stossel ∙ regulations ∙ government ∙ guest content ∙ food truck

Man Spends Black Friday Paying For $10K Worth Of Toys For Local Kids

““A New Jersey man spent this Black Friday putting together a great surprise for dozens of local families.

The man, identified only as Charlie K., told CBS 3 that he woke up Friday morning planning to shop for his son when a bright idea hit him. He went over to the Toys R Us store in the town of Cherry Hill, where he paid for orders that customers had put on layaway.

He wound up paying for more than 60 orders totaling over $10,000, according to WMUR.

“I’m trying to bring some happiness to people, to the community that brought happiness to me and my family,” he told CBS 3. “I love this community and I am trying to provide back to it.”

A Toys R Us spokeswoman confirmed the good deed.

“We love the heartwarming acts of one secret Santa who visited Toys R Us Cherry Hill this morning - Charlie K. paid off more than 62 Layaway orders totaling approximately $10,780,” the spokeswoman told NJ.com.

On top of that, Charlie K. also purchased an additional $2,000 worth of toys for Toys for Tots, a charity run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve that brings Christmas gifts to children whose parents can’t afford them.””
     — Hilary Hanson

Tags: Hilary Hanson ∙ toys ∙ Black Friday ∙ Toys R Us ∙ Toys for Tots ∙ New Jersey

““Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other.””
     — Harry Browne

Tags: Harry Browne ∙ conservatives ∙ poverty ∙ force ∙ moral ∙ government

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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““What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.””
     — Thomas Sowell

Tags: Thomas Sowell ∙ Left ∙ human condition ∙ tragedy ∙ wise ∙ noble

This Glowing Blanket Is Designed to Ease Kids' Fear of the Dark

““Many kids have a security blanket they bring to bed with them every night, but sometimes, a regular blankie is no match for the monsters that invade their imaginations once the lights are off. Now there’s a glow-in-the-dark blanket designed to make children feel safer in bed, no night light required.

Dubbed the Force Field Cloak, the fleece blanket comes in several colorful, glowing patterns that remain invisible during the day. At night, you leave the blanket under a bright light for about 10 minutes, then the shining design will reveal itself in the dark. The glow lasts 8 to 10 hours, just long enough to get a child through the night.””
     — Michele Debczak

Tags: kids ∙ security blanket ∙ glow-in-the-dark ∙ clipping

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: Barack Obama ∙ State Department ∙ diplomat ∙ broadband ∙ Daniel Shaver ∙ Justice Department ∙ bad cops ∙ manslaughter ∙ Republicans ∙ mistake ∙ Hillary Clinton ∙ Donald Trump ∙ CFPB ∙ Department of Defense ∙ audit ∙ Las Vegas ∙ shooting ∙ destroyed wealth

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Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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These older blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories.

Tags: Tim Newman ∙ rights ∙ EU citizens ∙ bureaucrat

Great quote that's right on the money

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The toy manufacturer was caught by surprise at user's ingenuity

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It's for your own good!

Tags: Kurds ∙ Muslim ∙ prayer ∙ Walmart

A new study blames global warming, but provides almost no information

Tags: video ∙ John Stossel ∙ New York Times ∙ bias

Tags: corruption ∙ Obamacare ∙ Indiana ∙ fine ∙ property rights ∙ Roy Moore ∙ election ∙ healthcare ∙ speech wars ∙ #MeToo ∙ Facebook ∙ California ∙ Supreme Court ∙ eggs

Those aren't union members on the picket line

Tags: Winston Churchill ∙ dictator ∙ pedestals ∙ forbidden ∙ bayonets ∙ soldiers ∙ truncheons ∙ police ∙ fear ∙ thoughts

❝❝When the NFL players are on the field, that's not their time. They're being paid millions to play and put on a good show. That's millions by the fans in the stands and the viewers on TV. The NFL is selling a product, it's not something holy. If the fans and viewers don't like what they see, they will take their money elsewhere. And then where will the players be? Off the field on their own time, who cares what the players think? That's their time. Off the field, they have to prove their ideas just like anyone else. But when the players made their paid time political time, they destroyed their own brand.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ NFL ∙ paid ∙ time ∙ fans ∙ viewers

A few thoughts on the big summer films and declining box office revenues

Tags: Sigmund Freud ∙ freedom ∙ responsibility

Microsoft's new Chinese web portal censor's words like "freedom" and "democracy"

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Older headlines that don't merit their own entry

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“LDS Church unveils charity vending machines on Temple Square”

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“Man Who Gave The Last Generator To A Crying Stranger Gets A Free One From Lowe's”

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“Scientists Create World’s First ‘Molecular Robot’ Capable Of Building Molecules”

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❝❝Celebrate your beliefs and cherish your faith. All I ask is the same. Just don't demand that my beliefs and actions are bound by yours. Live and let live.

What you believe isn't important to me. Your freedom to choose what to believe, that is vital. That is what I will defend.❞❞
     — NeoWayland, A Pagan looks at “Christian America”

Tags: maxims ∙ beliefs ∙ faith ∙ live & let live ∙ freedom of choice ∙ Christian

“What are human rights? Are they universal? This video compares the definition of natural vs. legal rights, and positive vs. negative rights. Locke's Second Treatise of Government was a big inspiration to me in this video, so if you haven't read it yet, you definitely should :)”

Tags: Roaming Millennial ∙ video ∙ guest content ∙ natural rights ∙ legal rights ∙ positive rights ∙ negative rights

Older headlines that don't merit their own entry

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“Senator Jon Tester Showing How He Received the Republican "Tax Reform" Bill Just Hours before the Late Night Vote was Scheduled and how it was marked up in a way that made it impossible to read/understand. Is this even legal?”

Tags: Congress ∙ Senate ∙ tax bill ∙ Jon Tester ∙ video ∙ guest content

❝❝There are two assumptions implicit in public accommodation laws. First is that there is a class of people who no matter what can never ever do things on their own. Second is that most people no matter what can never ever be trusted to do the right thing.

I think both assumptions are wrong.

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Good law has been used for bad purposes since someone bothered to write down the law. The question you should ask is which is more important, freedom or misuse of the law?

It's my old friend, the parity test. If Christians can be barred from living their faith, what's to stop pagans from being barred from living theirs? Or atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, or any of a thousand others?

Just because someone does something you don't like doesn't mean that it should be illegal and that someone should be punished for it. I'd say that the guideline should be measurable harm to someone's person, liberty, and property. Hurting your feelings shouldn't qualify. I deal with the difference between mala in se and mala prohibita laws at my politics blog at www DOT paganvigil DOT com SLASH files SLASH RootsGovPower061204 DOT html.

Incidentally, the right of free association was one of the "understood" rights covered by the Tenth Amendment. After all, the U.S. had just fought a war over it.

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Up until that time, it was one of the biggest wars about non-association ever fought.

Freedoms seldom clash with each other. Someone wanting to control others through religion isn't freedom, it's politics. Knowing the difference can be helpful.

I'm not responsible for how someone feels, especially since both the feelings and the standards used to justify those feelings change often. Measurable harm to someone's person, property, and liberty is one of the few objective standards we can agree on. A microaggression is what the victim says it is, and some things become microaggressions that weren't last week. It's privilege. I don't have time or energy to indulge it anymore.❞❞

Tags: freedom ∙ misuse of law ∙ parity test ∙ measurable harm ∙ mala in se ∙ mala prohibita ∙ Tenth Amendment ∙ microaggression ∙ victim ∙ privilege

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Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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Older headlines that don't merit their own entry

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““I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.””
     — W. E. B. Du Bois

Tags: W. E. B. Du Bois ∙ liberty

Just in case you wanted to know

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Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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I know you were waiting breathlessly

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What would you do and why would you do it?

Tags: Thomas Sowell ∙ leaders

Roundup of my link stack

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““Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.””
     — Richard Baxter

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Check out these stories all over the web

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Older headlines that don't merit their own entry

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I'm spending time cleaning up and standardizing the code and format of older blog entries.

I'm also transferring entries from the old file structure to the current one and reformatting those pages. Then I'm putting in redirect pages at the old addresses.

I plan on resuming regular blogging around the first of the year. But the occasional new post will probably slip through.

Tags: code ∙ reformat

A panic is not an answer: We’re at imminent risk of turning this #metoo moment into a frenzied rush to blame all men

““Maybe so. But they could also hurt young women, who need the support and mentorship of male supervisors. In many industries, this means the kind of after-hours collaboration that has always advanced young men.

Unfortunately, a new puritanism seems to be ascendant. Timothy Noah of Politico suggests we could limit sexual harassment by making meetings with anyone behind closed doors a fireable offense.

Suddenly, office Christmas parties and happy hours are under a cloud. There is talk of replacing alcohol with game rooms.

Such suggestions are silly and infantilizing. We need rules to rid ourselves of creeps, not purge every workplace of all interpersonal risk.””
     — Christina Hoff Sommers

Tags: Christina Hoff Sommers ∙ sex harassment ∙ clipping ∙ guest content

Tags: maxims ∙ picture ∙ authority ∙ freedom

These blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories.

Tags: maxims ∙ freedom ∙ black & white ∙ banner

The law of unintended consequences strikes again

Tags: Frédéric Bastiat ∙ plunder ∙ legal system ∙ moral code

As it exists right now, local, state, and Federal governments allow and protect area specific telecommunications monopolies.

Tags: net neutrality ∙ cable service ∙ telephone ∙ network ∙ unused capacity ∙ monopoly ∙ goverment ∙ regulation ∙ competition ∙ Facebook ∙ Google ∙ Twitter

Taking on the ethanol mythos

Tags: Original Vigil

Moving quotes to individual entries

Tags: hearsay ∙ radical progressives ∙ climate change crowd ∙ toxic feminist ∙ truth

Some of you may have noticed that I tried combining all my self-quotes on one page. It didn't work all that well. I already had a tag called maxims that I was using for the new self-quotes, so I just transferred all the ones from the page to the blog.

One. At. A. Time.

The good news is that it's done and the new quote templates work fine. You can't see it unless I use it, but the quote templates already have A HREF already there so I can attribute the quote.

Anyway, just like Technopagan Yearnings, I'm updating the code. I'm using classes with my copy-paste templates instead of individual copy-paste templates. That's so I can change the class definition in one spot and it will change every use site wide. I won't have to change the individual blog entries. Or the individual elements in the sidebar. Or any of the special pages.

When I get it done, which is going to take a while. The new stuff will have the cleaner code, the stuff that catches my attention and the oldest entries will get the code as I plod through it.
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Tags: code ∙ maxims

❝❝It was never, ever about tolerance.

It was always, always about control.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ tolerance ∙ control

❝❝If you won't honor someone's religious choice, why should they honor yours?

If you are not willing to live with those of other faiths, why should they give way and not you?

Parity. The Golden Rule. It's in your own teachings if you look hard enough.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ parity test ∙ Golden Rule ∙ religion ∙ faiths

❝❝Common sense means ideas that work on their own without constant fiddling and tweaking.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ ideas ∙ common sense ∙ fiddling ∙ tweaking

❝❝If you never leave the echo chamber, you never learn to defend your arguments.

It's a big reason why libertarians are better than average at debating on certain subjects. Nobody agrees with us entirely and we get plenty of practice.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: echo chambers ∙ defend ∙ argue ∙ libertarian

❝❝Do you really want pagans and heathens begging government for table scraps that they might give us? If we're really REALLY good and cute enough?❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: pagan ∙ heathen ∙ goverment ∙ good ∙ cute ∙ maxims

❝❝I've taken stands for gun rights, alternative sexual practices, the value of the family with men and women role models, religious choice, the free market, and good movies.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ gun rights ∙ sex ∙ family ∙ men ∙ women ∙ religious choice ∙ good movies

❝❝If I have a single issue, it's less government and more freedom.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ freedom ∙ goverment

❝❝If I can be moral without your faith, why do you wish to bind me to your faith?❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ faith

❝❝I could care less what faith my neighbor is, but I do care if she lets her dog do it's thing on my lawn.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ faith ∙ neighbors ∙ dogs ∙ lawn

❝❝The people who pay attention to laws are not the ones you have to worry about.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ pay attention ∙ people

❝❝Beware anyone who offers an absolute.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ humantics ∙ absolute

❝❝Resist dogma for growth.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ humantics ∙ dogma ∙ growth

❝❝Seek paradox for truth.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ humantics ∙ paradox ∙ truth

❝❝In the absence of understanding, triviality dominates.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ humantics ∙ understanding ∙ triviality

❝❝Competition breeds progress and encourages honesty.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ competition ∙ progress ∙ honest

❝❝People cherish their passions.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ humantics ∙ people ∙ passion

❝❝Humanity is a colony organism.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ colony ∙ humanity ∙ organisim ∙ humantics

❝❝I’ve long since concluded that no one has all the answers or even most of the questions.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ questions ∙ answers

❝❝A choice that is imposed is no choice. Religion imposed in the name of “freedom and decency” will be neither free nor decent.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: religion ∙ choice ∙ free ∙ decent

❝❝If you choose to do something, that's freedom. If you're compelled to do something, that's coercion.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: compel ∙ choose ∙ coercion ∙ freedom ∙ maxims

❝❝Free speech does not mean shutting the other guy up. It means you talk. It means sometimes you yell at each other and wave your fingers in each other's faces. It means you argue. It means you sit down over drinks and try to understand why they won't listen. It means giving the other the same respect you expect for yourself. At least until they show they don't deserve the respect. Even then, they get to talk.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: speech wars ∙ talking ∙ yell ∙ argue ∙ listen ∙ respect

❝❝Not all monotheisms are alike. Just as one example, I'd rather deal with people trying to deny my rights instead of fanatics trying to kill me and mine.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: monotheism ∙ maxims

❝❝I'm still waiting for you to make the case how a hate crime is worse than a non-hate crime for the same “transgression.”❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: hate crime ∙ maxims

❝❝Most polyamorous people will tell you that polyamory is based on active, long term relationships. It's not a license to sleep with whoever at the drop of a hat. And it's certainly not the ability to compel sex from another.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: polyamory ∙ compel ∙ sex

❝❝Messing with kids, that's perverted.

Demanding that others acknowledge AND celebrate your sexuality, that's questionable.

Actually being lesbian, gay, transgender, or whatever else isn't.

Mixing your sexuality with politics is a pretty good sign that you're corrupt though.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ kids ∙ sex ∙ sexuality ∙ corruption

❝❝As long as rights are defined in terms of minorities, one person's gain will always be perceived as another's loss. As long as some get exempted from responsibility because they are minorities, they will claim victimhood.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: minority rights ∙ maxims ∙ victimhood

❝❝Many of those making the most noise about minority rights are deliberately perpetuating the situation.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: minority rights ∙ maxims

❝❝I learned a long time ago that it's worth the trouble to make sure she's got at least two climaxes for every one of mine.

Keeps her smiling too.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ sex ∙ climax

❝❝Government gets bigger and more oppressive, that is the nature of government.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ government ∙ oppression

❝❝When government starts defining, it starts regulating.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ goverment ∙ regulation ∙ define

❝❝If someone has served honorably, then they should have whatever they want on their headstone up to and including Mickey Mouse. Government issue or not, it's not about what is “approved.” It's about honoring someone who chose to serve and fulfilled that duty.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ honor ∙ headstone ∙ Mickey Mouse ∙ goverment ∙ duty

❝❝Let people choose and accept responsibility for those choices. It won't be perfect, but it will shed less blood.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ choose ∙ responsibility

❝❝A society is not Christian. An individual is.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Christian ∙ individual ∙ society

❝❝The virtue or vice is not in the title. It's in the individual.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ vice ∙ virtue ∙ title ∙ individual ∙ labels

❝❝As long as there is a rule of law that doesn't raise one faith above all others, we can deal with the mess. That's one reason I'm grateful for sectarianism. When they argue among themselves over truth, they don't have time to take on the rest. American pluralism grew out of the English Civil War and the American colonists trying to practice their faith as they saw fit and not as dictated by another sect or church.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ faith ∙ sectarianism ∙ pluralism ∙ English Civil War ∙ American colonists ∙ sect ∙ church

❝❝Politics is about power over people. Once you understand that government is not your friend and the politico only wants to get re-elected, you’re on the path to freedom.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ power ∙ politicos ∙ re-election ∙ freedom

❝❝We need to find things we share rather than using faith to define the morality of our society. We can agree to outlaw theft and vandalism, we can't agree on marriage. We can agree that people shouldn't drive under the influence, we can't agree to ban all intoxicants. We can agree that people should be free to make their own choices, we can't agree which choices should be eliminated.❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ choice ∙ sharing ∙ theft ∙ vandalism ∙ marriage ∙ under the influence ∙ intoxicants ∙ choice

❝❝Rather than eliminating choice, we should make sure that the consequences are clear.❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ choice ∙ consequences

❝❝Mala in se means "bad in and of itself." Something is mala in se if and only if it threatens or results in measurable damage to life, liberty, and property. Mala prohibita means "bad because it is prohibited." Something is mala prohibita if and only if the state has forbidden it. I would add regulation as well.

To prove mala in se, you have to show measurable damage. Mala prohibita means that the government will impose morality and ethics by force.❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: damage ∙ forbidden ∙ maxims ∙ mala in se ∙ mala prohibita

❝❝If you have to make the "right choice" for someone, you're taking away their freedom. You're taking away their right to be wrong. You're taking away their opportunity to learn from their mistakes. You're taking away their judgement. You're saying they aren't fully human. You're saying that they can't be trusted.

And you're saying that your beliefs can't compete.❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ choice ∙ for your own good

❝❝We should go back to the original national motto. "In God We Trust" is so divisive, and it takes the responsibility away from the individual citizen and puts it in the hands of an unseen overlord. That is a big part of what led to this nonsense. I always preferred the original National Motto. E Pluribus Unum is Latin for "one from many parts" but I prefer another translation.

“United we stand.”❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ national motto ∙ In God We Trust ∙ E pluribus unum ∙ united we stand

❝❝Honoring your faith is admirable. Demanding that I honor your faith is despicable.❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: honor ∙ faith ∙ demand ∙ despicable ∙ maxims

❝❝If ethics have to be forced, that's pretty immoral right there.❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ ethics ∙ force ∙ immoral

❝❝Free choice. Choose your beliefs, just don't choose mine. And I will do the same. Faith imposed is no faith at all. The only faiths and beliefs worthy of freedom are those freely chosen.❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ free choice ∙ choose ∙ faith ∙ freedom

❝❝If someone wants to forbid gay marriage, what would they do if the law only allowed gay marriage? If someone wanted Bible study in schools, what would they do if the law only allowed the Koran in schools? If someone wanted a Christian president, what would they do if the law prohibited a Christian president?❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ forbidden ∙ gay marriage ∙ Bible ∙ Koran ∙ Christian

❝❝It's the old parity test again. And it is the surefire method to tell if a law is mala in se or mala prohibita. ❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ parity test ∙ mala in se ∙ mala prohibita

❝❝Why should I be expected to live under their beliefs if they aren't willing to live under mine?❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ beliefs

❝❝We can agree on the mala in se but we can't agree on the mala prohibita.❞❞
     — NeoWayland, United We Stand - Dragging religion into politics

Tags: maxims ∙ agree ∙ mala in se ∙ mala prohibita

❝❝Science doesn't work on consensus. The law of gravity didn't require a majority vote of the High Council of Scientists before working. It described a behavior which could be replicated and measured.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ science ∙ consensus ∙ majority ∙ working ∙ behavior ∙ replicated ∙ measured

❝❝Religion is the excuse not the reason.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: religion ∙ excuse ∙ reason ∙ maxims

❝❝Recognizing the rights of others is pretty much the only thing that keeps us from taking what we want and to hell with the consequences.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: recognizing ∙ rights ∙ consequences

❝❝Do you really want politicos deciding what is moral harm?❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: politicos ∙ moral authority ∙ harm ∙ maxims

❝❝Politicos lie. It's what they do. The mistake is believing that one “flavor” is somehow morally better.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ politicos ∙ lies

❝❝The question isn't which politico is better. The question is why we're allowing ourselves to be manipulated into believing that government and Our Elected Officials™ know what's best and will serve us.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ politicos ∙ goverment ∙ know best ∙ will serve us

❝❝Please don't presume you can speak for me. You do it badly.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ speak for me

❝❝Please do not salt the Earth.

Plant flowers and fruit trees in the rubble.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ salt the Earth ∙ flowers ∙ fruit trees ∙ rubble

❝❝I distrust the very notion of government. Especially an ever expanding government with no apparent restraints where the only real concern is when “your guys” aren't in charge.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ distrust ∙ government ∙ restraints ∙ your guys ∙ in charge

❝❝Consenting adults.

Nice, simple, solves WAY more problems than it causes.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: consensual ∙ adult ∙ problems

❝❝We let it happen.

We bought the lie that compassion triumphs practicality. We accepted that “blacks” deserved more privileges because of history. We let generations be victims when they deserved to be heroes.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ compassion ∙ practical ∙ privilege ∙ history ∙ victims ∙ heroes

❝❝I could say that fighting and living serves better than dying. That, and making the place a little better before you leave.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ fIghting ∙ dying ∙ make things better ∙ living

❝❝A Church Militant with willing martyrs doesn't serve the glory of a god as much as the personal power of princes, potentates, and priests.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Church Militant ∙ martyr ∙ power ∙ princes ∙ potentates ∙ priests

❝❝My faith and beliefs are at least as important to me as yours are to you.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ faith ∙ beliefs ∙ important

❝❝History shows that politics corrupts faith. It's not the Divine who stirs up politics, it's the priests and priestesses seeking power.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ corruption ∙ faith ∙ priests ∙ priestesses ∙ power ∙ Divine

❝❝We know politics corrupts faith and religion. We've ample evidence what happens when the People of the Book try it.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ faith ∙ corruption ∙ Christians

The only worthy faiths and beliefs are those freely chosen

Tags: maxims ∙ allies ∙ servants ∙ challenges ∙ thinking ∙ uncomfortable

❝❝I'm notorious in online pagan groups for denying global warming and saying that environmentalism is a failed cause that should be replaced with ecology.

I'm rather proud of that.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: global warming ∙ maxims

❝❝Sometimes I ask Christians if someone can be a good person without being Christian.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Christian ∙ Christians ∙ good people

❝❝One of my professors pointed out that Mark 12:17 could be interpreted to keep politics out of religion and religion out of politics. It's probably not true, but I like the thought. Politics is about controlling others and we know it corrupts almost everything it touches.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ religion ∙ control ∙ corruption

❝❝I would like to point out that there were vital and influential cultures that existed before Christianity. Syncretism happens.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Christianity ∙ syncretism

❝❝I'm certain that these people do not have demonic hordes from realms infernal on speed dial, nor are they in direct contact with your Prince of Lies.

I'm equally certain that there will not be a heavenly host to put right what once was wrong, and that you didn't get marching orders directly from on high.

The manifestation is human.

The problem came from human choice and the solution has to come through human choice.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ demonic hordes ∙ realms infernal ∙ heavenly host ∙ choice

❝❝You haven't lived until you have an evangelical Christian and a radical atheist both trying to save you from your “folly” at the same time. After a bit they forget about you and argue with each other.

Great entertainment.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Christian ∙ evangelical ∙ radical ∙ atheist

❝❝Right, because “For Your Own Good” was such a rousing success with Prohibition, explicit song lyrics, university speech codes, global warming, and Obamacare.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: for your own good ∙ maxims ∙ Prohibition ∙ explicit song lyrics ∙ university speech codes ∙ global warming ∙ Obamacare

❝❝That is the tragedy of the “American Century.” We forgot that liberty can't be imposed by the top down, it has to be seized from the bottom up.

As long as our government plays the games of international brinkmanship and global politics, we lose.

We're best when we protect our own freedom and inspire others though our example. People in other nations have to crave freedom and demand their own rights. It's the only way it will take root.

As a nation, we can't take out another government except by invading. Historically, that has not worked out well for America. It certainly destroyed our prestige.

But building trade, private investment in local economies, that delivered wonders.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ American Century ∙ tragedy ∙ freedom ∙ inspire ∙ government ∙ trade ∙ private enterprise

❝❝Casting stones at another faith seems a little petty.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ faith

❝❝Let's just say that I choose to perceive and acknowledge Deity in a different form than you do and leave it at that.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Diety ∙ choose

❝❝My favorite version of the Golden Rule is “Be Excellent to Each Other. And Party On!”❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: Golden Rule

❝❝The Bible may be a very fine book, but “tain't mine.” I don't expect to follow it's rules any more than I would expect you to follow Sikhism.

It's also not the only source of wisdom, or even the “Golden Rule.”❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Bible ∙ Sikhism ∙ wisdom ∙ Golden Rule

❝❝I'm just saying that if a Christian complains because Christianity is being mocked or attacked, insulting another faith is deluded at best. What's good for the goose should be good for the gander. Or if you prefer, the Golden Rule. Or that bit about casting stones…❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Christian ∙ Christianity ∙ Golden Rule ∙ casting stones

❝❝Do you know how many cultures and nations Western Civilization borrowed from? Syncretism, it's not just for religion.

It's not necessary to claim WestCiv as “white.” Just say it's a collection of extraordinarily proven good ideas that have worked time and time again. Claim it as “white” and you're invoking tribalism and rousing people's natural defenses. Claim it as “white” and in a very patronizing way you grant permission to join.

Invite people to join because “they can make it better” works with more people. And it makes your life better too.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Western Civilization ∙ syncretism ∙ religion ∙ tribalism ∙ make things better

❝❝Occasionally I wandered in where I was not wanted and gave truthful answers.

Sometimes I even did it deliberately. A little disruption now can prevent disaster later.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ truth

❝❝Invoke science as an unquestionable authority and someone will show the truth behind the curtain. That’s the nature of science.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ science

❝❝Ah, somebody finally said the C word. And that means I can say not all Christians.

I can say something else too. For all of the evidence of Christian bigotry, there's tolerance and pluralism right there beside it. America is the probably the only nation where it could happen. Religious diversity made it happen. And it goes right back to the Civil War. While there were plenty saying (with reason) that the Bible justified slavery, there were others making the case that a human was a human no matter what the color skin. The ones fighting hardest against slavery took their best arguments from their faith. That continued through the woman's rights movement, through the civil rights movement, and on through the gay rights movement. Without Christians speaking and fighting, those movements would have stalled.

As a newbie back in the 80s, I had a lot of baggage. I spoke and wrote against Christians with the best of them. Some of my stuff is probably still floating around there. But I discovered that I didn't like who I was. There were other things too, I was not a nice person. After some serious soul searching and couple of Divine thumps on the head, I came back to a very simple idea. In magickal terms, the energy you put out is the energy you get back. It's the Ethic of Reciprocity, Christians call it the Golden Rule. It's probably the cornerstone of Western civilization. Long story short, if you look for the negative in others, that is precisely what you will find. And that is precisely what you will allow to shape your own life.

But if you look for the positive, "catch them doing right," there will be enough good to overcome the bad.

Christians made marriage legal in the first place. But do you honestly think there would be legal gay marriage without a whole lot of Christians saying, wait, we have to fix this to be fair to everyone.

Because not every Christian, you see. Sometimes in the places you least expect and from the people you'd never consider, there is tolerance and acceptance and even encouragement. Not everyone wraps themselves in the fire and brimstone of the OT. Some really do believe that their god is love.

We need those people badly.

So, not every Christian.❞❞

Tags: Christian ∙ Christians ∙ Christianity ∙ bigotry ∙ tolerance ∙ pluralism ∙ Ethic of Reciprocity ∙ Golden Rule ∙ Western Civilization ∙ cross posted

❝❝Politics is not about reform.

Politics is about control.

Politics is never about reform, even when the politicos say that it is.

By definition, reform can't come from within. It almost always splits off into a new thing.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ politics ∙ reform ∙ politicos

❝❝My perspective is just a tad different. Does that make me wrong? Well, that's an interesting question, isn't it?

I'll give you another. If I'm right, does that make you wrong?

Oh, and remember that I prefer not to use either/or situations.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ perspective ∙ right ∙ wrong ∙ either/or

❝❝Societies work best when the moral and legal authorities are separate.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: society ∙ moral ∙ legal ∙ authority

❝❝Legislation is not morality, and morality certainly isn't legislation. The distinction must be made. Otherwise politicos wrap themselves in the flag AND hide behind the most convenient faith/moral code they can find. Arguing over morality keeps us honest. We're better when we verbally defend our ideas to people who don't necessarily share our beliefs.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: legislation ∙ morality ∙ politicos ∙ flag ∙ faith ∙ moral code ∙ honest ∙ beliefs ∙ maxims

❝❝Passing a law saying that a behavior is illegal doesn't stop the behavior. Prohibition is the best known failure. Pick a vice law, any vice law for others.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ behavior ∙ illegal ∙ prohibition ∙ vice law

❝❝An individual can show virtue. At best, a label must borrow virtue. Labels will hold most of the blame, though.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ labels ∙ virtue ∙ blame

❝❝It's not liberalism, it's the label. And it doesn't matter if the label is progressive, conservative, Christian, atheist, or United States Senator. The label has no virtue or vice, no morality, and no inherent worth. It's the individual that owns the outcome of their thoughts, words, and deeds. It's the individual and the individual alone who can take responsibility.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ liberalism ∙ progressive ∙ conservative ∙ Christian ∙ atheist ∙ United States Senator ∙ vice ∙ virtue ∙ morality ∙ inherent worth ∙ individual ∙ thoughts ∙ words ∙ deeds

❝❝It's about the liberty, you see. You can't give that to anyone.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: liberty ∙ maxims

❝❝I think it has a lot to do with how connected someone feels to their church/temple/circle/whatever. I think that big institutional churches appear more interested in putting butts in pews than any genuine mission. The church members just give a little time every week and put some cash in the offering. Easy peasy. I really don't understand how those “megachurches” work. To me, if a normally-sighted person can't see the pulpit clearly from the back row without a huge television screen, then it's not really a church. It's an entertainment palace.

What can I say? My own practice demands personal involvement. Even without that, I've got a bunch of preacher ancestors who would disapprove.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: connections ∙ churches ∙ megachurches ∙ personal involvement ∙ maxims

❝❝At this point, I don't think anyone can stop the collapse. Nor do I think that's bad. There are how many laws on the books? How many regulations in the Federal Register? We've been conditioned to depend on government to help us. Cut spending, but not national defense. Cut spending, but not aid to Israel or Saudi Arabia. Cut spending, but not Social Security. And some banks and unions are Too Big To Fail.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: regulations ∙ cut spending ∙ national defense ∙ israel ∙ Saudi Arabia ∙ too big to fail ∙ maxims

❝❝Exclusivity is not the core of Christianity. How Christians live their life is. That shows in how they touch the lives of others.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: Christianity ∙ Christians ∙ maxims

❝❝Christians are a lot nicer to be around when everyone else doesn't have to defer to them. “One path among many” means Christians usually pay attention to what others say. It means Christians have to defend what they say and do without hiding behind scripture.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ Christians ∙ Christianity ∙ one among many ∙ scripture

❝❝Recognizing that the choice AND the consequences are mine and mine alone means I'm a rational adult.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ choice & consequence ∙ rational adult ∙ mine

❝❝Weekly meetings and daily updates on any major project. Show up unexpectedly to poke around, not once but several times. And as the deadlines get closer, meet more and inspect more. If it is important, you watch it carefully. This is business school 201, this is leadership 101.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: weekly meeting ∙ daily update ∙ inspect ∙ poke around ∙ maxims

❝❝Science isn't about presenting conclusions, it's about finding answers that work.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: science ∙ conclusions ∙ answers that work ∙ maxims

❝❝Science is an inquiry process. It's not a set of laws carved in stone forever and ever.

Everything you cited above (claims, explanations, proposals) come from people, not science.

Science just shows how well it works. Or if people need to look harder.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: science ∙ inquiry ∙ maxims

❝❝We've been taught that government is supposed to govern and control the other guy.

That's the guy who is the problem.

Not us. Never us. It's not our fault.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ govern ∙ other guy ∙ problems

❝❝I'm obligated to point out that the quickest and easiest way to achieve those reforms is for the "ship of state" to sink.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ reform ∙ ship of state

❝❝If I choose to give, that is charity and can be celebrated. If I am manipulated or threatened into giving, that is extortion. I don't care how good the cause is, if I am required to give without my consent, that threatens my freedom. I shouldn't be tricked into it “for my own good” or “for the greater good.” I want to know WHY, and I want an honest answer. I demand the choice to walk away.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: charity ∙ manipulated ∙ threatened ∙ extortion ∙ for your own good ∙ for the greater good ∙ choice ∙ walk away ∙ maxims

❝❝We let generations be victims when they deserved to be heroes.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ generations ∙ hero ∙ victimhood

❝❝The problem you see is not the problem they see.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ problems

❝❝Don't try to shame me with stories of victims, inspire me with the stories of the heroes.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ victimhood ∙ hero

❝❝You’re not entitled because of your pain. The world is full of pain. You can’t demand charity.

The world needs heroes more than it needs victims.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ entitled ∙ pain ∙ hero ∙ victimhood

❝❝You're not upset over my lack of empathy. It's that I don't show empathy in the approved fashion for the victim groups you designate.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: empathy ∙ victim hierarchy ∙ maxims

❝❝It's not the gods calling for the blood of the unbelievers. It's the priests. It's the generals. It's the emperors.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ gods ∙ unbelievers ∙ priests ∙ generals ∙ emperors

❝❝Science grew out of experimenting with things unseen and unknowable. Science is the bastard child of magick.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ science ∙ magick ∙ experiment ∙ unseen ∙ unknownable

❝❝We could do with fewer weapons and soldiers if our politicos stopped the empire building.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: weapons ∙ soldiers ∙ maxims ∙ empire building

❝❝If your moral self worth is defined by either your victimhood or your compassion, then those will be the things you defend. Even principles will take a back seat if “it's for the greater good.” Taking a stand is less important than reversing current oppression or preventing future oppression.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ self worth ∙ victimhood ∙ for the greater good ∙ oppression

❝❝Tit for tat. Long term rules means honor brings advantage. Short term rules mean that honor is a disadvantage.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ honor

❝❝Everyone is amazed by the razzle dazzle moment. No one thinks about all the work, study, and experimenting beforehand that made it possible.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: experience ∙ maxims ∙ razzle dazzle ∙ work ∙ study ∙ experiment

❝❝Experience trumps language every time.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ experience ∙ language

❝❝Elegant simplicity adapts and does more with less. One sure sign of a master.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: simplicity ∙ simple vs complex ∙ do more with less ∙ master ∙ maxims