I am so sick of the objection to Libertarian philosophy, "What about the roads?" The objection is that without the government around there would be no way for people to travel from one place to another. It's a multifaceted objection, but I would like to address one part of it right now.
Arrogant(?) newspapers blame readers for lack of interest in their papers.
Via Jott.com with confidence of 4When our neighbor's daughter turned eighteen, she joined the marines. My daughter just turned fourteen. I'm not afraid she will join the military but I am feeling bad that I didn't even know my neighbor's daughter was joining the military, but considering the government worshiping media (news, NCIS, 24, and every other government loving movie and TV show) and public education, it wasn't a big surprise.
Is the world ever going to run out of oil?
Good people are so afraid of chaos. Indiscriminate killing, and a state of utter confusion would certainly be bad, but what we have now is worse. Tyranny rules when good people refuse to be violent against evil people. Libertarians reject violence for politic or social change, but by doing that they insure that change will never come. If good people refuse to take arms against evil people, they will have to turn to evil people to enforce justice, but since evil people are evil they will not be restrained by anything. They will get what they want by force or threat of force.
So I'm listening to the news the other day. A young marine is stationed in the god-forsaken region of Afghanistan, complete with fist-sized camel spiders, IED's (why aren't these called land mines?), sand, sun, but without water, or English speaking people. He commented that it was the closest thing he could imagine to hell.
The confederate flag?
It's strange that so many where so offended by the battle flag of a country that existed for less than four years.
Today we are just as offended by another flag that flew over the American continent. This flag flew over the longest period of race-based indefinite slavery. Even after the civil war, it flew over the longest period of race-base discrimination, more lynchings, more profiling, and more wars, coups, and assassinations of people of color than any other country in history.
That's right. The old red, white, and blue.
Yeah Bobby was no saint, but a lot of people think about him around this time of year; turns out the CIA did plan and carried out the executions of the Kennedy brothers. Since then, all the U.S. presidents had to make deals with the "violents."
Violents? We call people who crave power over others, "violents."
Jack and Bobby wouldn't play ball, wouldn't make a deal.